The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) implemented a trawl rationalization program, a catch share program, for the Pacific coast groundfish fishery's trawl fleet in January 2011. Since that time, the Council and NMFS have been addressing implementation issues as they arise, through the public Council process. The Council took final action to refine the program at its April 2012 meeting, resulting in a second program improvement and enhancement (PIE 2) rulemaking, proposed rule 0648-BD31. This rule proposes to: implement specific quota share (QS) permit application and QS transfer regulations, clarify exemptions for lenders from control rules, eliminate double filing of co-op reports, revise first receiver site license requirements, including site inspection and expiration date, remove end of the year ban on QP transfers between vessel accounts, and clarify that the processor obligation could be to more than one MS permit.
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Pub.L. 94 - 265 303
Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
Program Changes: There are net decreases of 14 hours and $4,409 in costs.
Quota share trading will begin in 2014, and this program change added 74 hours. Also, since implementation NMFS has never received a transaction dispute request for vessel account catch data and NMFS has removed this item from the collection, decreasing the burden estimate by 10 hours.
Due to efficiency and security improvements, the time burden estimate for renewals decreased from 93 hours to 29 hours.
There was previously a $12,300 estimated cost burden for QS permit renewals due to an estimated $100 renewal fee. NMFS decided not to collect a fee for renewals. As part of the previous estimate for first receiver site applications, NMFS included a cost burden of $3,600. This was based on an estimated $45 application fee for 80 applicants. For the revised cost burden, the application fee is actually $175, for an estimated 5 new entrants and 50 re-registering applicants/year. This increased the total estimated cost burden (for new and re-registering FRSL applicants) by $130 or a $7,150 total increase.
The MS Cooperative Application cost has decreased by $226, as NMFS decided not to charge a fee. The estimated cost for the C/P Coop Permit Application has also decreased, by $227 (from $241 to $14), because NMFS chose not to charge an application fee.
Adjustments: There was a net decrease of 2 hours, and a net decrease of $459 in costs.
More accurate time and cost estimates have been made, based on experience with the various information collections. See supporting statement, Part A, Question 15, for more details.
$700,000
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No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Kevin Ford 2065266115
No
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(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
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Quota Share Transfer (Trading)
0620_BD31_ss_resubmission.doc
NMFS-SEA-13-14 PIE 2 PR.pdf
Quota Share Transfer (Trading)