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NMFS Announces a 90-Day Finding on a Petition to List Yellowtail Damselfish Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 32 / Wednesday, February 18, 2015 / Notices 8619 Affected Public: Federal government; proposed and/or continuing information Estimated Total Annual Burden State, local, or tribal government; collections, as required by the Hours: 5,926. business or other for-profit Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Estimated Total Annual Cost to organizations. DATES: Written comments must be Public: $898 in recordkeeping/reporting Estimated Number of Respondents: submitted on or before April 20, 2015. costs. 160. ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments IV. Request for Comments Estimated Time Per Response: Permit to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Comments are invited on: (a) Whether applications, 12 hours; permit Paperwork Clearance Officer, modification requests 6 hours; annual or the proposed collection of information Department of Commerce, Room 6616, is necessary for the proper performance final reports, 2 hours. 14th and Constitution Avenue NW., Estimated Total Annual Burden of the functions of the agency, including Washington, DC 20230 (or via the Hours: 835. whether the information shall have Internet at [email protected]). Estimated Total Annual Cost to practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Public: $500 in recordkeeping/reporting FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: agency’s estimate of the burden costs. Requests for additional information or (including hours and cost) of the copies of the information collection proposed collection of information; (c) IV. Request for Comments instrument and instructions should be ways to enhance the quality, utility, and Comments are invited on: (a) whether directed to Patsy A. Bearden, NMFS clarity of the information to be the proposed collection of information Alaska Region, (907) 586–7008 or collected; and (d) ways to minimize the is necessary for the proper performance [email protected]. burden of the collection of information of the functions of the agency, including SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: on respondents, including through the whether the information shall have I. Abstract use of automated collection techniques practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the or other forms of information agency’s estimate of the burden This request is for extension of a technology. (including hours and cost) of the currently approved information Comments submitted in response to proposed collection of information; (c) collection. this notice will be summarized and/or ways to enhance the quality, utility, and The purpose of the IFQ fee is to included in the request for OMB clarity of the information to be recover actual costs incurred in approval of this information collection; collected; and (d) ways to minimize the managing and enforcing the IFQ they also will become a matter of public burden of the collection of information Program (75%) and to make funds record. available for Congress to appropriate for on respondents, including through the Dated: February 11, 2015. support of the North Pacific IFQ Loan use of automated collection techniques Sarah Brabson, or other forms of information Program (25%). NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. technology. An IFQ permit holder incurs a cost Comments submitted in response to recovery fee liability for every pound of [FR Doc. 2015–03190 Filed 2–17–15; 8:45 am] this notice will be summarized and/or IFQ halibut and IFQ sablefish that is BILLING CODE 3510–22–P included in the request for OMB landed under his or her IFQ permit(s). approval of this information collection; The IFQ permit holder is responsible for DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE they also will become a matter of public self-collecting the fee liability for all IFQ halibut and IFQ sablefish landings on record. National Oceanic and Atmospheric his or her permit(s). Fees must be Dated: February 11, 2015. Administration collected at the time of a legal landing Sarah Brabson, of halibut or sablefish, filing of a [Docket No. 130312237–5115–01] NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. landing report, or sale of such fish RIN 0648–XC567 [FR Doc. 2015–03191 Filed 2–17–15; 8:45 am] during a fishing season or in the last BILLING CODE 3510–22–P quarter of the calendar year in which Endangered and Threatened Wildlife; the fish is harvested. 90-Day Finding on a Petition to List Yellowtail Damselfish as Threatened or DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE II. Method of Collection Endangered Under the Endangered Paper format; electronically (Internet), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Species Act email, U.S. mail, and fax. Administration AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries III. Data Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Proposed Information Collection; OMB Control Number: 0648–0398. Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Comment Request; Alaska Pacific Form Number(s): None. Department of Commerce. Halibut and Sablefish Fisheries: Type of Review: Regular (extension of Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Cost ACTION: Notice of 90-day petition a currently approved information Recovery finding. collection). AGENCY: National Oceanic and Affected Public: Individuals or SUMMARY: We (NMFS) announce a 90- Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), households; business or other for-profit day finding on a petition to list Commerce. organizations. yellowtail damselfish (Microspathodon chrysurus) as threatened or endangered ACTION: Notice. Estimated Number of Respondents: 2,963. under the Endangered Species Act SUMMARY: The Department of Estimated Time Per Response: Two (ESA). We find that the petition does Commerce, as part of its continuing hours for paper and 5 minutes for not present substantial scientific or effort to reduce paperwork and Internet IFQ Registered Buyer Ex-vessel commercial information indicating that respondent burden, invites the general Value and Volume Report; and two the petitioned action may be warranted. public and other Federal agencies to hours for paper and 5 minutes for IFQ ADDRESSES: Copies of the petitions and take this opportunity to comment on Fee Submission Form. related materials are available upon VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:32 Feb 17, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00031 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\18FEN1.SGM 18FEN1 emcdonald on DSK67QTVN1PROD with NOTICES 8620 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 32 / Wednesday, February 18, 2015 / Notices request from the Assistant Regional a review of the status of the species regarding the status of the species over Administrator, Protected Resources concerned, during which we will all or a significant portion of its range; Division, Southeast Regional Office, conduct a comprehensive review of the and (4) is accompanied by the NMFS, 263 13th Avenue South, St. best available scientific and commercial appropriate supporting documentation Petersburg, FL 33701, or online at: information. In such cases, we are to in the form of bibliographic references, http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/ conclude the review with a finding as to reprints of pertinent publications, ListingPetitions.htm. whether, in fact, the petitioned action is copies of reports or letters from FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: warranted within 12 months of receipt authorities, and maps (50 CFR Jason Rueter, NMFS Southeast Region, of the petition. Because the finding at 424.14(b)(2)). Court decisions clarify the 727–824–5312. the 12-month stage is based on a more thorough review of the available appropriate scope and limitations of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: information, as compared to the narrow Services’ review of petitions at the 90- Background scope of review at the 90-day stage, a day finding stage to make a ‘‘may be warranted’’ finding at the 90- determination whether a petitioned On September 14, 2012, we received day stage does not prejudge the outcome action ‘‘may be’’ warranted. As a general a petition from the Center for Biological of the status review. matter, these decisions hold that a Diversity (CBD) to list eight reef fishes Under the ESA, a listing petition need not establish a ‘‘strong of the family Pomacentridae as determination may address a ‘‘species,’’ likelihood’’ or a ‘‘high probability’’ that threatened or endangered under the which is defined to also include a species is either threatened or ESA. The eight species are orange subspecies and, for any vertebrate endangered to support a positive 90-day clownfish (Amphiprion percula), black- species, any distinct population finding. axil chromis (Chromis atripectoralis), segment (DPS) that interbreeds when We evaluate the petitioner’s request blue-green damselfish (Chromis viridis), mature (16 U.S.C. 1532(16)). A species, based upon the information in the Hawaiian dascyllus (Dascyllus subspecies, or DPS is ‘‘endangered’’ if it petition, including its references, and albisella), reticulated damselfish is in danger of extinction throughout all the information readily available in our (Dascyllus reticulatus), yellowtail or a significant portion of its range, and files. We do not conduct additional damselfish or jewelfish ‘‘threatened’’ if it is likely to become research, and we do not solicit (Microspathodon chrysurus), blackbar endangered within the foreseeable information from parties outside the devil or Dick’s damselfish future throughout all or a significant agency to help us in evaluating the (Plectroglyphidodon dickii), and blue- portion of its range (ESA sections 3(6) petition. We will accept the petitioner’s eyed damselfish (Plectroglyphidodon and 3(20), respectively; 16 U.S.C. sources and characterizations of the johnstonianus). The petition is available 1532(6) and (20)). Pursuant to the ESA information presented, if they appear to on our Web site (http:// and our
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