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and phone number to Carolyn Peters no DATES: Written comments must be vessel and gear characterization form later than Thursday, March 13, 2003, submitted on or before May 5, 2003. would be mandatory. and she will provide you with ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments III. Data instructions for admittance. Mrs. Peter’s to Diana Hynek, Departmental OMB Number: None. e-mail address is Paperwork Clearance Officer, Form Number: None. [email protected] and her phone Department of Commerce, Room 6625, number is (301) 975–5607. Type of Review: Regular submission. 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW, Affected Public: Business or other for- DATES: The meeting will convene March Washington, DC 20230 (or via the profit organizations. 18, 2003, at 8:25 a.m. and will adjourn Internet at [email protected]). Estimated Number of Respondents: at noon on March 19, 2003. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 5,250. ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in Requests for additional information or Estimated Time Per Response: 20 the Employees Lounge, Administration copies of the information collection minutes. Building, at NIST, Gaithersburg, instrument and instructions should be Estimated Total Annual Burden Maryland. Please note admittance directed to Michael Travis, Department Hours: 1,750. instructions under SUMMARY paragraph. of Commerce, NOAA, National Marine Estimated Total Annual Cost to FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fisheries Service, 9721 Executive Center Public: $0. (Costs exclude valuation of Carolyn J. Peters, Visiting Committee on Drive North, St, Petersburg, FL 33702– respondents’ time.) Advanced Technology, National 2439, (727) 570–5335. IV. Request for Comments Institute of Standards and Technology, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899–1004, Comments are invited on: (a) whether telephone number (301) 975–5607. I. Abstract the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NOAA proposes to collect census- of the functions of the agency, including Assistant Secretary for Administration, level information on fishing vessel and with the concurrence of the General whether the information shall have gear characteristics in the Gulf of practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Counsel, formally determined on Mexico shrimp fishery (Exclusive February 25, 2003, that portions of the agency’s estimate of the burden Economic Zone only) to conduct (including hours and cost) of the meeting of the Visiting Committee on economic analyses that will improve Advanced Technology which deal with proposed collection of information; (c) fishery management decision-making in ways to enhance the quality, utility, and discussion of sensitive budget and that fishery; satisfy NOAA’s legal planning information that would cause clarity of the information to be mandates under Executive Order 12866, collected; and (d) ways to minimize the harm to third parties if publicly shared the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery be closed in accordance with section burden of the collection of information Conservation and Management Act on respondents, including through the 10(d) of the Federal Advisory (U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), the Regulatory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. app. 2. use of automated collection techniques Flexibility Act, the Endangered Species or other forms of information Dated: February 27, 2003. Act, and the National Environmental technology. Arden L. Bement, Jr., Policy Act; and quantify achievement of Comments submitted in response to Director. the performance measures in the this notice will be summarized and/or [FR Doc. 03–5001 Filed 3–3–03; 8:45 am] National Marine Fisheries Service included in the request for OMB BILLING CODE 3510–13–P Strategic Operating Plans. Used in approval of this information collection; conjunction with landings and price they also will become a matter of public data already being collected in this record. fishery as part of the dealer reporting DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Dated: February 25, 2003. program, and economic data to be National Oceanic and Atmospheric collected under a voluntary program Gwellnar Banks, Administration (implementation of which is expected Management Analyst, Office of the Chief later this year), this data will be used to Information Officer. [I.D. 022603A] properly describe the fishery and its [FR Doc. 03–5046 Filed 3–3–03; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–22–S Proposed Information Collection; operations. The collected information Comment Request; Gulf of Mexico will also help to assess how fishermen will be impacted by and respond to any Shrimp Mandatory Vessel Owner DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Economic Data Collection regulation likely to be considered by fishery managers. In addition, this data National Oceanic and Atmospheric AGENCY: National Oceanic and will be used to determine how fishing Administration Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). communities will be impacted by [I.D. 022603B] ACTION: Notice. proposed fishing regulations. II. Method of Collection Proposed Information Collection; SUMMARY: The Department of Comment Request; Gulf of Mexico Red Commerce, as part of its continuing The vessel and gear characterization Snapper Individual Fishing Quota effort to reduce paperwork and form will be mailed to all vessel owners Referendum Data Collection respondent burden, invites the general who either currently have or who apply public and other Federal agencies to for Gulf of Mexico federal shrimp AGENCY: National Oceanic and take this opportunity to comment on permits. Vessel owners will be asked for Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). proposed and/or continuing information information about the nature and extent ACTION: Notice. collections, as required by the of their operations in the Gulf shrimp Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, fishery, as well the types of electronic SUMMARY: The Department of Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. equipment and gear they use to conduct Commerce, as part of its continuing 3506(c)(2)(A)). this fishery. Submission of a completed effort to reduce paperwork and

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respondent burden, invites the general II. Method of Collection of the functions of the agency, including public and other Federal agencies to The Secretary, at the request of the whether the information shall have take this opportunity to comment on Council, will conduct these practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the proposed and/or continuing information referendums. The Secretary has agency’s estimate of the burden collections, as required by the sufficient data, collected under OMB (including hours and cost) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, approval 0648–0205, needed to contact proposed collection of information; (c) Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. persons who held an annual vessel ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 3506(c)(2)(A)). permit with a red snapper endorsement clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the DATES: Written comments must be for such permit on September 1, 1996 burden of the collection of information submitted on or before May 5, 2003. (or any person to whom such permit on respondents, including through the ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments with such endorsement was transferred after such date). However, the Secretary use of automated collection techniques to Diana Hynek, Departmental or other forms of information Paperwork Clearance Officer, does not have such data on the vessel captains who harvested red snapper in technology. Department of Commerce, Room 6625, Comments submitted in response to 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW, a commercial fishery using such endorsement in each specified fishing this notice will be summarized and/or Washington, DC 20230 (or via the included in the request for OMB Internet at [email protected]). season. Therefore, the Secretary will use several communication methods to approval of this information collection; FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: attempt to identify such captains and they also will become a matter of public Requests for additional information or make them aware of the referendum record. copies of the information collection procedures. One possible Dated: February 25, 2003. instrument and instructions should be communication method that involves Gwellnar Banks, directed to Phil Steele, Department of data collection would be a request for Commerce, NOAA, National Marine Management Analyst, Office of the Chief detailed information from persons with Information Officer. Fisheries Service, 9721 Executive Center a vessel permit with a red snapper Drive North, St, Petersburg, FL 33702– [FR Doc. 03–5047 Filed 3–3–03; 8:45 am] endorsement, regarding vessel captains BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 2439, (727) 570–5305. who harvested red snapper using such SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: endorsement in each specified fishing I. Abstract season. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Prior to each referendum, the This data collection is needed for the Secretary, in consultation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to Council, shall (a) identify and notify all Administration properly implement the referendum such persons holding permits with red [I.D. 013003B] procedures specified in Section 407(c) snapper endorsements and all such of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery vessel captains; and (b) make available Marine Mammals: Final Environmental Conservation and Management Act to all such persons and vessel captains Assessment of Issuing a Bowhead (U.S.C. 1801 et seq.). The Act provides information about the schedule, Whale Subsistence Quota to the that on or after October 1, 2000, the Gulf procedures, and eligibility requirements Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission of Mexico Fishery Management Council for the referendum and the proposed for the Years 2003 through 2007 (Council) may prepare and submit a individual fishing quota program. fishery management plan, plan Submission of the paper questionnaires AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries amendment, or regulation for the Gulf of would be voluntary. Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Mexico commercial red snapper fishery Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), that creates an individual fishing quota III. Data Commerce. (IFQ) program or that authorizes the OMB Number: None. ACTION: Notice of availability. consolidation of licenses, permits, or Form Number: None. endorsements that result in different Type of Review: Regular submission. SUMMARY: NMFS announces the trip limits for vessels in the same class. Affected Public: Business or other for- availability of an Environmental These actions can only take place if the profit organizations. Assessment (EA), in accordance with preparation of such plan, amendment, Estimated Number of Respondents: the National Environmental Policy Act or regulation is approved in a 200. (NEPA), to assess the impacts of issuing referendum, and only if the submission Estimated Time Per Response: 10 the International Whaling Commission to the Secretary of such plan, minutes for a response to an initial (IWC) subsistence quota for bowhead amendment, or regulation is approved referendum on preparation; 20 minutes whales to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling in a subsequent referendum. for a response to a subsequent Commission (AEWC) for the years 2003 Only a person who held an annual referendum; and 10 minutes per through 2007. NMFS has identified a vessel permit with a red snapper response for any information request preferred alternative in the EA that will endorsement for such permit on regarding vessel captains. grant the AEWC the IWC quota of 255 September 1, 1996 (or any person to Estimated Total Annual Burden landed bowhead whales, with an annual whom such permit with such Hours: 102. strike quota of 67 bowhead whales per endorsement was transferred after such Estimated Total Annual Cost to year for the years 2003 through 2007, date) and vessel captains who harvested Public: $122. (Costs exclude valuation of where no more than 15 unused strikes red snapper in a commercial fishery respondents’ time.) are added to the strike quota for any one using such endorsement in each red year. snapper fishing season occurring IV. Request for Comments ADDRESSES: Copies of the EA may be between January 1, 1993, and such date Comments are invited on: (a) whether obtained via the Internet (see Electronic (i.e., September 1, 1996) may vote in the the proposed collection of information Access). Copies of the EA may be referendums. is necessary for the proper performance requested by writing to Gale Heim,

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