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SUMMARY: The Department of vessels; sector proposals for IFQ vessels use of automated collection techniques Commerce, as part of its continuing and industry participants; and sector or other forms of information effort to reduce paperwork and operations plans for approved sector technology. respondent burden, invites the general proposals. Comments submitted in response to public and other Federal agencies to Data collected through these programs this notice will be summarized and/or take this opportunity to comment on are incorporated into the NMFS included in the request for OMB proposed and/or continuing information database and are used to track and approval of this information collection; collections, as required by the confirm vessel permit status and they also will become a matter of public Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. eligibility, scallop landings, and scallop record. DATES: Written comments must be vessel allocations. Aggregated Dated: January 11, 2017. submitted on or before March 20, 2017. summaries of the collected information Sarah Brabson, will be used to evaluate the ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. management program and future to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental [FR Doc. 2017–00816 Filed 1–13–17; 8:45 am] Paperwork Clearance Officer, management proposals. BILLING CODE 3510–22–P Department of Commerce, Room 6616, II. Method of Collection 14th and Constitution Avenue NW., Participants will submit electronic Washington, DC 20230 (or via the DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Internet at [email protected]). VMS transmissions and paper applications by mail, facsimile, or FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: National Oceanic and Atmospheric email. Requests for additional information or Administration copies of the information collection III. Data RIN 0648–XF154 instrument and instructions should be OMB Number: 0648–0491. directed to Shannah Jaburek, (978) 282– Form Number: None. Marine Mammals; File Nos. 19703 and 8456 or [email protected]. Type of Review: Regular submission 20993 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: (extension of a currently approved AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries I. Abstract collection). Affected Public: Business or other for- Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and This request is for an extension of a profits organizations. Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), currently approved information Estimated Number of Respondents: Commerce. collection. 647. ACTION: Notice; receipt of applications. The National Marine Fisheries Service Estimated Time per Response: VMS SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that (NMFS) Greater Atlantic Region trip declaration, trip termination, Fred Sharpe, Ph.D., Alaska Whale manages the Atlantic sea scallop compensation trip identification, Foundation, 4739 University Way NE., (scallop) fishery of the Exclusive powerdown provision, daily catch #1230, Seattle, WA 98105 (File No. Economic Zone (EEZ) off the East Coast reports, 2 minutes; access area trip 19703) has applied in due form for a under the Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery exchange, 15 minutes; VMS purchase permit to conduct research on cetaceans Management Plan (FMP). The and installation, 2 hours; IFQ ownership and Christopher Cilfone, Be Blue, 2569 regulations implementing the FMP are cap forms, 5 minutes; vessel Douglas Hwy. Unit 1, Juneau, AK 99801 at 50 CFR part 648. To successfully replacement, upgrade and permit (File No. 20993) has applied in due form implement and administer components history applications, 3 hours; VMS pre- to conduct commercial/educational of the FMP, OMB Control No. 0648– landing notification form, 5 minutes; photography on humpback whales 0491 includes the following information VMS state waters exemption program, 2 (Megaptera novaeangliae). collections for scallop vessel owners, minutes; quota transfers, 10 minutes; operators, and fishery participants: cost recovery, 2 hours; sector proposals, DATES: Written, telefaxed, or email Vessel monitoring system (VMS) trip 150 hours; sector operations plans, 100 comments must be received on or before declarations for all scallop vessels, hours; IFQ, Northern Gulf of Maine, and February 16, 2017. including powerdown declarations; incidental catch vessel VMS ADDRESSES: The application and related notification of access area trip requirements, 2 minutes. documents for File No. 19703 are termination for limited access scallop Estimated Total Annual Burden available for review by selecting vessels; submission of access area Hours: 3,460. ‘‘Records Open for Public Comment’’ compensation trip identification; Estimated Total Annual Cost to from the ‘‘Features’’ box on the submission of access area trip exchange Public: $790,283. Applications and Permits for Protected forms; VMS purchase and installation Species (APPS) home page, https:// for individuals that purchase a federally IV. Request for Comments apps.nmfs.noaa.gov, and then selecting permitted scallop vessel; VMS daily Comments are invited on: (a) Whether File No. 19703 from the list of available catch reports; submission of ownership the proposed collection of information applications. cap forms for individual fishing quota is necessary for the proper performance Documents for File No. 19703 and (IFQ) scallop vessels; submission of of the functions of the agency, including 20993 are also available upon written vessel replacement, upgrade and permit whether the information shall have request or by appointment in the history applications for IFQ, Northern practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Permits and Conservation Division, Gulf of Maine (NGOM), and Incidental agency’s estimate of the burden Office of Protected Resources, NMFS, Catch (IC) scallop vessels; submission of (including hours and cost) of the 1315 East-West Highway, Room 13705, VMS pre-landing notification form by proposed collection of information; (c) Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone (301) IFQ vessels and limited access vessels ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 427–8401; fax (301) 713–0376. for access areas; enrollment into the clarity of the information to be Written comments on these state waters exemption program; collected; and (d) ways to minimize the applications should be submitted to the submission of requests for IFQ transfers; burden of the collection of information Chief, Permits and Conservation payment of cost recovery bills for IFQ on respondents, including through the Division, at the address listed above.

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Comments may also be submitted by In compliance with the National and Blueline Tilefish specifications facsimile to (301) 713–0376, or by email Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 process, including recommendations by to [email protected]. U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), an initial the Council and its Scientific and Please include the File No. in the determination has been made that the Statistical Committee (SSC). subject line of the email comment. activities proposed are categorically Special Accommodations Those individuals requesting a public excluded from the requirement to hearing should submit a written request prepare an environmental assessment or This meeting is physically accessible to the Chief, Permits and Conservation environmental impact statement. to people with disabilities. Requests for Division at the address listed above. The Concurrent with the publication of sign language interpretation or other request should set forth the specific this notice in the Federal Register, auxiliary aids should be directed to M. reasons why a hearing on the NMFS is forwarding copies of the Jan Saunders, (302) 526–5251, at least 5 application would be appropriate. applications to the Marine Mammal days prior to the meeting date. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Commission and its Committee of Dated: January 11, 2017. Carrie Hubard or Shasta McClenahan, Scientific Advisors. Jeffrey N. Lonergan, (301) 427–8401. Dated: January 10, 2017. Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Julia Harrison, Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. subject permits are requested under the Chief, Permits and Conservation Division, [FR Doc. 2017–00818 Filed 1–13–17; 8:45 am] authority of the Marine Mammal Office of Protected Resources, National BILLING CODE 3510–22–P Protection Act of 1972, as amended Marine Fisheries Service. (MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the [FR Doc. 2017–00807 Filed 1–13–17; 8:45 am] regulations governing the taking and BILLING CODE 3510–22–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE importing of marine mammals (50 CFR part 216), the Endangered Species Act of National Telecommunications and 1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Information Administration et seq.), and the regulations governing the taking, importing, and exporting of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Multistakeholder Process on Internet endangered and threatened species (50 Administration of Things Security Upgradability and Patching CFR 222–226). RIN 0648–XF161 Dr. Sharpe (File No. 19703) proposes AGENCY: National Telecommunications to study humpback and killer (Orcinus Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management and Information Administration, U.S. orca) whales in Alaska using both vessel Council (MAFMC); Public Meeting Department of Commerce. and aerial surveys and a variety of AGENCY: ACTION: Notice of open meeting. methods including photo-identification, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and passive and active acoustics, SUMMARY: The National underwater video/photography, Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. Telecommunications and Information unmanned aircraft systems, prey Administration (NTIA) will convene a ACTION: Notice; public meeting. mapping, and suction-cup tagging. The virtual meeting of a multistakeholder purpose of the research is to continue a SUMMARY: The Tilefish Advisory Panel process concerning Internet of Things long-term study of the behavior of of the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Security Upgradability and Patching on Alaskan humpback whales, focusing on Management Council (Council) will January 31, 2017. social structure, vocalizations, and hold a meeting. DATES: The meeting will be held on feeding. Forty harbor porpoises DATES: The meeting will be held on January 31, 2017, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 (Phocoena phocoena), 50 Dall’s Thursday, February 9, 2017, beginning p.m., Eastern Time. porpoises (Phocoenoides dalli), 130 at 9 a.m. and conclude by 12 noon. For ADDRESSES: harbor seals (Phoca vitulina), and 80 This is a virtual meeting. agenda details, see SUPPLEMENTARY Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) NTIA will post links to online content INFORMATION. may be incidentally harassed during and dial-in information on the research activities. The permit would be ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held multistakeholder process Web site at valid for five years. via webinar with a telephone-only https://www.ntia.doc.gov/other- Mr. Cilfone (File No. 20993) proposes connection option: http:// publication/2016/multistakeholder- to film humpback whales in Hawaiian mafmc.adobeconnect.com/tile-ap-2017/. process-iot-security. waters of the Maui Nui Basin. Footage Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: would be used to create a film about Management Council, 800 N. State Allan Friedman, National humpback whales and their Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; Telecommunications and Information conservation success that would be telephone: (302) 674–2331 or on their Administration, U.S. Department of available on multiple platforms. Boats, Web site at www.mafmc.org. Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue unmanned aircraft systems, pole FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: NW., Room 4725, Washington, DC cameras, and snorkelers would all be Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive 20230; telephone: (202) 482–4281; used to get footage. Fifty humpback Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery email: [email protected]. Please whales would be approached annually. Management Council, telephone: (302) direct media inquiries to NTIA’s Office In addition, pantropical spotted 526–5255. of Public Affairs: (202) 482–7002; email: (Stenella attenuata), spinner (S. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The [email protected]. longirostris), and bottlenose (Tursiops purpose of the meeting is to create a SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: truncatus) dolphins may be incidentally fishery performance report by the Background: In March of 2015 the harassed during filming operations. Council’s Tilefish Advisory Panel. The National Telecommunications and Filming would occur in winter and intent of this report is to facilitate a Information Administration issued a spring and the permit would be valid venue for structured input from the Request for Comment to ‘‘identify until May 2017. Advisory Panel members for the Golden substantive cybersecurity issues that

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