# Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
*Agency:* National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
*Title:* Alaska Crab Arbitration.
*OMB Control Number:* 0648-0516.
*Form Number(s):* NA.
*Type of Request:* Regular (request for extension of a current information collection).
*Number of Respondents:* 2.
*Average Hours per Response:* Combined Notification and Arbitration Organization Report, 3 hours (all other reports are done by contractors).
*Burden Hours:* 6.
*Needs and Uses:* This request is for extension of a currently approved collection.
The Crab Rationalization Program allocates Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) crab resources among harvesters, processors, and coastal communities through a limited access system that balances the interests of these groups who depend on these fisheries. Program components include quota share allocation, processor quota share allocation, individual fishing quota and individual processing quota issuance, quota transfers, use caps, crab harvesting cooperatives, protections for Gulf of Alaska groundfish fisheries, arbitration system, monitoring, economic data collection, and cost recovery fee collection.
The Crab Rationalization Program Arbitration System is established by the contracts required pursuant to 50CF 680.20, including the process by which the Market Report and Non-Binding Price Formula are produced, as well as the negotiation approaches and the Binding Arbitration process.
*Affected Public:* Business or other for-profit organizations.
*Frequency:* Annually.
*Respondent's Obligation:* Mandatory.
This information collection request may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to *[email protected]* or fax to (202) 395-5806.
Dated: September 19, 2014.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief Information Officer.