80_FR_56629 80 FR 56448 - North Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings

80 FR 56448 - North Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 181 (September 18, 2015)

Page Range56448-56449
FR Document2015-23459

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and its advisory committees will meet Monday, October 5, 2015, through Tuesday, October 13, 2015.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 181 (Friday, September 18, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 181 (Friday, September 18, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56448-56449]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-23459]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XE192


North Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

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SUMMARY: The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and its 
advisory committees will meet Monday, October 5, 2015, through Tuesday, 
October 13, 2015.

DATES: The meetings will be held Monday, October 5, 2015 through 
Tuesday, October 13, 2015. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for specific 
dates.

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at the Anchorage Hilton Hotel, 500 
W. 3rd Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for 
specific locations.
    Council address: North Pacific Fishery Management Council, 605 W. 
4th Ave., Suite 306, Anchorage, AK 99501-2252; telephone: (907) 271-
2809.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Witherell, Council staff; 
telephone: (907) 271-2809.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Council will begin its plenary session 
at 8 a.m. in the Aleutian Room on Wednesday, October 7, continuing 
through Tuesday, October 13, 2015. The Scientific Statistical Committee 
(SSC) will begin at 8 a.m. in the King Salmon/Iliamna Room on Monday, 
October 5 and continue through Wednesday, October 7, 2015. The 
Council's Advisory Panel (AP) will begin at 8 a.m. in the Dillingham/
Katmai Room on Tuesday, October 6, and continue through Saturday, 
October 10, 2015. The Enforcement Committee will meet on Tuesday, 
October 6, 2015 (room and time to be determined). The Legislative 
Committee will meet on Tuesday, October 6, 2015, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. 
(room to be determined).

Agenda

Monday, October 5, 2015 Through Tuesday, October 13, 2015

    Council Plenary Session: The agenda for the Council's plenary 
session will include the following issues. The Council may take 
appropriate action on any of the issues identified.

(1) Executive Director's Report (including Halibut Management Framework 
Outline, and Halibut Deck Sorting)
(2) NMFS Management Report (including update on non-fishing habitat 
issues, litigation updates)
(3) ADF&G Report (including BOF proposals)
(4) USCG Report
(5) USFWS Report
(6) Protected Species Report
(7) BSAI Crab SAFE/Specifications for 6 stocks
(8) Proposed Groundfish Harvest Specifications
(9) Pribilof Canyon Corals: Receive Report/Next Steps
(10) AI Pacific cod Allocation: Final Action
(11) EM Workgroup recommendation for 2016 Pre-implementation
(12) Observer Program 2016 Annual Deployment Plan: Review
(13) Observer Coverage on BSAI Trawl CVs: Initial Review
(14) GOA Trawl Bycatch Management: Review Paper
(15) 100% Observer Coverage for GOA Trawl: Discussion paper
(16) GOA Salmon PSC Reapportionment: Preliminary Review
(17) WAI Golden King Crab Partial Offloads: Final Action

    The Agenda is subject to change, and the latest version will be 
posted at http://www.npfmc.org/.
    Although non-emergency issues not contained in this agenda may come 
before these groups for discussion, those issues may not be the subject 
of formal action during these meetings. Action will be restricted to 
those issues specifically listed in this notice and any issues arising 
after publication of this notice that require emergency action under 
section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, provided the public has 
been notified of the Council's intent to take final action to address 
the emergency.

Special Accommodations

    These meetings are physically accessible to people with 
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other 
auxiliary aids should be directed to Shannon Gleason at (907) 271-2809 
at least 7 working days prior to the meeting date.

    Dated: September 15, 2015.
Jeffrey N. Lonergan,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2015-23459 Filed 9-17-15; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-22-P

56448 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 181 / Friday, September 18, 2015 / Notices is to study the degree to which juvenile handled and released without being habitat restoration actions that have salmonids may be getting stranded by tagged. The weir would operate in 12- been going on there for a number of ship wakes along the lower Columbia hour increments (checked at least twice years. This research would benefit listed River between river miles 21 and 102. daily), and all fish to be tagged would steelhead in that it would be used by The researchers would investigate the be anesthetized before the process, and fish managers such as the Rock Creek potential for stranding at approximately allowed to recover afterwards; they Subbasin Recovery Planning Group to 24 ‘‘high risk’’ sites. The researchers would then be released back to the river prioritize to plan restoration, protection, would also evaluate whether the upstream from the weir. The researchers and recovery actions for Rock Creek strategic placement of dredged material would also collect scale and tissue steelhead. could reduce the risk of stranding. The samples from a number of fish for DNA This notice is provided pursuant to research would benefit the listed species analysis. The research is intended to section 10(c) of the ESA. NMFS will by helping river managers determine the form an integral part of an ongoing evaluate the applications, associated likelihood of juvenile stranding along program that intensively monitors a documents, and comments submitted to the lower river and investigate potential number of ecological parameters in the determine whether the applications means for reducing it. Hart Crowser, Inc. Lemhi watershed. The weir operation meet the requirements of section 10(a) would use beach seines to capture, would allow greater resolution of both of the ESA and Federal regulations. The handle, and release juvenile fish. adult return numbers and fish final permit decisions will not be made Researchers may also collect stranded movement in the area, and it would feed until after the end of the 30-day fish and return them to the river. Hart that data into the information stream comment period. NMFS will publish Crowser, Inc. does not intend to kill any being generated by the overall program. notice of its final action in the Federal of the fish being captured but a small The research would benefit the fish by Register. number may die as an unintended result providing new information that Dated: September 15, 2015. of the activities. managers can use to (1) evaluate and monitor steelhead and Chinook status in Angela Somma, Permit 19587 Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office the region, and (2) design and deploy The Columbia River Estuary Study increasingly effective habitat restoration of Protected Resources, National Marine (CREST) is requesting a three-year Fisheries Service. actions throughout the fishes’ range. scientific research permit to take LCR The researchers do not intend to kill any [FR Doc. 2015–23454 Filed 9–17–15; 8:45 am] Chinook salmon, CR chum salmon, and of the listed fish, but a few may die as BILLING CODE 3510–22–P LCR coho salmon. The objective of the an inadvertent result of the planned research is to study the effectiveness of activities. habitat restoration in Meglar Creek, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Washington. The research would Permit 19741 evaluate fish passage and habitat use in The Yakama Nation is seeking a five- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Meglar Creek and the Columbia River year permit to annually take juvenile, Administration nearshore environment at the mouth of natural MCR steelhead during the Meglar Creek. The CREST researchers course of a research project designed to RIN 0648–XE192 would capture fish with a trap net. A assess their current abundance in the portion of the juvenile Chinook and Rock Creek watershed in south central North Pacific Fishery Management coho salmon would be anesthetized and Washington. Under the permit, the Council; Public Meetings tagged with passive integrated researchers would employ backpack AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries transponder tags (PIT-tags). The electrofishing to capture a number of Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and research would benefit listed salmonids juvenile MCR steelhead. Some of those Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), by determining how effectively fish would be tagged with PIT-tags, and Commerce. currently altered habitats support some would be tissue-sampled, but most ACTION: Notice of public meetings. salmonids and using that information to would simply be handled and released. guide future habitat modifications. The researchers would work primarily SUMMARY: The North Pacific Fishery CREST does not intend to kill any listed in five reference areas (reaches) and Management Council (Council) and its fish but a small number may die as an they would use mark/recapture advisory committees will meet Monday, unintended result of the research techniques to study juvenile October 5, 2015, through Tuesday, activities. development and movement in Rock October 13, 2015. Creek. They would also conduct some Permit 19690 DATES: The meetings will be held boat electrofishing in the inundated The Idaho Department of Fish and Monday, October 5, 2015 through pool downstream from the research area Game (IDFG) is seeking a five-year Tuesday, October 13, 2015. See in Rock Creek—primarily to look at SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for specific permit to take adult SR spr/sum predator abundance. In addition, the Chinook, SR sockeye, and SR steelhead dates. researchers would take tissue samples at a location approximately one mile from dead adults during spawning ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at upstream from the confluence of the ground surveys. The purpose of the the Anchorage Hilton Hotel, 500 W. 3rd Lemhi and Salmon Rivers in Idaho. research is to assess the current Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501. See Under the permit, they would trap adult distribution and relative abundance of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for specific Chinook and steelhead at a temporary MCR steelhead in selected portions of locations. Council address: North Pacific tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES weir, measure and tag them with PIT- Rock Creek. That information would be tags, and monitor their movements in integrated with information being Fishery Management Council, 605 W. the Lemhi Valley with the purpose of collected on other ecological parameters 4th Ave., Suite 306, Anchorage, AK determining the animals’ response to and the researches would use that 99501–2252; telephone: (907) 271–2809. habitat improvements throughout the information as a whole to determine FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: subbasin. All adult sockeye salmon species status in the system and David Witherell, Council staff; captured at the weir would simply be evaluate the effectiveness of several telephone: (907) 271–2809. 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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 181 / Friday, September 18, 2015 / Notices 56449 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The before these groups for discussion, those After consideration of the material Council will begin its plenary session at issues may not be the subject of formal presented to it concerning capability of 8 a.m. in the Aleutian Room on action during these meetings. Action qualified nonprofit agencies to provide Wednesday, October 7, continuing will be restricted to those issues the products and service and impact of through Tuesday, October 13, 2015. The specifically listed in this notice and any the additions on the current or most Scientific Statistical Committee (SSC) issues arising after publication of this recent contractors, the Committee has will begin at 8 a.m. in the King Salmon/ notice that require emergency action determined that the products and Iliamna Room on Monday, October 5 under section 305(c) of the Magnuson- service listed below are suitable for and continue through Wednesday, Stevens Act, provided the public has procurement by the Federal Government October 7, 2015. The Council’s Advisory been notified of the Council’s intent to under 41 U.S.C. 8501–8506 and 41 CFR Panel (AP) will begin at 8 a.m. in the take final action to address the 51–2.4. Dillingham/Katmai Room on Tuesday, emergency. Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification October 6, and continue through Special Accommodations I certify that the following action will Saturday, October 10, 2015. The Enforcement Committee will meet on These meetings are physically not have a significant impact on a Tuesday, October 6, 2015 (room and accessible to people with disabilities. substantial number of small entities. time to be determined). The Legislative Requests for sign language The major factors considered for this Committee will meet on Tuesday, interpretation or other auxiliary aids certification were: October 6, 2015, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. should be directed to Shannon Gleason 1. The action will not result in any (room to be determined). at (907) 271–2809 at least 7 working additional reporting, recordkeeping or days prior to the meeting date. other compliance requirements for small Agenda entities other than the small Dated: September 15, 2015. Monday, October 5, 2015 Through organizations that will furnish the Jeffrey N. Lonergan, Tuesday, October 13, 2015 products and service to the Government. Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 2. The action will result in Council Plenary Session: The agenda Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. authorizing small entities to furnish the for the Council’s plenary session will [FR Doc. 2015–23459 Filed 9–17–15; 8:45 am] products and service to the Government. include the following issues. The BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 3. There are no known regulatory Council may take appropriate action on alternatives which would accomplish any of the issues identified. the objectives of the Javits-Wagner- (1) Executive Director’s Report COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM O’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 8501–8506) in (including Halibut Management PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR connection with the products and Framework Outline, and Halibut SEVERELY DISABLED service proposed for addition to the Deck Sorting) Procurement List. (2) NMFS Management Report Procurement List; Additions and (including update on non-fishing Deletions End of Certification habitat issues, litigation updates) Accordingly, the following products (3) ADF&G Report (including BOF AGENCY: Committee for Purchase from and service are added to the proposals) People Who are Blind or Severely Procurement List: (4) USCG Report Disabled. (5) USFWS Report ACTION: Additions to and deletions from Products (6) Protected Species Report the Procurement List. NSN(s)—Product Name(s): (7) BSAI Crab SAFE/Specifications for 6 7930–00–NIB–0717—Floor Finish/Sealer, stocks SUMMARY: This action adds products and Black, Water-Based, Slip-Resistant, (8) Proposed Groundfish Harvest a service to the Procurement List that Asphalt Floors, 5 Gal. Can Specifications will be furnished by nonprofit agencies 7930–00–NIB–0675—Floor Finish/Sealer, (9) Pribilof Canyon Corals: Receive employing persons who are blind or Black, Water-Based, Slip-Resistant, have other severe disabilities, and Asphalt Floors, 4/1 Gal. Bottles Report/Next Steps Mandatory Source(s) of Supply: Lighthouse (10) AI Pacific cod Allocation: Final deletes services from the Procurement for the Blind of Houston, Houston, TX Action List previously furnished by such Mandatory Purchase For: Broad Government (11) EM Workgroup recommendation for agencies. Requirement 2016 Pre-implementation DATES: Effective Date: 10/19/2015. Contracting Activity: General Services (12) Observer Program 2016 Annual Administration, Fort Worth, TX ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase Deployment Plan: Review Distribution: B-List (13) Observer Coverage on BSAI Trawl From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled, 1401 S. Clark Street, Suite Service CVs: Initial Review (14) GOA Trawl Bycatch Management: 715, Arlington, Virginia 22202–4149. Service Type: Janitorial and Related Service Review Paper FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Service Mandatory For: U.S. Customs and (15) 100% Observer Coverage for GOA Barry S. Lineback, Telephone: (703) Border Protection; 1 La Puntilla Street; 603–7740, Fax: (703) 603–0655, or email San Juan, PR Trawl: Discussion paper Mandatory Source(s) of Supply: The (16) GOA Salmon PSC CMTEFedReg@AbilityOne.gov. Corporate Source, Inc., New York, NY Reapportionment: Preliminary SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Contracting Activity: U.S. Customs and Review Border Protection, Border Enforcement Additions tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES (17) WAI Golden King Crab Partial Contracting Division Offloads: Final Action On 6/26/2015 (80 FR 36773–36774) The Agenda is subject to change, and and 8/4/2015 (80 FR 46250), the Deletions the latest version will be posted at Committee for Purchase From People On 8/7/2015 (80 FR 47475) and http://www.npfmc.org/. Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled 9/4/2015 (80 FR 53501–53502), the Although non-emergency issues not published notices of proposed additions Committee for Purchase From People contained in this agenda may come to the Procurement List. Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:47 Sep 17, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00013 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\18SEN1.SGM 18SEN1


Document Created: 2015-12-15 09:27:30
Document Modified: 2015-12-15 09:27:30
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of public meetings.
DatesThe meetings will be held Monday, October 5, 2015 through Tuesday, October 13, 2015. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for specific dates.
ContactDavid Witherell, Council staff; telephone: (907) 271-2809.
FR Citation80 FR 56448 
RIN Number0648-XE19
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