81_FR_68161 81 FR 67970 - New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

81 FR 67970 - New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 191 (October 3, 2016)

Page Range67970-67971
FR Document2016-23814

The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is scheduling a public meeting of its Skate Committee to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Recommendations from this group will be brought to the full Council for formal consideration and action, if appropriate.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 191 (Monday, October 3, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 191 (Monday, October 3, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67970-67971]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-23814]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XE919


New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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

ACTION: Notice; public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is 
scheduling a public meeting of its Skate Committee to consider actions 
affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). 
Recommendations from this group will be brought to the full Council for 
formal consideration and action, if appropriate.

DATES: This meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 9:30 
a.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Hilton Garden Hotel, One 
Thurber Street, Warwick, RI 02886; telephone: (401) 734-9600.
    Council address: New England Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, 
New England Fishery Management Council; telephone: (978) 465-0492.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Agenda

    The Committee will review and discuss the draft scoping document 
for the upcoming limited access amendment to the Northeast Skate 
Complex Fishery Management Plan. They will also develop recommendations 
for 2017 Council priorities as well as review and discuss 5 year 
research priorities for skates.

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Other business will be discussed. The Committee will also have a closed 
session to review Advisory Panel applications for 2018-20 and make 
recommendations for approval to the Council's Executive committee.

Special Accommodations

    This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, at (978) 465-
0492, at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.

    Authority:  16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

    Dated: September 28, 2016.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2016-23814 Filed 9-30-16; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 3510-22-P

67970 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 191 / Monday, October 3, 2016 / Notices (although the rate for the individual DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Special Accommodations exporter may change as a function of the This meeting is physically accessible finding that the exporter is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric to people with disabilities. Requests for NME entity). Administration sign language interpretation or other Following initiation of an RIN 0648–XE917 auxiliary aids should be directed to antidumping administrative review Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, at when there is no review requested of the New England Fishery Management (978) 465–0492, at least 5 days prior to NME entity, the Department will Council; Public Meeting the meeting date. instruct CBP to liquidate entries for all exporters not named in the initiation AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. notice, including those that were Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Dated: September 28, 2016. suspended at the NME entity rate. Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Tracey L. Thompson, All requests must be filed Commerce. Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable electronically in Enforcement and ACTION: Notice; public meeting. Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. Compliance’s Antidumping and [FR Doc. 2016–23799 Filed 9–30–16; 8:45 am] Countervailing Duty Centralized SUMMARY: The New England Fishery BILLING CODE 3510–22–P Electronic Service System (‘‘ACCESS’’) Management Council (Council) is on Enforcement and Compliance’s scheduling a joint public meeting of its ACCESS Web site at http:// Monkfish Committee to consider actions DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE access.trade.gov.4 Further, in affecting New England fisheries in the accordance with 19 CFR 351.303(f)(l)(i), exclusive economic zone (EEZ). National Oceanic and Atmospheric a copy of each request must be served Recommendations from this group will Administration on the petitioner and each exporter or be brought to the full Council for formal producer specified in the request. consideration and action, if appropriate. RIN 0648–XE919 The Department will publish in the DATES: This meeting will be held on Federal Register a notice of ‘‘Initiation New England Fishery Management Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at 9:30 a.m. Council; Public Meeting of Administrative Review of ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at Antidumping or Countervailing Duty AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries the Hilton Garden Inn, One Thurber Order, Finding, or Suspended Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Street, Warwick, RI 02886; telephone: Investigation’’ for requests received by Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), (401) 734–9600. the last day of October 2016. If the Commerce. Council address: New England Department does not receive, by the last ACTION: Notice; public meeting. Fishery Management Council, 50 Water day of October 2016, a request for Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950. review of entries covered by an order, SUMMARY: The New England Fishery finding, or suspended investigation FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Management Council (Council) is listed in this notice and for the period Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, scheduling a public meeting of its Skate identified above, the Department will New England Fishery Management Committee to consider actions affecting instruct CBP to assess antidumping or Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492. New England fisheries in the exclusive countervailing duties on those entries at SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: economic zone (EEZ). a rate equal to the cash deposit of (or Agenda Recommendations from this group will bond for) estimated antidumping or be brought to the full Council for formal countervailing duties required on those The Monkfish Committee will receive consideration and action, if appropriate. entries at the time of entry, or an update on Plan Development Team DATES: This meeting will be held on withdrawal from warehouse, for (PDT) analysis on Days-at-sea (DAS) Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 9:30 consumption and to continue to collect allocation and trip limits. The will also a.m. the cash deposit previously ordered. receive an overview from the Monkfish For the first administrative review of PDT on draft alternatives and impacts ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at any order, there will be no assessment for Framework 10 regarding the Hilton Garden Hotel, One Thurber of antidumping or countervailing duties specifications for FY 2017–19 and DAS Street, Warwick, RI 02886; telephone: on entries of subject merchandise allocation and/or possession limit (401) 734–9600. entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, alternatives. The Committee will select Council address: New England for consumption during the relevant preferred alternatives for Framework 10 Fishery Management Council, 50 Water provisional-measures ‘‘gap’’ period of as well as review and discuss 5 year Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950. the order, if such a gap period is research priorities for monkfish. The FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: applicable to the period of review. will discuss other business, as Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, This notice is not required by statute necessary. New England Fishery Management but is published as a service to the Although non-emergency issues not Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492. international trading community. contained in this agenda may come SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Dated: September 22, 2016. before this group for discussion, those issues may not be the subject of formal Agenda Christian Marsh, action during this meeting. Action will The Committee will review and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping be restricted to those issues specifically discuss the draft scoping document for sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES and Countervailing Duty Operations. listed in this notice and any issues the upcoming limited access [FR Doc. 2016–23829 Filed 9–30–16; 8:45 am] arising after publication of this notice amendment to the Northeast Skate BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P that require emergency action under Complex Fishery Management Plan. 4 See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens They will also develop Proceedings: Electronic Filing Procedures; Act, provided the public has been recommendations for 2017 Council Administrative Protective Order Procedures, 76 FR notified of the Council’s intent to take priorities as well as review and discuss 39263 (July 6, 2011). final action to address the emergency. 5 year research priorities for skates. 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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 191 / Monday, October 3, 2016 / Notices 67971 Other business will be discussed. The Background completion of the application, the Committee will also have a closed Sections 101(a)(5)(A) and (D) of the planned LRS WSEP training activities session to review Advisory Panel MMPA (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) direct were pushed back to October 2016. applications for 2018–20 and make the Secretary of Commerce to allow, 86 FWS proposes actions that include recommendations for approval to the upon request, the incidental, but not LRS WSEP test missions of the Joint Air- Council’s Executive committee. intentional, taking of small numbers of To-Surface Stand-off Missile (JASSM) marine mammals of a species or and the Small Diameter Bomb-I/II (SDB– Special Accommodations I/II) including detonations at the water population stock, by U.S. citizens who This meeting is physically accessible surface. These activities qualify as engage in a specified activity (other than to people with disabilities. Requests for military readiness activities under the commercial fishing) within a specified sign language interpretation or other MMPA. geographical region if certain findings auxiliary aids should be directed to The following aspects of the planned are made and either regulations are Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, at LRS WSEP training activities have the issued or, if the taking is limited to (978) 465–0492, at least 5 days prior to potential to take marine mammals: harassment, a notice of a proposed the meeting date. Munition strikes and detonation effects authorization is provided to the public Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. (overpressure and acoustic for review. components). Take, by Level B Dated: September 28, 2016. An authorization for incidental harassment of individuals of dwarf Tracey L. Thompson, takings for marine mammals shall be sperm whale, pygmy sperm whale, Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable granted if NMFS finds that the taking Fraser’s dolphin, and minke whale Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. will have a negligible impact on the could potentially result from the [FR Doc. 2016–23814 Filed 9–30–16; 8:45 am] species or stock(s), will not have an specified activity. Additionally, 86 FWS unmitigable adverse impact on the BILLING CODE 3510–22–P has requested authorization for Level A availability of the species or stock(s) for Harassment of one individual dwarf subsistence uses (where relevant), and if sperm whale. 86 FWS’s LRS WSEP DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE the permissible methods of taking and training activities may potentially requirements pertaining to the impact marine mammals at or near the National Oceanic and Atmospheric mitigation, monitoring, and reporting of water surface. In the absence of Administration such taking are set forth. NMFS has mitigation, marine mammals could defined ‘‘negligible impact’’ in 50 CFR potentially be injured or killed by RIN 0648–XE675 216.103 as ‘‘an impact resulting from exploding and non-exploding the specified activity that cannot be Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to projectiles, falling debris, or ingestion of reasonably expected to, and is not Specified Activities; Taking Marine military expended materials. However, reasonably likely to, adversely affect the Mammals Incidental to the U.S. Air based on analyses provided in 86 FWS’s species or stock through effects on Force 86 Fighter Weapons Squadron 2016 application, 2016 Environmental annual rates of recruitment or survival.’’ Conducting Long Range Strike Assessment (EA), and for reasons The NDAA of 2004 (Public Law 108– Weapon Systems Evaluation Program discussed later in this document, we do 136) removed the ‘‘small numbers’’ and at the Pacific Missile Range Facility at not anticipate that 86 FWS’s LRS WSEP ‘‘specified geographical region’’ Kauai, Hawaii activities would result in any serious limitations indicated earlier and injury or mortality to marine mammals. AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries amended the definition of harassment as Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and it applies to a ‘‘military readiness Description of the Specified Activity Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), activity’’ to read as follows (Section Overview Commerce. 3(18)(B) of the MMPA): (i) any act that injures or has the significant potential to 86 FWS plans to conduct an air-to- ACTION: Notice; issuance of an incidental surface mission in the BSURE area of injure a marine mammal or marine harassment authorization. mammal stock in the wild (Level A the PMRF. The LRS WSEP test objective SUMMARY: In accordance with the Harassment); or (ii) any act that disturbs is to conduct operational evaluations of regulations implementing the Marine or is likely to disturb a marine mammal long range strike weapons and other Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), or marine mammal stock in the wild by munitions as part of LRS WSEP notification is hereby given that we have causing disruption of natural behavioral operations to properly train units to issued an incidental harassment patterns, including, but not limited to, execute requirements within Designed authorization (IHA) to the U.S. Air migration, surfacing, nursing, breeding, Operational Capability Statements, Force 86 Fighter Weapons Squadron (86 feeding, or sheltering, to a point where which describe units’ real-world FWS) to incidentally harass marine such behavioral patterns are abandoned operational expectations in a time of mammals during Long Range Strike or significantly altered (Level B war. Due to threats to national security, Weapons System Evaluation Program Harassment). increased missions involving air-to- (LRS WSEP) activities in the Barking surface activities have been directed by Summary of Request the Department of Defense (DoD). Sands Underwater Range Extension (BSURE) area of the Pacific Missile On May 12, 2016, NMFS received an Accordingly, the U.S. Air Force needs to Range Facility (PMRF) at Kauai, Hawaii. application from 86 FWS for the taking conduct operational evaluations of all of marine mammals, by harassment, phases of long range strike weapons sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES DATES: This authorization is effective incidental to the LRS WSEP within the within the U.S. Navy’s Hawaii Range from October 1, 2016, through PMRF in Kauai, Hawaii from September Complex (HRC). The actions will fulfill November 30, 2016. 1, 2016 through August 31, 2017. 86 the Air Force’s requirement to evaluate FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: FWS submitted a revised version of the full-scale maneuvers for such weapons, Laura McCue, Office of Protected renewal request on June 9, 2016 and including scoring capabilities under Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401. June 20, 2016, which we considered operationally realistic scenarios. LRS SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: adequate and complete. After WSEP objectives are to evaluate air-to- VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:56 Sep 30, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00016 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\03OCN1.SGM 03OCN1


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CollectionFederal Register
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice; public meeting.
DatesThis meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 9:30 a.m.
ContactThomas A. Nies, Executive Director, New England Fishery Management Council; telephone: (978) 465-0492.
FR Citation81 FR 67970 
RIN Number0648-XE91
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