82 FR 17637 - Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC); Meeting
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 69 (April 12, 2017)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 69 (April 12, 2017)
| Page Range | 17637-17638 | |
| FR Document | 2017-07344 |
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 69 (Wednesday, April 12, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 17637-17638] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-07344] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration RIN 0648-XF349 Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC); Meeting AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Notice of a public meeting. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish Advisory Panel of the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold a public meeting. DATES: The meeting will be held on Monday, May 1, 2017, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., to view the agenda see SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. The meeting will be held via Webinar with a telephone-only audio connection: http://mafmc.adobeconnect.com/msb-ap-2017/. Telephone instructions are provided upon connecting, or the public can call direct, at 800-832-0736, Rm: 7833942#. ADDRESSES: Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 800 N. State Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901: telephone: (302) 674-2331 or on their Web site, at www.mafmc.org. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, telephone: (302) 526-5255. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Agenda The purpose of the meeting is to create a Fishery Performance Report by the Council's Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish (MSB) Advisory Panel. The intent of this report is to facilitate a venue for structured input from the Advisory Panel members for the MSB specifications process, including recommendations by the Council and its Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC). Special Accommodations These meetings are physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to M. Jan Saunders, at (302) 526- 5251, at least 5 business days prior to the meeting. Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. [[Page 17638]] Dated: April 7, 2017. Tracey L. Thompson, Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. [FR Doc. 2017-07344 Filed 4-11-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-22-P
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tina will be reserved near the beginning of DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Faecke, Management and Program the meeting for public comments, and
Analyst, National Earthquake Hazards speaking times will be assigned on a National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Reduction Program, Engineering first-come, first-serve basis. The amount Administration
Laboratory, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, of time per speaker will be determined
Mail Stop 8604, Gaithersburg, Maryland by the number of requests received, but RIN 0648–XF349
20899–8604. Ms. Faecke’s email address is likely to be about three minutes each.
is tina.faecke@nist.gov and her phone Questions from the public will not be Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management
number is (301) 975–5911. considered during this period. All those Council (MAFMC); Meeting
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: wishing to speak must submit their AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries
The Committee was established in request by email to the attention of Ms. Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
accordance with the requirements of Tina Faecke, tina.faecke@nist.gov, by Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Section 103 of the NEHRP 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, Wednesday, July Commerce.
Reauthorization Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 19, 2017. ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.
108–360). The Committee is composed
of 15 members appointed by the Speakers who wish to expand upon
their oral statements, those who had SUMMARY: The Atlantic Mackerel, Squid,
Director of NIST, who were selected for and Butterfish Advisory Panel of the
their established records of wished to speak but could not be
accommodated on the agenda, and those Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management
distinguished service in their Council (Council) will hold a public
professional community, their who were unable to attend in person are
invited to submit written statements to meeting.
knowledge of issues affecting NEHRP,
and to reflect the wide diversity of ACEHR, National Institute of Standards DATES: The meeting will be held on
technical disciplines, competencies, and and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, MS Monday, May 1, 2017, from 1 p.m. to 5
communities involved in earthquake 8604, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899– p.m., to view the agenda see
hazards reduction. In addition, the 8604, via fax at (301) 975–4032, or SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
Chairperson of the U.S. Geological electronically by email to tina.faecke@ The meeting will be held via Webinar
Survey Scientific Earthquake Studies nist.gov. with a telephone-only audio connection:
Advisory Committee serves as an ex- http://mafmc.adobeconnect.com/msb-
All visitors to the NIST site are
officio member of the Committee. The ap-2017/. Telephone instructions are
required to pre-register to be admitted. provided upon connecting, or the public
Committee assesses:
Anyone wishing to attend this meeting
• Trends and developments in the can call direct, at 800–832–0736, Rm:
must register by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 7833942#.
science and engineering of earthquake
hazards reduction; Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in order to
attend. Please submit your full name, ADDRESSES:
• the effectiveness of NEHRP in Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery
performing its statutory activities; email address, and phone number to
Tina Faecke. Non-U.S. citizens must Management Council, 800 N. State
• any need to revise NEHRP; and Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901:
• the management, coordination, submit additional information; please
contact Ms. Faecke. Ms. Faecke’s email telephone: (302) 674–2331 or on their
implementation, and activities of Web site, at www.mafmc.org.
NEHRP. address is tina.faecke@nist.gov and her
phone number is (301) 975–5911. For FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Background information on NEHRP
and the Advisory Committee is available participants attending in person, please Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive
at http://nehrp.gov/. note that federal agencies, including Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Pursuant to the Federal Advisory NIST, can only accept a state-issued Management Council, telephone: (302)
Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. driver’s license or identification card for 526–5255.
App., notice is hereby given that the access to federal facilities if such license SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ACEHR will hold an open meeting on or identification card is issued by a state Agenda
Monday, July 24, 2017 from 8:30 a.m. to that is compliant with the REAL ID Act
5:00 p.m. Mountain Time and Tuesday, of 2005 (Pub. L. 109–13), or by a state The purpose of the meeting is to
July 25, 2017, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 that has an extension for REAL ID create a Fishery Performance Report by
p.m. Mountain Time. The meeting will the Council’s Atlantic Mackerel, Squid,
compliance. NIST currently accepts
be held in the Katharine Blodgett Gebbie and Butterfish (MSB) Advisory Panel.
other forms of federal-issued
Laboratory Conference Room 1A106, The intent of this report is to facilitate
identification in lieu of a state-issued a venue for structured input from the
Building 81, at NIST, 325 Broadway driver’s license. For detailed
Street, Boulder, Colorado 80305. The Advisory Panel members for the MSB
information please contact Ms. Faecke specifications process, including
primary purpose of this meeting is to
at (301) 975–5711 or visit: http:// recommendations by the Council and its
discuss the Committee’s 2017 Report on
www.nist.gov/public_affairs/visitor/. Scientific and Statistical Committee
the Effectiveness of the NEHRP. The
agenda may change to accommodate Kevin Kimball, (SSC).
Committee business. The final agenda NIST Chief of Staff. Special Accommodations
and any meeting materials will be [FR Doc. 2017–07320 Filed 4–11–17; 8:45 am]
posted on the NEHRP Web site at http:// These meetings are physically
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nehrp.gov/.
BILLING CODE 3510–13–P accessible to people with disabilities.
Individuals and representatives of Requests for sign language
organizations who would like to offer interpretation or other auxiliary aids
comments and suggestions related to the should be directed to M. Jan Saunders,
Committee’s affairs are invited to at (302) 526–5251, at least 5 business
request a place on the agenda. On July days prior to the meeting.
25, 2017, approximately fifteen minutes Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
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Dated: April 7, 2017. • Electronic Submissions: Submit all educational activities. The species
Tracey L. Thompson, electronic public comments via the identified in the application were:
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Federal eRulemaking Portal. Go to Loggerhead (Caretta caretta Northwest
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. www.regulations.gov/ Atlantic Ocean Distinct Population
[FR Doc. 2017–07344 Filed 4–11–17; 8:45 am] #!docketDetail;D=NOAA-NMFS-2017- Segment), green (Chelonia mydas North
BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 0035 click the ‘‘Comment Now’’ icon, Atlantic Distinct Population Segment),
complete the required fields, and enter and Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys
or attach your comments. kempii) sea turtles.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE • Fax: (301) 713–4060; Attn: Ron NMFS received a draft permit
Dean or Lisa Manning. application from GSML on February 4,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric • Mail: Submit written comments to 2016. Based on our review of the
Administration Endangered Species Conservation application, we requested further
RIN 0648–XF285 Division, Office of Protected Resources, information and clarification. On July
NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 22, 2016, GSML submitted
Endangered Species; File No. 21293 13535, Silver Spring, MD 20910; Attn: supplemental information to its
Ron Dean or Lisa Manning. application. NMFS and GSML held
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries
Instructions: You must submit further discussions on amount and
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
comments by one of the above methods extent of anticipated takes and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
to ensure that we receive, document, clarifications of gear type to be used.
Commerce.
and consider them. Comments sent by During these discussions, NMFS
ACTION: Notice; receipt of application.
any other method, to any other address determined that leatherback sea turtles
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that or individual, or received after the end (Dermochelys coriacea) and Gulf
NMFS has received an application for of the comment period may not be sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi)
an incidental take permit (permit) from considered. All comments received are also occur in the action area specified in
Mr. Jack Rudloe, Gulf Specimen Marine a part of the public record and will the permit application. Thus, NMFS
Laboratories, Inc. (GSML), pursuant to generally be posted for public viewing included these species in its analysis of
the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as on http://www.regulations.gov without the permit application. On March 16,
amended (ESA). As required by the change. All personal identifying 2017, NMFS notified GSML of this
ESA, GSML’s application includes a information (e.g., name, address, etc.) approach, and GSML confirmed the
conservation plan designed to minimize confidential business information, or updated approach on March 21, 2017.
and mitigate the impacts of any take of otherwise sensitive information The duration of the proposed permit
endangered or threatened species. The submitted voluntarily by the sender will is 18 years. GSML uses small trawls
permit application is for the incidental be publicly accessible. We will accept (under 500 square feet) without Turtle
take of ESA-listed adult and juvenile sea anonymous comments (enter ‘‘N/A’’ in Excluder Devices (TEDs) and trawl
turtles associated with otherwise lawful the required fields if you wish to remain times are less than thirty minutes in
trawling activities in Florida state anonymous). duration. Turtle Excluder Devices often
waters of Bay, Gulf, Franklin, and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ron expel the desired stingrays, electric rays,
Wakulla Counties to harvest marine Dean or Lisa Manning, (301) 427–8403. horseshoe crabs and other benthic
organisms for the purpose of supplying SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 9 invertebrates and fish that are required
entities conducting scientific research of the ESA and Federal regulations for the laboratory’s ongoing operations,
and educational activities. The duration prohibit the ‘taking’ of a species listed and are not practical in the collection of
of the proposed permit is for 18 years. as endangered or threatened. The ESA these specimens.
NMFS is furnishing this notice in order defines ‘‘take’’ to mean harass, harm, A take of one turtle and one gulf
to allow other agencies and the public pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, sturgeon every three years is
an opportunity to review and comment capture, or collect, or to attempt to anticipated, given the nature of the
on this document. All comments engage in any such conduct. NMFS may activities and the location of the species
received will become part of the public issue permits, under limited in the area where the activities will
record and will be available for review. circumstances to take listed species occur. No mortalities or injury are
DATES: Written comments must be incidental to, and not the purpose of, expected should this take occur. As data
received at the appropriate address or otherwise lawful activities. Section are gathered through monitoring, NMFS
fax number (see ADDRESSES) on or before 10(a)(1)(B) of the ESA provides for will amend the permit to reflect any
May 12, 2017. authorizing incidental take of listed changes in the take estimate, if
ADDRESSES: The application is available species. NMFS regulations governing appropriate.
for download and review at http:// permits for threatened and endangered Conservation Plan
www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/esa_ species are promulgated at 50 CFR
review.htm under the section heading 222.307. Section 10 of the ESA specifies that
ESA Section 10(a)(1)(B) Permits and no permit may be issued unless an
Background applicant submits an adequate
Applications. The application is also
available upon written request or by Pursuant to the ESA, GSML has conservation plan. The conservation
appointment in the following office: submitted an application to NMFS for plan prepared by GSML describes
Endangered Species Conservation the incidental take of ESA-listed adult measures designed to minimize and
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Division, Office of Protected Resources, and juvenile sea turtles associated with mitigate the impacts of any incidental
NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room otherwise lawful trawling activities in takes of ESA-listed sea turtles. It
13752, Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone Florida state waters of Bay, Gulf, includes provisions to ensure that any
(301) 427–8403; fax (301) 713–4060. Franklin, and Wakulla Counties to captured sea turtles in need of
You may submit comments, identified harvest marine organisms for the resuscitation are provided such care, per
by NOAA–NMFS–2017–0035, by any of purpose of supplying entities NMFS guidelines. Additionally, any
the following methods: conducting scientific research and animals needing medical attention or
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| Publisher | Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration | |
| Section | Notices | |
| Action | Notice of a public meeting. | |
| Dates | The meeting will be held on Monday, May 1, 2017, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., to view the agenda see SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. | |
| Contact | Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, telephone: (302) 526-5255. | |
| FR Citation | 82 FR 17637 | |
| RIN Number | 0648-XF34 |
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