82_FR_28421 82 FR 28303 - Surveys of Marine Recreational Fishing Effort on the U.S. Atlantic Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico; Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP); Center for Independent Experts; Public Meeting

82 FR 28303 - Surveys of Marine Recreational Fishing Effort on the U.S. Atlantic Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico; Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP); Center for Independent Experts; Public Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 118 (June 21, 2017)

Page Range28303-28304
FR Document2017-12962

NMFS is convening a peer review of a Calibration Model proposed by the Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) to support its planned transition from a legacy telephone survey to a new mail survey for collecting data needed to estimate marine recreational fishing effort by shore and private/rental boat anglers on the Atlantic coast and in the Gulf of Mexico. The peer review includes reviewers appointed by the Center for Independent Experts (CIE), as well as reviewers selected by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and the New England, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Councils. This notice lists the time and place of the Peer Review Workshop.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 118 (Wednesday, June 21, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 118 (Wednesday, June 21, 2017)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-12962]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XF490


Surveys of Marine Recreational Fishing Effort on the U.S. 
Atlantic Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico; Marine Recreational 
Information Program (MRIP); Center for Independent Experts; Public 
Meeting

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

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: NMFS is convening a peer review of a Calibration Model 
proposed by the Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) to 
support its planned transition from a legacy telephone survey to a new 
mail survey for collecting data needed to estimate marine recreational 
fishing effort by shore and private/rental boat anglers on the Atlantic 
coast and in the Gulf of Mexico. The peer review includes reviewers 
appointed by the Center for Independent Experts (CIE), as well as 
reviewers selected by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission 
and the New England, Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico 
Fishery Management Councils. This notice lists the time and place of 
the Peer Review Workshop.

DATES: The Workshop will be held from 9 a.m. on June 27, 2017 until 12 
p.m. on June 29, 2017.

ADDRESSES: The Workshop will be held at the Sheraton Hotel, 8777 
Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD, 20910; Phone: 301/589-0800.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. David Van Voorhees, Chief of 
Fisheries Statistics Division of NMFS Office of Science and Technology; 
phone 301/427-8189; FAX 301/427-4520; email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Marine Recreational Information Program 
formed a Transition Team in 2015 to plan transitions from legacy survey 
designs to new, or improved, survey designs for monitoring marine 
recreational fishing effort and catch. The Transition Team consists of 
representatives from NOAA Fisheries, the regional fishery management 
councils, the interstate fisheries commissions, and several state 
marine fisheries agencies. The team prepared a transition plan for 
implementing a new mail survey called the ``Fishing Effort Survey'' to 
replace the legacy telephone survey called the ``Coastal Household 
Telephone Survey''. The plan requires development of a calibration 
model to account for consistent differences between the surveys in 
their statistical estimates of fishing effort.
    The Peer Review Workshop will provide an assessment of the model 
developed by MRIP for this purpose. The product of the Workshop will be 
a Summary documenting panel opinions regarding the strengths and 
weaknesses of the proposed calibration model. The panel of reviewers 
will consist of three persons selected by the Center of Independent 
Experts, and four persons selected by the regional fishery management 
councils and ASMFC. The Panel will be chaired by an individual also 
selected by the councils and ASMFC. The Agenda is subject to change, 
and the latest version will be posted at http://www.countmyfish.noaa.gov. The workshop will also be accessible by 
webinar in listen-only mode. Requests for webinar access should be 
directed to NMFS (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) three days prior 
to the workshop.

Special Accommodations

    This workshop will be physically accessible to people with 
disabilities. Requests for auxiliary aids should be

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directed to NMFS (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) three days prior 
to the meeting.
    Note: The times and sequence specified in the agenda are subject to 
change.

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

    Dated: June 16, 2017.
Ned Cyr,
Director, Office of Science and Technology, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.
[FR Doc. 2017-12962 Filed 6-20-17; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 118 / Wednesday, June 21, 2017 / Notices 28303 undertaking is in everyone’s best may wish to refer to the Council on Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico Fishery interest to avoid having problems Environmental Quality Regulations for Management Councils. This notice lists emerge later as a project develops. If implementing the procedural provisions the time and place of the Peer Review effects are identified, the Forest must of the National Environmental Policy Workshop. reduce or eliminate those effects Act at 40 CFR 1503.3 in addressing DATES: The Workshop will be held from through avoidance, data recovery, or these points. 9 a.m. on June 27, 2017 until 12 p.m. on other forms of mitigation and in In the final EIS, the Forest Service is June 29, 2017. consultation with the State Historic required to respond to substantive ADDRESSES: The Workshop will be held Preservation Office, Native American comments received during the comment at the Sheraton Hotel, 8777 Georgia tribes, and interested parties. In order period for the draft EIS. The Forest Avenue, Silver Spring, MD, 20910; for you to be considered as a consulting Service is the lead agency and the Phone: 301/589–0800. party, you must submit a written request responsible official is the Forest FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. to me in response to this letter. Each Supervisor, Ochoco National Forest. David Van Voorhees, Chief of Fisheries request will be reviewed in consultation The responsible official will decide Statistics Division of NMFS Office of with the State Historic Preservation whether and how to revise the Ochoco Science and Technology; phone 301/ Office, Tribal Historic Preservation Wild Horse Herd Management Plan. 427–8189; FAX 301/427–4520; email: Office and Native American tribes to The Ochoco Wild Horse Herd Dave.Van.Voorhees@noaa.gov. determine which should be consulting Management Plan decision and the parties. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The reasons for the decision will be A draft EIS will be filed with the documented in the record of decision. Marine Recreational Information Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) That decision will be subject to the Program formed a Transition Team in and available for public review by June, Forest Service Project-level 2015 to plan transitions from legacy 2018. The EPA will publish a Notice of survey designs to new, or improved, Predecisional Administrative Review Availability (NOA) of the draft EIS in survey designs for monitoring marine Process (‘‘Objection Process’’ at 36 CFR the Federal Register. The final EIS is recreational fishing effort and catch. The 218). scheduled to be available September, Transition Team consists of 2018. Dated: June 7, 2017. representatives from NOAA Fisheries, The comment period on the draft EIS Jeanne M. Higgins, the regional fishery management will be 45 days from the date the EPA Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest councils, the interstate fisheries publishes the notice of availability in System. commissions, and several state marine the Federal Register. [FR Doc. 2017–12951 Filed 6–20–17; 8:45 am] fisheries agencies. The team prepared a The Forest Service believes, at this BILLING CODE 3411–15–P transition plan for implementing a new early stage, it is important to give mail survey called the ‘‘Fishing Effort reviewers notice of several court rulings Survey’’ to replace the legacy telephone related to public participation in the DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE survey called the ‘‘Coastal Household environmental review process. First, Telephone Survey’’. The plan requires reviewers of a draft EIS must structure National Oceanic and Atmospheric development of a calibration model to their participation in the environmental Administration account for consistent differences review of the proposal so that it is between the surveys in their statistical RIN 0648–XF490 meaningful and alerts an agency to the estimates of fishing effort. reviewer’s position and contentions Surveys of Marine Recreational The Peer Review Workshop will [Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. Fishing Effort on the U.S. Atlantic provide an assessment of the model v. NRDC, 435 U.S. 519, 553 (1978)]. Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico; developed by MRIP for this purpose. Also, environmental objections that Marine Recreational Information The product of the Workshop will be a could be raised at the draft EIS stage, Program (MRIP); Center for Summary documenting panel opinions but that are not raised until after Independent Experts; Public Meeting regarding the strengths and weaknesses completion of the final EIS, may be of the proposed calibration model. The waived or dismissed by the courts [City AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries panel of reviewers will consist of three of Angoon v. Harris, 490 F. Supp. 1334, Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and persons selected by the Center of 1338 (E.D. Wis. 1980)]. It is very Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Independent Experts, and four persons important that those interested in this Commerce. selected by the regional fishery proposed action participate by the close ACTION: Notice of public meeting. management councils and ASMFC. The of the 45-day comment period, so that Panel will be chaired by an individual substantive comments and objections SUMMARY: NMFS is convening a peer also selected by the councils and are made available to the Forest Service review of a Calibration Model proposed ASMFC. The Agenda is subject to at a time when it can meaningfully by the Marine Recreational Information change, and the latest version will be consider them and respond to them in Program (MRIP) to support its planned posted at http:// the final EIS. transition from a legacy telephone www.countmyfish.noaa.gov. The To assist the Forest Service in survey to a new mail survey for workshop will also be accessible by identifying and considering issues and collecting data needed to estimate webinar in listen-only mode. Requests asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES concerns on the proposed action, marine recreational fishing effort by for webinar access should be directed to comments on the draft EIS should be as shore and private/rental boat anglers on NMFS (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION specific as possible. It is also helpful if the Atlantic coast and in the Gulf of CONTACT) three days prior to the comments refer to specific pages or Mexico. The peer review includes workshop. chapters of the draft statement. reviewers appointed by the Center for Comments may also address the Independent Experts (CIE), as well as Special Accommodations adequacy of the draft EIS of the merits reviewers selected by the Atlantic States This workshop will be physically of the alternatives formulated and Marine Fisheries Commission and the accessible to people with disabilities. discussed in the statement. 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28304 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 118 / Wednesday, June 21, 2017 / Notices directed to NMFS (see FOR FURTHER • Electronic Submission: Submit recovered; or (3) the original data INFORMATION CONTACT) three days prior electronic information via the Federal e- available when the species was listed, or to the meeting. Rulemaking Portal. Go to the interpretation of such data, were in Note: The times and sequence www.regulations.gov. To submit error. Any change in Federal specified in the agenda are subject to information via the e-Rulemaking classification would require a separate change. Portal, first click the ‘‘submit a rulemaking process. The Baiji/Chinese Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. comment’’ icon, then enter NOAA– River Dolphin/Yangtze River Dolphin NMFS–2017–0057 in the keyword was listed as endangered under the ESA Dated: June 16, 2017. search. Locate the document you wish on May 30, 1989 (54 FR 22906) and the Ned Cyr, to respond to from the resulting list and Saimaa seal was listed as endangered Director, Office of Science and Technology, click on the ‘‘Submit a Comment’’ icon under the ESA on May 6, 1993 (58 FR National Marine Fisheries Service. on the right of that line. 26920). [FR Doc. 2017–12962 Filed 6–20–17; 8:45 am] • Mail or Hand-Deliver: Submit Background information on Baiji/ BILLING CODE 3510–22–P written comments to Endangered Chinese River Dolphin/Yangtze River Species Conservation Division, Office of Dolphin, including the endangered Protected Resources, NMFS, 1315 East- listing, is available on the NMFS Office DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE West Highway, Room 13535, Silver of Protected Species Web site at: http:// Spring, MD 20910; Attn: Ron Dean. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/pr/species/ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Instructions: Information must be mammals/dolphins/chinese-river- Administration submitted by one of the above methods dolphin.html. Background information to ensure that the information is on Saimaa seal, including the RIN 0648–XF474 endangered listing, is available on the received, documented, and considered by NMFS. Information sent by any other NMFS Office of Protected Species Web Endangered and Threatened Species; site at: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/ Initiation of 5-Year Reviews for the method, to any other address or individual, or received after the end of species/mammals/seals/saimaa- Endangered Baiji/Chinese River seal.html. Dolphin/Yangtze River Dolphin and the specified period, may not be Endangered Saimaa Subspecies of considered. All information received is Determining if a Species Is Threatened Ringed Seal a part of the public record and will or Endangered generally be posted for public viewing AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries on www.regulations.gov without change. Section 4(a)(1) of the ESA requires Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and All personal identifying information that we determine whether a species is Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), endangered or threatened based on one (e.g., name, address, etc.), confidential Commerce. or more of the five following factors: (1) business information, or otherwise The present or threatened destruction, ACTION: Notice of initiation of 5-year sensitive or protected information modification, or curtailment of its reviews; request for information. submitted voluntarily by the sender will habitat or range; (2) overutilization for be publicly accessible. NMFS will SUMMARY: NMFS announces its intent to commercial, recreational, scientific, or accept anonymous submissions (enter conduct 5-year reviews for the educational purposes; (3) disease or ‘‘N/A’’ in the required fields if you wish endangered Baiji/Chinese River predation; (4) the inadequacy of existing to remain anonymous). Dolphin/Yangtze River Dolphin (Lipotes regulatory mechanisms; or (5) other FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ron natural or manmade factors affecting its vexillifer), and the endangered Saimaa Dean at the above address, by phone at subspecies of ringed seal (Phoca hispida continued existence. Section 4(b) also (301) 427–8403 or Ron.Dean@noaa.gov. requires that our determination be made saimensis). NMFS is required by the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This ESA to conduct 5-year reviews to ensure on the basis of the best scientific and notice announces our active review of commercial data available after that the listing classifications of the the Baiji/Chinese River Dolphin/ species are accurate. The 5-year reviews conducting a review of the status of the Yangtze River Dolphin and the Saimaa species and after taking into account must be based on the best scientific and seal. Section 4(c)(2)(A) of the ESA commercial data available at the time. those efforts, if any, being made by any requires that we conduct a review of State or foreign nation, to protect such We request submission of any such listed species at least once every five information on Baiji/Chinese River species. years. The regulations in 50 CFR 424.21 Dolphin/Yangtze River Dolphin and require that we publish a notice in the Public Solicitation of New Information Saimaa ringed seal, particularly Federal Register announcing species To ensure that the 5-year reviews are information on the status, threats, and currently under active review. On the complete and based on the best recovery of the species that has become basis of such reviews under section available scientific and commercial available since the previous status 4(c)(2)(B), we determine whether a data, we are soliciting new information review for Baiji/Chinese River Dolphin/ species should be delisted or from the public, governmental agencies, Yangtze River Dolphin in February 2012 reclassified from endangered to Tribes, the scientific community, and Saimaa seal in December 2010. threatened or from threatened to industry, environmental entities, and DATES: To allow us adequate time to endangered. As described by the any other interested parties concerning conduct this review, we must receive asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES regulations in 50 CFR 424.11(d), the status of Baiji/Chinese River your information no later than August delisting a species must be supported by Dolphin/Yangtze River Dolphin, and the 21, 2017. However, we will continue to the best scientific and commercial data Saimaa seal. Categories of requested accept new information about any listed available and only considered if such information include: (1) Species biology species at any time. data substantiates that the species is including, but not limited to, population ADDRESSES: You may submit neither endangered nor threatened for trends, distribution, abundance, information on this document identified one or more of the following reasons: (1) demographics, and genetics; (2) habitat by NOAA–NMFS–2017–0057 by either The species is considered extinct; (2) conditions including, but not limited to, of the following methods: the species is considered to be amount, distribution, and important VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:12 Jun 20, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\21JNN1.SGM 21JNN1


Document Created: 2018-11-14 10:08:33
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CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of public meeting.
DatesThe Workshop will be held from 9 a.m. on June 27, 2017 until 12 p.m. on June 29, 2017.
ContactDr. David Van Voorhees, Chief of Fisheries Statistics Division of NMFS Office of Science and Technology; phone 301/427-8189; FAX 301/427-4520; email: [email protected]
FR Citation82 FR 28303 
RIN Number0648-XF49
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