82 FR 825 - Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Northeast Skate Complex Fishery; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement; Scoping Process; Request for Comments
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 2 (January 4, 2017)
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 4, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 825-827] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-31864] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration RIN 0648-XF094 Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Northeast Skate Complex Fishery; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement; Scoping Process; Request for Comments AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a draft environmental impact statement and initiate scoping process; request for comments. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The New England Fishery Management Council announces its intent to prepare, in cooperation with NMFS, a draft environmental impact statement consistent with the National Environmental Policy Act. A draft environmental impact statement may be necessary to provide analytic support for Amendment 5 to the Northeast Skate Complex Fishery Management Plan. This notice alerts the interested public of the scoping process for a potential draft environmental impact statement and outlines opportunity for public participation in that process. DATES: Written and electronic scoping comments must be received on or before March 6, 2017. ADDRESSES: Written scoping comments on Amendment 5 may be sent by any of the following methods:Email to the following address: [email protected]; Mail to Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, New England Fishery Management Council, 50 Water Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950; or Fax to (978) 465-3116. Requests for copies of the Amendment 5 scoping document and [[Page 826]] other information should be directed to Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, New England Fishery Management Council, 50 Water Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950, telephone (978) 465-0492. The scoping document is accessible electronically via the Internet at http://www.nefmc.org. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, New England Fishery Management Council, (978) 465-0492. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background The New England Fishery Management Council, working through its public participatory committee and meeting processes, anticipates the development of an amendment that may require an environmental impact statement (EIS) to meet applicable criteria in the Council on Environmental Quality regulations and guidance for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Amendment 5 will consider limited access to the skate (bait and non-bait) fishery. The Northeast Skate Complex is comprised of seven species (barndoor, clearnose, little, rosette, smooth, thorny, and winter skate), managed as a single unit along the east coast from Maine to Cape Hatteras, NC. The skate bait fishery primarily targets little skate, with a small component of winter skate catch. The non-bait fishery, including the wing fishery, primarily targets winter skate. Following the first skate stock assessment in 1999, the Northeast Skate Complex Fishery Management Plan was adopted in 2003. Amendment 3 established an annual catch limit and annual catch target for the skate complex, total allowable landings for the skate bait and non-bait fisheries, seasonal quotas for the bait fishery, new possession limits, and in-season possession limit triggers. The skate fishery is an open access fishery--any vessel may join or leave the fishery at any time. Skate fishermen are concerned that increasingly strict regulations in other fisheries--particularly in the Northeast Multispecies (groundfish) fishery where several stocks are overfished and subject to strict catch restrictions--might cause these fishermen to switch their fishing effort onto skates. An increase in effort in the skate fishery could cause the fishery to harvest its catch limit in a shorter time period, trigger reduced skate trip limits, or have other negative economic impacts on current participants since developing skate markets could be negatively impacted by a flood of product. A control date for the bait fishery was established on July 30, 2009 (74 FR 37977). A control date for the non-bait fishery was established on March 31, 2014 (79 FR 18002). The control dates may be used as a reference date for future management measures related to such rulemaking. The Council has initiated the development of this amendment to address three issues: Limited access qualification criteria that would determine whether vessels may target skate. These criteria may differ by stock or management area and may treat older history differently than newer history; Limited access permit conditions (transfers, ownership caps, `history' permits, etc.); and Permit categories and associated measures. The amendment's objective would be to establish qualification criteria for skate (bait and non-bait ``wing'') fishing permits and possibly different qualification criteria or catch limits for each fishery, considering how they operate differently. For example, in the wing fishery, it may be desirable to have different permit tiers that distinguish between skate vessels that currently target skate, historically targeted, and/or vessels that catch and land small quantities. Qualification criteria might include several factors such as, but not limited to, the time period vessels have participated in the fishery (possibly using the control dates established for this fishery), historic levels of landings, and dependency on the fishery. The Council may consider limiting access to the skate (bait and non-bait) fishery in a manner that may affect individual permit holder access to skates depending on the qualification criteria and other permit conditions developed. Based on individual fishing history, a vessel that has targeted skate may be distinguished differently from a vessel that caught and landed skates while fishing for other species. Landing limits for qualifiers and non-qualifiers could therefore be more consistent with the type of fishing that these vessels conduct in order to minimize discarding and economic effects. For example, the bait skate fishery currently requires a letter of authorization, but has substantially larger landing limits than the wing fishery. Some historic participants in the Northeast Skate Complex fisheries also may desire limited access privileges (a catch share program, for example). Following the scoping period, the Council and its Skate Committee will identify the specific goals and objectives of the amendment and develop alternatives to meet the purpose and need of the action. With input from its committees and the public, the Council would select a range of alternatives to implement limited access in the skate fishery. Public Comment All persons affected by or otherwise interested in Northeast skate management are invited to comment on the scope and significance of issues to be analyzed by submitting written comments (see ADDRESSES) or by attending one of the six scoping meetings for this amendment. Scoping consists of identifying the range of actions, alternatives, and impacts to be considered. At this time in the process, the Council believes that the alternatives considered in Amendment 5 should include limited access to the skate fishery. After the scoping process is completed, the Council will begin development of Amendment 5 and, if necessary, will prepare a draft EIS to analyze the impacts of the range of alternatives under consideration. Impacts may be direct, individual, or cumulative. The Council will hold public hearings to receive comments on the draft amendment and on the analysis of its impacts presented in the draft EIS. In addition to soliciting comment on this notice, the public will have the opportunity to comment on the measures and alternatives being considered by the Council through public meetings and public comment periods consistent with NEPA, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act. Any amendment developed and approved by the Council would have to be approved and implemented by NMFS. The Council will take and discuss scoping comments on this amendment at the public meetings listed in Table 1. [[Page 827]] Table 1--Amendment 5 Public Scoping Meeting Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meeting date and time Meeting location ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Portsmouth, NH, Tuesday, January 24, Sheraton Harborside Hotel, 250 2017, 5:00 p.m. (or immediately Market Street, Portsmouth, NH following the Council Meeting). 03801 04101, Telephone: (603) 431-2300. Via Webinar, Tuesday, January 31, 2017, Webinar Hearing, Register to 6:00-8:00 p.m. participate: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/194149773 194149773, Call in info: Toll: +1 (646) 749-3122, Access Code: 194-149-773. Buzzards Bay, MA, Tuesday, February 7, Mass Maritime, 101 Academy 2017, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Drive, Buzzards Bay, MA 02532, Telephone: (508) 830-5000. Narragnasett, RI, Thursday, February 9, Graduate School of 2017, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Oceanography, Coastal Institute Building--Hazard Room, 215 S Ferry Rd, Narragansett, RI 02882, Telephone: (401) 874-6222. Montauk, NY, Wednesday, February 15, Montauk Playhouse Community 2017, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Center Foundation, Inc., 240 Edgemere St., Montauk, New York 11954, Telephone: (631) 668-1124. Cape May, NJ, Thursday, February 16, Grand Hotel of Cape May, 1045 2017, 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Beach Avenue, Cape May, NJ 08204, Telephone: (609) 884- 5611. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A scoping document with additional background information is available on the Council's Web site at http://www.nefmc.org/management-plans/skates or may be obtained by contacting the Council. Additional information on the scoping meetings can be accessed online at http://www.nefmc.org/. Special Accommodations The meetings are accessible to people with physical disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Thomas A. Nies (see ADDRESSES) at least five days prior to each meeting date. Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. Dated: December 29, 2016. Alan D. Risenhoover, Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. [FR Doc. 2016-31864 Filed 1-3-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-22-P
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Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Also excluded from the scope of this order • Thickness: less than or equal to 1.0 mm;
Sweden, and Taiwan.5 is ultra-tempered automotive steel, which is • Width: less than or equal to 330 mm;
hardened, tempered, surface polished, and • Chemical composition:
meets the following specifications:
Weight % .................................... 0.90–1.05 0.15–0.35 0.30–0.50 Less than or equal to 0.03 Less than or equal to
0.006.
• Physical properties: • a percent of elongation of from 28% to DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
46% on a standard ASTM sample with a
Width less than or Flatness of less than 5.08 mm gauge length; National Oceanic and Atmospheric
equal to 150mm. 0.2% of nominal • a product shape of flat after annealing, Administration
strip width. with flat defined as less than or equal to
Width of 150 to Flatness of less than RIN 0648–XF094
1 I unit with no coil set as set forth in
330mm. 5 mm of nominal ASTM A568, Appendix X5 (alternate
strip width. Fisheries of the Northeastern United
methods for expressing flatness). States; Northeast Skate Complex
• Microstructure: Completely free from The products subject to this order are Fishery; Notice of Intent To Prepare an
decarburization. Carbides are spheroidal currently classified in the Harmonized Tariff Environmental Impact Statement;
and fine within 1% to 4% (area percentage) Schedule of the United States (‘‘HTSUS’’) Scoping Process; Request for
and are undissolved in the uniform under item numbers: 7209.15.0000, Comments
tempered martensite; 7209.16.0030, 7209.16.0060, 7209.16.0070,
• Surface roughness: less than or equal to 7209.16.0091, 7209.17.0030, 7209.17.0060, AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries
0.80 to mm Rz; 7209.17.0070, 7209.17.0091, 7209.18.1530, Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
• Non-metallic inclusion: Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
7209.18.1560, 7209.18.2510, 7209.18.2520,
D Sulfide inclusion less than or equal to Commerce.
0.04% (area percentage) 7209.18.2580, 7209.18.6020, 7209.18.6090,
D Oxide inclusion less than or equal to 7209.25.0000, 7209.26.0000, 7209.27.0000, ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a
0.05% (area percentage); and 7209.28.0000, 7209.90.0000, 7210.70.3000, draft environmental impact statement
• The mill test certificate must demonstrate 7211.23.1500, 7211.23.2000, 7211.23.3000, and initiate scoping process; request for
that the steel is proprietary grade ‘‘PK’’ and 7211.23.4500, 7211.23.6030, 7211.23.6060, comments.
specify the following: 7211.23.6090, 7211.29.2030, 7211.29.2090,
D The exact tensile strength, which must 7211.29.4500, 7211.29.6030, 7211.29.6080, SUMMARY: The New England Fishery
be greater than or equal to 1600 N/mm2; 7211.90.0000, 7212.40.1000, 7212.40.5000, Management Council announces its
• The exact hardness, which must be greater intent to prepare, in cooperation with
7225.50.6000, 7225.50.8080, 7225.99.0090,
than or equal to 465 Vickers hardness NMFS, a draft environmental impact
number; 7226.92.5000, 7226.92.7050, and
statement consistent with the National
• The exact elongation, which must be 7226.92.8050. The products subject to the
between 2.5% and 9.5%; and order may also enter under the following Environmental Policy Act. A draft
• Certified as having residual compressive HTSUS numbers: 7210.90.9000, environmental impact statement may be
stress within a range of 100 to 400 N/mm2. 7212.50.0000, 7215.10.0010, 7215.10.0080, necessary to provide analytic support
Also excluded from the scope of this order 7215.50.0016, 7215.50.0018, 7215.50.0020, for Amendment 5 to the Northeast Skate
is certain cold-rolled flat-rolled steel for 7215.50.0061, 7215.50.0063, 7215.50.0065, Complex Fishery Management Plan.
porcelain enameling meeting the 7215.50.0090, 7215.90.5000, 7217.10.1000, This notice alerts the interested public
requirements of ASTM A424 Type 1 and 7217.10.2000, 7217.10.3000, 7217.10.7000, of the scoping process for a potential
having each of the following characteristics: 7217.90.1000, 7217.90.5030, 7217.90.5060, draft environmental impact statement
• Continuous annealed cold-reduced steel in 7217.90.5090, 7225.19.0000, 7226.19.1000, and outlines opportunity for public
coils with a thickness of between 0.30 mm 7226.19.9000, 7226.99.0180, 7228.50.5015, participation in that process.
and 0.36 mm that is in widths either from 7228.50.5040, 7228.50.5070, 7228.60.8000, DATES: Written and electronic scoping
875 mm to 940 mm or from 1,168 to 1,232
and 7229.90.1000. The HTSUS subheadings comments must be received on or before
mm;
• a chemical composition, by weight, of: above are provided for convenience and CBP March 6, 2017.
D not more than 0.004% carbon; purposes only. The written description of the ADDRESSES: Written scoping comments
D not more than 0.010% aluminum; scope of the order is dispositive. on Amendment 5 may be sent by any of
D 0.006%–0.010% nitrogen [FR Doc. 2016–31890 Filed 1–3–17; 8:45 am] the following methods:
D 0.012%–0.030% boron • Email to the following address:
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D 0.010%–0.025% oxygen
comments@nefmc.org;
D less than 0.002% of titanium;
• Mail to Thomas A. Nies, Executive
D less than 0.002% by weight of vanadium;
D less than 0.002% by weight of niobium, Director, New England Fishery
D less than 0.002% by weight of antimony; Management Council, 50 Water Street,
• a yield strength of from 179.3 MPa to 344.7 Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950; or
MPa; • Fax to (978) 465–3116.
• a tensile strength of from 303.7 MPa to Requests for copies of the
413.7 MPa; Amendment 5 scoping document and
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5 See Non-Oriented Electrical Steel from the not in coils, regardless of width, having an actual of 800 A/m (equivalent to 10 Oersteds) along (i.e.,
People’s Republic of China, Germany, Japan, the thickness of 0.20 mm or more, in which the core parallel to) the rolling direction of the sheet (i.e.,
Republic of Korea, Sweden, and Taiwan: loss is substantially equal in any direction of B800 value). NOES contains by weight more than
Antidumping Duty Orders, 79 FR 71,741, 71,741– magnetization in the plane of the material. The term 1.00 percent of silicon but less than 3.5 percent of
42 (Dep’t Commerce Dec. 3, 2014) (‘‘Non-Oriented ‘substantially equal’ means that the cross grain
silicon, not more than 0.08 percent of carbon, and
Electrical Steel from the People’s Republic of China, direction of core loss is no more than 1.5 times the
Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, straight grain direction (i.e., the rolling direction) of not more than 1.5 percent of aluminum. NOES has
and Taiwan’’). The orders define NOES as ‘‘cold- core loss. NOES has a magnetic permeability that a surface oxide coating, to which an insulation
rolled, flat-rolled, alloy steel products, whether or does not exceed 1.65 Tesla when tested at a field coating may be applied.’’
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TABLE 1—AMENDMENT 5 PUBLIC SCOPING MEETING INFORMATION
Meeting date and time Meeting location
Portsmouth, NH, Tuesday, January 24, 2017, 5:00 p.m. (or immediately Sheraton Harborside Hotel, 250 Market Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801
following the Council Meeting). 04101, Telephone: (603) 431–2300.
Via Webinar, Tuesday, January 31, 2017, 6:00–8:00 p.m ...................... Webinar Hearing, Register to participate: https://glob-
al.gotomeeting.com/join/194149773, Call in info: Toll: +1 (646) 749–
3122, Access Code: 194–149–773.
Buzzards Bay, MA, Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m .... Mass Maritime, 101 Academy Drive, Buzzards Bay, MA 02532, Tele-
phone: (508) 830–5000.
Narragnasett, RI, Thursday, February 9, 2017, 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m ...... Graduate School of Oceanography, Coastal Institute Building—Hazard
Room, 215 S Ferry Rd, Narragansett, RI 02882, Telephone: (401)
874–6222.
Montauk, NY, Wednesday, February 15, 2017, 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m ...... Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation, Inc., 240
Edgemere St., Montauk, New York 11954, Telephone: (631) 668–
1124.
Cape May, NJ, Thursday, February 16, 2017, 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m ........ Grand Hotel of Cape May, 1045 Beach Avenue, Cape May, NJ 08204,
Telephone: (609) 884–5611.
A scoping document with additional a.m. on each day. For entrance into the modification, and upgrades to the DoD
background information is available on meeting, you must meet the necessary systems, (4) Encouraging the private
the Council’s Web site at http:// requirements for entrance into the sector to invest in new products,
www.nefmc.org/management-plans/ Pentagon. For more detailed technologies, and processes relevant to
skates or may be obtained by contacting information, please see the following the missions of the DoD, and (5)
the Council. Additional information on link: http://www.pfpa.mil/access.html. Ensuring that the DoD has appropriate
the scoping meetings can be accessed ADDRESSES: Pentagon Library, access to innovative products,
online at http://www.nefmc.org/. Washington Headquarters Services, technologies, and processes developed
1155 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC by the private sector for commercial use.
Special Accommodations Agenda: This will be the twelfth
20301–1155. The meeting will be held
The meetings are accessible to people in Room M2. The Pentagon Library is meeting of the Government-Industry
with physical disabilities. Requests for located in the Pentagon Library and Advisory Panel with additional
sign language interpretation or other Conference Center (PLC2) across the meetings possible for February and
auxiliary aids should be directed to Corridor 8 bridge. March. The panel will cover details of
Thomas A. Nies (see ADDRESSES) at least 10 U.S.C. 2320 and 2321, begin
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LTC
five days prior to each meeting date. understanding the implementing
Andrew Lunoff, Office of the Assistant regulations and detail the necessary
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. Secretary of Defense (Acquisition), 3090 groups within the private sector and
Dated: December 29, 2016. Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC government to provide supporting
Alan D. Risenhoover, 20301–3090, email: documentation for their review of these
Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, andrew.s.lunoff.mil@mail.mil, phone: codes and regulations during follow-on
National Marine Fisheries Service. 571–256–9004. meetings. Agenda items for this meeting
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| Action | Notice of intent to prepare a draft environmental impact statement and initiate scoping process; request for comments. | |
| Dates | Written and electronic scoping comments must be received on or before March 6, 2017. | |
| Contact | Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, New England Fishery Management Council, (978) 465-0492. | |
| FR Citation | 82 FR 825 | |
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