83_FR_34972 83 FR 34831 - Fisheries of the South Atlantic; South Atlantic Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings

83 FR 34831 - Fisheries of the South Atlantic; South Atlantic Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 141 (July 23, 2018)

Page Range34831-34832
FR Document2018-15663

The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold a meeting of its Citizen Science Operations Committee to address development of the Citizen Science Program Standard Operating Policies and Procedures.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 141 (Monday, July 23, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 141 (Monday, July 23, 2018)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-15663]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XG329


Fisheries of the South Atlantic; South Atlantic Fishery 
Management Council; Public Meetings

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

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will 
hold a meeting of its Citizen Science Operations Committee to address 
development of the Citizen Science

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Program Standard Operating Policies and Procedures.

DATES: The Citizen Science Operations Committee meeting will be held on 
Wednesday, August 8, 2018, from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. and on Thursday, 
August 9, 2018, from 8:30 a.m. until 3 p.m.

ADDRESSES: 
    Meeting address: The meeting will be held at the Council office, 
4055 Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, N. Charleston, SC 29405.
    Council address: South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 4055 
Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, N. Charleston, SC 29405.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amber Von Harten, Citizen Science 
Program Manager, SAFMC; phone: (843) 302-8433 or toll free: (866) 
SAFMC-10; fax: (843) 769-4520; email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Council created a Citizen Science 
Advisory Panel Pool in June 2017. The Council appointed members of the 
Citizen Science Advisory Panel Pool to five Action Teams in the areas 
of Volunteers, Data Management, Projects/Topics Management, Finance, 
and Communication/Outreach/Education to develop recommendations on 
program policies and operations for the Council's Citizen Science 
Program.
    The Citizen Science Program Blueprint, a framework document 
outlining the organizational structure of the Program, identified a 
Citizen Science Operations was needed to develop Standard Operations 
Policies and Procedures (SOPPs) for the Citizen Science Program. 
Recommendations from the Citizen Science Action Teams would be used to 
develop the SOPPs. The Council appointed members to the Citizen Science 
Operations Committee in June 2018 and the Operations Committee will 
meet to develop Program SOPPs that will be reviewed by the Council's 
Citizen Science Committee for adoption.
    Items to be addressed during this meeting:

1. Citizen Science Program Overview
2. Development of Citizen Science Program SOPPs
3. Transition Plan for Citizen Science Advisory Panel Pool and Action 
Teams
4. Other Business

Special Accommodations

    These meetings are physically accessible to people with 
disabilities. Requests for auxiliary aids should be directed to the 
council office (see ADDRESSES) 3 days prior to the meeting.

     Note: The times and sequence specified in this agenda are 
subject to change.


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

    Dated: July 18, 2018.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2018-15663 Filed 7-20-18; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 3510-22-P

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 141 / Monday, July 23, 2018 / Notices 34831 information used by CITA in making they also will become a matter of public transshipment of Atlantic herring commercial availability determinations. record. harvested by United States fishermen CITA must collect certain information and to be used solely in sardine Sheleen Dumas, about fabric, yarn, or fiber technical processing. Transshipment must occur Departmental Lead PRA Officer, Office of the from within the boundaries of the State specifications and the production Chief Information Officer. capabilities of Colombian and U.S. of Maine or within the portion of the [FR Doc. 2018–15691 Filed 7–20–18; 8:45 am] textile producers to determine whether EEZ east of the line 69 degrees 30 BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P minutes west and within 12 nautical certain fabrics, yarns, or fibers are available in commercial quantities in a miles from Maine’s seaward boundary. timely manner in the United States or Section 204(d)(3)(D) of the Magnuson- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Colombia, subject to Section 203(o) of Stevens Act provides that an application the Act. National Oceanic and Atmospheric may not be approved until the Secretary Administration determines that no owner or operator of II. Method of Collection a vessel of the United States which has RIN 0648–XG351 adequate capacity to perform the Participants in a commercial transportation for which the application availability proceeding must submit Permits; Foreign Fishing is submitted has indicated an interest in public versions of their Requests, AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries performing the transportation at fair and Responses or Rebuttals electronically Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and reasonable rates. NMFS is publishing (via email) for posting on OTEXA’s Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), this notice as part of its effort to make website. Confidential versions of those Commerce. such a determination with respect to the submissions which contain business ACTION: Notice of application for permit; application described below. confidential information must be request for comments. delivered in hard copy to the Office of Summary of Application Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) at the SUMMARY: NMFS publishes for public NMFS received an application U.S. Department of Commerce. review and comment information requesting authorization for four regarding a permit application for Canadian transport vessels to receive III. Data transshipment of Atlantic herring by transfers of herring from United States OMB Control Number: 0625–0272. Canadian vessels, submitted under purse seine vessels, stop seines, and provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens weirs for the purpose of transporting the Form Number(s): None. Fishery Conservation and Management herring to Canada for sardine Type of Review: Regular submission. Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act). This processing. The transshipment Affected Public: Business or for-profit action is necessary for NMFS to make a operations will occur within the organizations. determination that the permit boundaries of the State of Maine or application can be approved. within the portion of the EEZ east of the Estimated Number of Respondents: DATES: Written comments must be line 69° 30′ W longitude and within 12 16. received by August 6, 2018. nautical miles from Maine’s seaward Estimated Time per Response: 8 hours ADDRESSES: Written comments on this boundary. per Request, 2 hours per Response, and action, identified by RIN 0648–XG351, Dated: July 17, 2018. 1 hour per Rebuttal. should be sent to Kent Laborde in the John Henderschedt, Estimated Total Annual Burden NMFS Office for International Affairs Director, Office for International Affairs and Hours: 89. and Seafood Inspection at 1315 East- Seafood Inspection, National Marine Estimated Total Annual Cost to West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 Fisheries Service. Public: $5,340. or by email at kent.laborde@noaa.gov. [FR Doc. 2018–15634 Filed 7–20–18; 8:45 am] FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kent BILLING CODE 3510–22–P IV. Request for Comments Laborde at (301) 427–8364 or by email at kent.laborde@noaa.gov. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance Background National Oceanic and Atmospheric of the functions of the agency, including Administration Section 204(d) of the Magnuson- whether the information shall have Stevens Act (16 U.S.C. 1824(d)) practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the authorizes the Secretary of Commerce RIN 0648–XG329 agency’s estimate of the burden (Secretary) to issue a transshipment (including hours and cost) of the Fisheries of the South Atlantic; South permit authorizing a vessel other than a proposed collection of information; (c) Atlantic Fishery Management Council; vessel of the United States to engage in ways to enhance the quality, utility, and Public Meetings fishing consisting solely of transporting clarity of the information to be fish or fish products at sea from a point AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries collected; and (d) ways to minimize the within the United States Exclusive Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and burden of the collection of information Economic Zone (EEZ) or, with the Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), on respondents, including through the concurrence of a state, within the Commerce. amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES1 use of automated collection techniques boundaries of that state, to a point ACTION: Notice of a public meeting. or other forms of information outside the United States. In addition, technology. Public Law 104–297, section 105(e), SUMMARY: The South Atlantic Fishery Comments submitted in response to directs the Secretary to issue section Management Council (Council) will this notice will be summarized and/or 204(d) permits to up to 14 Canadian hold a meeting of its Citizen Science included in the request for OMB transport vessels that are not equipped Operations Committee to address approval of this information collection; for fish harvesting or processing, for the development of the Citizen Science VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:59 Jul 20, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\23JYN1.SGM 23JYN1

34832 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 141 / Monday, July 23, 2018 / Notices Program Standard Operating Policies NOTE: The times and sequence specified in submitted an exempted fishing permit and Procedures. this agenda are subject to change. (EFP) application in support of a project DATES: The Citizen Science Operations titled ‘‘Optimizing the Georges Bank Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. Committee meeting will be held on Scallop Fishery by Maximizing Meat Dated: July 18, 2018. Yield and Minimizing Bycatch,’’ that Wednesday, August 8, 2018, from 1 p.m. Rey Israel Marquez, has been funded under the 2018 until 5 p.m. and on Thursday, August 9, 2018, from 8:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Atlantic Sea Scallop Research Set-Aside Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. (RSA) Program. The project will ADDRESSES: [FR Doc. 2018–15663 Filed 7–20–18; 8:45 am] evaluate seasonal distribution of Meeting address: The meeting will be bycatch on the eastern part of Georges BILLING CODE 3510–22–P held at the Council office, 4055 Faber Bank in relation to sea scallop meat Place Drive, Suite 201, N. Charleston, weight yield. Additional objectives SC 29405. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE include testing of a modified scallop Council address: South Atlantic dredge bag design to reduce flatfish Fishery Management Council, 4055 National Oceanic and Atmospheric bycatch and collecting biological Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, N. Administration samples to examine scallop meat quality Charleston, SC 29405. and yellowtail flounder liver disease. RIN 0648–XG350 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Project investigators working on this Amber Von Harten, Citizen Science Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; project would also work with New Program Manager, SAFMC; phone: (843) General Provisions for Domestic Hampshire Fish and Game (NHFG) and 302–8433 or toll free: (866) SAFMC–10; Fisheries; Application for Exempted the Atlantic Offshore Lobstermen’s fax: (843) 769–4520; email: Fishing Permits Association (AOLA) to tag female amber.vonharten@safmc.net. lobsters. AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries To enable this research, CFF is SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Council created a Citizen Science requesting exemptions for eight Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), commercial fishing vessels from the Advisory Panel Pool in June 2017. The Commerce. Council appointed members of the Atlantic sea scallop days-at-sea (DAS) ACTION: Notice; request for comments. allocations at 50 CFR 648.53(b); crew Citizen Science Advisory Panel Pool to five Action Teams in the areas of SUMMARY: The Acting Assistant Regional size restrictions at § 648.51(c); observer Volunteers, Data Management, Projects/ Administrator for Sustainable Fisheries, program requirements at § 648.11(g); Topics Management, Finance, and Greater Atlantic Region, NMFS, has Closed Area II (CAII) scallop gear Communication/Outreach/Education to made a preliminary determination that restrictions specified at § 648.81(b); and develop recommendations on program an Exempted Fishing Permit application access area program requirements at policies and operations for the Council’s contains all of the required information § 648.59(a)(1)-(3), (b)(2), (b)(4), and Citizen Science Program. and warrants further consideration. This Closed Area II Scallop Access Area The Citizen Science Program Exempted Fishing Permit would exempt Seasonal Closure at § 648.60(d)(2). CFF Blueprint, a framework document eight commercial fishing vessels from has also requested that vessels be outlining the organizational structure of limited access sea scallop regulations in exempt from possession limits and the Program, identified a Citizen support of a study on seasonal bycatch minimum size requirements specified in Science Operations was needed to distribution and optimal scallop meat part 648, subsections B and D through develop Standard Operations Policies yield on Georges Bank. Regulations O for biological sampling, and § 697.20 under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery for lobster sampling and tagging and Procedures (SOPPs) for the Citizen Conservation and Management Act purposes only. Science Program. Recommendations Participating vessels would conduct from the Citizen Science Action Teams require publication of this notification scallop dredging from August 2018 would be used to develop the SOPPs. to provide interested parties the through June 2019. Vessels would The Council appointed members to the opportunity to comment on applications conduct a total of eight 7-day trips, for Citizen Science Operations Committee for proposed Exempted Fishing Permits. a total of 56 DAS. Closed Area II Access in June 2018 and the Operations DATES: Comments must be received on Area tows would take place in the Committee will meet to develop or before August 7, 2018. central portion situated below the Program SOPPs that will be reviewed by ADDRESSES: You may submit written Closed Area II Habitat Closure Area, the Council’s Citizen Science comments by any of the following including the Atlantic Sea Closed Area Committee for adoption. methods: II Scallop Access Area Seasonal Closure. Items to be addressed during this • Email: nmfs.gar.efp@noaa.gov. Open area tows would be conducted on meeting: Include in the subject line ‘‘DA18–051 the western and southern boundaries of 1. Citizen Science Program Overview CFF Georges Bank Optimization Study Closed Area II. The applicant also 2. Development of Citizen Science EFP.’’ requested to conduct tows inside the Program SOPPs • Mail: Michael Pentony, Regional Closed Area II Habitat Closure Area. 3. Transition Plan for Citizen Science Administrator, NMFS, Greater Atlantic This area remains closed to bottom- Advisory Panel Pool and Action Regional Fisheries Office, 55 Great tending mobile gear to protect sensitive Teams Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930. benthic habitat under Omnibus Habitat 4. Other Business Mark the outside of the envelope Amendment II. Consequently, NMFS amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES1 ‘‘DA18–051 CFF Georges Bank does not intend to support the Special Accommodations Optimization Study EFP.’’ applicant’s request to access the Habitat These meetings are physically FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Closure Area. accessible to people with disabilities. Shannah Jaburek, Fishery Management There is a potential for gear conflict Requests for auxiliary aids should be Specialist, (978) 282–8456. with lobster gear in the central portion directed to the council office (see SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: of Closed Area II. In an effort to help ADDRESSES) 3 days prior to the meeting. Coonamesset Farm Foundation (CFF) mitigate gear interactions, CFF would VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:59 Jul 20, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\23JYN1.SGM 23JYN1


Document Created: 2018-07-21 00:48:07
Document Modified: 2018-07-21 00:48:07
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of a public meeting.
DatesThe Citizen Science Operations Committee meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 8, 2018, from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. and on Thursday, August 9, 2018, from 8:30 a.m. until 3 p.m.
ContactAmber Von Harten, Citizen Science Program Manager, SAFMC; phone: (843) 302-8433 or toll free: (866) SAFMC-10; fax: (843) 769-4520; email: [email protected]
FR Citation83 FR 34831 
RIN Number0648-XG32
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