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6. Conduct marketing, promotion and 

distribution of fresh tree fruits in Export 

Markets. 

7. Conduct quality control studies and 

inspections of goods for export at point 

of shipment, point of arrival, and 

through the retail level in Export 

Markets. 

8. Negotiate and enter into 

agreements, whether or not exclusive, 

with providers of Export Trade 

Facilitation Services for the export of 

Products. 

9. Establish and operate fumigation 

facilities and administer phytosanitary 

protocols to qualify the Products for 

Export Markets. 

10. Operate foreign offices and 

companies to facilitate the sale and 

distribution of fresh tree fruits in Export 

Markets. 

11. Recover administrative expenses 

and costs through fees and assessments 

allocated to each Member on a pro rata

share basis or any other nondiscriminatory method. Any Member 

objecting to the method of allocating 

expenses and costs will be charged 

based on actual expenses incurred. 

12. Products to be exported will be 

primarily supplied by the ETAA and 

Members, with instances of Products 

supplied from non-Member entities. For 

example: To fill export sales orders, 

contracts and spot sales, as required. 

13. ETAA and Members may 

exchange and discuss information on 

the following: 

(a) Information about sales and 

marketing efforts for the Export Markets, 

activities and opportunities for sales of 

fresh tree fruits in the Export Markets, 

selling strategies for the Export Markets, 

sales for the Export Markets, contract 

and spot pricing in the Export Markets, 

projected demands in Export Markets 

for fresh tree fruits, customary terms of 

sale in the Export Markets, prices and 

availability of fresh tree fruits from 

competitors for sale in the Export 

Markets, and specifications for fresh tree 

fruits by customers in the Export 

Markets; 

(b) Information about the export price, 

quality, quantity, source, and delivery 

dates of fresh tree fruits available from 

the Members to export; 

(c) Information about terms and 

conditions of contracts for sale in the 

Export Markets to be considered and/or 

bid on by ETAA and Members; 

(d) Information about joint bidding or 

selling arrangements for the Export 

Markets and allocations of sales 

resulting from such arrangements 

among the Members; 

(e) Information about expenses 

specific to exporting to and within the 

Export Markets, including without 

limitation, transportation, trans- or 

intermodal shipments, insurance, inland freights to port, port storage, 

commissions, export sales, 

documentation, financing, customs 

duties and taxes; 

(f) Information about United States 

and foreign legislation and regulations, 

including Federal marketing order 

programs that may affect sales for the 

Export Markets; 

(g) Information about ETAA or 

Members’ export operations, including 

without limitation, sales and 

distribution networks established by 

ETAA or Members in the Export 

Markets, and prior export sales by 

Members (including export price 

information); 

(h) Exchange information with and 

among the Members as necessary to 

carry out the Export Trade Facilitation 

Services, Export Trade Activities and 

Methods of Operation; and 

(i) Information about export customer 

credit terms and credit history. 

A copy of this certificate will be kept 

in the International Trade 

Administration’s Freedom of 

Information Records Inspection Facility, 

Room 4001, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: October 26, 2004. 

Jeffrey Anspacher, 

Director, Export Trading Company Affairs.

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BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

National Estuarine Research Reserve 

System

AGENCY: Office of Ocean and Coastal 

Resource Management (OCRM), 

National Ocean Service (NOS), National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a 

draft environmental impact statement. 

Notice of public meetings in Austin, 

Port Aransas, and Rockport, Texas to 

conduct public scoping meetings on the 

proposed Texas National Estuarine 

Research Reserve System to solicit 

comments on significant issues related 

to the preparation of a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement/Draft 

Management Plan (DEIS/DMP). The 

DEIS/DMP will address research, 

education and stewardship needs of the 

proposed reserve. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with section 

315 of the Coastal Zone Management 

Act of 1972, as amended, the State of 

Texas and the National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 

intend to conduct public scoping 

meetings on November 16, 2004 in 

Austin, Texas and on November 17, 

2004 in Port Aransas and Rockport, 

Texas as part of NOAA’s Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement/Draft 

Management Plan (DEIS/DMP) process 

to solicit comments for preparation of a 

DEIS/DMP.

DATES AND ADDRESSES: Tuesday, 

November 16, 2004 at 10 am, Hearing 

Room E2.014 in the Capitol Extension, 

Texas State Capitol, 1400 Congress Ave., 

Austin, TX 78701. (A visitor parking 

garage is located at 12th Street and San 

Jacinto Boulevard.) 

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 at 9 

am, Auditorium in Visitors Center, 

University of Texas Marine Science 

Institute, 750 Channel View Dr., Port 

Aransas, TX 78373. (Parking is available 

at Marine Science Institute Visitor 

Center.) 

Wednesday, November 17, 2004 at 4 

pm, Saltwater Pavilion, 810 Seabreeze 

Drive, Rockport Beach Park, Rockport, 

TX 78383. (Parking is available at 

Rockport Beach Park.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

decision to be made by NOAA is 

whether or not to designate the 

proposed Texas reserve. University of 

Texas Marine Science Institute (UTMSI) 

and NOAA are working to determine 

what the boundaries of the reserve will 

be, how the reserve will be managed, 

and the policies of the proposed reserve. 

These decisions will be made through 

the analysis process and spelled out in 

the reserve management plan. 

The Mission-Aransas Estuary 

constitutes a relatively intact and 

minimally disturbed area, and is an 

excellent representative of the Western 

Gulf of Mexico with a high diversity of 

habitat types. The proposed site also has 

unique geologic and hydrological 

features that will attract a broad range 

of research interests from multiple 

scientific disciplines. Beginning in 

2001, the State of Texas undertook a site 

selection process to determine 

appropriate areas of the Texas coast that 

might be nominated for inclusion in the 

National Estuarine Research Reserve 

(NERR) System. The extensive site 

selection process generated advice from 

public and private experts in estuarine 

science and input from the public. 

In March of 2004 the State of Texas 

nominated the Mission-Aransas Estuary 

for consideration as the Texas NERR. In 

September of 2004 NOAA approved the 

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site nomination document for the 

proposed Texas reserve and began 

working with UTMSI to develop a 

management plan and environmental 

impact statement for the proposed 

reserve. 

The Texas NERR is proposed to be 

administered by the UTMSI in 

cooperation with partner landholders 

including the Texas General Land 

Office, Texas Parks and Wildlife 

Department, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Coastal Bend Land Trust, 

Fennessey Ranch, and The Nature 

Conservancy. UTMSI has developed an 

outline of a preliminary draft 

management plan. The outline specifies 

specific needs and priorities related to 

research, education and stewardship. At 

the public meetings, UTMSI and NOAA 

will provide a synopsis of the process 

for developing a DEIS/DMP and will 

solicit comments on significant 

environmental issues that will be 

incorporated into a DEIS. 

Interested parties who wish to submit 

suggestions or comments regarding the 

scope or content of the proposed DEIS/

DMP are invited to attend any of the 

above meetings.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

Montagna, University of Texas at Austin 

Marine Science Institute at (361) 749–

6779 or paul@utmsi.utexas.edu. or 

Laurie McGilvray, Chief, Estuarine 

Reserves Division, Office of Ocean and 

Coastal Resource Management, National 

Ocean Service, NOAA, 1305 East-West 

Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland 

20910, (301) 713–3155 ext 158 or 

Laurie.McGilvray@noaa.gov.

Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog 

Number 11.420 (Coastal Zone Management) 

Research Reserves.

Dated: October 28, 2004. 

Eldon Hout, 

Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource 

Management.

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BILLING CODE 3510–08–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration

[I.D. 102604D]

New England Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meeting

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.

SUMMARY: The New England Fishery 

Management Council (Council) will 

hold a three-day Council meeting on 

November 16–18, 2004, to consider 

actions affecting New England fisheries 

in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

DATES: The Executive Committee will 

meet on Tuesday, November 16 at 8:30 

a.m. The Council meeting will be held 

on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 

beginning at 9:45 a.m. and on 

Wednesday and Thursday, November 17 

and 18, beginning at 8:30 a.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Courtyard by Marriott, 1000 Market 

Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801; 

telephone: (603) 436–2121.

Council address: New England 

Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 

Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

J. Howard, Executive Director, New 

England Fishery Management Council, 

telephone: (978) 465–0492.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

The Executive Committee will meet 

from 8:30 a.m. until 9:30 a.m. to discuss 

the identification of terms of reference 

for the Council’s new ad hoc Bycatch 

Committee. The Council will convene at 

9:45 a.m. and following introductions, 

the Council’s Scallop Committee will 

seek approval of initial action on 

Framework Adjustment 17 to the Sea 

Scallop Fishery Management Plan 

(FMP); a range of alternatives will be 

selected which would require some or 

all vessels with general category scallop 

permits to operate vessel monitoring 

system equipment. The Council will 

then receive an update on the Northeast 

Region Bycatch Plan by NMFS staff. The 

afternoon period will include a report 

on the ‘‘Strategy of Sea Turtle 

Conservation and Recovery in Relation 

to Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico 

Fisheries’’ by NMFS staff. Following the 

report, the Council will consider and 

approve management actions for 2005, 

including a discussion of eliminating 

the process of joint fishery management 

plan development (for dogfish and 

monkfish). This discussion will be 

followed by a report by the Research 

Steering Committee seeking the 

Council’s consideration and approval of 

committee recommendations for 2005 

Council research priorities. The last 

item on the agenda will be a brief public 

comment period during which any 

member of the public may bring forward 

items relevant to Council business but 

not otherwise listed on the agenda for 

this meeting.

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

During the Wednesday morning 

session the Council will receive reports 

from the Council Chairman and 

Executive Director, the NMFS Regional 

Administrator, Northeast Fisheries 

Science Center and Mid-Atlantic 

Fishery Management Council liaisons, 

NOAA General Counsel and 

representatives of the U.S. Coast Guard, 

NMFS Enforcement and the Atlantic 

States Marine Fisheries Commission. 

Following reports will be a presentation 

on Harvesting Cooperatives and 

Cooperative Management by Dr. Ralph 

Townsend. The Groundfish Committee 

will then ask for final approval on 

Framework Adjustment 40B to the 

Northeast Multispecies FMP. This will 

occur following the review and 

discussion of Groundfish Advisory 

Panel and Oversight Committee 

recommendations and selection of final 

measures. The Committee will then 

initiate a framework adjustment to 

reduce the expected haddock bycatch in 

all fisheries from the very large haddock 

2003–year class.

Thursday, November 18, 2004

The Herring Committee will review 

measures under consideration in 

Amendment 1 to the FMP and approve 

management alternatives for further 

analysis in the accompanying Draft 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement; management alternatives 

may include measures to establish a 

limited access program for some or all 

of the herring fishery, effort control 

measures, changes to the start of the 

herring fishing year and measures to 

establish a purse seine/fixed gear-only 

area in some or all of the inshore Gulf 

of Maine. Following this report will be 

the consideration and approval of New 

England Council recommendations for 

spiny dogfish fishery specifications for 

the 2005–06 fishing year. The Council 

meeting will adjourn after any other 

outstanding business is addressed.

Although other non-emergency issues 

not contained in this agenda may come 

before this Council for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subjects of formal 

action during this meeting. Council 

action will be restricted to those issues 

specifically listed in this notice and any 

issues arising after publication of this 

notice that require emergency action 

under section 305(c) of the MagnusonStevens Act, provided that the public 

has been notified of the Council’s intent 

to take final action to address the 

emergency.

Special Accommodations

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to Paul