70236 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 232 / Friday, December 3, 2004 / Notices 

Dated: November 29, 2004. 

Caratina L. Alston, 

United States Secretary, NAFTA Secretariat.

[FR Doc. 04–26584 Filed 12–2–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Announcing a Meeting of the 

Information Security and Privacy 

Advisory Board [Formerly the 

Computer System Security and Privacy 

Advisory Board]

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App., 

notice is hereby given that the 

Information Security and Privacy 

Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet 

Tuesday, December 14, 2004, from 8:30 

a.m. until 5 p.m. and Wednesday, 

December 15, 2004, from 8:30 a.m. until 

5 p.m. All sessions will be open to the 

public. The Advisory Board was 

established by the Computer Security 

Act of 1987 (Pub. L. 100–235) and 

amended by the Federal Information 

Security Management Act of 2002 (Pub. 

L. 107–347) to advise the Secretary of 

Commerce and the Director of NIST on 

security and privacy issues pertaining to 

Federal computer systems. Details 

regarding the Board’s activities are 

available at http://csrc.nist.gov/ispab/.

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

December 14, 2004, from 8:30 a.m. until 

5 p.m. and December 15, 2004, from 

8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place 

at the Bethesda Hyatt Regency Hotel, 

7400 Wisconsin Avenue (One Bethesda 

Metro Center), Bethesda, MD 20814. 

AGENDA 

—Welcome and Overview 

—ISPAB Work Plan Status Review 

—Department of Homeland Security 

Privacy Initiatives Briefing 

—US–VISIT Privacy Program Briefing 

—Update on the National Information 

Assurance Partnership Program 

—Introduction of New Director of NIST 

Information Technology Laboratory 

—Professional Credentialing Strategy 

—Agenda Development for March 2005 

ISPAB Meeting 

—Wrap-Up

Note that agenda items may change 

without notice because of possible 

unexpected schedule conflicts of 

presenters. 

Public Participation: The Board 

agenda will include a period of time, 

not to exceed thirty minutes, for oral 

comments and questions from the 

public. Each speaker will be limited to 

five minutes. Members of the public 

who are interested in speaking are asked 

to contact the Board Secretariat at the 

telephone number indicated below. In 

addition, written statements are invited 

and may be submitted to the Board at 

any time. Written statements should be 

directed to the ISPAB Secretariat, 

Information Technology Laboratory, 100 

Bureau Drive, Stop 8930, National 

Institute of Standards and Technology, 

Gaithersburg, MD 20899–8930. It would 

be appreciated if 35 copies of written 

material were submitted for distribution 

to the Board and attendees no later than 

December 8, 2005. Approximately 15 

seats will be available for the public and 

media.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Joan Hash, Board Secretariat, 

Information Technology Laboratory, 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 

8930, Gaithersburg, MD 20899–8930, 

telephone: (301) 975–3357.

Dated: November 24, 2004. 

Hratch G. Semerjian, 

Acting Director.

[FR Doc. 04–26634 Filed 12–2–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration

[I.D. 101204A]

Small Takes of Marine Mammals 

Incidental to Specified Activities; LowEnergy Seismic Survey in the 

Southwest Pacific Ocean

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of receipt of application 

and proposed incidental take 

authorization; request for comments.

SUMMARY: NMFS has received an 

application from the Scripps Institution 

of Oceanography, (Scripps), a part of the 

University of California, for an 

Incidental Harassment Authorization 

(IHA) to take small numbers of marine 

mammals, by harassment, incidental to 

conducting oceanographic surveys in 

the southwestern Pacific Ocean (SWPO). 

Under the Marine Mammal Protection 

Act (MMPA), NMFS is requesting 

comments on its proposal to issue an 

authorization to Scripps to incidentally 

take, by harassment, small numbers of 

several species of cetaceans for a limited 

period of time within the next year.

DATES: Comments and information must 

be received no later than January 3, 

2005.

ADDRESSES: Comments on the 

application should be addressed to 

Steve Leathery, Chief, Permits, 

Conservation and Education Division, 

Office of Protected Resources, National 

Marine Fisheries Service, 1315 EastWest Highway, Silver Spring, MD 

20910–3225, or by telephoning the 

contact listed here. The mailbox address 

for providing email comments is 

PR1.101204A@noaa.gov. Please include 

in the subject line of the e-mail 

comment the following document 

identifier: 101204A. Comments sent via 

e-mail, including all attachments, must 

not exceed a 10–megabyte file size. A 

copy of the application containing a list 

of the references used in this document 

may be obtained by writing to this 

address or by telephoning the contact 

listed here and is also available at: http:/

/www.nmfs.noaa.gov/protlres/PR2/

SmalllTake/

smalltakelinfo.htm#applications.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kenneth Hollingshead, Office of 

Protected Resources, NMFS, (301) 713–

2322, ext 128.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

Sections 101(a)(5)(A) and (D) of the 

MMPA (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) direct 

the Secretary of Commerce to allow, 

upon request, the incidental, but not 

intentional, taking of marine mammals 

by U.S. citizens who engage in a 

specified activity (other than 

commercial fishing) within a specified 

geographical region if certain findings 

are made and either regulations are 

issued or, if the taking is limited to 

harassment, a notice of a proposed 

authorization is provided to the public 

for review.

Permission may be granted if NMFS 

finds that the taking will have a 

negligible impact on the species or 

stock(s) and will not have an 

unmitigable adverse impact on the 

availability of the species or stock(s) for 

subsistence uses and that the 

permissible methods of taking and 

requirements pertaining to the 

monitoring and reporting of such 

takings are set forth. NMFS has defined 

‘‘negligible impact’’ in 50 CFR 216.103 

as ‘‘...an impact resulting from the 

specified activity that cannot be 

reasonably expected to, and is not 

reasonably likely to, adversely affect the