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DATES: The SSC meeting will be held on 

February 24–26, 2004. The meeting will 

be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on 

February 24, 2004, and from 8:30 a.m. 

to 5 p.m. on February 25–26, 2004.

ADDRESSES: The 83rd SSC meeting will 

be held at the Council office conference 

room, 1164 Bishop St., Suite 1400, 

Honolulu, HI; telephone: 808–522–8220.

Council address: Western Pacific 

Fishery Management Council, 1164 

Bishop St., Suite 1400, Honolulu, HI 

96813.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director; 

telephone: 808–522–8220.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The SSC 

will discuss and may make 

recommendations to the Council on the 

agenda items below. The order in which 

agenda items will be addressed can 

change.

Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 9 a.m.

1. Introductions

2. Approval of Draft Agenda and 

Assignment of Rapporteurs

3. Approval of the Minutes of the 84th 

Meeting

4. Ecosystem and Habitat

A. Ecosystem-based management on a 

Archipelagic basis

B. Draft Report on the Coral Reef Fish 

Stock Assessment Workshop

C. Development of Northwestern 

Hawaiian Islands Sanctuary 

Alternatives: Criteria and Rationale

D. Review of the Council draft Marine 

Protected Area Policy

E. National Bycatch Implementation 

Plan

F. Public comment

G. Discussion and recommendations

5. Bottomfish

A. New Zealand Deep-slope fishery 

workshop

B. Status of Seamount groundfish 

moratorium

C. Summary of Opakapaka tagging 

study in Main Hawaiian Islands in the 

late 1980s

D. Report on Hawaii Undersea 

Research Laboratory bottomfish survey

E. Report on stock assessment 

workshop

F. Public comment

G. Discussion and recommendations

6. Protected Species

A. Council Sea Turtle Conservation 

Program

B. Hawaii Exclusive Economic Zone 

(EEZ) Marine Mammal Surveys

C. Northwestern Hawaiian Islands 

(NWHI) Ecosystem modeling

D. Public comment

E. Discussion and recommendations

7. Crustaceans Fisheries (NWHI 

lobsters)

A. Update on MULTIFAN C-L Lobster 

Model

B. Public comment

C. Discussion and recommendations

8. Precious Corals

A. New Precious Coral Beds in NWHI

B. Public comment

C. Discussion and recommendations

Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 8:30 

a.m.

9. Pelagic Fisheries

A. American Samoa and Hawaii 

Longline Fisheries

1. Quarterly Reports

2. Southern albacore Catch Per Unit 

Effort in 2003

B. Turtle management

1. Council’s Regulatory Amendment 

and Draft Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement.

2. Post-hooking mortality workshop

3. Risk assessment seminar

C. Methods of analyzing observer data

D. Seabird conservation

1. Update on Hawaiian archipelago 

albatross nesting populations

2. Consideration of side-setting as a 

seabird mitigation option for Hawaiibased longliners

E. Marlin Management

F. Private Fish Aggregating Devices

G. Shark management

H. International Meetings

1. Bellagio Conference: Conservation 

and Sustainable Multilateral 

Management of Sea Turtles in the 

Pacific Ocean

2. 4th meeting of the Interim 

Scientific Committee for Tuna and 

Tuna-like species in the North Pacific

3. Inter-American Tropical Tuna 

Commission 4th Bycatch Working 

Group

4. Asia-Region Seabird Bycatch 

Workshop

5. Western Pacific Sea-turtle Database 

Meeting

6. 2nd Meeting of the Parties to the 

Memorandum of Understanding on the 

Conservation and Management of 

Marine Turtles and their Habitats of the 

Indian Ocean and South-East Asia

I. Public comment

J. Discussion and recommendations

Thursday, February 26, 2004, 8:30 a.m.

10. Other Business

A. Guam voluntary community 

monitoring program options

B. Pacific Islands Region and Council 

streamline strategic plan

C. 86th SSC meeting

11. Summary of SSC 

Recommendations to the Council

Special Accommodations

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

Kitty M. Simonds, 808–522–8220 

(voice) or 808–522–8226 (fax), at least 5 

days prior to the meeting date.

Dated: February 5, 2004.

Tracey Thompson,

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–S

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Technology Administration 

Technology Administration 

Performance Review Board 

Membership 

The Technology Administration 

Performance Review Board (TA PRB) 

reviews performance appraisals, 

agreements, and recommended actions 

pertaining to employees in the Senior 

Executive Service and reviews 

performance-related pay increases for 

ST–3104 employees. The Board makes 

recommendations to the appropriate 

appointing authority concerning such 

matters so as to ensure the fair and 

equitable treatment of these individuals. 

This notice lists the membership of 

the TA PRB and supersedes the list 

published in Federal Register

Document 01–29675, Vol. 66, No. 230, 

page 59575, dated llllllll.

Belinda L. Collins (C), Deputy Director 

for Technology Services, National 

Institute of Standards & Technology, 

Gaithersburg, MD 20899, 

Appointment Expires: 12/31/05. 

Stephen Freiman (C), Deputy Director, 

Materials Science & Engineering 

Laboratory, National Institute of 

Standards & Technology, 

Gaithersburg, MD 20899, 

Appointment Expires: 12/31/04. 

Cita Furlani (C), Chief Information 

Officer, National Institute of 

Standards & Technology, 

Gaithersburg, MD 20899, 

Appointment Expires: 12/31/05. 

Daniel Hurley (C), Director of 

Communication and Information, 

Infrastructure Assurance Program, 

National Telecommunications and 

Information Administration, 

Washington, DC 20230, Appointment 

Expires: 12/31/05. 

Deirdre Jones, Director of Systems 

Engineering Center, Office of Science 

and Technology, National Weather 

Service, National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration, Silver 

Spring, MD 20910, Appointment 

Expires: 12/31/05.

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Karen Laney Cummings, Director, 

Technology Competitiveness, Office 

of Technology Policy, Technology 

Administration, Washington, DC 

20230, Appointment Expires: 12/31/

05. 

William F. Koch (C), Deputy Director, 

Chemical Science & Technology 

Laboratory, National Institute of 

Standards & Technology, 

Gaithersburg, MD 20899, 

Appointment Expires: 12/31/04.

Dated: January 28, 2004. 

Benjamin H. Wu, 

Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for 

Technology, Technology Administration, 

Department of Commerce.

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BILLING CODE 3510–18–M

CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND 

COMMUNITY SERVICE 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request

AGENCY: Corporation for National and 

Community Service.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Corporation for National 

and Community Service (hereinafter the 

‘‘Corporation’’), as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to 

provide the general public and Federal 

agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing collections of information in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA95) (44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program 

helps to ensure that requested data can 

be provided in the desired format, 

reporting burden (time and financial 

resources) is minimized, collection 

instruments are clearly understood, and 

the impact of collection requirement on 

respondents can be properly assessed. 

Currently, the Corporation is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

Financial Management Survey Form. 

Copies of the information collection 

request can be obtained by contacting 

the office listed below in the ADDRESSES

section of this notice.

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

ADDRESSES section by April 12, 2004.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by the title of the information 

collection activity, by any of the 

following methods: 

(1) By mail sent to: Corporation for 

National and Community Service, Office 

of Grants Management; Attention Ms. 

Lois W. Paul, Grants Management 

Specialist; Room 9712–A, 1201 New 

York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 

20525. 

(2) By hand delivery or by courier to 

the Corporation’s mailroom at Room 

6010 at the mail address given in 

paragraph (1) above, between 9 a.m. and 

4 p.m. Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

(3) By fax to: (202) 565–2850, 

Attention Ms. Lois W. Paul, Grants 

Management Specialist. 

(4) Electronically through the 

Corporation’s e-mail address system: 

lpaul@cns.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lois 

W. Paul, (202) 606–5000, ext. 200 or by 

e-mail at lpaul@cns.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

The Corporation is particularly 

interested in comments which: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Corporation, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

• Enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and, 

• Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submissions 

of responses. 

I. Background 

The Corporation developed the 

Financial Management Survey in 

fulfillment of its pre-award policy 

(CFO–029, effective 1/17/02) that 

provides reasonable assurance that 

federal grant funds will be expended in 

ways that meet program objectives, the 

award terms and conditions; and 

applicable federal statutes, regulations 

and guidelines. The Financial 

Management Survey will standardize 

the pre-award process and will ensure 

uniform consideration of the capacity of 

potential grantees of the Corporation to 

manage federal funds. 

The Financial Management Survey 

will be used for the following purposes: 

(1) As a pre-award assessment tool of 

the capacity of a potential grantee to 

manage federal funds in excess of 

$100,000; and 

(2) As part of the basis for 

determining the financial management 

areas in which a potential grantee, 

should it receive an award from the 

Corporation, may warrant technical 

assistance. 

II. Current Action 

The Corporation is seeking public 

comment for approval of the Financial 

Management Survey which will be used 

by Corporation Grants Management 

Specialists to assess the capacity of 

potential grantees to manage Federal 

funds. This assessment involves a 

review of the potential grantee’s 

responses to general questions about its 

organizational type, financial systems, 

how it manages funds, and the internal 

controls it has in place to segregate and 

report on Federal funds it might receive. 

The public affected will be grant 

applicants that have not previously 

received Federal funds through an 

award from the Corporation, or current 

grantees that are re-competing for 

funding at the beginning of a new 3-year 

grant cycle and have been identified as 

not meeting the exemption critical of 

the Corporation’s pre-award review 

policy. 

Should the entity become a grantee of 

the Corporation, the information 

gathered will be maintained in the new 

grantee’s official file and become part of 

the basis for determining specific areas 

of its financial management and systems 

that may benefit from technical 

assistance from the Corporation, its staff 

and Training and Technical Assistance 

(T/TA) providers. 

Type of Review: New information 

collection. 

Agency: Corporation for National and 

Community Service. 

Title: Financial Management Survey 

Form. 

OMB Number: None. 

Agency Number: None. 

Affected Public: First-time grant 

applicants or current grantees 

recompeting for funding. 

Total Respondents: 25–30 annually. 

Frequency: One (1) time. 

Average Time Per Response: 5 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 21⁄2

hours. 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):

$648.90. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/

maintenance): None. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they will 

also become a matter of public record.