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issues and range of alternatives to be 

addressed in Amendment 6 and its 

environmental impact statement (EIS). 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received on or before 5 p.m. EST, 

February 15, 2011. The public hearings 

will be held from January 4, 2011 to 

February 9, 2011. For specific dates and 

times, see SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

ADDRESSES: The Council will take 

comments at public meetings in 

Gloucester, MA; Hyannis, MA; New 

Bedford, MA; Warwick, RI; Portland, 

ME; Riverhead, NY; Manahawkin, NJ; 

Ocean City, MD, and New Bern, NC. For 

specific locations, see SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. Written comments should 

be sent to Patricia Kurkul, Regional 

Administrator, National Marine 

Fisheries Service, 55 Great Republic 

Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930. 

Comments may also be sent via fax to 

(978) 281–9135 or submitted via e-mail 

to monkfisha6@noaa.gov with Scoping 

Comments on Monkfish Amendment 6 

in the subject line. Requests for copies 

of the scoping document and other 

information should be directed to Paul 

J. Howard, Executive Director, New 

England Fishery Management Council, 

50 Water Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, 

MA 01950; telephone: (978) 465–0492. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

J. Howard, Executive Director, New 

England Fishery Management Council; 

telephone: (978) 465–0492. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. 

monkfish fishery is jointly managed by 

the NEFMC and the Mid-Atlantic 

Fishery Management Council (MAFMC), 

with the NEFMC having the 

administrative lead. On November 30, 

2010, the NEFMC, in coordination with 

NMFS, published a Notice of Intent 

(NOI) to prepare an EIS for Amendment 

6 to the Monkfish FMP (75 FR 74005). 

At that time only one hearing was 

scheduled to be held on December 15, 

2010 at 4:30 p.m. in conjunction with 

the MAFMC meeting in Virginia Beach, 

VA. The purpose of this notification is 

to alert the interested public of 

additional public scoping hearings that 

were scheduled following the 

publication of the NOI for Amendment 

6. The following schedule provides the 

information for these public hearings. 

The dates, times, locations and 

telephone numbers of the hearings are 

as follows: 

Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 3 p.m.— 

Annisquam River Marine Fisheries 

Station, 30 Emerson Avenue, 

Gloucester, MA 01930; telephone: (978) 

282–0308; 

Monday, January 10, 2011 at 3 p.m.— 

Holiday Inn, 1127 Route 132, Hyannis, 

MA 02601; telephone: (508) 775–1153; 

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 9 a.m.— 

Fairfield Inn & Suites, 185 MacArthur 

Drive, New Bedford, MA 02740; 

telephone: (774) 634–2000; 

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 4 p.m.— 

Hilton Garden Inn, One Thurber Street, 

Warwick, RI 02886; telephone: (401) 

734–9600; 

Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 1 

p.m.—Clarion Hotel, 1230 Congress 

Street, Portland, ME 04101; telephone: 

(207) 774–5611; 

Monday, January 31, 2011 at 1 p.m.— 

Holiday Inn Express East End, 1707 Old 

Country Road, Riverhead, NY 11901; 

telephone: (631) 548–1000; 

Tuesday, February 1, 2011 at 9 a.m.— 

Holiday Inn, 151 Route 72 East, 

Manahawkin, NJ 08050; telephone: 

(609) 481–6100; 

Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 9 

a.m.—Clarion Fontaineblue Hotel, 101st 

Street on the Ocean, Ocean City, MD 

21842; telephone: (800) 638–2100; 

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 4:30 

p.m.—Hilton Riverfront Hotel, 100 

Middle Street, New Bern, NC 28560; 

telephone: (252) 638–3585. 

Special Accommodations 

These hearings are physically 

accessible to people with physical 

disabilities. Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 

should be directed to Paul J. Howard 

(see ADDRESSES) at least 5 days prior to 

the meeting date. 

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

Dated: December 6, 2010. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XA077 

Endangered Species; File Nos. 13307, 

13544, and 14586 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Issuance of permit and permit 

modifications. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

NMFS has issued a permit and two 

permit modifications to take sea turtles 

and marine mammals for purposes of 

scientific research. 

ADDRESSES: The permit and related 

documents are available for review 

upon written request or by appointment 

in the following offices: 

Permits, Conservation and Education 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 

13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone 

(301) 713–2289; fax (301) 713–0376; and 

Southeast Region, NMFS, 263 13th Ave 

South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701; phone 

(727) 824–5312; fax (727) 824–5309. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy Hapeman or Amy Sloan, (301) 

713–2289. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 

3, 2010, notice was published in the 

Federal Register (75 FR 9580) that a 

request for a scientific research permit 

to take sea turtles and marine mammals 

had been submitted by Jeanette 

Wyneken, Florida Atlantic University, 

Boca Raton, FL (File No. 14586). On 

March 3, 2010, notice was published in 

the Federal Register (75 FR 9580) that 

a modification of Permit No. 13544, 

issued April 17, 2009 (74 FR 18354), 

had been requested by Jeffrey Schmid, 

PhD, Conservancy of Southwest Florida, 

Naples, FL, for sea turtle research. On 

April 1, 2010, notice was published in 

the Federal Register (75 FR 16428) that 

a modification of Permit No. 13307–01, 

issued July 11, 2008 (73 FR 39950), had 

been requested by Kristen Hart, PhD, 

USGS, Davie, L, for sea turtle research. 

The requested permit and permit 

modifications have been issued under 

the authority of the Endangered Species 

Act of 1973, as amended (ESA; 16 

U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), the regulations 

governing the taking, importing, and 

exporting of endangered and threatened 

species (50 CFR parts 222–226); and, for 

Permit No. 14586, the Marine Mammal 

Protection Act of 1972, as amended (16 

U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) and the regulations 

governing the taking and importing of 

marine mammals (50 CFR part 216). 

Permit No. 14586 authorizes the 

permit holder to annually collect 

baseline data regarding the abundance 

and distribution of cetaceans [numerous 

non-listed species and endangered fin 

(Balaenoptera physalus), sperm 

(Physeter macrocephalus), humpback 

(Megaptera novaengliae), and North 

Atlantic right (Eubalaena glacialis) 

whales] and sea turtles [leatherback 

(Dermochelys coriacea), loggerhead 

(Caretta caretta), green (Chelonia 

mydas), hawksbill (Eretmochelys 

imbricata), and Kemp’s ridley 

(Lepidochelys kempii)] in the Straits of 

Florida off Florida’s southeast coast. 

Research is authorized to occur before, 

during, and after ocean energy 

technology testing via vessel and aerial 

surveys. The permit expires on 

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Permit No. 13544 authorizes the 

permit holder to characterize the 

aggregations of Kemp’s ridley, 

loggerhead, green, and hawksbill sea 

turtles in the nearshore waters of Lee 

County in southwest Florida by 

annually performing capture, weighing, 

passive integrated transponder (PIT) 

tagging, biopsy sampling; and for 

subsets of animals, fecal sampling and 

external tagging). The modified permit 

authorizes researchers to additionally 

satellite tag a subset of Kemp’s ridley 

and loggerhead sea turtles to determine 

their seasonal distribution and possible 

migrations in the southeastern Gulf of 

Mexico. The permit modification is 

valid until the permit expires on April 

30, 2014. 

Permit No. 13307–01 authorizes the 

permit holder to addresses fine-scale 

temporal and spatial patterns of sea 

turtle habitat use, ecology, and genetic 

origin within the Dry Tortugas National 

Park by annually capturing, weighing, 

flipper tagging, PIT tagging, and 

sampling (blood, tissue, feces, and 

lavage) green, hawksbill, and loggerhead 

sea turtles, a subset of which may be 

externally tagged with satellite and 

acoustic transmitters. The permit 

modification increases the number of 

green sea turtles that may be captured 

to 80 per year due to the high rate of 

recent capture success. The 

modification is valid until the permit 

expires on June 30, 2013. 

Issuance of these permits, as required 

by the ESA, was based on a finding that 

such permits (1) Were applied for in 

good faith, (2) will not operate to the 

disadvantage of such endangered or 

threatened species, and (3) are 

consistent with the purposes and 

policies set forth in section 2 of the 

ESA. 

Dated: December 3, 2010. 

P. Michael Payne, 

Chief, Permits, Conservation and Education 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–31005 Filed 12–8–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities Under OMB Review 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.), this notice announces that 

the Information Collection Request (ICR) 

abstracted below has been forwarded to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and comment. The 

ICR describes the nature of the 

information collection and its expected 

costs and burden. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before January 10, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher W. Cummings, Division of 

Clearing and Intermediary Oversight, 

CFTC, (202) 418–5445; Fax: (202) 418– 

5528; e-mail: ccummings@cftc.gov and 

refer to OMB Control No. 3038–0049. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Procedural Requirements for 

Requests for Interpretative, No-Action, 

and Exemptive Letters (OMB Control 

No. 3038–0049). This is a request for 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Abstract: Commission Regulation 

140.99 requires persons submitting 

requests for exemptive, no-action, and 

interpretative letters to provide specific 

written information, certified as to 

completeness and accuracy, and to 

update that information to reflect 

material changes. Regulation 140.99 was 

promulgated pursuant to the 

Commission’s rulemaking authority 

contained in Section 8a(5) of the 

Commodity Exchange Act, 7 U.S.C. 

12a(5) (2000). Regulation 41.3 requires 

securities brokers and dealers 

submitting requests for exemptive 

orders to provide specified written 

information in support of such requests. 

Regulation 41.3 was promulgated in 

response to the requirement in the 

Commodity Futures Modernization Act 

of 2000 that the Commission establish 

procedures for requesting such orders. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. The OMB control 

numbers for the CFTC’s regulations 

were published on December 30, 1981. 

See 46 FR 63035 (Dec. 30, 1981). The 

Federal Register notice with a 60-day 

comment period soliciting comments on 

this collection of information was 

published on September 29, 2010 (75 FR 

60087). 

Burden statement: The respondent 

burden for this collection is estimated to 

average 7 hours per response. These 

estimates include the time needed to 

review instructions; develop, acquire, 

install, and utilize technology and 

systems for the purposes of collecting, 

validating, and verifying information, 

processing and maintaining information 

and disclosing and providing 

information; adjust the existing ways to 

comply with any previously applicable 

instructions and requirements; train 

personnel to be able to respond to a 

collection of information; and transmit 

or otherwise disclose the information. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 

Futures Commission Merchants, 

Introducing Brokers, Commodity Pool 

Operators, Commodity Trading 

Advisors, Associated Persons, Floor 

Brokers, Floor Traders, Securities 

Brokers and Dealers, Retail Foreign 

Exchange Dealers. 

Estimated number of respondents: 

100. 

Estimated total annual burden on 

respondents: 1,050 hours. 

Frequency of collection: On occasion. 

Send comments regarding the burden 

estimated or any other aspect of the 

information collection, including 

suggestions for reducing the burden, to 

the addresses listed below. Please refer 

to OMB Control No. 3038–0049 in any 

correspondence. 

Christopher W. Cummings, Division 

of Clearing and Intermediary Oversight, 

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, 1155 21st Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20581 and Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget. 

Attention: Desk Officer for CFTC, 725 

17th Street, Washington, DC 20503. 

Dated: December 2, 2010. 

David Stawick, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. 34–63435; File No. 4–621] 

Joint Public Roundtable on Issues 

Related to Capital and Margin 

Requirements for Swaps and SecurityBased Swaps 

AGENCIES: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission (‘‘CFTC’’) and Securities 

and Exchange Commission (‘‘SEC’’) 

(each, an ‘‘Agency,’’ and collectively, the 

‘‘Agencies’’). 

ACTION: Notice of roundtable discussion; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: On Friday, December 10, 

2010, commencing at 1 p.m. and ending 

at 5 p.m., staff of the Agencies will hold 

a public roundtable meeting at which 

invited participants will discuss 

provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall 

Street Reform and Consumer Protection 

Act (the ‘‘Act’’) that require the Agencies 


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