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appropriations. NIST issues this notice 

subject to the appropriations made 

available under the current continuing 

resolution, S. Amend. to H.R. 3081, 

‘‘Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 

2011,’’ Public Law 111–242, as amended 

by H.J. Res. 101, ‘‘Further Continuing 

Appropriations, 2011,’’ Public Law 111– 

290; H.J. Res. 105, ‘‘Further Continuing 

Appropriations, 2011,’’ Public Law 111– 

317; and H.R 3082, ‘‘Further Continuing 

Appropriations, 2011,’’ Public Law 111– 

322. NIST anticipates making awards for 

the programs listed in this notice 

provided that funding for the programs 

is continued beyond March 4, 2011, the 

expiration of the current continuing 

resolution. In no event will NIST or the 

Department of Commerce be responsible 

for proposal preparation costs if these 

programs fail to receive funding or are 

cancelled because of agency priorities. 

Publication of this announcement does 

not oblige NIST or the Department of 

Commerce to award any specific project 

or to obligate any available funds. 

Executive Order 12866: This funding 

notice was determined to be not 

significant for purposes of Executive 

Order 12866. 

Executive Order 13132 (Federalism): 

It has been determined that this notice 

does not contain policies with 

federalism implications as that term is 

defined in Executive Order 13132. 

Executive Order 12372: Applications 

under this program are not subject to 

Executive Order 12372, 

‘‘Intergovernmental Review of Federal 

Programs.’’ 

Administrative Procedure Act/ 

Regulatory Flexibility Act: Notice and 

comment are not required under the 

Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 

553) or any other law, for rules relating 

to public property, loans, grants, 

benefits or contracts (5 U.S.C. 553(a)). 

Because notice and comment are not 

required under 5 U.S.C. 553, or any 

other law, for rules relating to public 

property, loans, grants, benefits or 

contracts (5 U.S.C. 553(a)), a Regulatory 

Flexibility Analysis is not required and 

has not been prepared for this notice, 5 

U.S.C. 601 et seq. 

Dated: December 27, 2010. 

David Robinson, 

Associate Director for Management 

Resources. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–BA60 

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of 

Mexico, and South Atlantic; 

Amendment 5 to the Golden Crab 

Fishery Management Plan of the South 

Atlantic 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare 

an environmental impact statement 

(EIS); request for comments. 

SUMMARY: NMFS, Southeast Region, in 

collaboration with the South Atlantic 

Fishery Management Council (Council), 

intends to prepare an EIS to describe 

and analyze a range of alternatives for 

management actions to be included in 

Amendment 5 to the Golden Crab 

Fishery Management Plan of the South 

Atlantic Region (Amendment 5). These 

alternatives will consider measures to 

develop a catch share program for the 

golden crab fishery. The purpose of this 

NOI is to solicit public comments on the 

scope of issues to be addressed in the 

EIS. 

DATES: Written comments on the scope 

of issues to be addressed in the EIS will 

be accepted from January 12 to February 

14, 5 p.m., Eastern time. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by RIN 0648–BA60, by any 

one of the following methods: 

• Electronic Submissions: Submit all 

electronic public comments via the 

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

• Mail: Karla Gore, Southeast 

Regional Office, NMFS, 263 13th 

Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701. 

Instructions: No comments will be 

posted for public viewing until after the 

comment period is over. All comments 

received are a part of the public record 

and will generally be posted to http:// 

www.regulations.gov without change. 

All Personal Identifying Information (for 

example, name, address, etc.) 

voluntarily submitted by the commenter 

may be publicly accessible. Do not 

submit Confidential Business 

Information or otherwise sensitive or 

protected information. 

To submit comments through the 

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov, enter ‘‘NOAA– 

NMFS–2010–0279’’ in the keyword 

search, then select ‘‘Send a Comment or 

Submission.’’ NMFS will accept 

anonymous comments (enter N/A in the 

required fields if you wish to remain 

anonymous). You may submit 

attachments to electronic comments in 

Microsoft Word, Excel, WordPerfect, or 

Adobe PDF file formats only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karla Gore; phone: (727) 824–5305. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Golden Crab FMP relies on a system of 

traditional fishery management plus 

limited access. Traditional fishery 

management includes: measures to 

provide biological protection to the 

resource (escape gaps in traps and no 

retention of female crabs); gear 

regulations (allowable gear, requirement 

for degradable panel, tending 

requirements, gear identification, and 

maximum trap size by zone); depth 

limitations and prohibition of 

possession of whole fish or fillets of 

snapper-grouper species; data collection 

requirements (vessel/fishermen and 

dealer/processor reporting); and a 

framework procedure to adjust the 

management program. 

The golden crab fishery resource is 

not overfished or undergoing 

overfishing. However, there are 

underlying social and economic 

problems resulting from gear conflicts, 

high regulatory costs, and limited 

markets. To solve these social and 

economic problems, managers have 

increasingly turned to various forms of 

controlled access or effort limitation. 

Combining more traditional fishery 

management measures with controlled 

access has allowed the Council to solve 

problems in the golden crab fishery. 

The Council is considering 

development and implementation of a 

catch share program for golden crab in 

order to: avoid a derby fishery from 

developing; place limitations on vessel 

harvest similar to historical 

participation; and maintain fishermen 

harvesting flexibility. Recent 

information indicates increased 

participation and renewed interest in 

participation in the golden crab fishery 

due to technological improvements that 

have increased quality, price, and 

marketability of golden crab. 

NMFS, in collaboration with the 

Council, will develop an EIS to describe 

and analyze management alternatives to 

address the management needs 

described above. Those alternatives will 

include a ‘‘no action’’ alternative 

regarding each action. 

In accordance with NOAA’s 

Administrative Order 216–6, Section 

5.02(c), Scoping Process, NMFS, in 

collaboration with the Council, has 

identified preliminary environmental 

issues as a means to initiate discussion 


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for scoping purposes only. These 

preliminary issues may not represent 

the full range of issues that eventually 

will be evaluated in the EIS. 

Copies of an information packet will 

be available from NMFS (see 

ADDRESSES). 

Following publication of this NOI, the 

Council will conduct public scoping 

meetings to determine the range of 

issues to be addressed in the draft EIS 

(DEIS) and the associated Amendment 

5. After the DEIS associated with 

Amendment 5 is completed, it will be 

filed with the Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). The EPA will publish a 

notice of availability of the DEIS for 

public comment in the Federal Register. 

The DEIS will have a 45-day comment 

period. This procedure is pursuant to 

regulations issued by the Council on 

Environmental Quality (CEQ) for 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA; 40 CFR parts 1500–1508) 

and to NOAA’s Administrative Order 

216–6 regarding NOAA’s compliance 

with NEPA and the CEQ regulations. 

The Council will consider public 

comments received on the DEIS in 

developing the final environmental 

impact statement (FEIS), and before 

voting to submit the final amendment to 

NMFS for Secretarial review, approval, 

and implementation. NMFS will 

announce in the Federal Register the 

availability of the final amendment and 

FEIS for public review during the 

Secretarial review period, and will 

consider all public comments prior to 

final agency action to approve, 

disapprove, or partially approve the 

final amendment. 

Scoping Meetings, Times, and Locations 

All meetings will begin at 3 p.m. In 

addition to Amendment 5, the Council 

intends to scope additional amendments 

at this series of meetings. Separate NOIs 

will be prepared for each amendment. 

The meetings will be physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for information packets or for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to the 

Council (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT). 

Monday, January 24, 2011–Hilton 

New Bern/Riverfront, 100 Middle Street, 

New Bern, NC 28560; phone 252–638– 

3585. 

Wednesday, January 26, 2011–Crowne 

Plaza Charleston Airport, 4831 Tanger 

Outlet Boulevard, North Charleston, SC 

29418; phone 843–744–4422. 

Thursday, January 27, 2011–Mighty 

Eighth Air Force Museum, 175 Bourne 

Avenue, Pooler, GA 31322; phone 912– 

748–8888. 

Monday, January 31, 2011– 

Jacksonville Marriott, 4670 Salisbury 

Road, Jacksonville, FL 32256; phone 

904–296–2222. 

Tuesday, February 1, 2011– 

International Palms Resort, 1300 N. 

Atlantic Avenue, Cocoa Beach, FL 

32931; phone 321–783–2271. 

Thursday, February 3, 2011–Key 

Largo Grande Resort, 97000 Overseas 

Resort, Key Largo, FL 33037; phone 

305–852–5553. 

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

Dated: December 28, 2010. 

Emily H. Menashes, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3210–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–BA52 

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of 

Mexico, and South Atlantic; 

Amendment 24 to the Fishery 

Management Plan for Snapper Grouper 

Resources of the South Atlantic 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare 

an environmental impact statement 

(EIS); notice of scoping meetings; 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: NMFS, Southeast Region, in 

collaboration with the South Atlantic 

Fishery Management Council (Council), 

intends to prepare an EIS to describe 

and analyze a range of alternatives for 

management actions to be included in 

an amendment to the Fishery 

Management Plan for the SnapperGrouper Fishery of the South Atlantic 

Region (FMP). These alternatives will 

consider measures to establish a 

rebuilding plan for the red grouper 

stock, while setting annual catch limits 

(ACLs), accountability measures (AMs), 

allocations, maximum sustainable yield 

(MSY), and optimum yield (OY) for red 

grouper. The purpose of this NOI is to 

solicit public comments on the scope of 

issues to be addressed in the EIS. 

DATES: Written comments on the scope 

of issues to be addressed in the EIS will 

be accepted from January 12 to February 

14, 5 p.m., eastern time. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by RIN 0648–BA52, by any 

one of the following methods: 

• Electronic Submissions: Submit all 

electronic public comments via the 

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

• Mail: Rick DeVictor, Southeast 

Regional Office, NMFS, 263 13th 

Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701. 

Instructions: No comments will be 

posted for public viewing until after the 

comment period is over. All comments 

received are a part of the public record 

and will generally be posted to http:// 

www.regulations.gov without change. 

All Personal Identifying Information (for 

example, name, address, etc.) 

voluntarily submitted by the commenter 

may be publicly accessible. Do not 

submit Confidential Business 

Information or otherwise sensitive or 

protected information. 

To submit comments through the 

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov, enter ‘‘NOAA– 

NMFS–2010–0263’’ in the keyword 

search, then select ‘‘Send a Comment or 

Submission.’’ NMFS will accept 

anonymous comments (enter N/A in the 

required fields if you wish to remain 

anonymous). You may submit 

attachments to electronic comments in 

Microsoft Word, Excel, WordPerfect, or 

Adobe PDF file formats only. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kim 

Iverson; phone: (843) 571–4366. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The red 

grouper stock in the south Atlantic was 

assessed through the Southeast, Data, 

Assessment, and Review (SEDAR) 

process in 2010. The assessment 

indicates that the stock is experiencing 

overfishing and is overfished. 

Overfishing is a condition when fishing 

pressure is beyond the allowable level. 

Overfishing may lead to an overfished 

condition. A stock is overfished when 

the biomass is below an identified 

minimum stock size threshold. Due to 

low biomass levels, an overfished stock 

has increased vulnerability to 

environmental variables and cannot 

produce the MSY. 

As directed by the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), the 

Council and NMFS must implement a 

rebuilding plan, through an FMP 

Amendment or proposed regulations, 

which ends overfishing immediately 

and provides for rebuilding the fishery. 

The intent of a rebuilding plan is to 

increase biomass of overfished stocks to 

a sustainable level within a specified 

period of time. A plan should achieve 

conservation goals, while minimizing to 

the extent practicable adverse 

socioeconomic impacts. NMFS notified 

the Council of the stock status on June 

9, 2010; the Magnuson-Stevens Act 


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