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Director; telephone: (301) 713–2379 

x171. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As 

required by section 10(a)(2) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 

U.S.C. App. 2, notice is hereby given of 

meetings of MAFAC. MAFAC was 

established by the Secretary of 

Commerce (Secretary) on February 17, 

1971, to advise the Secretary on all 

living marine resource matters that are 

the responsibility of the Department of 

Commerce. This committee advises and 

reviews the adequacy of living marine 

resource policies and programs to meet 

the needs of commercial and 

recreational fisheries, and 

environmental, state, consumer, 

academic, tribal, governmental and 

other national interests. The complete 

charter and summaries of former 

meetings are located online at 

www.nmfs.noaa.gov/ocs/mafac/ 

index.htm. 

Matters to be Considered 

June 4, 2007 

The meeting will begin with opening 

remarks and introductions from Dr. 

William T. Hogarth, Assistant 

Administrator for Fisheries. MAFAC 

subcommittee chairs will provide an 

overview of what their respective 

subcommittees will address during the 

meeting. A brief review and discussion 

of advisory committee administrative 

policies and procedures will also be 

provided, with the remainder of the day 

dedicated to reviews and discussions of 

the agency’s FishWatch web page 

project and updates and details of the 

implementation of the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and 

Management Reauthorization Act of 

2006. 

June 5, 2007 

The full Committee will reconvene 

from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. to continue 

discussions for a Vision 2020 project, 

outlining a roadmap of issues to be 

addressed in the next 20 years. At the 

conclusion of the discussion, and as 

determined by the members, the full 

Committee will break into 

Subcommittees and working groups to 

allow time for in depth discussions and 

work on the issues pending before the 

Committee, including MagnusonStevens reauthorization, aquaculture 

legislation, recreational fishing data 

improvement plans and Vision 2020. 

The work of the Subcommittees will be 

presented and discussed in-depth at the 

full Committee level the following 

afternoon. 

June 6, 2007 

The Subcommittees will meet from 9 

a.m. to 1 p.m. The full Committee will 

reconvene from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. to 

receive, discuss, and take any final 

actions and votes. 

Special Accommodations 

These meetings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 

should be directed to Laurel Bryant, 

MAFAC Executive Director; telephone: 

(301) 713–2379 x171 by 5pm, May 30, 

2007. 

Dated: May 21, 2007. 

John Oliver 

Deputy Assistant Administrator for 

Operations, National Marine Fisheries 

Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Record of Decision for the Final 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement for Defense Threat 

Reduction Agency (DTRA) Activities 

on White Sands Missile Range, NM 

AGENCY: Department of Defense; Defense 

Threat Reduction Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of Record 

of Decision for White Sands Missile 

Range Programmatic Environmental 

Impact Statement. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 

1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 

seq.), and the Council on Environmental 

Quality Regulations for Implementing 

the Procedural Provisions of NEPA (40 

CFR parts 1500–1508), the Defense 

Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has 

prepared and issued a Record of 

Decision for the proposed testing 

activities on White Sands Missile Range 

(WSMR) proposed in the WSMR 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement (PEIS). The PEIS addresses 

the potential environmental impacts 

associated with implementing the 

proposed action, alternative, and no 

action alternative over a 10-year period. 

The purpose of the proposed action is 

to provide adequate test areas and 

facilities to evaluate the lethality 

effectiveness of weapon systems used 

against simulated enemy ground targets 

producing, storing, or controlling 

Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). 

There is a need to improve the U.S. 

Military’s weapon systems that are 

designed to defeat enemy military 

assets, including hardened and 

reinforced structures. These enemy 

military assets can house WMD and 

pose a significant threat to international 

stability and peaceful coexistence 

within and among nations. The military 

structures and equipment of the United 

States and its allies must also be refined 

to better withstand attack by enemy 

weapons systems to reduce collateral 

damage. 

The Record of Decision briefly 

summarizes the determination of the 

WSMR PEIS and announces DTRA’s 

intended course of action with respect 

to the proposed alternatives and 

environmental mitigation measures 

presented in the WSMR PEIS. 

ADDRESSES: The final PEIS and Record 

of Decision are available for public 

viewing on the DTRA Web site: 

www.dtra.mil and at the following 

public libraries: Albuquerque Public 

Library, 501 Copper Ave., Northwest, 

Albuquerque, NM; Socorro Public 

Library, 401 Park Street, Socorro, NM; 

Alamogordo Public Library, 920 Oregon 

Ave., Alamogordo, NW; Branigan 

Memorial Library, 200 East Picacho 

Ave., Las Cruces, NM; Consolidated 

Library, Building 464, White Sands 

Missile Range, NM; Holloman Air Force 

Base Library, 596 4th Street, Holloman 

Air Force Base, NM; and El Paso Public 

Library, 501 North Oregon Street, El 

Paso, TX. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

DTRA Public Affairs Office: (800) 701–

5096 or (703) 767–5870. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A draft 

PEIS was released on Jan. 27, 2006 (71 

FR 4571) for a 60-day public review and 

comment period that ended March 28, 

2006. Public hearings were held Feb. 28, 

2006 in Alamogordo, March 1, 2006 in 

Las Cruces, and March 2, 2006 in 

Socorro, NM. All comments received 

were addressed and incorporated into 

the final PEIS, which was released for 

public review on March 15, 2007. An 

announcement of the PEIS’s public 

availability was published in the 

Federal Register on March 15, 2007 (72 

FR 12167). 

Dated: May 18, 2007. 

L.M. Bynum, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, DoD. 

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