64888 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 181 / Wednesday, September 20, 2023 / Notices 

Office of Protected Resources, National 

Marine Fisheries Service and should be 

submitted via email to ITP.Tucker@

noaa.gov. 

Dated: September 14, 2023. 

Kimberly Damon-Randall, 

Director, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2023–20297 Filed 9–15–23; 4:15 pm] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XD378] 

Advisory Committee Open Session on 

Management Strategy Evaluation for 

North Atlantic Swordfish 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Advisory Committee to 

the U.S. Section to the International 

Commission for the Conservation of 

Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), supported by 

NMFS, is holding a public meeting via 

webinar session to receive an update 

and provide input on the development 

of a management strategy evaluation 

(MSE) for North Atlantic swordfish. The 

meeting is open to all interested 

stakeholders. 

DATES: A virtual meeting that is open to 

the public will be held by webinar 

session on October 5, 2023, from 3 p.m. 

to 5 p.m. EDT. 

ADDRESSES: Please register to attend the 

meeting at: https://forms.gle/

2wkHbTstzFDkHpYu9. Registration will 

close on October 3, 2023, at 5 p.m. EDT. 

Instructions for accessing the webinar 

session will be emailed to registered 

participants. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bryan Keller, Office of International 

Affairs, Trade, and Commerce, (301) 

427–7725, Bryan.Keller@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: MSE is a 

process that allows fishery managers 

and stakeholders (e.g., industry, 

scientists, and non-governmental 

organizations) to assess how well 

different strategies achieve specified 

management objectives for a fishery. 

ICCAT expects to finalize its North 

Atlantic swordfish MSE in 2023 and 

anticipates adopting a management 

procedure in November 2023 to set the 

total allowable catch (TAC) for 2024 and 

future years for the stock. NMFS, and 

the U.S. Government more broadly, has 

been fully engaged in the MSE 

development process, an important part 

of which involves considering 

stakeholder input, including through 

periodic consultations with the 

Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section 

to ICCAT. The United States is also 

participating in the development of the 

North Atlantic swordfish MSE through 

the active involvement of U.S. scientists 

in the work carried out by ICCAT’s 

Standing Committee on Research and 

Statistics (SCRS). 

The October 5 meeting is primarily 

informational in nature. It is intended to 

update U.S. stakeholders on the 

progress of the North Atlantic swordfish 

MSE process and increase awareness 

and understanding of that process. 

NMFS will provide information on the 

progress of the SCRS in developing 

initial candidate management 

procedures (CMPs) and testing them 

based on the input provided to-date by 

ICCAT’s Panel 4 on management 

objectives and other relevant matters. 

CMPs illustrate tradeoffs associated 

with achieving identified management 

objectives related to stock status, stock 

safety, yield, and TAC stability over 

time. CMP testing assists ICCAT in 

refining management objectives and 

narrowing the number of viable CMPs 

for possible adoption by the 

Commission. 

There will also be an opportunity for 

the Advisory Committee and other 

stakeholders to provide input on the 

North Atlantic swordfish MSE. Such 

input helps inform U.S. scientists who 

are participating in the MSE work of the 

SCRS as well as U.S. managers 

participating in North Atlantic 

swordfish MSE meetings at the 

Commission level later in 2023. 

(Authority: 16 U.S.C. 971 et seq.; 16 U.S.C. 

1801 et seq.) 

Dated: September 14, 2023. 

Alexa Cole, 

Director, Office of International Affairs, 

Trade, and Commerce, National Marine 

Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2023–20292 Filed 9–19–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Alaska Region Crab Permits 

AGENCY: National Oceanic & 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection, 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to comment on 

proposed, and continuing information 

collections, which helps us assess the 

impact of our information collection 

requirements and minimize the public’s 

reporting burden. The purpose of this 

notice is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment preceding submission of the 

collection to OMB. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, 

comments regarding this proposed 

information collection must be received 

on or before November 20, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments to 

Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, 

at NOAA.PRA@noaa.gov. Please 

reference OMB Control Number 0648– 

0514 in the subject line of your 

comments. Do not submit Confidential 

Business Information or otherwise 

sensitive or protected information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

specific questions related to collection 

activities should be directed to Gabrielle 

Aberle, 709 W 9th Street, Juneau, AK 

9980, 907–586–7356, gabrielle.aberle@

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(NMFS), Alaska Regional Office, is 

requesting extension of a currently 

approved information collection for the 

Crab Rationalization Program (CR 

Program). 

This information collection is 

necessary for NMFS to manage the CR 

Program. The CR Program was 

implemented on April 1, 2005 (70 FR 

10174, March 2, 2005). The CR Program 

is a limited access privilege program 

that allocates the harvest of crab 

fisheries managed under the Fishery 

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