Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 13 / Monday, January 22, 2007 / Notices 2657 

Dated: January 10, 2007. 

James H. Lecky, 

Director, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. E7–813 Filed 1–19–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[I.D. 011707C] 

North Pacific Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meetings 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meetings. 

SUMMARY: The North Pacific Fishery 

Management Council (Council) and its 

advisory committees will hold public 

meetings, in Portland, OR. 

DATES: The North Pacific Fishery 

Management Council will meet on 

February 5–13, 2007. See 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for specific 

dates and times. All meetings are open 

to the public, except executive sessions. 

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at 

the Benson Hotel, 309 Southwest 

Broadway, Portland, OR 97205. 

Council address: North Pacific 

Fishery Management Council, 605 W. 

4th Avenue, Suite 306, Anchorage, AK 

99501–2252. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Witherell, Council staff, 

telephone: (907) 271–2809. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Council will begin its plenary session at 

8 a.m. on Wednesday, February 7, 

continuing through February 13, 2007. 

The Council’s Advisory Panel (AP) will 

begin at 8 a.m., Monday, February 5 and 

continue through Saturday February 10. 

The Scientific and Statistical Committee 

(SSC) will begin at 8 a.m. on 

Wednesday, February 5 and continue 

through Friday February 7, 2007. The 

Enforcement Committee will meet 

Tuesday, February 6, from 9 a.m. to 12 

p.m. in the Parliament Room 3&4; the 

Ecosystem Committee will meet 

February 6, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the 

Parliament Room 3&4. 

Council Plenary Session: The agenda 

for the Council’s plenary session will 

include the following issues. The 

Council may take appropriate action on 

any of the issues identified. 

1. Reports 

Executive Director’s Report (including 

Magnuson-Stevens Act Update) 

NMFS Management Report (including 

legal opinion on Community 

Development Quotas (CDQ) (T) and 

Agency report on Area 2A catch sharing 

plan) 

Enforcement Report 

U.S. Coast Guard Report 

Alaska Department of Fish & Game 

Report 

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Report 

U.S. Department of State Report 

International Pacific Halibut 

Commission Report 

Protected Species Report (including 

SSC review of List of Fisheries 

methodology and Steller Sea Lion 

Mitigation (SSLMC) ranking tool) 

2. Programmatic Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement: 

Review and adopt revised workplan. 

3. American Fisheries Act (AFA) 

Pollock Cooperatives (Coop): Review 

Coop reports for 2006, and plans for 

2007. 

4. Seabird Interactions: Final action to 

revise regulations. (T) 

5. Charter Halibut Management: Review 

report on Area 2A catch sharing plan 

(report under B–2); initial review of 

moratorium analysis; review workplan 

for regulatory amendment package (SSC 

only). 

6. Trawl License Limitation Program 

(LLP) Recency: Initial review of 

analysis. (T) 

7. Trawl License Limitation Program 

Recency: Preliminary review of analysis 

and direction as necessary. 

8. Bering Sea and Aleutian Island split 

for Pacific cod: Review discussion 

paper; Pacific cod genetics workshop 

(SSC only). 

9. Gulf of Alaska (GOA) Groundfish 

Management Issues: Review discussion 

paper on sector splits and latent 

licenses. 

10. Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS) 

Requirements: Preliminary review of 

draft analysis to implement 

comprehensive VMS program. 

11. Groundfish Management: Initial 

review Dark Rockfish management 

amendment package; review summary 

of Center for Independent Experts 

Report on rockfish (SSC only); review 

discussion paper on GOA arrowtooth 

Maximum Retainable Amount (MRA). 

(T) 

12. Bering Sea Aleutian Island Crab 

(BSAI): Initial review of BSAI crab 

overfishing definition analysis; 

discussion paper on Aleutian Island 

crab custom processing caps; review 

information on crab vessel use caps; 

discuss proposed contents of crab 

rationalization 18 month review report. 

13. Salmon Bycath: Update on BSAI 

Amendment 84; review discussion 

paper on process to estimate interim 

caps/spatial analysis, and refine 

alternatives as necessary. 

14. Habitat Conservation: Initial review 

of analysis to adjust the Aleutian Island 

Habitat Conservation Area; preliminary 

review of analysis to conserve Bering 

Sea habitat. 

15. Staff Tasking: Review Committees 

and tasking and take action as 

necessary; review progress report on 

Aleutian Island Fishery Ecosystem Plan. 

16. Other Business 

The SSC agenda will include the 

following issues: 

1. Protected Species 

2. Seabird Interactions (T) 

3. Halibut Charter Management 

4. Trawl LLP Recency 

5. Pacific cod genetics 

6. VMS requirements 

7. Groundfish Management 

8. BSAI Crab 

9. Salmon Bycatch 

10. Habitat Conservation 

11. Aleutian Island Fishery Ecosystem 

Plan 

The Advisory Panel will address the 

same agenda issues as the Council. 

Special Accommodations 

These meetings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 

should be directed to Gail Bendixen at 

(907) 271–2809 at least 7 working days 

prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: January 17, 2007. 

James P. Burgess, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. E7–830 Filed 1–19–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[I.D. 011707B] 

Pacific Fishery Management Council 

(Council); Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Joint Canada-U.S. Review 

Panel for Pacific hake / Whiting will 

hold a work session which is open to 

the public. 

DATES: The Joint Canada-U.S. Review 

Panel will meet beginning at 1 p.m., 

Monday, February 5, 2007 and will 

continue on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 


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beginning at 8:30 a.m. through Friday, 

February 9, 2007. The meetings will end 

at 5 p.m. on Monday through Thursday 

and conclude by noon on Friday, 

February 9, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: The Joint Canada-U.S. 

Review Panel for Pacific hake/Whiting 

will be held at the Silver Cloud Inn 

University, 5036 25th Avenue NE, 

Seattle, WA 98105; telephone: (206) 

526–5200. 

Council address: Pacific Fishery 

Management Council, 7700 NE 

Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, 

OR 97220–1384. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Stacey Miller, NMFS Northwest 

Fisheries Science Center; telephone: 

(206) 437–5670; or Mr. John DeVore, 

Pacific Fishery Management Council; 

telephone: (503) 820–2280. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of the Joint Canada-U.S. Review 

Panel for Pacific hake/Whiting is to 

review draft 2007 stock assessment 

documents and any other pertinent 

information for Pacific whiting, work 

with the Stock Assessment Team to 

make necessary revisions, and produce 

a Joint Canada-U.S. Review Panel report 

for use by the Council family and other 

interested persons for developing 

management recommendations for 2007 

fisheries. No management actions will 

be decided by the review Panel. The 

Panel’s role will be development of 

recommendations and reports for 

consideration by the Council at its 

March meeting in Sacramento, CA. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in the meeting agenda may 

come before the review panel 

participants for discussion, those issues 

may not be the subject of formal Joint 

Canada-U.S. Panel action during this 

meeting. Review panel action will be 

restricted to those issues specifically 

listed in this notice and any issues 

arising after publication of this notice 

that require emergency action under 

Section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act, provided the public has been 

notified of the Panel participants’ intent 

to take final action to address the 

emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to Ms. 

Carolyn Porter at (503) 820–2280 at least 

5 days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: January 17, 2007. 

James P. Burgess, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. E7–829 Filed 1–19–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[I.D. 011107C] 

Endangered and Threatened Species; 

Take of Anadromous Fish 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Receipt of an application for a 

scientific research permit; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

NMFS has received an application for a 

scientific research permit from 

Stillwater Sciences (Stillwater) in 

Berkeley, California (1282). The permit 

would affect federally threatened 

Southern Oregon/Northern California 

Coast coho salmon, endangered Central 

California Coast coho salmon, 

threatened California Coastal Chinook 

salmon, endangered Sacramento River 

winter-run Chinook salmon, threatened 

Central Valley spring-run Chinook 

salmon, threatened Northern California 

steelhead, threatened Central California 

Coast steelhead, threatened California 

Central Valley steelhead, threatened 

South-Central California Coast 

steelhead, and endangered Southern 

California steelhead. This document 

serves to notify the public of the 

availability of the permit application for 

review and comment. 

DATES: Written comments on the permit 

application must be received no later 

than 5 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on 

February 21, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted by email must be sent to the following 

address: FRNpermits.SR@noaa.gov. The 

application and related documents are 

available for review by appointment, for 

Permit 1282: Protected Resources 

Division, NMFS, 777 Sonoma Avenue, 

Room 315, Santa Rosa, California 95404 

(ph: 707–575–6097, fax: 707–578–3435). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jeffrey Jahn at phone number 707–575–

6097, or e-mail: Jeffrey.Jahn@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority 

Issuance of permits, as required by the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 

U.S.C. 1531–1543) (ESA), is based on a 

finding that such permits: (1) Are 

applied for in good faith; (2) would not 

operate to the disadvantage of the listed 

species which are the subject of the 

permits; and (3) are consistent with the 

purposes and policies set forth in 

section 2 of the ESA. Authority to take 

listed species is subject to conditions set 

forth in the permits. Permits are issued 

in accordance with and are subject to 

the ESA and NMFS regulations 

governing listed fish and wildlife 

permits (50 CFR parts 222–226). 

Those individuals requesting a 

hearing on an application listed in this 

notice should set out the specific 

reasons why a hearing on that 

application would be appropriate (see 

ADDRESSES). The holding of such a 

hearing is at the discretion of the 

Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, 

NOAA. All statements and opinions 

contained in the permit action 

summaries are those of the applicant 

and do not necessarily reflect the views 

of NMFS. 

Species Covered in This Notice 

This notice is relevant to federally 

threatened Southern Oregon/Northern 

California Coast coho salmon 

(Oncorhynchus kisutch), endangered 

Central California Coast coho salmon 

(O. kisutch), threatened California 

Coastal Chinook salmon (O. 

tshawytscha), endangered Sacramento 

River winter-run Chinook salmon (O. 

tshawytscha), threatened Central Valley 

spring-run Chinook salmon (O. 

tshawytscha), Northern California 

steelhead (O. mykiss), threatened 

Central California Coast steelhead (O. 

mykiss), threatened California Central 

Valley steelhead (O. mykiss), threatened 

South-Central California Coast steelhead 

(O. mykiss), and endangered Southern 

California steelhead (O. mykiss). 

Application Received 

Stillwater requests a 5–year permit 

(1282) for take of juvenile Southern 

Oregon/Northern California Coast coho 

salmon, Central California Coast coho 

salmon, California Coastal Chinook 

salmon, Sacramento River winter-run 

Chinook salmon, Central Valley springrun Chinook salmon, Northern 

California steelhead, Central California 

Coast steelhead, California Central 

Valley steelhead, South-Central 

California Coast steelhead, and 

Southern California steelhead; and adult 

Central California Coast steelhead and 

California Central Valley steelhead 

associated with 11 scientific research 

projects located throughout California. 

Project 1 is a salmonid population 

abundance, out-migration monitoring, 


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