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App., notice is hereby given that the 

ACEHR will hold an open meeting on 

Wednesday, November 7, 2018, from 

8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Mountain Time 

and Thursday, November 8, 2018, from 

8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Mountain Time. 

The meeting will be held in the 

Katharine Blodgett Gebbie Laboratory 

Conference Room 1A106, Building 81, 

at NIST, 325 Broadway Street, Boulder, 

Colorado 80305. The meeting will be 

open to the public. The primary purpose 

of this meeting is to review the NEHRP 

agency updates on their latest activities 

and receive the NEHRP agency 

responses to the Committee’s 2017 

biennial and 2018 interim Reports on 

the Effectiveness of the NEHRP. The 

final agenda and any meeting materials 

will be posted on the NEHRP website at 

http://nehrp.gov/. 

Individuals and representatives of 

organizations who would like to offer 

comments and suggestions related to the 

Committee’s affairs are invited to 

request a place on the agenda. On 

November 8, 2018, approximately 

fifteen minutes will be reserved near the 

beginning of the meeting for public 

comments, and speaking times will be 

assigned on a first-come, first-serve 

basis. The amount of time per speaker 

will be determined by the number of 

requests received, but is likely to be 

about three minutes each. Questions 

from the public will not be considered 

during this period. All those wishing to 

speak must submit their request by 

email to the attention of Ms. Tina 

Faecke, tina.faecke@nist.gov, by 5:00 

p.m. Eastern time, Wednesday, October 

31, 2018. 

Speakers who wish to expand upon 

their oral statements, those who had 

wished to speak but could not be 

accommodated on the agenda, and those 

who were unable to attend in person are 

invited to submit written statements to 

ACEHR, National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, MS 

8604, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899– 

8604, via fax at (301) 975–4032, or 

electronically by email to tina.faecke@

nist.gov. 

All visitors to the NIST site are 

required to pre-register to be admitted. 

Anyone wishing to attend this meeting 

must register by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, 

Wednesday, October 24, 2018, in order 

to attend. Please submit your full name, 

email address, and phone number to 

Tina Faecke. Non-U.S. citizens must 

submit additional information; please 

contact Ms. Faecke. Ms. Faecke’s email 

address is tina.faecke@nist.gov and her 

phone number is (301) 975–5911. For 

participants attending in person, please 

note that federal agencies, including 

NIST, can only accept a state-issued 

driver’s license or identification card for 

access to federal facilities if such license 

or identification card is issued by a state 

that is compliant with the REAL ID Act 

of 2005 (Pub. L. 109–13), or by a state 

that has an extension for REAL ID 

compliance. NIST currently accepts 

other forms of federal-issued 

identification in lieu of a state-issued 

driver’s license. For detailed 

information please contact Ms. Faecke 

at (301) 975–5711 or visit: http://

www.nist.gov/public_affairs/visitor/. 

Kevin A. Kimball, 

Chief of Staff. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Marine Mammals and Endangered 

Species 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance of permits and 

permit amendments. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

permits or permit amendments have 

been issued to the following entities 

under the Marine Mammal Protection 

Act (MMPA) and the Endangered 

Species Act (ESA), as applicable. 

ADDRESSES: The permits and related 

documents are available for review 

upon written request or by appointment 

in the Permits and Conservation 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 

13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone: 

(301) 427–8401; fax: (301) 713–0376. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shasta McClenahan (Permit No. 22062), 

Amy Hapeman (Permit Nos. 21295 and 

21366), Erin Markin (Permit No. 21467), 

and Sara Young (Permit No. 21158–02); 

at (301) 427–8401. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notices 

were published in the Federal Register 

on the dates listed below that requests 

for a permit or permit amendment had 

been submitted by the below-named 

applicants. To locate the Federal 

Register notice that announced our 

receipt of the application and a 

complete description of the research, go 

to www.federalregister.gov and search 

on the permit number provided in the 

table below. 

Permit No. RIN Applicant Previous Federal Register 

notice 

Permit or 

amendment 

issuance date 

21295 ................. 0648–XF910 Olga von Ziegear, Winged Whale Research, P.O. Box 

15191, Fitz Creek, AK 99603.

82 FR 61752, December 29, 

2017.

May 8, 2018. 

21366 ................. 0648–XG057 Margaret Lamont, Ph.D., U.S. Geological Survey, 

7320 NW 71st St., Gainesville, FL 32653.

83 FR 9297, March 5, 2018 ....... May 9, 2018. 

21467 ................. 0648–XG037 Karen Holloway-Adkins, East Coast Biologists, Inc., 

P.O. Box 33715, Indialantic, FL 32903.

83 FR 9297, March 5, 2018 ....... May 10, 2018. 

22062 ................. 0648–XG130 Patricia Fair, Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina, Hollings Marine Laboratory, 331 Fort Johnson 

Road, Charleston, SC 29412.

83 FR 13736; March 30, 2018 ... May 1, 2018. 

21158–02 ........... 0648–XF592 Robert Garrott, Ph.D., Montana State University, 310 

Lewis Hall, Bozeman, MT 59717.

83 FR 16343; April 16, 2018 ..... May 24, 2018. 

In compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), a final 

determination has been made that the 

activities proposed are categorically 

excluded from the requirement to 

prepare an environmental assessment or 

environmental impact statement. 

As required by the ESA, as applicable, 

issuance of these permit was based on 

a finding that such permits: (1) Were 

applied for in good faith; (2) will not 


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operate to the disadvantage of such 

endangered species; and (3) are 

consistent with the purposes and 

policies set forth in Section 2 of the 

ESA. 

Authority: The requested permits 

have been issued under the Marine 

Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as 

amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the 

regulations governing the taking and 

importing of marine mammals (50 CFR 

part 216), the Endangered Species Act of 

1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 

et seq.), and the regulations governing 

the taking, importing, and exporting of 

endangered and threatened species (50 

CFR parts 222–226), as applicable. 

Dated: June 8, 2018. 

Julia Marie Harrison, 

Chief, Permits and Conservation Division, 

Office of Protected Resources, National 

Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XG283 

North Pacific Fishery Management 

Council (NPFMC); Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The North Pacific Fishery 

Management Council (Council) will host 

an Assessment Methods Workshop in 

June. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Wednesday, June 27, 2018, from 8 a.m. 

to 5 p.m. and on Thursday, June 28, 

2018, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

the Traynor Room, Building 4 at the 

Alaska Fisheries Science Center, 7700 

Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115. 

Teleconference number: 1–877–953– 

3919 (PP: 5944500). 

Council address: North Pacific 

Fishery Management Council, 605 W 

4th Ave., Suite 306, Anchorage, AK 

99501–2252; telephone (907) 271–2809. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Diana Stram, Council staff; telephone: 

(907) 271–2801. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Agenda 

Wednesday, June 27 and Thursday, 

June 28, 2018 

The workshop will review ensemble 

stock assessment modeling and evaluate 

how it fits in the NPFMC system. To 

also discuss considerations for 

potentially reducing an ABC from the 

maximum to account for observations 

and uncertainties not included in the 

assessment model or Tier system; and 

produce recommendations and a report 

to be considered by the September Joint 

Groundfish Plan Team. The Agenda is 

subject to change, and the latest version 

will be posted at http://www.npfmc. 

org/. 

Special Accommodations 

These meetings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 

should be directed to Shannon Gleason 

at (907) 271–2809 at least 7 working 

days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: June 8, 2018. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12688 Filed 6–12–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XG289 

New England Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The New England Fishery 

Management Council (Council) is 

scheduling a public meeting of its 

Fishery Data for Stock Assessment 

Working Group to consider actions 

affecting New England fisheries in the 

exclusive economic zone (EEZ). 

Recommendations from this group will 

be brought to the full Council for formal 

consideration and action, if appropriate. 

DATES: This meeting will be held on 

Monday, June 25, 2018 at 9:30 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the School for Marine Science and 

Technology (UMASS Dartmouth), 836 

South Rodney French Boulevard, New 

Bedford, MA 02744; telephone: (508) 

999–8193. 

Council address: New England 

Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 

Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, 

New England Fishery Management 

Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Agenda 

The Fishery Data for Stock 

Assessment Working Group will present 

and discuss work to address the group’s 

four main deliverables; begin 

discussions on working group 

recommendations and address other 

business as necessary. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during these meetings. 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 MagnusonStevens Act, provided the public has 

been notified of the Council’s intent to 

take final action to address the 

emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. This meeting 

will be recorded. Consistent with 16 

U.S.C. 1852, a copy of the recording is 

available upon request. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, at 

(978) 465–0492, at least 5 days prior to 

the meeting date. 

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

Dated: June 8, 2018. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XG290 

Fisheries of the South Atlantic; 

Southeast Data, Assessment, and 

Review (SEDAR); Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of SEDAR 60 Data 

Scoping webinar. 


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