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reference for the groundfish and coastal 

pelagic species stock assessment review 

process for 2019 and 2020 and any other 

matters the SSC may be discussing at 

their upcoming September meeting in 

Seattle, WA. The webinar meeting is 

open to the public. 

DATES: The SSC Groundfish 

Subcommittee webinar will be held 

Thursday, August 2, 2018, from 9 a.m. 

to 12 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time or until 

business for the day has been 

completed. 

ADDRESSES: The SSC’s Groundfish 

Subcommittee meeting will be held by 

webinar. To attend the webinar, (1) join 

the meeting by visiting this link https:// 

www.gotomeeting.com/webinar, (2) 

enter the webinar ID: 722–907–851, and 

(3) enter your name and email address 

(required). After logging into the 

webinar, please (1) dial this TOLL 

number: 1–415–655–0052 (not a toll-free 

number); (2) enter the attendee phone 

audio access code: 667–817–359; and (3) 

then enter your audio phone pin (shown 

after joining the webinar). Note: We 

have disabled mic/speakers as an option 

and require all participants to use a 

telephone or cell phone to participate. 

Technical Information and System 

Requirements: PC-based attendees are 

required to use Windows® 7, Vista, or 

XP; Mac®-based attendees are required 

to use Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer; Mobile 

attendees are required to use iPhone®, 

iPad®, AndroidTM phone or Android 

tablet (see the https://

www.gotomeeting.com/webinar/ipadiphone-android-webinar-apps). You 

may send an email to Mr. Kris 

Kleinschmidt at Kris.Kleinschmidt@

noaa.gov or contact him at (503) 820– 

2280, extension 411 for technical 

assistance. A public listening station 

will also be available at the Pacific 

Council office. 

Council address: Pacific Fishery 

Management Council, 7700 NE 

Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, 

OR 97220. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

John DeVore, Staff Officer, Pacific 

Fishery Management Council; 

telephone: (503) 820–2413. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of the SSC Groundfish 

Subcommittee meeting is to review a 

draft terms of reference for the 

groundfish and coastal pelagic species 

stock assessment review process for 

2019 and 2020. The review will focus 

on proposed changes from the National 

Marine Fisheries Service Northwest 

Fisheries Science Center. The SSC 

Groundfish Subcommittee may also 

address any other matters the SSC may 

be discussing at their September 

meeting in Seattle, WA. 

No management actions will be 

decided by the SSC’s Groundfish 

Subcommittee. The SSC Groundfish 

Subcommittee members’ role will be 

development of recommendations and 

reports for consideration by the SSC and 

Pacific Council at the September 

meeting in Seattle, WA. 

Although nonemergency issues not 

contained in the meeting agendas may 

be discussed, 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 Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act, 

provided the public has been notified of 

the intent of the SSC Groundfish 

Subcommittee to take final action to 

address the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

The meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to Mr. 

Kris Kleinschmidt (503) 820–2411 at 

least 10 days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: July 16, 2018. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XG279 

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic 

Zone Off Alaska; Bering Sea and 

Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization 

Cost Recovery Program 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notification of fee percentage. 

SUMMARY: NMFS publishes notification 

of a 1.85 percent fee for cost recovery 

under the Bering Sea and Aleutian 

Islands Crab Rationalization Program. 

This action is intended to provide 

holders of crab allocations with the fee 

percentage for the 2018/2019 crab 

fishing year so they can calculate the 

required payment for cost recovery fees 

that must be submitted by July 31, 2019. 

DATES: The Crab Rationalization 

Program Registered Crab Receiver 

permit holder is responsible for 

submitting the fee liability payment to 

NMFS on or before July 31, 2019. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kurt 

Iverson, (907) 586–7210. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

NMFS Alaska Region administers the 

Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Crab 

Rationalization Program (Program) in 

the North Pacific. Fishing under the 

Program began on August 15, 2005. 

Regulations implementing the Program 

can be found at 50 CFR part 680. 

The Program is a limited access 

system authorized by section 313(j) of 

the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act 

(Magnuson-Stevens Act). The Program 

includes a cost recovery provision to 

collect fees to recover the actual costs 

directly related to the management, data 

collection, and enforcement of the 

Program. The Program implemented 

under the authority of section 313(j) is 

consistent with the cost recovery 

provisions included under section 

304(d)(2)(A) of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Act. NMFS developed the cost recovery 

provision to conform to statutory 

requirements and to reimburse the 

agency for the actual costs directly 

related to the management, data 

collection, and enforcement of the 

Program. The cost recovery provision 

allows collection of 133 percent of the 

actual management, data collection, and 

enforcement costs up to 3 percent of the 

ex-vessel value of crab harvested under 

the Program. The Program provides that 

a proportional share of fees charged for 

management and enforcement be 

forwarded to the State of Alaska for its 

share of management and data 

collection costs for the Program. The 

cost recovery provision also requires the 

harvesting and processing sectors to 

each pay half the cost recovery fees. 

Catcher/processor quota shareholders 

are required to pay the full fee 

percentage for crab processed at sea. 

A crab allocation holder generally 

incurs a cost recovery fee liability for 

every pound of crab landed. The crab 

allocations include Individual Fishing 

Quota, Crew Individual Fishing Quota, 

Individual Processing Quota, 

Community Development Quota, and 

the Adak community allocation. The 

Registered Crab Receiver (RCR) permit 

holder must collect the fee liability from 

the crab allocation holder who is 

landing crab. Additionally, the RCR 

permit holder must collect his or her 

own fee liability for all crab delivered to 


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the RCR. The RCR permit holder is 

responsible for submitting this payment 

to NMFS on or before July 31, in the 

year following the crab fishing year in 

which landings of crab were made. 

The dollar amount of the fee due is 

determined by multiplying the fee 

percentage (not to exceed 3 percent) by 

the ex-vessel value of crab debited from 

the allocation. Specific details on the 

Program’s cost recovery provision may 

be found in the implementing 

regulations at 50 CFR 680.44. 

Fee Percentage 

Each year, NMFS calculates and 

publishes in the Federal Register the fee 

percentage according to the factors and 

methodology described at § 680.44(c)(2). 

The formula for determining the fee 

percentage is the ‘‘direct program costs’’ 

divided by ‘‘value of the fishery,’’ where 

‘‘direct program costs’’ are the direct 

program costs for the Program for the 

previous fiscal year, and ‘‘value of the 

fishery’’ is the ex-vessel value of the 

catch subject to the crab cost recovery 

fee liability for the current year. Fee 

collections for any given year may be 

less than, or greater than, the actual 

costs and fishery value for that year, 

because, by regulation, the fee 

percentage is established in the first 

quarter of a crab fishery year based on 

the fishery value and the costs of the 

prior year. 

Based upon the fee percentage 

formula described above, the estimated 

percentage of costs to value for the 

2017/2018 fishery was 1.85 percent. 

Therefore, the fee percentage will be 

1.85 percent for the 2018/2019 crab 

fishing year. This is an increase of 0.28 

percent from the 2017/2018 fee 

percentage of 1.57 percent (81 FR 32329, 

July 13, 2017). Although direct program 

costs for managing the fishery increased 

by 2.9 percent from 2016/2017 to 2017/ 

2018, the increase in the fee percentage 

was more affected by a $24.0 million 

decrease in the value of the crab 

harvested under the Program. Similar to 

previous years, the largest direct 

program costs are incurred by the 

Alaska Department of Fish and Game 

and the NOAA Office of Law 

Enforcement. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1862; Pub. L. 109– 

241; Pub. L. 109–479. 

Dated: July 16, 2018. 

Jennifer M. Wallace, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2018–15468 Filed 7–18–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Sanctuary System Business Advisory 

Council: Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Office of National Marine 

Sanctuaries (ONMS), National Ocean 

Service (NOS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Department of Commerce (DOC). 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of a 

meeting of the Sanctuary System 

Business Advisory Council (council). 

The meeting is open to the public, and 

participants may provide comments at 

the appropriate time during the meeting. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

Wednesday, August 22, 2018, from 9:00 

a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET, and an opportunity 

for public comment will be provided 

around 4:00 p.m. ET. Both these times 

and agenda topics are subject to change. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

JetBlue Airways Corporation, 27–01 

Queens Plaza North, Long Island City, 

NY 11101. The meeting agenda, 

including times and topics, can be 

found here: http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/ 

management/bac/meetings.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

LeAnn Hogan, Office of National Marine 

Sanctuaries, 1305 East West Highway, 

Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 (Phone: 

240–533–0679; Fax: 301–713–0404; 

Email: LeAnn.Hogan@noaa.gov). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: ONMS 

serves as the trustee for a network of 

underwater parks encompassing more 

than 600,000 square miles of marine and 

Great Lakes waters from Washington 

State to the Florida Keys, and from Lake 

Huron to American Samoa. The network 

includes a system of 13 national marine 

sanctuaries and Papaha ̄naumokua ̄kea 

and Rose Atoll marine national 

monuments. National marine 

sanctuaries protect our nation’s most 

vital coastal and marine natural and 

cultural resources, and through active 

research, management, and public 

engagement, sustain healthy 

environments that are the foundation for 

thriving communities and stable 

economies. One of the many ways 

ONMS ensures public participation in 

the designation and management of 

national marine sanctuaries is through 

the formation of advisory councils. The 

Sanctuary System Business Advisory 

Council (council) has been formed to 

provide advice and recommendations to 

the Director regarding the relationship 

of ONMS with the business community. 

Additional information on the council 

can be found at http://

sanctuaries.noaa.gov/management/ac/ 

welcome.html. 

Matters to be Considered: The 

meeting will provide an opportunity for 

council members to hear news from 

across the National Marine Sanctuary 

System and review and comment on 

program initiatives. For a complete 

agenda, including times and topics, 

please visit http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/ 

management/bac/meetings.html. This 

meeting notice is being issued under 

Section 315 of the National Marine 

Sanctuaries Act, 16 U.S.C. 1445A. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. Sections 1431, et seq. 

(Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog 

Number 11.429 Marine Sanctuary Program) 

Dated: June 27, 2018. 

John Armor, 

Director, Office of National Marine 

Sanctuaries, National Ocean Service, 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–NK–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XG361 

Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Gulf of Mexico Fishery 

Management Council will hold a public 

hearing via webinar to solicit public 

comments on Amendment 13—Spiny 

Lobster for Management in the Gulf of 

Mexico. 

DATES: The webinar will convene on 

Thursday, August 2, 2018, from 6 p.m. 

to 9 p.m., EDT. The webinar will begin 

at 6 p.m. and will conclude no later 

than 9 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The public hearing will be 

held via webinar. Council address: Gulf 

of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 

4701 W Spruce Street, Suite 200, 

Tampa, FL 33607; telephone: (813) 348– 

1630. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Morgan Kilgour, Fishery Biologist, Gulf 

of Mexico Fishery Management Council; 

morgan.kilgour@gulfcouncil.org, 

telephone: (813) 348–1630. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

agenda for the following webinar is as 


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