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members of the public. Those interested 

in participating should contact Kim 

Iverson (See FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT) to request an invitation 

providing webinar access information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kim 

Iverson, Public Information Officer, 

South Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council, 4055 Faber Place Drive, Suite 

201, N. Charleston, SC, 29405; 

telephone: (843) 571–4366 or toll free 

(866) SAFMC–10; fax: (843) 769–4520; 

email: kim.iverson@safmc.net. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Members 

of the Shrimp Review Panel will meet 

via webinar from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. on 

May 2, 2012. The focus of the meeting 

will be to recommend changes in the 

biological parameters and survey 

methods used in determining the stock 

abundance of pink shrimp. This 

information will be used in developing 

Amendment 9 to the Shrimp Fishery 

Management Plan, which includes an 

action for revising methods to be better 

determine the Minimum Stock Size 

Threshold (MSST) for pink shrimp. 

Special Accommodations 

The meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

auxiliary aids should be directed to the 

Council office (see ADDRESSES) 3 days 

prior to the meeting. 

Note: The times and sequence specified in 

this agenda are subject to change. 

Dated: April 10, 2012. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2012–8910 Filed 4–12–12; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XB164 

Western Pacific Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meetings. 

SUMMARY: The Western Pacific Fishery 

Management Council (Council) will 

hold a meeting of its Pelagics Plan Team 

(PPT) in Honolulu, HI to discuss fishery 

issues and develop recommendations 

for future management. 

DATES: The meeting of the PPT will be 

held between May 15, 2012 and May 17 

2012, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. See 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for specific 

dates and times. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Council Office Conference Room, 

Western Pacific Fishery Management 

Council, 1164 Bishop St., Suite 1400, 

Honolulu, HI 96813; telephone: (808) 

522–8220. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director; 

telephone: (808) 522–8220. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PPT 

will meet at the Council Conference 

Room to discuss the following agenda 

items: 

Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 8:30 a.m. 

1. Introduction 

2. Annual Report review 

a. Review of 2011 Annual Report 

modules and recommendations 

i. Commonwealth of the Northern 

Mariana Islands (CNMI) 

ii. American Samoa 

iii. Guam 

iv. Hawaii 

v. International 

vi. Recreational 

b. 2011 Annual Report region wide 

recommendations 

Wednesday–Thursday, May 16–17, 

2012, 8:30 a.m. 

3. Hawaii pelagics annual report module 

changes 

4. American Samoa annual report 

module changes 

5. Summary of current Pelagics Fishery 

Ecosystem Plan amendment actions 

6. Value of marker (≤100 pounds) bigeye 

tuna in relation to proposed False 

Killer Whale management measures 

7. Outcomes of the eighth meeting of the 

Western and Central Pacific Fishery 

Commission 

8. Other business 

9. Public comment 

10. Pelagic Plan Team 

Recommendations 

The order in which the agenda items 

are addressed may change. The PPT will 

meet as late as necessary to complete 

scheduled business. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before the PPT for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during these meetings. Plan Team 

action will be restricted to those issues 

specifically listed in this document and 

any issue arising after publication of 

this document that requires emergency 

action under section 305(c) of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act, 

provided the public has been notified of 

the Council’s intent to take final action 

to address the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

These meetings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 

should be directed to Kitty M. Simonds, 

(808) 522–8220 (voice) or (808) 522– 

8226 (fax), at least 5 days prior to the 

meeting date. 

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

Dated: April 10, 2012. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2012–8949 Filed 4–12–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[Docket No. 120314189–2189–01] 

NCAnet: Building a Network of 

Networks in Support of the National 

Climate Assessment (NCA) 

AGENCY: Office of Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Research (OAR), National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA), Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

establishment of and invites 

participation in NCAnet, a network of 

partners who extend the National 

Climate Assessment (NCA) process and 

products to a broad audience of 

assessment users through the 

development of assessment-related 

capacities and products, such as 

collection and synthesis of data or other 

technical and scientific information 

relevant to current and future NCA 

reports, dissemination of NCA report 

findings to various users of assessment 

information, engagement of assessment 

information producers and users, 

supporting NCA events, and producing 

communications materials related to the 

NCA and NCA report findings. 

DATES: Comments and expressions of 

interest may be submitted at any time 

and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. 

ADDRESSES: General inquiries and 

expressions of interest should be 

submitted via email to Emily Therese 

Cloyd, NCA Public Participation and 

Engagement Coordinator, at 

ecloyd@usgcrp.gov. Prospective partners 

may also use the online submission tool 

at http://ncanet.usgcrp.gov/home/signup to submit their expression of interest. 

Responses to this notice cannot be 

accepted by the government to form a 


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binding contract or issue a grant. 

Information obtained as a result of this 

request may be used by the government 

for program planning on a nonattribution basis. Do not submit any 

information that might be considered 

proprietary or confidential. 

More information about the NCA 

process, including the strategic plan, 

engagement strategy, and information 

about the National Climate Assessment 

Development and Advisory Committee 

can be found at http:// 

assessment.globalchange.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any 

questions about the content of this 

request should be sent to Emily Therese 

Cloyd, NCA Public Participation and 

Engagement Coordinator, US Global 

Change Research Program National 

Coordination Office, 1717 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Suite 250, Washington, DC 

20006, Telephone (202) 223–6262, Fax 

(202) 223–3065, email 

ecloyd@usgcrp.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The National Climate Assessment 

(NCA) is being conducted under the 

auspices of the US Global Change 

Research Program (USGCRP), pursuant 

to the Global Change Research Act of 

1990, 15 U.S.C. 2936, which requires a 

report to the President and the Congress 

every four years that: Integrates, 

evaluates, and interprets the findings of 

the USGCRP; analyzes the effects of 

global change on the natural 

environment, agriculture, energy 

production and use, land and water 

resources, transportation, human health 

and welfare, human social systems, and 

biological diversity; and analyzes 

current trends in global change, both 

human-induced and natural, and 

projects major trends for the subsequent 

25 to 100 years. 

The National Climate Assessment 

Development and Advisory Committee 

(NCADAC) is an advisory body 

convened to produce the 2013 NCA 

report and to provide advice and 

recommendations toward the 

development of an ongoing, sustainable 

national assessment of global change 

impacts and adaptation and mitigation 

strategies for the United States. 

Although this NCA report and 

subsequent reports will continue to 

depend heavily on Federal agency 

leadership and corresponding technical 

reports, NCADAC recognizes and seeks 

to leverage the important and growing 

distributed science capabilities and core 

competencies across the US. Indeed, it 

is a goal of the NCA process to increase 

assessment capacity—that is, the ability 

to conduct and use scientific 

assessments—both within and outside 

of the Federal government. Expertise 

within state and local governments, 

non-governmental organizations, 

impacted communities, professional 

societies, and private industry represent 

currently untapped assets and diverse 

scientific and technical perspectives, 

especially as they relate to the value of 

climate and global change information 

for decision making. 

As a way of engaging expertise 

outside of the federal government, the 

Engagement, Communication, and 

Evaluation Working Group of the 

NCADAC has established NCAnet as a 

network of partner organizations that 

can support and extend the NCA 

process, convey NCA products to a 

broader audience, and encourage 

submission of data and other technical 

inputs from non-federal sources. The 

NCADAC is seeking to build sustained 

assessment capacity to conduct and use 

assessments by cultivating partnerships 

with organizations that will participate 

as a part of the sustained assessment 

process. Partners may contribute a 

variety of technical and assessment 

capacities, such as collection and 

synthesis of data or other technical and 

scientific information relevant to 

current and future NCA reports, 

dissemination of NCA report findings to 

various users of assessment information, 

engagement of assessment information 

producers and users, supporting NCA 

events, and producing communications 

materials related to the NCA and NCA 

report findings. 

The NCADAC has identified a number 

of characteristics that it seeks in NCAnet 

partners. These include: 

• Organization’s ability to support its 

own participation 

• Interest (and experience) in climaterelated issues 

• Support for the objectives of the NCA 

(http://www.globalchange.gov/whatwe-do/assessment/nca-overview/ 

objectives) 

• Ability to contribute knowledgeably 

and meaningfully to the NCA 

• Capacity to link to key regions, 

sectors, and stakeholder groups for 

the NCA 

• Responsive point of contact within 

the partner organization 

• Willingness and ability to meet 

deadlines and participate in a 

collaborative fashion 

Partners in NCAnet will, individually 

and in collaboration with each other, 

work to disseminate information about 

the NCA through their networks of 

members and stakeholders, aggregate 

and provide information from their 

members and stakeholders to the NCA, 

help identify individuals and groups 

within their networks who can actively 

contribute to assessment activities, and 

provide feedback to NCA staff and the 

NCADAC Engagement, Communications 

and Evaluation Working Group on 

NCAnet and the NCA as a whole. 

Partners will accomplish this through 

the development and delivery of a 

variety of technical and assessment 

capacities, including technical inputs 

that collect or synthesize data or other 

technical and scientific information, 

facilitation of meetings or workshops, 

development of communications 

materials, helping to build a community 

of practice and supporting resources 

around assessment activities, or other 

contributions, including those described 

in ‘‘Potential Technical Inputs and 

Assessment Capacities and Suggested 

Best Practices’’, available from http:// 

www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/ 

assessment/nca-activities/guidance. 

An initial vision for NCAnet is further 

described in ‘‘An Overview of NCAnet’’, 

available from http://ncanet.usgcrp. 

gov. More information about the NCA 

process, including the strategic plan, 

engagement strategy, and information 

about the NCADAC can be found at 

http://assessment.globalchange.gov. 

Request for Expressions of Interest 

Individuals, organizations, or existing 

networks (collectively, ‘‘prospective 

partners’’) with an interest in climate 

and global change who would like to 

join NCAnet are encouraged to review 

the online materials about NCAnet, 

available from http://ncanet.usgcrp. 

gov, and to prepare a short expression 

of interest (EOI) describing their 

interest. All EOIs submitted in response 

to this notice must include a primary 

point of contact and contact information 

(phone number, mailing address, email 

address, institutional affiliation(s), and 

web site if applicable). In addition, it is 

recommended that EOIs include the 

following: 

• Background information about the 

prospective partner 

• The NCA topic(s) of interest (the most 

recent strategic planning documents 

and outline of NCA report topics is 

available from http:// 

www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/ 

assessment/backgroundprocess) 

• Description of anticipated 

contributions of technical and 

assessment capacities 

Please see the ADDRESSES section for 

more information on how prospective 

partners may submit general inquiries or 

expressions of interest. Comments and 

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submitted at any time and will be 

reviewed on a rolling basis. 

Prospective partners submitting an 

EOI may choose to join NCAnet directly 

or to coordinate their participation 

through an existing partner 

organization. Upon joining, NCAnet 

partners will be asked to further 

describe potential contributions to the 

NCA, including planned technical 

inputs, facilitation of meetings or 

workshops, development of 

communications materials, or other 

contributions. All descriptions and 

resulting contributions will be provided 

to the NCADAC Engagement, 

Communication, and Evaluation 

Working Group. 

Teams are encouraged to maximize 

transparency, openness, and 

information quality in any contributions 

they make. Partners are requested to 

provide written summaries to the 

Engagement, Communications and 

Evaluation Working Group of their NCA 

related activities, along with any 

external sources of funding used to 

conduct such activities. Only those 

contributions centered on documented 

evidence and defensible scientific 

foundations, and those that document 

their expert and stakeholder engagement 

and communication methods, are likely 

to be considered by the NCADAC. 

Contributions that are found to be 

consistent with NCA standards for 

scientific quality and rigor (e.g., http:// 

www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/ 

assessment/nca-activities/guidance) 

may be considered by the NCADAC for 

posting in the publicly-accessible NCA 

online database, referenced on other 

NCA Web pages, or used within the 

NCA. 

While the NCADAC welcomes 

submissions from prospective partners 

and subsequent contributions to the 

NCA, it makes no commitments about 

how contributions will be used in any 

NCA reports or processes (http:// 

www.globalchange.gov/what-we-do/ 

assessment/nca-activities/guidance). In 

addition, the US Global Change 

Research Program (USGCRP), NOAA 

and the NCADAC are not able to fund 

the development of partners’ technical 

or assessment capacities. Partners are 

free, of course, to seek funding from 

within or outside of their organization 

to support their NCAnet-related 

activities. 

Responses to this notice cannot be 

accepted by the government to form a 

binding contract or issue a grant. 

Information obtained as a result of this 

request may be used by the government 

for program planning on a nonattribution basis. Do not submit any 

information that might be considered 

proprietary or confidential. 

Dated: April 10, 2012. 

Terry Bevels, 

Acting Chief Financial Officer/Chief 

Financial Officer, Office of Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Research, National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2012–8931 Filed 4–12–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM 

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 

SEVERELY DISABLED 

Procurement List; Additions and 

Deletions 

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From 

People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled. 

ACTION: Additions to and deletions from 

the Procurement List. 

SUMMARY: This action adds services to 

the Procurement List that will be 

provided by nonprofit agencies 

employing persons who are blind or 

have other severe disabilities, and 

deletes services from the Procurement 

List previously provided by such 

agencies. 

DATES: Effective Date: 5/14/2012. 

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase 

From People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled, Jefferson Plaza 2, Suite 10800, 

1421 Jefferson Davis Highway, 

Arlington, Virginia 22202–3259. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Barry S. Lineback, Telephone: (703) 

603–7740, Fax: (703) 603–0655, or email 

CMTEFedReg@AbilityOne.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Additions 

On 2/17/2012 (77 FR 9631), the 

Committee for Purchase From People 

Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled 

published a notice of proposed 

additions to the Procurement List. 

After consideration of the material 

presented to it concerning capability of 

qualified nonprofit agencies to provide 

the services and impact of the additions 

on the current or most recent 

contractors, the Committee has 

determined that the services listed 

below are suitable for procurement by 

the Federal Government under 41 U.S.C. 

8501–8506 and 41 CFR 51–2.4. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification 

I certify that the following action will 

not have a significant impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. 

The major factors considered for this 

certification were: 

1. The action will not result in any 

additional reporting, recordkeeping or 

other compliance requirements for small 

entities other than the small 

organizations that will provide the 

services to the Government. 

2. The action will result in 

authorizing small entities to provide the 

services to the Government. 

3. There are no known regulatory 

alternatives which would accomplish 

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 8501–8506) in 

connection with services proposed for 

addition to the Procurement List. 

End of Certification 

Accordingly, the following services 

are added to the Procurement List: 

Services 

Service Type/Location: Base Supply Center & 

Individual Equipment Element, 310 M 

Street, Keesler AFB, MS. 

NPA: L.C. Industries for the Blind, Inc., 

Durham, NC. 

Contracting Activity: Dept of the Air Force, 

FA3010 81 CONS CC, Keesler AFB, MS. 

Service Type/Location: Base Supply Center, 

Securities and Exchange Commission, 

100 F Street NE., Washington, DC. 

NPA: Winston-Salem Industries for the 

Blind, Inc., Winston-Salem, NC. 

Contracting Activity: Securities and Exchange 

Commission, Office of Acquisitions, 

Alexandria, VA. 

Deletions 

On 2/17/2012 (77 FR 9631), the 

Committee for Purchase From People 

Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled 

published a notice of proposed 

deletions from the Procurement List. 

After consideration of the relevant 

matter presented, the Committee has 

determined that the services listed 

below are no longer suitable for 

procurement by the Federal Government 

under 41 U.S.C. 8501–8506 and 41 CFR 

51–2.4. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification 

I certify that the following action will 

not have a significant impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. 

The major factors considered for this 

certification were: 

1. The action will not result in 

additional reporting, recordkeeping or 

other compliance requirements for small 

entities. 

2. The action may result in 

authorizing small entities to provide the 

services to the Government. 

3. There are no known regulatory 

alternatives which would accomplish 

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 8501–8506) in 

connection with the services deleted 

from the Procurement List. 


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