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workplan for year ahead. As the final 

item of business for the day, the Council 

will revisit fishing year 2024–2026 

specifications approved in December 

2023 for the small-mesh multispecies 

(whiting) fishery to address southern 

red hake rebuilding. 

Thursday, February 1, 2024 

The Council will lead off the third 

day of its meeting with a Spiny Dogfish 

Committee report, where it will review, 

discuss, and approve fishing year 2024– 

2026 spiny dogfish specifications. Next, 

the Council will receive a progress 

report on Monkfish Framework 15, 

which is part of a joint New England/ 

Mid-Atlantic Council action to reduce 

monkfish/dogfish large-mesh gillnet 

fishery interactions with Atlantic 

sturgeon. Then, the Council will receive 

an update from its On-Demand Fishing 

Gear Conflict Working Group on 

activities to prevent or reduce potential 

gear conflicts between mobile, fixed, 

and recreational gear and on-demand 

(ropeless) fishing gear. This update will 

be followed by a presentation on the 

peer-reviewed 2023 Black Sea Bass 

Research Track Stock Assessment. The 

Council then will close out the meeting 

with other business. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained on this agenda may come 

before the Council for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during this meeting. Council 

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 Fishery Conservation and 

Management Act, provided the public 

has been notified of the Council’s intent 

to take final action to address the 

emergency. The public also should be 

aware that the meeting will be recorded. 

Consistent with 16 U.S.C. 1852, a copy 

of the recording is available upon 

request. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

Executive Director Cate O’Keefe (see 

ADDRESSES) at least 5 days prior to the 

meeting date. 

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

Dated: January 8, 2024. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00471 Filed 1–10–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XD638] 

Endangered and Threatened Species; 

Take of Anadromous Fish 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Withdrawal of notice of intent 

to prepare an environmental impact 

statement. 

SUMMARY: NMFS is issuing this notice to 

advise Federal, state, and local 

government agencies and the public of 

withdrawal of the Notice of Intent (NOI) 

to prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) for the proposed 

operation of salmon hatchery programs 

in the Nooksack River Basin in 

Washington. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Morgan Robinson, Lacey, WA (phone: 

253–307–2670, email: 

morgan.robinson@noaa.gov). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS 

published a NOI in the Federal Register 

on June 20, 2016 (81 FR 39911) to 

prepare an EIS in accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) to analyze the impacts on the 

human environment resulting from the 

operation of salmon hatchery programs 

in the Nooksack River Basin in 

Washington. NMFS hereby advises the 

public of the rescission of this NOI. This 

change occurred because the proposed 

hatchery and genetic management plans 

jointly submitted by the Washington 

Department of Fish and Wildlife, the 

Lummi Nation, the Nooksack Indian 

Tribe, the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, 

and the Swinomish Indian Tribal 

Community as co-managers were 

withdrawn since the NOI was 

published. 

Any future hatchery and genetic 

management plans submitted by the 

above parties to NMFS will comply with 

the environmental review requirements 

of NEPA. 

Dated: January 8, 2024. 

Angela Somma, 

Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office 

of Protected Resources, National Marine 

Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2024–00473 Filed 1–10–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID: DoD–2024–OS–0005] 

Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, 

Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Notice of a new matching 

program. 

SUMMARY: This Computer Matching 

Agreement (CMA) verifies the eligibility 

of Military Health System (MHS) 

beneficiaries who are Medicare eligible 

to receive TRICARE Benefits. 

DATES: Comments will be accepted on or 

before February 12, 2024. This proposed 

action will be effective the day 

following the end of the comment 

period unless comments are received 

which result in a contrary 

determination. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

* Federal Rulemaking Portal: https:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Follow the instructions for submitting 

comments. 

* Mail: Department of Defense, Office 

of the Assistant to the Secretary of 

Defense for Privacy, Civil Liberties, and 

Transparency, 4800 Mark Center Drive, 

Mailbox #24, Suite 08D09, Alexandria, 

VA 22350–1700. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

docket number for this Federal Register 

document. The general policy for 

comments and other submissions from 

members of the public is to make these 

submissions available for public 

viewing on the internet at https://

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Mindy Smith, Management and Program 

Analyst, Privacy and Civil Liberties 

Directorate at (703) 571–0070. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The DoD, 

Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) 

will provide the Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS), Centers for 

Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) 

a list of specific data elements for all 

DoD eligible beneficiaries both over and 

under the age of 65. CMS will: (1) match 

the Social Security Numbers (SSNs) of 

beneficiaries provided by DMDC against 

the information found in CMS’s 

‘‘Enrollment Database (EDB)’’ system of 

records; (2) validate the identification of 

the individual against CMS beneficiary 

records based on SSN and date of birth 


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