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[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 190 (Friday, September 29, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 58513]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-25040]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 092000A]

Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section of the International 
Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT); Fall Meeting

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: In preparation for the 2000 ICCAT meeting, the Advisory 
Committee to the U.S. Section to ICCAT will hold its annual fall 
meeting in October 2000.

DATES: Open sessions will be held on October 29, 2000, from 12:15 p.m. 
to 6 p.m. and October 30, 2000, from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon. Closed 
sessions will be held on October 30, 2000, from 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and 
on October 31, 2000, from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Written comments should 
be received no later than October 25, 2000.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the NOAA Silver Spring Metro 
Center complex in Silver Spring, MD. The October 29 (public comment) 
session will be held at the NOAA Silver Spring Metro Center campus in 
conference room 4527 on the fourth floor of building 3 (1315 East-West 
Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland). The October 30 open session and both 
closed sessions of the Committee will be held in the Science Center in 
building 4 of the NOAA complex (1305 East-West Highly, Silver Spring, 
Maryland). Written comments should be sent to Kim Blankenbeker, 
Executive Secretary to the Advisory Committee, NOAA - Fisheries/SF4, 
1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patrick E. Moran, 301-713-2276.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section 
to ICCAT will meet in two open sessions to consider information on 
stock status of highly migratory species and 2000 management 
recommendations of ICCAT's Standing Committee on Research and 
Statistics (SCRS). Also in the open sessions, the Advisory Committee 
will review the results of recent meetings, including ICCAT's working 
group meeting on allocation criteria, SCRS workshops, Advisory 
Committee regional meetings, and the Food and Agriculture 
Organization's meeting concerning illegal, unregulated, and unreported 
fishing. The Committee will also discuss other ICCAT-related 
activities. Further, the Committee will review the implementation of 
1999 and prior ICCAT recommendations and resolutions and will receive 
an overview of implementation of recommendations for research and 
management resulting from its Spring 2000 Species Working Group 
meeting. Both sessions will be open to the public. The only opportunity 
for public comment will be during the October 29, 2000, open session. 
Written comments are encouraged and, if mailed, should be received by 
October 25, 2000 (see ADDRESSES). Written comments can also be 
submitted during the open sessions of the Advisory Committee meeting.
    The Advisory Committee will go into executive session on the 
afternoon of October 30, 2000, and for the entire October 31, 2000, 
session to discuss sensitive information relating to upcoming 
international negotiations. These sessions are not open to the public.
    Please be reminded that NMFS expects members of the public to 
conduct themselves appropriately for the duration of the meeting. At 
the beginning of the public comment session, an explanation of the 
ground rules will be provided(e.g., alcohol in the meeting room is 
prohibited, speakers will be called to give their comments in the order 
in which they registered to speak, each speaker will have an equal 
amount of time to speak, and speakers should not interrupt one 
another). The session will be structured so that all attending members 
of the public are able to comment, if they so choose, regardless of the 
degree of controversy of the subject(s). Those not respecting the 
ground rules will be asked to leave the meeting.

Special Accommodations

    The meeting locations are physically accessible to people with 
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other 
auxiliary aids should be directed to Patrick E. Moran at (301) 713-2276 
at least 7 days prior to the meeting date.

    Dated: September 25, 2000.
Bruce C. Morehead,
Deputy Office Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 00-25040 Filed 9-28-00; 8:45 am]
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