Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 194 / Thursday, October 5, 2000 / Notices 59393

International Trade Administration

Website at www.ita.doc.gov/icp.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Further inquiries may be directed to

Dominic Bianchi, Acting Assisting

USTR for Intergovernmental Affairs and

Public Liaison, Winder Building, Room

100, 600 17th Street NW, Washington,

DC 20230 or Ingrid V. Mitchem, Acting

Director, Industries Consultations

Program, U.S. Department of Commerce,

14th and Constitution Avenue, NW,

Room 2015–B, Washington, DC 20230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

In section 135 of the 1974 Trade Act,

as amended (19 U.S.C. 2155), Congress

established a private-sector advisory

system to ensure that U.S. trade policy

and trade negotiation objectives

adequately reflect U.S. commercial and

economic interests. Section 135(a)(1) of

the 1974 Trade Act directs the President

to ‘‘seek information and advice from

representative elements of the private

sector and the non-Federal

governmental sector with respect to:

(A) Negotiating objectives and

bargaining positions before entering into

a trade agreement under [title I of the

1974 Trade Act and section 1102 of the

Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness

Act of 1988];

(B) The operation of any trade

agreement once entered into; including

preparation for dispute settlement panel

proceedings to which the United States

is a party; and

(C) Other matters arising in

connection with the development,

implementation, and administration of

the trade policy of the United States.

* * *’’

Section 135(c)(2) of the 1974 Trade

Act provides:

(2) The President shall establish such

sectoral or functional advisory

committees as may be appropriate. Such

committees shall, insofar as is

practicable, be representative of all

industry, labor, agricultural, or service

interests (including small business

interests) in the sector or functional

areas concerned. In organizing such

committees, the United States Trade

Representative and the Secretaries of

Commerce, Labor, Agriculture, the

Treasury, or other executive

departments, as appropriate, shall:

(A) Consult with interested private

organizations; and

(B) Take into account such factors

as—

(i) Patterns of actual and potential

competition between United States

industry and agriculture and foreign

enterprise in international trade,

(ii) The character of the nontariff

barriers and other distortions affecting

such competition,

(iii) The necessity for reasonable

limits on the number of such advisory

committees,

(iv) The necessity that each committee

be reasonably limited in size, and

(v) In the case of each sectoral

committee, that the product lines

covered by each committee be

reasonably related.

Pursuant to this provision, Commerce

and USTR have established and co-chair

seventeen Industry Sector Advisory

Committees (ISACs) and four Industry

Functional Advisory Committees

(IFACs). The Committees’ efforts have

resulted in strengthening U.S.

negotiating positions by enabling the

United States to display a united front

when it negotiates trade agreements

with other nations. Committees meet an

average of four times a year in

Washington, D.C. Members serve

without compensation and are

responsible for all expenses incurred in

attending Committee meetings. For

additional information regarding the

functions and membership of these

committees, and general qualifications

for membership, see 64 FR 10448–

10449, March 4, 1999 (Volume 64,

Number 42).

Eligibility

Eligibility to serve as an

environmental representative on ISAC

10 is limited to U.S. citizens who are

not full-time employees of a

governmental entity, who represent a

‘‘U.S. entity’’, and who are not

registered with the Department of

Justice under the Foreign Agents

Registration Act. For purposes of the

preceding sentence, a ‘‘U.S. entity’’ is an

organization incorporated in the United

States (or, if unincorporated, having its

headquarters in the United States):

(1) That is controlled by U.S. citizens

or by another U.S. entity. An entity is

not a U.S. entity if more than 50 percent

of its Board of Directors or membership

is made up of non-U.S. citizens. If the

nominee is to represent an organization

more than 10 percent of whose Board of

Directors or membership is made up of

non-U.S. citizens, or non-U.S. entities,

the nominee must demonstrate at the

time of nomination that this non-U.S.

interest does not constitute control and

will not adversely affect his or her

ability to serve as a trade advisor to the

United States; and

(2) at least 50 percent of whose annual

revenue is attributable to nongovernmental, U.S. sources.

Selection Criteria

USTR and Commerce will select

environmental representatives eligible

for appointment to ISAC 10 based upon

the following:

(1) The organization to be represented

will be considered based on

environmental interest in trade policies

in the sector relevant to the work of the

Committee; and

(2) The nominee should demonstrate

special interest in and knowledge of the

formulation of environmental policies

in the sector relevant to the work of the

Committee, and the ability to work with

governmental officials and industry

representatives to reach consensus on

complex environmental and trade issues

affecting the relevant industry sectors.

(3) Preference will be accorded

nominees who also demonstrate

knowledge of and familiarity with the

relevant industry sectors, as well as

with international trade matters,

including trade policy development

relevant to those sectors.

Environmental representatives, as

members of the Committee, will be

required to have a security clearance.

Members serve without compensation

and are responsible for all expenses

incurred in attending committee

meetings.

Application Procedures

Requests for applications should be

sent to the Director of the Industry

Consultations Program, U.S. Department

of Commerce, 14th and Constitution

Avenue, NW, Room 2015–B,

Washington, D.C. 20230. This notice is

issued under the Federal Advisory

Committee Act (5 U.S.C., app. 2) and 21

CFR part 14 relating to advisory

committees.

Michael J. Copps,

Assistant Secretary for Trade Development.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 100200A]

New England Fishery Management

Council; Public Meetings

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

SUMMARY: The New England Fishery

Management Council (Council) is

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scheduling public meetings of its

Groundfish Committee, Monkfish

Advisory Panel and Research Steering

Committee in October 2000, to consider

actions affecting New England fisheries

in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

DATES: The meetings will be held

between Tuesday, October 24, 2000, and

Thursday, October 26, 2000. See

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for specific

dates and times.

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held

in Danvers, MA; Wakefield, MA; and

Warwick, RI. See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for specific locations.

Council address: New England

Fishery Management Council, 50 Water

Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950:

(978) 465-0492.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul

J. Howard, Executive Director, New

England Fishery Management Council

(978)465-0492.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Meeting Dates, Locations, and Agendas

Tuesday, October 24, 2000, 9:30 a.m.

and Wednesday, October 25, 2000, 8:30

a.m.—Groundfish Oversight Committee

Meeting

Location: Sheraton Ferncroft, 50

Ferncroft Road, Danvers, MA 01923;

telephone: (978) 777-2500.

The Groundfish Oversight Committee

will continue its development of

management alternatives for

Amendment 13 to the Northeast

Multispecies Fishery Management Plan.

The Committee will consider comments

from it’s Advisory Panel on the area

management and sector allocation

proposals and may make changes to

those proposals based on the comments

received. They will finalize

recommendations for rebuilding plans

for overfished stocks, measures to

address capacity in the groundfish

fishery, and recommendations for

closed areas. In addition, the Committee

will refine its proposals for a revised

status quo, area management, and sector

allocation alternatives. They will review

access by other fisheries or gears to

closed areas and may develop

recommendations for changes to those

vessels and gears that are currently

allowed access to closed areas. They

will also develop priorities for

cooperative research proposals that will

be forwarded to the Research Steering

Committee. The Committee will meet in

a closed session to review advisory

panel applications.

Thursday, October 26, 2000, 9:30 a.m.—

Monkfish Advisory Panel Meeting

Location: Radisson Airport Hotel,

2081 Post Road, Warwick, RI 02886;

telephone: (401)739-3000.

The Panel will discuss monkfish trip

limit options to address perceived

inequities across fleet sectors and

develop recommendations to the

Monkfish Committee. It will also

develop a statement of purpose and a

range of alternatives for monkfish

spawning area/time management, and

will discuss possible options for bycatch

control and minimizing discards of

monkfish in small mesh fisheries.

Thursday, October 26, 2000, 9:30 a.m.—

Research Steering Committee Meeting

Location: Sheraton Colonial, One

Audubon Road, Wakefield, MA 01880;

telephone: (781) 245-9300.

The Research Committee will discuss

priorities for funding regional research

projects in 2001.

Recommendations from these groups

will be brought to the full Council for

formal consideration and action, if

appropriate. Although non-emergency

issues not contained in this agenda may

come before this Council for discussion,

those issues may not be the subject of

formal Council 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 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 Paul J. Howard

(see ADDRESSES) at least five days prior

to the meeting dates.

Dated: October 2, 2000.

Richard W. Surdi,

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D.092800D]

Endangered Species; Permits

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Issuance of scientific research

permit (1253) and a modification to a

scientific research permit (1190).

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the

following actions regarding permits for

takes of endangered and threatened

species for the purposes of scientific

research and/or enhancement: NMFS

has issued permits to: Carlos Diez and

Robert Van Dam, Puerto Rico DNR (PRDNR) (1253); and NMFS has issued

modifications to scientific research

permits to: NMFS-Southwest Region

(1190).

DATES: Comments or requests for a

public hearing on any of the new

applications or modification requests

must be received at the appropriate

address or fax number no later than 5

p.m. eastern standard time on November

6, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Written comments on any of

the new applications or modification

requests should be sent to the

appropriate office as indicated below.

Comments may also be sent via fax to

the number indicated for the application

or modification request. Comments will

not be accepted if submitted via e-mail

or the Internet. The applications and

related documents are available for

review in the indicated office, by

appointment:

For permits 1253, 1190: Office of

Protected Resources, Endangered

Species Division, F/PR3, 1315 East-West

Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (ph:

301-713-1401, fax: 301-713-0376).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Terri Jordan, Silver Spring, MD (ph:

301-713-1401, fax: 301-713-0376, e-mail:

Terri.Jordan@noaa.gov).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority

Issuance of permits and permit

modifications, as required by the

Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16

U.S.C. 1531-1543) (ESA), is based on a

finding that such permits/modifications:

(1) are applied for in good faith; (2)

would not operate to the disadvantage

of the listed species which are the

subject of the permits; and (3) are

consistent with the purposes and