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PART 74—UNIFORM ADMINISTRATIVE

REQUIREMENTS FOR AWARDS AND

SUBAWARDS TO INSTITUTIONS OF

HIGHER EDUCATION, HOSPITALS,

OTHER NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS,

AND COMMERCIAL ORGANIZATIONS

1. The heading of part 74 is revised

to read as set forth above.

2. The authority citation for Part 74 is

revised to read as follows:

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; OMB Circular A–

110 (58 FR 62992, November 29, 1993), as

amended (64 FR 54926, October 8, 1999).

3. In 74.1 remove paragraph (a)(3).

PART 92—UNIFORM ADMINISTRATIVE

REQUIREMENTS FOR GRANTS AND

COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS TO

STATE, LOCAL, AND TRIBAL

GOVERNMENTS

1. The authority citation for part 92

would continue to read as follows:

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301.

2. In 92.4 remove paragraphs (a)(3),

(7) and (8) and redesignate paragraphs

(a)(4) through (10) as (a)(3) through (7)

and remove and reserve paragraph (b).

3. Remove Subpart E, Entitlement.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

50 CFR Part 660

[I.D. 110300B]

Western Pacific Fishery Management

Council; Public Meeting

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting/public

hearing.

SUMMARY: The Western Pacific Fishery

Management Council (Council) will

hold its 107th meeting November 28

through December 1, 2000, in Honolulu,

HI. A public hearing will be held on a

framework amendment to add new

entry criteria for the Mau Zone limited

entry bottomfish fishery in the

Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI).

DATES: The Council’s Standing

Committees will meet on November 28,

2000, from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The

full Council meeting will be held on

November 29, 2000, from 9 a.m. to 5

p.m. and November 30 to December 1,

2000, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. A public

hearing will be held on November 29,

2000 at 3 p.m. on a framework

amendment to add new entry criteria for

the Mau zone limited entry bottomfish

fishery in the NWHI. See

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for specific

dates and times for these meetings and

the hearings.

ADDRESSES: The Council meeting,

Standing Committee meetings, and

public hearing will be held at the Ala

Moana Hotel, 410 Atkinson Drive,

Honolulu, HI; telephone: 808–955–4811.

Copies of the framework document

proposing new entry criteria for the Mau

Zone are available from and written

comments can be sent to the Western

Pacific Fishery Management Council,

1164 Bishop St., Suite 1400, Honolulu,

HI 96813.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director;

telephone: 808–522–8220.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Dates and Times of Committee Meetings

The following Standing Committees

of the Council will meet on November

28, 2000. Enforcement/Vessel

Monitoring System from 7:30 a.m. to

9:30 a.m.; International Fisheries/

Pelagics from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.;

Executive/Budget and Program from

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; Precious Corals

from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.; Crustaceans

from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.; Bottomfish

from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m; Ecosystem and

Habitat from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and

Fishery Rights of Indigenous People

from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Public Hearings

A public hearing on new entry criteria

for the Mau Zone bottomfish fishery

will be held on Wednesday, November

29, 2000, at 3 p.m.

In addition, the Council will hear

recommendations from its advisory

panels, plan teams, scientific and

statistical committee, and other ad hoc

groups. The order in which agenda

items are addressed may change. The

Council will meet as late as necessary to

complete scheduled business.

Agenda

1. Introductions

2. Approval of Agenda

3. Approval of 105th and 106th Meeting

Minutes

4. Island Reports

A. American Samoa

B. Guam

C. Hawaii

D. Commonwealth of the Northern

Mariana Islands (CNMI)

5. Federal Agency and Organization

Reports

A. Department of Commerce

(1) NMFS

(a) Southwest Region, Pacific Island

Area Office

(b) Southwest Fisheries Science

Center, La Jolla and Honolulu

Laboratories

(2) NOAA General Counsel,

Southwest Region

B. Department of the Interior

(1) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

C. U.S. State Department

6. Enforcement

A. U.S. Coast Guard activities

B. NMFS activities

C. Commonwealth, Territories, and

State activities

D. Cooperative agreements for Guam/

CNMI

E. Status of violations

7. Vessel Monitoring System (VMS)

A. Hawaii VMS report

B. Report on national VMS efforts

8. Presentation on Transition Zone

Chlorophyll Front

9. Precious Corals

A. Status of framework amendment

regarding new harvesting requirements

B. Status of framework adjustment

regarding Hawaiian Islands exploratory

area quota increase

C. New bed definition and associated

permitting

D. Precious Coral draft environmental

impact statement

10. Bottomfish Fisheries

A. Update on State of Hawaii area

closures

B. Mau Zone framework amendment

C. Status of litigation

D. Status of section 7 consultation

E. Draft Bottomfish EIS

F. Observer program

G. Public hearing on new entry criteria

for the Mau Zone bottomfish fishery

The Council has developed a

framework amendment to the Fishery

Management Plan for Bottomfish and

Seamount Groundfish Fisheries of the

Western Pacific Region. The amendment

will establish criteria for new entry into

the limited access Mau Zone bottomfish

fishery around the NWHI. In developing

the framework document, the Council

considered a range of alternatives and

impacts on NWHI bottomfish fishery.

Currently, there are no Federal

regulations that specify how new

permits are to be issued for the Mau

Zone fishery once the number of vessels

in the Zone falls below the target

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number of 10 permits. The Council is

soliciting public comment and input on

options for eligibility criteria including

but not limited to the following:

weighted point system based on past

participation in the bottomfish fisheries

off the main Hawaiian islands and

NWHI, free and limited transferability of

permits, and a lottery system.

11. Crustacean Fisheries

A. Status of litigation

B. Status of research and stock

assessment activities and plans

C. NWHI management program 5-year

review including overcapitalization of

the NWHI fishery

D. Draft Crustacean EIS

12. Non-Governmental Organization

Round-up Including Ocean Wildlife

Campaign ‘‘Just Ask’’ Program.

13. Pelagic Fisheries

A. 2nd quarter 2000 Hawaii and

American Samoa longline fishery report

B. Recreational fisheries

(1) Island reports

(a) Hawaii

(b) American Samoa

(c) Guam

(d) CNMI

(2) NMFS plans and programs to

manage recreational fishery resources

(3) Marine license and DingellJohnson funding

(4) Recreational Fisheries Data Task

Force

(5) Marine Recreational Fishing

Statistical Survey

(6) Pelagic sportfishing tournament

data collection

(7) RecFish 2000

C. National Academy of Sciences report

on fishery data

D. American Samoa framework measure

The entry of large boats into the

pelagics fishery in the exclusive

economic zone (EEZ) around American

Samoa could cause local overfishing in

a portion of the EEZ, create gear

conflictsparticularly in areas of

concentrated fishing, and reduce the

opportunities for profitable fishing

operations. This management measure

addresses these concerns by allocating

fishing privileges to small-boat

fishermen harvesting pelagic

management unit species (PMUS) in the

EEZ surrounding American Samoa.

Specifically, the measure prohibits the

taking of PMUS by domestic fishing

vessels larger than 50 ft (15.24 m)

(length overall) from waters within an

area that is approximately 50 nm from

the baselines of Tutuila Island, Rose

Atoll, and the Manu’a Islands and

Swain’s Island. An owner of a vessel

greater than 50 ft (15.24 m) in length

who held a NMFS Longline General

Permit on or prior to November 13,

1997, and made a landing of PMUS in

American Samoa on or prior to that date

is exempt from the prohibition to take

PMUS within the closed area.

E. Pelagic research, ECOSIM (ecosystem

simulation model), etc.

F. Shark management

(1) Blue shark stock assessment and

maximum sustainable yield

(2) Status of Amendment 9 to the

Fishery Management Plan for the

Pelagic Fisheries of the Western Pacific

Region (shark management)

(3) National plan of action on sharks

G. Turtle management

(1) Status of turtle populations and

recovery plan

(2) Status of litigation

(3) Draft Pelagic EIS

(4) Mitigation research

(a) Working group

(b) NMFS research

(5) Observer program

G. Seabirds

(1) Status of mitigation regulatory

amendment

(2) Shorttail albatross biological

opinion

(3) Seabird national plan of action

(4) Report on New Zealand

International Fisher’s Forum on seabird

bycatch

H. International

(1) Outcome of the 7th Multilateral

High-level Conference

(2) South Pacific Community

Standing Committee Meeting

I. Pelagic FMP 5-year review

14. Ecosystems and Habitat

A. Draft Coral Reef Ecosystems FMP/

Draft EIS

B. Coordinated NWHI coral reef

management

C. Results of reef surveys in Line/

Phoenix Islands and preliminary results

of NWHI cruises

D. Center for Marine Protected Areas

(MPA) and MPA Advisory Committee

E. Overview of Pacific Scientific Review

Group

F. Overview of Monk Seal Recovery

Team

G. Carbon-dioxide ocean sequestration

experiment

15. Fishery Rights of Indigenous People

A. Status of Marine Conservation Plans

B. Status of Community Development

Program/Demonstration Projects,

including eligibility criteria

C. Local observer program

D. Hawaiian green sea turtle cultural

and religious uses

16. Program Planning

A. Status of draft amendment to include

CNMI and Pacific Remote Island Areas

in the bottomfish, precious corals and

crustaceans FMPs

B. Status of Congressional legislation

relating to ocean and fisheries including

coral reefs, shark finning and

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery

Conservation and Management Act

(Magnuson-Stevens Act) reauthorization

C. Report on marine debris conference

D. Palmyra Atoll proposed longline

closure

E. Fishing activities and support

operations in national wildlife refuges

F. Midway Operations-Midway Phoenix

Corporation

G. Report on program planning

activities

H. Western Pacific Fisheries Information

Network/Fisheries Data Coordinating

Committee

I. Status of bioprospecting operations

17. Administrative Matters

A. Administrative reports

B. Advisory Panel appointments

C. Standard Operating Policies and

Procedures modifications

D. Upcoming meetings and workshops

including the 108th Council meeting

18. Other Business

Although non-emergency issues not

contained in this agenda may come

before the 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

document and any issue arising after

publication of this document that

requires emergency action under section

305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act,

provided the public has been notified of

the Council’s intent to take final action

to address the emergency.

Special Accommodations

This meeting is 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 meeting date.

Authority: 1801et seq.

Dated: November 8, 2000.

Bruce C. Morehead,

Acting Director,Office of Sustainable

Fisheries,National Marine Fisheries Service.

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