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[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 230 (Wednesday, November 29, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71091-71092]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-30362]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 112100C]

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings

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

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

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SUMMARY: The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) and its 
Executive Committee, Law Enforcement Committee, and Demersal Species 
Committee meeting as a Council Committee of the Whole, together with 
the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's (ASMFC) Summer 
Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Board will hold public meetings.

DATES: The meetings will be held on Tuesday, December 12, to Thursday, 
December 14, 2000.

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at the Trump Plaza Hotel, The 
Boardwalk and Mississippi Avenue, Atlantic City, NJ; telephone: 609-
441-2708.
    Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 300 S. 
New Street, Dover, DE 19904, telephone: 302-674-2331.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Daniel T. Furlong, Executive Director, 
Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council; telephone: 302-674-2331, ext. 
19.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Dates and Times of Meetings

    Tuesday, December 12, 2000, 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m.-- the Council 
will meet with the ASMFC Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass 
Board.
    Wednesday, December 13, 2000, 8:30 - 11 a.m.-- the Council will 
meet with the ASMFC Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Board.
    December 13, 2000, 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.-- there will be an 
Information & Education Program.
    December 13, 2000, 1:30 - 5:30 p.m.-- the Council will convene.
    Thursday, December 14, 2000, 8 - 9 a.m.-- the Executive Committee 
will meet.
    December 14, 2000, from 8 - 9 a.m.-- the Law Enforcement Committee 
will meet concurrently.
    December 14, 2000, 9 a.m. until 1 p.m.-- the Council will meet.
    Agenda items for this meeting are: Review and discuss Monitoring 
Committee recommendations and approve recreational management measures 
for 2001 for the summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass recreational 
fisheries; review public comments, review and discuss Framework 2 
management measures regarding conservation equivalency (Meeting 1), 
discuss and prioritize 2001 fishery management plan (FMP) actions for 
the summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass fisheries; review and 
discuss Joint Monkfish Committee's recommendations on monkfish 
management measures, develop and approve management measures for 2001/
02 monkfish fishery; review and evaluate position paper for Amendment 9 
to the Squid, Mackerel, Butterfish FMP; review and discuss Joint 
Dogfish Committee's recommendations on spiny dogfish management 
measures, develop and approve management measures for 2001/01 spiny 
dogfish fishery; review and discuss the New England Council's request 
for opportunity to comment on the Council's annual specifications, 
review 2001 grant application, review 2001 Annual Work Plan; review 
Coast Guard/Law Enforcement Awards Program actions; review and approve 
proposed quota set-aside action; hear organizational and committee 
reports, and if available, comment on NMFS proposed rule regarding 
regulations impacting the summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass 
fisheries in 2001. During the Regional Administrator's Report there 
will be time to take public comment on Rutgers University's Exempted 
Fishing Permits application, i.e., mesh selectivity studies.
    Although non-emergency issues not contained in this agenda may come 
before the Council for discussion, these issues may not be the subject 
of formal Council action during this meeting. Council action will be 
restricted to those

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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 Act, provided the public has been 
notified of the Council's intent to take final actions to address such 
emergencies.

Special Accommodations

    These meetings are physically accessible to people with 
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other 
auxiliary aids should be directed to Joanna Davis at the Council (see 
ADDRESSES) at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.

    Dated: November 22, 2000.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 00-30362 Filed 11-28-00; 8:45 am]
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