75532 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 179 / Monday, September 16, 2024 / Notices 

entering either the title of the collection 

or the OMB Control Number 0648–0365. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office 

of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

[FR Doc. 2024–20943 Filed 9–13–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XE269] 

Fall Meeting of the Advisory 

Committee to the U.S. Section of the 

International Commission for the 

Conservation of Atlantic Tunas 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: In preparation for the 2024 

International Commission for the 

Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) 

meeting, the Advisory Committee to the 

U.S. Section to ICCAT is announcing 

the convening of its fall meeting. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

October 9–10, 2024. There will be an 

open session on Wednesday, October 9, 

2024, from 9 a.m. through 

approximately 12:30 p.m. The 

remainder of the meeting will be closed 

to the public and is expected to end by 

1 p.m. on October 10. Interested 

members of the public may present their 

views during the public comment 

session on October 9, 2024, or submit 

written comments by October 2, 2024 

(see ADDRESSES). 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the DoubleTree by Hilton Silver Spring 

DC North, 8777 Georgia Ave., Silver 

Spring, MD. Written comments should 

be sent via email to bryan.keller@

noaa.gov. Comments may also be sent 

via mail to Bryan Keller at NMFS, Office 

of International Affairs, Trade, and 

Commerce, 1315 East-West Highway, 

Silver Spring, MD 20910. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bryan Keller, Office of International 

Affairs, Trade, and Commerce, (301) 

427–7725 or at bryan.keller@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section 

to ICCAT will meet October 9–10, 2024, 

first in an open session to consider 

information on the status of Atlantic 

highly migratory species and other 

scientific matters and then in a closed 

session to discuss sensitive matters 

related to their conservation and 

management. The open session will be 

from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on October 9, 

2024, including an opportunity for 

public comment beginning at 

approximately 12:00 p.m. Comments 

may also be submitted in writing for the 

Advisory Committee’s consideration. 

Interested members of the public can 

submit comments by mail or email; use 

of email is encouraged. All written 

comments must be received by October 

2, 2024 (see ADDRESSES). 

NMFS expects members of the public 

to conduct themselves appropriately at 

the open session of the Advisory 

Committee 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. 

After the open session, the Advisory 

Committee will meet in closed session 

to discuss sensitive information relating 

to upcoming international negotiations 

on the conservation and management of 

Atlantic highly migratory species and 

related matters. 

Special Accommodations 

The meeting location is physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 

should be directed to Bryan Keller at 

bryan.keller@noaa.gov at least 5 days 

prior to the meeting date. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 971 et seq.; 16 

U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: September 10, 2024. 

Alexa Cole, 

Director, Office of International Affairs, 

Trade, and Commerce, National Marine 

Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2024–20940 Filed 9–13–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Fishing Capacity Reduction 

Program/Buyback Requests 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, on or after the date of publication 

of this notice. We invite the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

comment on proposed, and continuing 

information collections, which helps us 

assess the impact of our information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. Public 

comments were previously requested 

via the Federal Register on May 14, 

2024, during a 60-day comment period. 

This notice allows for an additional 30 

days for public comments. 

Agency: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration, 

Commerce. 

Title: Fishing Capacity Reduction 

Program/Buyback Requests. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0376. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(extension of a current information 

collection). 

Number of Respondents: 200. 

Average Hours Per Response: 0.5 

hours for buyback fee collection reports; 

4 hours for buyback annual reports. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 930 

hours. 

Needs and Uses: This request is for 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection. 

The Sustainable Fisheries Act (SFA) 

amended the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act 

(MSA) to provide for voluntary 

reduction of excess fishing capacity 

through fishing capacity reduction 

(buyback) programs. Excess fishing 

capacity decreases fisheries earnings, 

complicates fishery management, and 

imperils fishery conservation. The 

statutory objective of a program is ‘‘to 

obtain the maximum sustained 

reduction in fishing capacity at the least 

cost and in a minimum period of time.’’ 

Buybacks pay fishermen either to: (1) 

Surrender their fishing permits; or (2) 

both surrender their permits and either 

scrap their fishing vessels or restrict 

vessel title to prevent fishing. Buybacks 


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