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6, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., 

Eastern Time and Thursday, November 

7, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., 

Eastern Time. 

DATES: The ISPAB will meet on 

Wednesday, November 6, 2024, from 

10:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., Eastern Time 

and Thursday, November 7, 2024, from 

10:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., Eastern Time. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held 

virtually via webinar. Please note 

participation instructions under the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff 

Brewer, ISPAB Designated Federal 

Official, National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Telephone (301) 975– 

2489. Mr. Brewer’s email address is 

jeffrey.brewer@nist.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority: The ISPAB was established 

to function solely as an advisory body, 

in accordance with the provisions of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended, 5 U.S.C. 1001 et seq. The 

Board reports to the Director of NIST, 

and reports annually to the Secretary of 

Commerce, the Secretary of Homeland 

Security, the Director of the Office of 

Management and Budget, the Director of 

the National Security Agency, and 

appropriate committees of Congress. 

The Board is authorized under 15 U.S.C. 

278g–4 and tasked with identifying 

emerging managerial, technical, 

administrative, and physical safeguard 

issues relative to information security 

and privacy. 

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 

1001 et seq., notice is hereby given that 

the ISPAB will hold an open meeting on 

the date and time in the DATES section 

and will be open to the public. Primary 

purpose of this meeting is to discuss 

and deliberate potential 

recommendations. The agenda may 

change to accommodate ISPAB 

business. The final agenda will be 

posted on the NIST website at https:// 

csrc.nist.gov/Events/2024/ispabnovember-2024-meeting, and is 

expected to include the following items: 

—Board Introductions and Member 

Activities, 

—Update on NIST’s Information 

Technology Laboratory (ITL) 

Activities, 

—Briefing from NIST on the NIST 

Security and Privacy Frameworks, 

—Discussion on Cybersecurity Metrics 

and Measurements, 

—Presentation and Discussion on 

Vulnerability Markets as a Metric, 

—Briefing on Breach and Incident 

Response Notification, 

—Presentation from NIST on Small 

Business Corner Project, 

—Presentation by Industry on Common 

Weakness Enumerations (CWEs) and 

their Use, 

—Update on the NIST Cybersecurity 

and Privacy Program, 

—Update on the Request for Information 

on Privacy Impact Assessments, 

—Public comments, 

—Board Discussions and 

Recommendations. 

Individuals and representatives of 

organizations who would like to offer 

comments and suggestions related to the 

Board’s business are invited to request 

a place on the agenda. Approximately 

thirty minutes will be reserved for 

public comments and speaking times 

will be assigned on a first-come, firstserve basis. The amount of time per 

speaker will be determined by the 

number of requests received but is likely 

to be about five minutes each. Questions 

from the public will not be considered 

during this period. Speakers who wish 

to expand upon their oral statements, 

those who had wished to speak but 

could not be accommodated on the 

agenda, and those who were unable to 

participate are invited to submit written 

statements by email to jeffrey.brewer@

nist.gov. 

All participants will be attending via 

webinar and are required to pre-register 

to be admitted to the meeting. To 

register and receive detailed instruction 

on how to join the meeting, please 

submit your first and last name, email 

address, and company name via the 

registration link at https://csrc.nist.gov/ 

Events/2024/ispab-november-2024- 

meeting, by 5 p.m. Eastern Time, 

November 5, 2024. 

Alicia Chambers, 

NIST Executive Secretariat. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22401 Filed 9–27–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XE287] 

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic 

Zone off Alaska; Application for an 

Exempted Fishing Permit 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; receipt of application for 

exempted fishing permit. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces NMFS’ 

receipt of an application and the public 

comment period for an exempted 

fishing permit (EFP) from Trident 

Seafoods. If issued, this permit would 

allow the applicant to develop and test 

modifications to the footrope of pelagic 

trawl gear. The purpose and goal of this 

EFP, if issued, would be to exempt 

participating vessels from complying 

with the regulation defining the 

footrope for pelagic trawl gear. Field 

testing would be conducted between 

January 20, 2025 and December 31, 

2027, and the EFP would expire at the 

end of that period. This experiment 

would test trawl gear design that aims 

to minimize seafloor contact by the 

footrope when targeting pollock that are 

on or near the seafloor and thus promote 

the objective of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) to 

protecting habitat that fish need to 

spawn, breed, feed, and grow to 

maturity. 

DATES: Comments on this EFP 

application must be submitted to NMFS 

on or before October 15, 2024. The 

North Pacific Fishery Management 

Council (Council) will consider the 

application at its meeting from 

September 30, 2024 through October 8, 

2024. 

ADDRESSES: The Council meeting will be 

held virtually and in person in 

Anchorage, AK. The agenda for the 

Council meeting is available at https:// 

www.npfmc.org. In addition to 

submitting public comments during the 

Council meeting through the Council 

website, you may submit your 

comments, identified by NOAA–NMFS– 

2024–0106, by either of the following 

methods: 

• Electronic Submission: Submit all 

electronic public comments via the 

Federal e Rulemaking Portal. Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and enter 

[NOAA–NMFS–2024–0106] in the 

Search box (note: copying and pasting 

the FDMS Docket Number directly from 

this document may not yield search 

results). Click on the ‘‘Comment’’ icon, 

complete the required fields, and enter 

or attach your comments. 

• Mail: Submit written comments to 

Gretchen Harrington, Assistant Regional 

Administrator, Sustainable Fisheries 

Division, Alaska Region NMFS, Attn: 

Records Office. Mail comments to P.O. 

Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802–1668. 

• Instructions: Comments sent by any 

other method, to any other address or 

individual, or received after the end of 

the comment period, may not be 

considered by NMFS. All comments 

received are a part of the public record 


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and will generally be posted for public 

viewing on https://www.regulations.gov 

without change. All personal identifying 

information (e.g., name, address), 

confidential business information, or 

otherwise sensitive information 

submitted voluntarily by the sender will 

be publicly accessible. NMFS will 

accept anonymous comments (enter ‘‘N/ 

A’’ in the required fields if you wish to 

remain anonymous). 

Electronic copies of the EFP 

application and the basis for a 

categorical exclusion under the National 

Environmental Policy Act are available 

from https://www.regulations.gov or 

from the NMFS Alaska Region website 

at https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/ 

region/alaska. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maggie Chan, 907–586–7228. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS 

manages the groundfish fisheries in the 

exclusive economic zone of the Bering 

Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) under 

the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for 

Groundfish of the BSAI Management 

Area (BSAI FMP). The Council prepared 

the BSAI FMP under the authority of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act, 16 

U.S.C. 1801 et seq. Regulations 

governing the BSAI groundfish fisheries 

appear at 50 CFR parts 600 and 679. The 

FMP and the EFP-implementing 

regulations at § 600.745(b) and § 679.6 

allow the NMFS Regional Administrator 

to authorize, for limited experimental 

purposes, fishing that would otherwise 

be prohibited. Procedures for issuing 

EFPs are contained in the implementing 

regulations. 

Background and Need for Exempted 

Fishing Permit 

As described further below, NMFS 

has regulatory definitions for a pelagic 

trawl that specify the allowable 

numbers of fishing line, footrope, and 

weighted lines. This regulatory 

definition limits the ability to test trawl 

gear redesigns on the footrope and 

weighted lines. 

In 2023, Trident Seafoods began a 

pilot project aimed at designing 

modified footrope concepts after 

consulting with NMFS. This pilot 

project occurred during the 2023 

pollock fishery and underscored the 

need to expand the pilot project into an 

EFP. This EFP would help facilitate 

innovation to reduce impacts to the 

environment from pelagic trawl fishing 

and provide transparency in the 

development of new gear designs. This 

EFP would build on the 2023 pilot 

project by expanding testing modified 

footrope designs during commercial 

fishing operations. The primary gear 

modification involves altering the 

length and orientation of the existing 

footrope components in a way that 

maintains sufficient weight to ensure 

the proper opening (i.e., shape) of the 

net, while also resulting in less bottom 

contact. The re-design of the gear results 

in having more than two weighted lines, 

but, due to the design of the modified 

footrope, results in less total bottom 

contact. The EFP would assess changes 

to bottom contact and catch 

(composition and efficiency), gear 

performance, and fishing operations and 

safety. 

This requested EFP would 

temporarily exempt fishers from the 

regulation at § 679.2 ‘‘Authorized 

fishing gear’’, paragraph (14)(vii) that 

states pelagic trawl gear ‘‘Has no more 

than one fishing line and one footrope 

for a total of no more than two weighted 

lines on the bottom of the trawl between 

the wing tip and the fishing circle.’’ If 

approved, this EFP would allow testing 

of trawl gear design concepts that aim 

to minimize seafloor contact by the 

trawl gear when targeting pollock that 

are on or near the seafloor. The EFP 

would expire on December 31, 2027. 

Exempted Fishing Permit 

On September 6, 2024, Dr. Noe ̈lle 

Yochum and Shannon Carroll of Trident 

Seafoods submitted an application for 

an EFP to develop and test 

modifications to the footrope of pelagic 

trawl gear. The purpose and goal of this 

proposed EFP is to assess changes to 

gear performance, catch composition, 

fishing operations, safety, and costs. 

Vessel operators participating in this 

project would include trawl vessels that 

deliver catch to shoreside plants or 

motherships. All vessels will be 

equipped for pollock fishing in Alaska 

and will use pelagic pollock trawls. 

Gear and fishing operations will be 

conducted in compliance with current 

management regulations with the 

exception of the modifications 

exempted under the EFP. 

Vessel operators would continue to 

adhere to required monitoring and 

fishery observer requirements. Vessel 

operators fishing under the EFP will be 

responsible for providing information to 

the EFP applicant about gear 

performance and use, including areas 

fished and catch information. Fishing 

under this EFP will not be conducted 

within any protected or restricted areas 

that are otherwise closed to pollock 

fishing under the American Fisheries 

Act and Community Development 

Quota programs under current 

regulations. This project aims to 

minimize seafloor contact by the trawl 

gear when targeting pollock that are on 

or near the seafloor. 

Exemptions 

One exemption is necessary to 

conduct this project. An exemption 

would be necessary from the regulation 

at § 679.2 ‘‘Authorized fishing gear’’, 

paragraph (14)(vii) that states pelagic 

trawl gear ‘‘Has no more than one 

fishing line and one footrope for a total 

of no more than two weighted lines on 

the bottom of the trawl between the 

wing tip and the fishing circle.’’ 

Permit Conditions, Review, and Effects 

If issued, the exempted fishing permit 

would contain several conditions. 

Among them, the applicant would be 

required to submit to NMFS an annual 

report that includes a summary of the 

vessels participating, any problems and 

successes, and how well EFP objectives 

were accomplished. Within 6 months of 

the end of EFP fishing, a final report 

would be submitted to NMFS that 

updates the interim reports and 

describes how well EFP objectives were 

accomplished. The Alaska Fisheries 

Science Center found no concern with 

the objectives, scope, or methods 

described in the EFP. The activities that 

would be conducted under this EFP 

involve the development and testing of 

new and modified trawl fishing gear and 

technology in order to reduce adverse 

effects from trawl fishing gear on nontarget species, and is limited in size, 

magnitude, and duration with no 

potential for significant individual or 

cumulative impacts, as detailed in the 

draft categorical exclusion for this 

action (see ADDRESSES). 

In accordance with §§ 679.6 and 

600.745, NMFS has determined that the 

application warrants further 

consideration and has forwarded the 

application to the Council to initiate 

consultation. The Council is scheduled 

to consider the EFP application during 

its October 2024 meeting, which will be 

held in person in Anchorage, AK with 

an option to participate virtually. The 

applicant has been invited to speak in 

support of the application. 

Public Comments 

Interested persons may comment on 

the application during the October 2024 

Council meeting during public 

testimony or the Federal eRulemaking 

Portal (see ADDRESSES) until October 15, 

2024, when the comment period ends. 

Information regarding the meeting is 

available at the Council’s website at 

https://www.npfmc.org. Copies of the 

application and categorical exclusion 

are available for review from NMFS (see 

ADDRESSES). Comments may also be 


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submitted directly to NMFS (see 

ADDRESSES) by the end of the comment 

period (see DATES). 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: September 24, 2024. 

Karen H. Abrams, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22248 Filed 9–27–24; 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; Conflict of Interest 

Disclosure for Non-Federal 

Government Individuals Who Are 

Candidates To Conduct Peer Reviews 

Required by the OMB Peer Review 

Bulletin 

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 July 26, 

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: Conflict of Interest Disclosure 

for Non-Federal Government 

Individuals Who are Candidates to 

Conduct Peer Reviews Required by the 

OMB Peer Review Bulletin. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0567. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

[extension of a current information 

collection]. 

Number of Respondents: 321. 

Average Hours per Response: 30 

minutes each: Conflict of Interest 

Disclosure For General Scientific and 

Technical Studies and Assistance; and 

Conflict of Interest Disclosure For 

Studies Related to Government 

Regulation. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 161. 

Needs and Uses: This request is for 

extension of a currently approved 

collection. 

The Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) issued government-wide 

guidance to enhance the practice of peer 

review of government science 

documents. OMB’s Final Information 

Quality Bulletin for Peer Review (‘‘Peer 

Review Bulletin’’ or PRB) (available at 

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ 

omb/memoranda_fy2005_m05-03/) 

establishes minimum peer review 

standards for influential scientific 

information that Federal agencies intend 

to disseminate. 

The Peer Review Bulletin also directs 

Federal agencies to adopt or adapt the 

National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 

policy for evaluating conflicts of interest 

when selecting peer reviewers who are 

not Federal government employees 

(federal employees are subject to 

Federal ethics requirements). For peer 

review purposes, the term ‘‘conflicts of 

interest’’ means any financial or other 

interest which conflicts with the service 

of the individual because it could: (1) 

significantly impair the individual’s 

objectivity; or (2) create an unfair 

competitive advantage for any person or 

organization. NOAA has adapted the 

NAS policy and developed two 

confidential conflict disclosure forms 

which the agency will use to examine 

prospective reviewers’ potential 

financial conflicts and other interests 

that could impair objectivity or create 

an unfair advantage. One form is for 

peer reviewers of studies related to 

government regulation and the other 

form is for all other influential scientific 

information subject to the Peer Review 

Bulletin. In addition, the latter form has 

been adapted by NOAA’s Office of 

Oceanic and Atmospheric Research for 

potential reviewers of scientific 

laboratories. 

The forms include questions about 

employment as well as investment and 

property interests and research funding. 

Both forms also require the submission 

of curriculum vitae. NOAA is seeking to 

collect this information from potential 

peer reviewers who are not government 

employees when conducting a peer 

review pursuant to the PRB. The 

information collected in the conflict of 

interest disclosure is essential to 

NOAA’s compliance with the OMB 

PRB, and helps to ensure that 

government studies are reviewed by 

independent, impartial peer reviewers. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view the 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function and 

entering either the title of the collection 

or the OMB Control Number 0648–0567. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office 

of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, 

Commerce Department. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22366 Filed 9–27–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–12–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; Submission of Conservation 

Efforts To Make Listings Unnecessary 

Under the Endangered Species Act 

AGENCY: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection, 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), invites 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. The purpose of this 

notice is to allow for 60 days of public 

comment preceding submission of a 

request for extension of a currently 

approved information collection to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). 

DATES: To ensure consideration, 

comments regarding this proposed 

extension of an information collection 

must be received on or before November 

29, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments to 

Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, 

at Adrienne.thomas@noaa.gov. Please 

reference OMB Control Number 0648– 


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