Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 196 / Wednesday, October 9, 2024 / Notices 81891 

Connection Information 

You can attend the meeting online 

using a computer, tablet, or smart 

phone; or by phone only. Connection 

information will be posted online at: 

https://meetings.npfmc.org/Meeting/ 

Details/3061. 

Public Comment 

Public comment letters will be 

accepted and should be submitted 

electronically to https://

meetings.npfmc.org/Meeting/Details/ 

3061. 

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

Dated: October 3, 2024. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2024–23281 Filed 10–8–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XE343] 

South Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meetings 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The South Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council (Council) will 

hold a meeting of the Habitat and 

Ecosystem Advisory Panel (AP). 

DATES: The Habitat and Ecosystem AP 

meeting will be held October 28, 2024, 

from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m.; October 29, 

2024, from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.; 

and October 30, 2024, from 8:30 a.m. 

until 4:30 p.m., EDT. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Hilton Garden Inn Charleston 

Airport & Convention Center, 5625 

International Blvd., North Charleston, 

SC 29418; telephone: (843) 308–9330. 

Group Name: SAFMC Habitat and 

Ecosystem AP. 

Council address: South Atlantic 

Fishery Management Council, 4055 

Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, N 

Charleston, SC 29405. 

The meeting will also be available via 

webinar. Registration is required. 

Webinar registration, an online public 

comment form, and briefing book 

materials will be available two weeks 

prior to the meeting at: https://

safmc.net/advisory-panel-meetings/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kathleen Howington, Habitat and 

Ecosystem Scientist, 

Kathleen.howington@safmc.net; phone: 

(843) 725–7580. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Habitat and Ecosystem AP will finalize 

the Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) 5-Year 

Review, finalize revisions to the 

Council’s Energy Exploration, 

Development, Transportation and 

Hydropower Re-Licensing Policy, and 

begin the revisions to the Alterations to 

Riverine, Estuarine and Nearshore 

Flows Policy. The AP will also review 

the extent of tide gate, living shoreline, 

and beneficial use projects and their 

impacts on habitat, review the Mid 

Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s 

Fishing Effects Database and App, 

receive an update on the Army Corps of 

Engineers project for reefs, and receive 

a presentation on offshore wind 

infrastructure coverage and artificial 

reef footprints. Finally, the AP will 

review the progress on the Habitat 

section of the Council’s website, the 

tools and partner evaluation detailed in 

the Habitat Blueprint, communication 

and outreach efforts, the Habitat and 

Ecosystem AP workplan, and the next 

EFH 5-year review. The AP will provide 

recommendations to the Council on 

other topics as needed. 

Special Accommodations 

These meetings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for auxiliary aid should be 

directed to the Council office (see 

ADDRESSES) 5 days prior to the meeting. 

Note: The times and sequence specified in 

this agenda are subject to change. 

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

Dated: October 3, 2024. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2024–23279 Filed 10–8–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Updated Implementation Timeline for 

the Modernized National Spatial 

Reference System (NSRS) 

AGENCY: National Geodetic Survey 

(NGS), National Ocean Service, National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA), Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of upcoming changes. 

SUMMARY: The National Geodetic Survey 

(NGS) is in the process of modernizing 

the National Spatial Reference System 

(NSRS). NGS plans to replace all three 

North American Datum of 1983 (NAD 

83) frames and all vertical datums of the 

NSRS, including the North American 

Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88), with 

four new terrestrial reference frames and 

one new geopotential datum to which 

all geodetic coordinates and derived 

coordinates within the NSRS will be 

referenced. NGS is releasing key details 

of the transition to the new datums in 

the modernized NSRS to help users and 

interested parties prepare for the coming 

change. 

DATES: The modernization of the NSRS 

is scheduled to occur in 2025 or 2026. 

NGS intends to release associated tools 

and services within five years of the 

modernization. 

ADDRESSES: National Geodetic Survey, 

1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, 

MD 20910. geodesy.noaa.gov; 

beta.ngs.noaa.gov; https://

geodesy.noaa.gov/datums/newdatums/ 

index.shtml. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Dru Smith, NSRS Modernization 

Manager, NOAA Office of National 

Geodetic Survey, 1315 East-West 

Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, or 

dru.smith@noaa.gov, (240) 533–9654. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

modernization of the NSRS is designed 

to improve the accuracy of Federal 

geodetic control. For over 200 years, 

NGS and its predecessor agencies 

(including the Survey of the Coast, 

which was founded in 1807), have been 

the stewards of the NSRS—the geodetic 

infrastructure of the United States. NGS 

strives to modernize the NSRS as 

technology and scientific knowledge 

advance. In 2020, NGS issued a Federal 

Register Notice (FRN) announcing that 

the completion and rollout of the NSRS 

modernization was expected to occur 

between 2022 and 2025 (85 FR 44864). 

This notice announces the updated 

projected timeline for the latest 

modernization effort. 

The last significant modernization of 

the NSRS resulted in the creation of the 

original North American Datum of 1983 

(54 FR 25318) and the North American 

Vertical Datum of 1988 (58 FR 34245). 

These datums were defined before the 

widespread use of the Global 

Positioning System (GPS) and Global 

Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and 

were determined using classical (i.e., 

terrestrial, line-of-sight) geodetic 

measurement techniques. Over the 

years, minor corrections to and 

expansion of the NSRS occurred; 

however, no significant update was 

possible until now. Through modern 


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