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(solar, wind, geothermal), biofuels, fuel 

cell power, smart grid technologies, and 

energy efficiency solutions, as well as 

U.S.-based services critical to the 

deployment of clean energy supplies. 

U.S. clean energy exporters interested in 

registering to be part of the pilot phase 

of the interactive directory and 

providing information on their 

company’s solutions to be included in 

the app are requested to send an email 

to reee@trade.gov by no later than 

February 20, 2015. 

Who will use the app? 

Target users include Foreign Service 

Officers and Foreign Commercial 

Service Officers and their energy sector 

stakeholders in international markets. 

The app will enable users to easily 

demonstrate U.S. clean energy and 

energy efficiency solutions available in 

foreign markets and provide a tool to 

facilitate commercial partnerships that 

drive the deployment of U.S. 

technologies and services globally. 

Through the app, a global audience, as 

well as the American public, will be 

invited to learn more about 

environmental diplomacy efforts 

overseas, and the innovative U.S. 

companies powering them. 

Disclaimer 

The information submitted to the 

directory and displayed on the app is 

intended to inform users about U.S. 

clean energy and energy efficiency 

solutions. All U.S.-based businesses in 

these industries that meet the criteria 

requested in the online form will be 

eligible for the directory and app. The 

Interagency Team will perform due 

diligence on submissions to the 

Directory and expects that submitting 

parties will perform their own due 

diligence, investigation, and background 

research before entering into a 

commercial relationship with any listed 

business or business contact facilitated 

through the product. A listing in the 

directory does not constitute 

endorsement of the business or its 

products, services or technology by the 

Interagency Team. The Interagency 

Team assumes no responsibility or 

liability for the actions users may take 

based on the information provided and 

reserves the right not to list any 

particular business. 

ADDRESSES: To provide information for 

use in the app, send an email to reee@

trade.gov by no later than February 20, 

2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Helaina Matza, Office of Innovation and 

Eco-Diplomacy, United States 

Department of State; 202.647.0716; 

sustainability@state.gov; or Andrew 

Bennett, Office of Energy and 

Environmental Industries, United States 

Department of Commerce; 202–482– 

5235; reee@trade.gov. 

Edward A. O’Malley, 

Director, Office of Energy and Environmental 

Industries. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Genome in a Bottle Consortium— 

Progress and Planning Workshop 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

& Technology (NIST), Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public workshop. 

SUMMARY: NIST announces the Genome 

in a Bottle Consortium meeting to be 

held on Thursday and Friday, January 

29 and 30, 2015. The Genome in a Bottle 

Consortium is developing the reference 

materials, reference methods, and 

reference data needed to assess 

confidence in human whole genome 

variant calls. A principal motivation for 

this consortium is to enable 

performance assessment of sequencing 

and science-based regulatory oversight 

of clinical sequencing. The purpose of 

this meeting is to update participants 

about progress of the consortium work, 

continue to get broad input from 

individual stakeholders to update or 

refine the consortium work plan, 

continue to broadly solicit consortium 

membership from interested 

stakeholders, and invite members to 

participate in work plan 

implementation. Topics of discussion at 

this meeting will include release of the 

pilot candidate NIST Reference 

Material, short and long read data from 

the next sets of NIST Reference 

Materials, structural variants, and 

potential future Reference Materials. 

DATES: The Genome in a Bottle 

Consortium meeting will be held on 

Thursday, January 29, 2015 from 9:00 

a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time and 

Friday, January 30, 2015 from 9:00 a.m. 

to 12:45 p.m. Pacific Time. Attendees 

must register by 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time 

on Thursday, January 22, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

the Fisher Conference Center inside the 

Arrillaga Alumni Center at Stanford 

University, 326 Galvez Street, Stanford, 

CA 94305–6105. Please note admittance 

instructions under the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information contact Justin Zook 

by email at jzook@nist.gov or by phone 

at (301) 975–4133 or Marc Salit by email 

at salit@nist.gov or by phone at (650) 

350–2338. To register, go to: http://

app.certain.com/profile/form/

index.cfm?PKformID=0x19409085b04. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Clinical 

application of ultra high throughput 

sequencing (UHTS) for hereditary 

genetic diseases and oncology is rapidly 

growing. At present, there are no widely 

accepted genomic standards or 

quantitative performance metrics for 

confidence in variant calling. These 

standards and quantitative performance 

metrics are needed to achieve the 

confidence in measurement results 

expected for sound, reproducible 

research and regulated applications in 

the clinic. On April 13, 2012, NIST 

convened the workshop ‘‘Genome in a 

Bottle’’ to initiate a consortium to 

develop the reference materials, 

reference methods, and reference data 

needed to assess confidence in human 

whole genome variant calls 

(www.genomeinabottle.org). On August 

16–17, 2012, NIST hosted the first large 

public meeting of the Genome in a 

Bottle Consortium, with about 100 

participants from government, 

academic, and industry. This meeting 

was announced in the Federal Register 

(77 FR 43237) on July 24, 2012. A 

principal motivation for this consortium 

is to enable science-based regulatory 

oversight of clinical sequencing. 

At the August 2012 meeting, the 

consortium established work plans for 

four technical working groups with the 

following responsibilities: 

(1) Reference Material (RM) Selection 

and Design: Select appropriate sources 

for whole genome RMs and identify or 

design synthetic DNA constructs that 

could be spiked-in to samples for 

measurement assurance. 

(2) Measurements for Reference 

Material Characterization: Design and 

carry out experiments to characterize 

the RMs using multiple sequencing 

methods, other methods, and validation 

of selected variants using orthogonal 

technologies. 

(3) Bioinformatics, Data Integration, 

and Data Representation: Develop 

methods to analyze and integrate the 

data for each RM, as well as select 

appropriate formats to represent the 

data. 

(4) Performance Metrics and Figures 

of Merit: Develop useful performance 

metrics and figures of merit that can be 

obtained through measurement of the 

RMs. 


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The products of these technical 

working groups will be a set of wellcharacterized whole genome and 

synthetic DNA RMs along with the 

methods (documentary standards) and 

reference data necessary for use of the 

RMs. These products will be designed to 

help enable translation of whole genome 

sequencing to regulated clinical 

applications. The consortium meets in 

workshops two times per year, in 

January at Stanford University in Palo 

Alto, CA, and in August at the National 

Institute of Standards and Technology 

in Gaithersburg, MD. At these 

workshops, including the last meetings 

at Stanford in January 2014 and at NIST 

in August 2014, participants in the 

consortium have discussed progress 

developing well-characterized genomes 

for NIST Reference Materials and 

planned future experiments and 

analysis of these genomes (see https://

federalregister.gov/a/2012-18064, 

https://federalregister.gov/a/2013- 

18934, and https://federalregister.gov/a/ 

2014-18841 for past workshops at 

NIST). The August 2014 meeting, which 

included meetings of each of the four 

working groups, was announced in the 

Federal Register (79 FR 46774) on 

August 11, 2014, and the meeting is 

summarized at https://

sites.stanford.edu/abms/content/

workshop-summary-and-slides-august2014. 

There is no cost for participating in 

the consortium. No proprietary 

information will be shared as part of the 

consortium, and all research results will 

be in the public domain. 

All attendees are required to preregister. Anyone wishing to attend this 

meeting must pre-register at http://

app.certain.com/profile/form/

index.cfm?PKformID=0x19409085b04 

by 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, 

January 22, 2015, in order to attend. 

Dated: January 14, 2015. 

Richard Cavanagh, 

Acting Associate Director of Laboratory 

Programs. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XD670 

Atlantic Highly Migratory Species; 

Atlantic Shark Management Measures; 

2015 Research Fishery 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: On October 31, 2014, NMFS 

published a notice inviting qualified 

commercial shark permit holders to 

submit applications to participate in the 

2015 shark research fishery. The shark 

research fishery allows for the collection 

of fishery-dependent data for future 

stock assessments and cooperative 

research with commercial fishermen to 

meet the shark research objectives of the 

Agency. Every year, the permit terms 

and permitted activities (e.g., number of 

hooks and retention limits) specifically 

authorized for selected participants in 

the shark research fishery are designated 

depending on the scientific and research 

needs of the Agency, as well as the 

number of NMFS-approved observers 

available. In order to inform selected 

participants of this year’s specific 

permit requirements and ensure all 

terms and conditions of the permit are 

met, NMFS is holding a mandatory 

permit holder meeting (via conference 

call) for selected participants. The date 

and time of that meeting is announced 

in this notice. 

DATES: A conference call will be held on 

January 29, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: A conference call will be 

conducted. See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for information on how to 

access the conference call. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karyl Brewster-Geisz or Delisse Ortiz at 

(301) 427–8503. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Atlantic shark fisheries are managed 

under the authority of the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and 

Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens 

Act). The 2006 Consolidated Highly 

Migratory species (HMS) Fishery 

Management Plan (FMP) is 

implemented by regulations at 50 CFR 

part 635. 

The final rule for Amendment 2 to the 

2006 Consolidated HMS FMP (73 FR 

35778, June 24, 2008, corrected at 73 FR 

40658, July 15, 2008) established, 

among other things, a shark research 

fishery to maintain time-series data for 

stock assessments and to meet NMFS’ 

research objectives. The shark research 

fishery gathers important scientific data 

and allows selected commercial 

fishermen the opportunity to earn more 

revenue from selling the sharks caught, 

including sandbar sharks. Only the 

commercial shark fishermen selected to 

participate in the shark research fishery 

are authorized to land/harvest sandbar 

sharks subject to the sandbar quota 

available each year. The 2015 sandbar 

shark quota is 116.6 mt dw per year. 

The selected shark research fishery 

participants also have access to the 

research large coastal shark, small 

coastal shark, and pelagic shark quotas 

subject to retention limits and quotas 

per §§ 635.24 and 635.27, respectively. 

On October 31, 2014 (79 FR 64750), 

NMFS published a notice inviting 

qualified commercial shark directed and 

incidental permit holders to submit an 

application to participate in the 2015 

shark research fishery. NMFS received 7 

applications, of which 6 applicants were 

determined to meet all the 

qualifications. NMFS selected all 6 

qualified participants after considering 

how to meet research objectives in 

particular regions. NMFS expects to 

invite qualified commercial shark 

permit holders to submit an application 

for the 2016 shark research fishery later 

in 2015. 

As with past years, the 2015 permit 

terms and permitted activities (e.g., 

number of hooks and retention limits) 

specifically authorized for selected 

participants in the shark research 

fishery were designated depending on 

the scientific and research needs of the 

Agency, as well as the number of 

NMFS-approved observers available. In 

order to inform selected participants of 

this year’s specific permit requirements 

and ensure all terms and conditions of 

the permit are met, per the requirements 

of § 635.32 (f)(4), NMFS is holding a 

mandatory permit holder meeting via 

conference call. 

Conference Call Date, Time, and Dial-In 

Number 

The conference call will be held on 

January 29, 2015, from 2 to 4 p.m. (EST). 

Participants and interested parties 

should call 1–888–810–4795 and use 

the passcode 8297434. Selected 

participants who do not attend will not 

be allowed to participate in the shark 

research fishery. While the conference 

call is mandatory for selected 

participants, other interested parties 

may call in and listen to the discussion. 

Selected participants are encouraged 

to invite their captain, crew, or anyone 

else who may assist them in meeting the 

terms and conditions of the shark 

research fishery permit. 

Dated: January 15, 2015. 

Emily H. Menashes, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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