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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Visit 

the NOAA HSRP Web site at http://

nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/ocs/hsrp/

hsrp.htm, or contact Lynne MersfelderLewis, HSRP Coordinator, National 

Ocean Service (NOS), Office of Coast 

Survey, NOAA (N/CS), 1315 East West 

Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland 

20910; Telephone: 301–713–2702 ext. 

199; Fax: 301–713–4019; Email: 

lynne.mersfelder@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting will be open to the public and 

public comment periods (on-site) will 

be scheduled at various times 

throughout the meeting. These comment 

periods will be included in the final 

agenda published before April 1, 2015, 

and posted on the HSRP Web site listed 

above. Each individual or group making 

verbal comments will be limited to a 

total time of five (5) minutes. Comments 

will be recorded. Written comments 

should be submitted in advance to 

Lynne.Mersfelder@noaa.gov by April 1, 

2015. Written comments received after 

April 1, 2015, will be distributed to the 

HSRP, but may not be reviewed until 

the meeting. Public seating will be 

available on a first-come, first-served 

basis. Times and agenda topics are 

subject to change. Refer to the HSRP 

Web site listed below for exact location 

and the updated meeting agenda: 

http://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/ocs/

hsrp/hsrp.htm. 

Matters To Be Considered: Regional 

and local stakeholders will present to 

the HSRP on issues relevant to NOAA’s 

hydrographic services including: (1) The 

management, maintenance, 

interpretation, certification, and 

dissemination of bathymetric, 

hydrographic, shoreline, geodetic, 

geospatial, geomagnetic, and tide, water 

level, and current information, 

including the production of nautical 

charts, nautical information databases, 

and other products derived from 

hydrographic data; (2) the development 

of nautical information systems; and (3) 

related activities. 

Broad topic areas to be discussed will 

focus on the use and application of 

NOAA’s navigation, observations and 

positioning data, products, and services 

(coastal intelligence) to support: (1) The 

Long Beach—Los Angeles and 

California marine transportation system; 

(2) regional efforts to improve shipping 

efficiencies; (3) the NOAA Precision 

Navigation project to improve 

navigation decision support; (4) 

geospatial data and tools to support 

local and regional coastal planning and 

development; (5) other topics submitted 

by stakeholders. 

The HSRP will hold focused breakout 

sessions to discuss challenges and 

issues on Thursday, April 9, and Friday, 

April 10, 2015, on priority topics 

including: (1) Coastal Intelligence; (2) 

Coastal Resilience; and (3) Emerging 

Arctic navigation issues. The public is 

invited to participate and sign up for 

these sessions by contacting the HSRP 

Coordinator, Lynne Mersfelder-Lewis at 

email: Lynne.Mersfelder@noaa.gov, or 

NOAA’s California Navigation Manager, 

Jeffrey Ferguson at email: 

Jeffrey.Ferguson@noaa.gov. 

The breakout sessions provide the 

public with the opportunity to interact 

with HSRP members on concerns or 

issues with NOAA’s navigation, 

observations, and positioning data, 

products, and services, and to present 

options or recommendations for 

improvement. The HSRP will consider 

input from these breakout sessions, and 

from the other meeting presentations, to 

develop its recommendations to the 

NOAA Under Secretary for improving 

NOAA’s suite of navigation, observation 

and positioning data, products, and 

services. Other matters to be discussed 

include activities relating to 

hydrography, geodesy, coastal mapping, 

and tides, currents and water levels, as 

well as administrative matters 

pertaining to the HSRP. 

The HSRP meeting will provide 

GoToWebinar services and 

teleconference capability for public 

access to listen to and observe the 

meeting presentations. Members of the 

public who wish to participate virtually 

must register in advance by April 1, 

2015. Webinar service is available 

during the main sessions and 

teleconference capability is available 

during the break-out sessions. The times 

are subject to change and participants 

should refer to the HSRP Web site for 

the most up to date information. To 

register for virtual access or submit 

public comments before the virtual 

sessions begin, please submit requests 

by no later than April 1, 2015, to Lynne 

Mersfelder-Lewis at email: 

Lynne.Mersfelder@noaa.gov. 

Dated: February 18, 2015. 

Gerd F. Glang, 

Director, Office of Coast Survey, National 

Ocean Service, National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–JE–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XD764 

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council (MAFMC); Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Scientific and Statistical 

Committee (SSC) of the Mid-Atlantic 

Fishery Management Council (Council) 

will hold a meeting. 

DATES: The SSC meeting will be held on 

Wednesday and Thursday, March 18– 

19, 2015. The meeting will begin at 9 

a.m. on March 18 and conclude by 2 

p.m. on March 19, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

Pier V, 711 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, 

MD 21202; telephone: (410) 539–2000. 

Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council, 800 N. State 

Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; 

telephone: (302) 674–2331. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher M. Moore Ph.D., Executive 

Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council, 800 N. State 

Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; 

telephone: (302) 526–5255. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Agenda 

items to be discussed at the SSC 

meeting include: Review fishery 

performance report and multi-year ABC 

specifications for golden tilefish; 

discuss MAFMC risk policy and stock 

assessment level assignments; review 

Climate and Fisheries White Paper; 

update on research prioritization and 

five-year research plan development; 

review data poor methods applied to 

black sea bass for potential changes to 

current and future ABC specification; 

discuss outcomes from the Fifth 

National SSC Workshop; receive update 

on Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries 

Management activities and building 

MSE capacity on Greater Atlantic 

Region; discuss SSC schedule and lead 

assignments for 2015. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during the meeting. Action will 

be restricted to those 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 


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notified of the Council’s intent to take 

final action to address the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

The meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to M. 

Jan Saunders at the Mid-Atlantic 

Council Office, (302) 526–5251, at least 

5 days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: February 25, 2015. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2015–04217 Filed 2–27–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XD795 

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council (MAFMC); Public Meetings 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council’s (Council) Highly 

Migratory Species (HMS) Committee 

will hold a public meeting. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

Tuesday, March 17, 2015, at 10 a.m. For 

agenda details, see SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held 

via internet webinar. A webinar link 

will be available on the Council’s Web 

page, www.mafmc.org. Interested parties 

may also come to the Council address 

below to access the webinar if they 

contact the Council at least 24 hours 

before the meeting. 

Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council, 800 N. State St., 

Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; telephone: 

(302) 674–2331. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D. Executive 

Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council; telephone: (302) 

526–5255. The Council’s Web site, 

www.mafmc.org also has details on the 

meeting location, proposed agenda, 

webinar access, and briefing materials. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

following items are on the agenda, 

though agenda items may be addressed 

out of order (changes will be noted on 

the Council’s Web site when possible). 

Tuesday, March 17, 2015, 10 a.m. 

NMFS HMS staff will make a 

presentation regarding Amendment 6 to 

the 2006 Consolidated HMS Fishery 

Management Plan for Management of 

Atlantic Sharks, which published in the 

Federal Register on January 20, 2015 

(80 FR 2648) and has a comment due 

date of April 3, 2015 

(www.regulations.gov/

#!docketDetail;D=NOAA-NMFS-2010- 

0188). The Council’s HMS Committee 

will then develop comments on the 

Amendment and consider if any 

additional actions are appropriate. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, in 

accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during these meetings. Actions 

will be restricted to those issues 

specifically identified 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 action to address the 

emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

The meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aid should be directed to M. 

Jan Saunders, (302) 526–5251, at least 5 

days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: February 24, 2015. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2015–04208 Filed 2–27–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XD797 

Marine Mammals; File No. 19293 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; receipt of application. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

Dolphin World Productions Ltd, 59 

Cotham Hill, Bristol, BS6 6JR, United 

Kingdom, has applied in due form for a 

permit to conduct commercial or 

educational photography on bottlenose 

dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). 

DATES: Written, telefaxed, or email 

comments must be received on or before 

April 1, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: The application and related 

documents are available for review by 

selecting ‘‘Records Open for Public 

Comment’’ from the ‘‘Features’’ box on 

the Applications and Permits for 

Protected Species (APPS) home page, 

https://apps.nmfs.noaa.gov, and then 

selecting File No. 19293 from the list of 

available applications. 

These documents are also available 

upon written request or by appointment 

in the Permits and Conservation 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 

13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone 

(301) 427–8401; fax (301) 713–0376. 

Written comments on this application 

should be submitted to the Chief, 

Permits and Conservation Division, at 

the address listed above. Comments may 

also be submitted by facsimile to (301) 

713–0376, or by email to 

NMFS.Pr1Comments@noaa.gov. Please 

include the File No. 19293 in the subject 

line of the email comment. 

Those individuals requesting a public 

hearing should submit a written request 

to the Chief, Permits and Conservation 

Division at the address listed above. The 

request should set forth the specific 

reasons why a hearing on this 

application would be appropriate. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Skidmore or Amy Hapeman, 

(301) 427–8401. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

subject permit is requested under the 

authority of the Marine Mammal 

Protection Act of 1972, as amended 

(MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the 

regulations governing the taking and 

importing of marine mammals (50 CFR 

part 216). 

The applicant proposes to film and 

photograph the Florida Bay stock of 

bottlenose dolphins for purposes of a 

documentary film. The applicant is 

requesting up to 140 takes of these 

animals by Level B harassment via 

aircraft (helicopter) and up to 828 takes 

by Level B harassment from a small 20ft. 

vessel. Filming would take place for 

approximately 30 days between May 20, 

2015 to September 1, 2015. Obtained 

footage will be part of a documentary 

film describing the delicate balance 

needed to maintain a coral reef by 

viewing it from the perspective of a 

dolphin. 

In compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), an initial 

determination has been made that the 

activity proposed is categorically 

excluded from the requirement to 


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