Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 55 / Monday, March 23, 2015 / Notices 15189 

Dated: March 17, 2015. 

Audrey Rowe, 

Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–30–P 

ARCHITECTURAL AND 

TRANSPORTATION BARRIERS 

COMPLIANCE BOARD 

[Docket No. ATBCB–2013–0001] 

RIN 3014–AA42 

Rail Vehicles Access Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: Architectural and 

Transportation Barriers Compliance 

Board. 

ACTION: Notice of charter renewal. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Rail Vehicles Access Advisory 

Committee’s (RVAAC) charter is being 

renewed. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

Beatty, Designated Federal Officer at 

(202) 272–0012 (Voice); (202) 272–0072 

(TTY). Electronic mail address: rvaac@

access-board.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to Section 14(a)(2)(A) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463), and in accordance with Title 41 of 

the Code of Federal Regulations, section 

102–3.65(a), and following consultation 

with the Committee Management 

Secretariat, General Services 

Administration, the RVAAC charter is 

renewed. The Committee will provide 

advice to the Access Board on revising 

and updating our accessibility 

guidelines issued pursuant to the 

Americans with Disabilities Act for 

transportation vehicles that operate on 

fixed guideway systems (e.g., rapid rail, 

light rail, commuter rail, intercity rail, 

and high speed rail). Additionally, the 

renewal of the RVAAC has been 

determined to be essential to the work 

of the Access Board and to be in the 

public interest in connection with the 

performance of duties required by law. 

The Committee will continue to operate 

in accordance with the provisions of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act and 

the rules and regulations that 

implement that Act. 

David M. Capozzi, 

Executive Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council (MAFMC); Fisheries of the 

Northeastern United States; Scoping 

Process 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public scoping 

meetings. 

SUMMARY: The Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council will hold six 

scoping hearings in April 2015 for an 

Amendment to the Fishery Management 

Plan (FMP) for Atlantic Mackerel, 

Squid, and Butterfish (MSB). The 

current focus of the amendment is to 

consider alternatives to reduce the 

capacities of the longfin squid and Illex 

squid fleets as defined by vessels with 

limited access permits. At the scoping 

hearings the Council will also take any 

general comments on MSB fishery 

management, which could inform future 

Council actions besides this 

Amendment. There will also be a 

separate written comment period for 

Amendment scoping, which will be 

described in an upcoming Federal 

Register announcement as a ‘‘Notice of 

Intent (NOI)’’ to potentially develop an 

EIS that accompanies the Amendment. 

That NOI will also contain information 

regarding these scoping hearings, but to 

provide the public with sufficient 

advance notice of the hearings, this 

notice is being published now since the 

NOI will likely publish shortly before 

the scoping hearings. 

DATES: The meetings will be held over 

several weeks between April 6, 2015 

and April 21, 2015. See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for specific dates and 

times. 

ADDRESSES: See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for specific locations of the 

hearings. 

Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council, 800 N. State St., 

Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; telephone: 

(302) 674–2331. 

Comments: Comments will be taken at 

all scoping hearings. A separate Federal 

Register announcement will be 

published soon that provides additional 

information on how to make written 

comments. 

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 locations, webinar access, and 

background materials. A scoping 

document will be posted to the Council 

Web site no later than March 24, 2015. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: There will 

be six scoping meetings (each lasting 

approximately 1–2 hours depending on 

attendance) with the following dates/

times/locations: 

1. Monday, April 6, 2015, 4 p.m., 

Superior Trawl, 55 State Street, 

Narragansett, RI 02882; telephone: (401) 

782–1171. 

2. Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 5 p.m., 

Montauk Library, 871 Montauk 

Highway, Montauk, NY 11954; 

telephone: (631) 668–3377. 

3. Wednesday, April 8, 2015, 5 p.m., 

Fairfield Inn, 185 MacArthur Dr., New 

Bedford, MA 02740; telephone: (774) 

634–2000. 

4. Monday, April 13, 2015, 6 p.m., 

Congress Hall Hotel. 251 Beach Ave, 

Cape May, NJ 08204, telephone: (888) 

944–1816. 

5. Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 5 p.m., 

Ocean Place Resort. 1 Ocean Blvd., Long 

Branch, NJ, 07740; telephone: 732–571– 

4000. 

6. Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 6 p.m., 

This April 21, 2015 meeting will be 

conducted via webinar accessible via 

the internet from the Council’s Web site, 

www.mafmc.org. The Virginia Marine 

Resources Commission will also provide 

in-person access to the webinar at its 

office at: 2600 Washington Avenue, 4th 

Floor, Newport News, VA 23607; 

telephone: (757) 247–2200. Members of 

the public may also attend in-person at 

the Council office address (see 

ADDRESSES) for this webinar meeting, if 

they contact the Council by April 19, 

2015. Please contact Jason Didden by 

April 19, 2015 at jdidden@mafmc.org or 

(302) 526–5254 if you would like to test/ 

confirm that your computer is set up to 

access the webinar. 

In the Council’s 2015 Implementation 

Plan (available at http://www.mafmc.

org/strategic-plan/), the Council decided 

to initiate an action on a ‘‘Squid 

Capacity Amendment.’’ There is 

considerable latent capacity in both the 

longfin squid and Illex squid fisheries— 

a small portion of vessels with limited 

access squid permits account for most 

landings in most years. The Council is 

concerned that activation of this latent 

capacity could cause problems in the 

fishery such as racing to fish and 

increased incidental catch of non-target 

species. Accordingly, the Amendment is 

likely to consider a variety of 

approaches for reducing capacity in the 

squid fisheries. Such approaches could 

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include, but would not be limited to, a 

requalification of limited access 

permits, a tiered limited access system, 

and/or a limited access privilege 

program (LAPP), which is more 

commonly referred to as an ‘‘individual 

quota’’ or ‘‘catch share system.’’ The 

Council has recently updated control 

dates for both squid fisheries—May 16, 

2013 for longfin squid (http://www.

greateratlantic.fisheries.noaa.gov/nr/

2013/May/13smblongfinbutterfish

controldatephl.pdf) and August 2, 2013 

for Illex squid (http://www.greater

atlantic.fisheries.noaa.gov/nr/2013/

August/13smbillexcontroldatephl.pdf). 

The Council may (or may not) use the 

current or previous control dates as 

reference points as it considers whether, 

and/or how, to further limit the number 

of participants in the squid fisheries (see 

preceding links for additional details on 

the control dates). 

The Council will first gather 

information during the scoping period. 

This is the first and best opportunity for 

members of the public to raise concerns 

related to the scope of issues that will 

be considered in the Amendment. The 

Council needs your input both to 

identify management issues and 

develop effective alternatives. Your 

comments early in the amendment 

development process will help us 

address issues of public concern in a 

thorough and appropriate manner. 

Comment topics could include the 

scope of issues in the amendment, 

concerns and potential alternatives 

related to capacity in the squid fisheries, 

and the appropriate level of 

environmental analysis. If the Council 

decides to move forward with the 

Amendment, the Council will develop a 

range of management alternatives to be 

considered and prepare a draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 

and/or other appropriate environmental 

analyses. These analyses will consider 

the impacts of the management 

alternatives being considered, as 

required by the National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA). Following a review 

of any comments on the draft analyses, 

the Council will then choose preferred 

management measures for submission 

with a Final EIS or Environmental 

Assessment to the Secretary of 

Commerce for publishing of a proposed 

and then final rule, both of which have 

additional comment periods. While the 

Council is conducting these scoping 

hearings, the Council will also accept 

general comments on the MSB fisheries. 

These general comments could inform 

Council decision making for upcoming 

annual specifications or other actions. 

Special Accommodations 

These meetings are 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: March 17, 2015. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XD837 

Fisheries of the South Atlantic; South 

Atlantic Fishery Management Council; 

Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Design workshop for monitoring 

deep water snapper-grouper species in 

the South Atlantic. 

SUMMARY: The South Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council (SAFMC) and 

Southeast Fisheries Science Center 

(SEFSC) will host a workshop where 

fishermen and scientists will discuss 

approaches for monitoring the deep 

water stocks component of the South 

Atlantic Snapper-Grouper complex. See 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

DATES: The workshop will be held from 

8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday, April 7, 

2015; 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., 

Wednesday, April 8, 2015; and 8:30 a.m. 

to 3 p.m., Thursday, April 9, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: 

Meeting address: The Workshop will 

be held at SEFSC Laboratory in Beaufort 

NC, located at 101 Piver’s Island Road, 

Beaufort, NC 28516. 

Council address: South Atlantic 

Fishery Management Council, 4055 

Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, N. 

Charleston, SC 29405. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kim 

Iverson, Public Information Officer, 

4055 Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, North 

Charleston, SC 29405; telephone: (843) 

571–4366 or toll free: (866) SAFMC–10; 

fax: (843) 769–4520; email: 

kim.iverson@safmc.net. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The goal 

of the Workshop is to identify optimal 

approaches and associated costs for 

surveying the South Atlantic deep-water 

species complex. Survey goals are 

expected to include providing 

abundance information and biological 

samples to support stock assessments of 

deep water species. 

Workshop Agenda, Tuesday, April 7– 

Thursday, April 9, 2015 

1. Identify focal species 

2. Provide species details 

3. Recommend survey gears 

4. Recommend gear configurations 

5. Recommend survey data to collect 

6. Recommend a sampling universe 

7. Provide survey design guidance 

8. Compare and contrast survey 

platforms, including cooperative 

research opportunities 

9. Provide cost estimates 

10. Identify long-term and short-term 

needs and cooperative research 

opportunities 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is accessible to people 

with disabilities. Requests for auxiliary 

aids should be directed to the SAFMC 

office (see ADDRESSES) at least 5 

business 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: March 17, 2015. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XD826 

Marine Mammals; File No. 17967 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; receipt of application. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Minnesota Zoological Gardens, 

13000 Zoo Boulevard, Apple Valley, 

MN 55124, has applied in due form for 

a permit to conduct research on and 

enhancement of Hawaiian monk seals 

(Neomonachus schauinslandi) in 

captivity. 

DATES: Written, telefaxed, or email 

comments must be received on or before 

April 22, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: The application and related 

documents are available for review by 

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