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ending at 5:30 p.m. each day, or as 

necessary to complete business. The 

Panel will adjourn on Friday, July 31. 

The locations of the meetings are as 

follows: 

The STAR Panel for canary rockfish 

and darkblotched rockfish will be held 

the Hotel Deca, 4507 Brooklyn Avenue 

NE., Seattle, WA 98105; telephone: 

(206) 634–2000. 

The STAR Panel for the bocaccio and 

China rockfish stock assessments will be 

held at the NMFS, Southwest Fisheries 

Science Center, Santa Cruz Laboratory, 

110 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz, CA 

95060; telephone: (831) 420–3900. 

The STAR Panels for the black 

rockfish stock assessments and the 

widow rockfish and kelp greenling stock 

assessments will be held at the NMFS, 

Northwest Fisheries Science Center, 

Newport Research Station, 2032 SE OSU 

Drive, Building 955, Newport, OR 

97365; telephone: (541) 867–0500. 

The purpose of the STAR Panels is to 

review draft 2015 stock assessment 

documents and any other pertinent 

information for new benchmark stock 

assessments for canary rockfish, 

darkblotched rockfish, bocaccio, China 

rockfish, black rockfish, widow 

rockfish, and kelp greenling; work with 

the Stock Assessment Teams to make 

necessary revisions; and produce STAR 

Panel reports for use by the Pacific 

Council and other interested persons for 

developing management 

recommendations for fisheries in 2017 

and beyond. No management actions 

will be decided by the STAR Panels. 

The Panel’s role will be development of 

recommendations and reports for 

consideration by the Pacific Council at 

its June meeting in Spokane, WA and its 

September meeting in Sacramento, CA. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in the meeting agenda may 

come before the STAR Panels 

participants for discussion, those issues 

may not be the subject of formal STAR 

Panel action during these meetings. 

Panel 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 Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act, 

provided the public has been notified of 

the Panel participants’ intent to take 

final action to address the emergency. 

All visitors to the NMFS science 

centers should bring photo 

identification to the meeting location. 

Visitors who are foreign nationals 

(defined as a person who is not a citizen 

or national of the United States) will 

require additional security clearance to 

access the NOAA facilities. Foreign 

national visitors should contact Dr. Jim 

Hastie at (206) 860–3412 at least 2 

weeks prior to the meeting date to 

initiate the security clearance process. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to Mr. 

Kris Kleinschmidt at (503) 820–2425 at 

least 5 days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: April 8, 2015. 

William D. Chappell, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). 

Agency: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 

Title: Northeast Multispecies 

Amendment 16. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0605. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Emergency revision 

of a currently approved information 

collection. Per the Paperwork Reduction 

Act regulations, 5 CFR 1320.13, we 

believe that use of this emergency 

process is essential to the mission of the 

agency, and the agency cannot 

reasonably comply with the normal 

clearance procedures under this part 

because public harm is reasonably likely 

to result if normal clearance procedures 

are followed. 

Number of Respondents: 100. 

Average Hours per Response: The 

daily catch report is estimated to take 15 

minutes to complete. 

Burden Hours: Based on trips to 

multiple broad stock areas taken during 

the 2013 fishing year, the average trip 

length for vessels that fish in multiple 

broad stock areas on a single trip is 5 

days. If vessels take 7 trips per year, the 

burden estimate for daily trip reports is 

8 hr, 45 min. 

Needs and Uses: This is a request for 

comments on the proposed revision of 

OMB Control No. 0648–0605, the 

Information Collection for Amendment 

16 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery 

Management Plan, in conjunction with 

Final Rule 0648–BE75. The information 

collection currently approved under 

OMB Control No. 0648–0605 includes a 

number of reporting requirements 

necessary to end overfishing, rebuild 

overfished groundfish stocks, and 

mitigate the adverse economic impacts 

of increased effort controls. This 

revision proposes to modify only the 

broad stock area reporting requirements 

currently approved under the 

Information Collection for Amendment 

16. We are seeking comments on a 

provision that, if approved, would 

require vessels that declare trips into the 

Gulf of Maine Broad Stock Area and any 

other broad stock area (i.e., Georges 

Bank or Southern New England) on the 

same trip submit a daily catch report via 

vessel monitoring system (VMS). We 

have determined the daily VMS trip 

reports may be necessary to ensure 

accurate apportionment catch and help 

enforcement efforts. Vessels are 

currently required to submit trip level 

catch reports when declared into 

multiple broad stock areas, so the 

proposed change would affect only the 

frequency of submission. 

Affected Public: Businesses and other 

for-profit organizations; individuals or 

households. 

Frequency: On occasion, but daily 

submission would be required on trips 

declared into multiple broad stock 

areas. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow 

the instructions to view Department of 

Commerce collections currently under 

review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 10 days of publication of this 

notice to OIRA_Submission@

omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806. 

Dated: April 10, 2015. 

Sarah Brabson, 

NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

[Transmittal Nos. 15–05] 

36(b)(1) Arms Sales Notification 

AGENCY: Department of Defense, Defense 

Security Cooperation Agency. 

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SUMMARY: The Department of Defense is 

publishing the unclassified text of a 

section 36(b)(1) arms sales notification. 

This is published to fulfill the 

requirements of section 155 of Public 

Law 104–164 dated July 21, 1996. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

B. English, DSCA/DBO/CFM, (703) 601– 

3740. 

The following is a copy of a letter to 

the Speaker of the House of 

Representatives, Transmittals 15–05 

with attached transmittal, policy 

justification, and Sensitivity of 

Technology. 

Dated: April 9, 2015. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 


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DEFENSE SECURITY COOPERATION AGENCY 

201 12TH STREET SOUTH, STE 203 

Honorable John A. Boehner 

Speaker of the House 

U.S. House of Representatives 

Washington, DC 20515 

Dear Mr. Speaker: 

ARUNGTON, VA 2.2202-54011 

APR 06 l015 

Pursuant to the reporting requirements of Section 36(b)(l) of the Arms Export Control Act, 

as amended, we are forwarding herewith Transmittal No. 15-05, concerning the Department of 

the Navy's proposed Letter{s) of Offer and Acceptance to Pakistan for defense articles and 

services estimated to cost $952 million. After this letter is delivered to your office. we plan to 

issue a press statement to notify the public of this proposed sale. 

Enclosures: 

1. Transmittal 

2. Policy Justification 

3. Sensitivity of Technology 

Sincerely, 

~~-pt_ -(d: J. W. Rixey 

Vice Admiral, USN 

Director 

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Transmittal No. 15–05 

Notice of Proposed Issuance of Letter of 

Offer Pursuant to Section 36(b)(1) of the 

Arms Export Control Act, as Amended 

(i) Prospective Purchaser: Pakistan 

(ii) Total Estimated Value: 

Major Defense Equipment .. $645 million 

Other ................................... 307 million 

Total ................................. 952 million 

* as defined in Section 47(6) of the Arms 

Export Control Act. 

(iii) Description and Quantity or 

Quantities of Articles or Services under 

Consideration for Purchase: 15 AH–1Z 

Viper Attack Helicopters, 32 T–700 GE 

401C Engines (30 installed and 2 

spares), 1000 AGM–114 R Hellfire II 

Missiles in containers, 36 H–1 

Technical Refresh Mission computers, 

17 AN/AAQ–30 Target Sight Systems, 

30 629F–23 Ultra High Frequency/Very 

High Frequency Communication 

Systems, 19 H–764 Embedded Global 

Positioning System/Inertial Navigation 

Systems, 32 Helmet Mounted Display/

Optimized Top Owl, 17 APX–117A 

Identification Friend or Foe, 17 AN/

AAR–47 Missile Warning Systems, 17 

AN/ALE–47 Countermeasure Dispenser 

Sets, 18 APR–39C(V)2 Radar Warning 

Receivers, 15 Joint Mission Planning 

Systems, and 17 M197 20mm Gun 

Systems. Also included are system 

integration and testing, software 

development and integration, aircraft 

ferry, support equipment, spare and 

repair parts, tools and test equipment, 

publications and technical 

documentation, personnel training and 

training equipment, U.S. government 

and contractor engineering, technical, 

and logistics support services, and other 

related elements of logistics and 

program support. 

(iv) Military Department: Navy (SBO); 

Army (WAX) 

(v) Prior Related Cases, if any: None 

(vi) Sales Commission, Fee, etc., Paid, 

Offered, or Agreed to be Paid: None 

(vii) Sensitivity of Technology 

Contained in the Defense Article or 

Defense Services Proposed to be Sold: 

See Annex attached. 

(viii) Date Report Delivered to 

Congress: 06 April 2015 

Policy Justification 

Pakistan—AH–1Z Viper Attack 

Helicopters and AGM–114R Hellfire II 

Missiles 

The Government of Pakistan has 

requested a possible sale of 15 AH–1Z 

Viper Attack Helicopters, 32 T–700 GE 

401C Engines (30 installed and 2 

spares), 1000 AGM–114 R Hellfire II 

Missiles in containers, 36 H–1 

Technical Refresh Mission computers, 

17 AN/AAQ–30 Target Sight Systems, 

30 629F–23 Ultra High Frequency/Very 

High Frequency Communication 

Systems, 19 H–764 Embedded Global 

Positioning System/Inertial Navigation 

Systems, 32 Helmet Mounted Display/

Optimized Top Owl, 17 APX–117A 

Identification Friend or Foe, 17 AN/

AAR–47 Missile Warning Systems, 17 

AN/ALE–47 Countermeasure Dispenser 

Sets, 18 AN/APR–39C(V)2 Radar 

Warning Receivers, 15 Joint Mission 

Planning Systems, and 17 M197 20mm 

Gun Systems. Also included are system 

integration and testing, software 

development and integration, aircraft 

ferry, support equipment, spare and 

repair parts, tools and test equipment, 

publications and technical 

documentation, personnel training and 

training equipment, U.S. government 

and contractor engineering, technical, 

and logistics support services, and other 

related elements of logistics and 

program support. The total estimated 

cost is $952 million. 

This proposed sale will contribute to 

the foreign policy and national security 

of the United States by helping to 

improve the security of a country vital 

to U.S. foreign policy and national 

security goals in South Asia. 

This proposed sale of helicopters and 

weapon systems will provide Pakistan 

with military capabilities in support of 

its counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations in South Asia. 

This proposed sale will provide 

Pakistan with a precision strike, 

enhanced survivability aircraft that it 

can operate at high-altitudes. By 

acquiring this capability, Pakistan will 

enhance its ability to conduct 

operations in North Waziristan Agency 

(NWA), the Federally Administered 

Tribal Areas (FATA), and other remote 

and mountainous areas in all-weather, 

day-and-night environments. Pakistan 

will have no difficulty absorbing these 

helicopters into its armed forces. 

The proposed sale of this equipment 

and support will not alter the basic 

military balance in the region. 

The principal contractors will be Bell 

Helicopter, Textron in Fort Worth, 

Texas; General Electric in Lynn, 

Massachusetts; The Boeing Company in 

Huntsville, Alabama; and Lockheed 

Martin in Bethesda, Maryland. There are 

no known offset agreements proposed in 

conjunction with this potential sale. 

Implementation of this proposed sale 

will require multiple trips by U.S. 

Government and contractor 

representatives to participate in program 

and technical reviews, as well as 

training and maintenance support in 

country for a period of 66 months. It 

will also require three contractor 

representatives to reside in country for 

a period of three years to support this 

program. 

There will be no adverse impact on 

U.S. defense readiness as a result of this 

proposed sale. 

Transmittal No. 15–05 

Notice of Proposed Issuance of Letter of 

Offer Pursuant to Section 36(b)(1) of the 

Arms Export Control Act, as Amended 

Annex Item No. vii 

(vii) Sensitivity of Technology: 

1. The AH–1Z Viper Attack 

Helicopter is a twin-engine attack 

helicopter that features a four-blade, 

bearingless, composite main rotor 

system, upgraded transmission, and a 

new target sighting system. The AH–1Z 

incorporates new rotor technology with 

upgraded military avionics, weapons 

systems, and electro-optical sensors in 

an integrated weapons platform. It has 

improved survivability and can find 

targets at longer ranges and attack them 

with precision weapons. The blades are 

made of composites, which have an 

increased ballistic survivability, and 

there is a semiautomatic folding system 

for stowage aboard amphibious assault 

ships. Its two redesigned wing stubs are 

longer, having stations for 2.75-inch (70 

mm) Hydra 70 rocket pods and AGM– 

114 R NON–NATO Hellfire quad missile 

launchers. 

a. The integrated avionics system 

(IAS) includes two mission computers 

and an automatic flight control system. 

Each crew station has two 8x6-inch 

multifunction liquid crystal displays 

(LCD) and one 4.2x4.2-inch dual 

function LCD display. The 

communications suite will have an ARC 

210 629F–23 (NON COMSEC) Ultra 

High Frequency/Very High Frequency 

(UHF/VHF) radio, and associated 

communications equipment. The 

navigation suite includes a Honeywell 

H–764 Embedded Global Positioning 

System/Inertial Navigation System 

(EGIs), a digital map system and a lowairspeed air data subsystem, which 

allows weapons delivery when 

hovering. 

b. The crew is equipped with the 

Optimized Top Owl (OTO) helmetmounted sight and display system. The 

OTO has a Day Display Module (DDM) 

and a Night Display Module (NDM) 

harmonized to a night vision goggle to 

provide day/night capability. The AH– 

1Z has survivability equipment 

including the AN/AAR–47 Missile 

Warning and Laser Detection System, 

AN/ALE–47 Counter Measure 

Dispensing System (CMDS) and the AN/ 

APR–39C(V)2 Radar Warning Receiver 


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to cover countermeasure dispensers, 

radar warning, incoming/on-way missile 

warning and on-fuselage laserspot 

warning systems. 

c. The AN/AAQ–30 Target Sight 

System (TSS) is the multi-sensor 

electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) fire 

control system. The TSS provides target 

sighting in day, night or adverse 

weather conditions. It has a large 

aperture midwave Forward-Looking 

Infrared (FLIR) sensor, color television, 

laser designator/rangefinder and an ongimbal inertial measurement unit 

integrated into a highly stabilized turret 

mounted to the nose of the aircraft. The 

TSS provides the capability to identify 

and laser-designate targets at maximum 

weapon range, significantly enhancing 

platform survivability and lethality. The 

TSS hardware is unclassified, but the 

laser designation implementation is 

classified Confidential. 

d. The AN/AAR–47 Missile Warning 

System is unclassified. The AN/AAR–47 

is a missile approach warning system 

used to notify the pilot of threats and to 

trigger the aircraft’s countermeasures 

systems. The Operational Flight 

Program (OFP) and User Data Files used 

on the AN/AAR–47 are classified Secret. 

The software programs contain threat 

parametric data used to identify and 

establish priority of detected radar 

emitters. 

e. The AN/ALE–47 Countermeasures 

Dispensing System is Unclassified. AN/ 

AAR–47 is a threat-adaptive dispensing 

system that dispenses chaff, and flares 

for self-protection against airborne and 

ground-based Radio Frequency and 

Infrared threats. The AN/AAR–47OFP 

and Mission Data Files used in the AN/ 

AAR–47 are classified Secret. 

f. The AN/APR–39C(V)2 Radar 

Warning Receiver is unclassified. The 

AN/APR–39C(V)2 system detects the 

radio emissions of radar systems that 

might be a threat. The warning can then 

be used, manually or automatically, to 

evade the detected threat. The AN/APR– 

39C(V)2, OFP, and Mission Data Files 

used in the AN/AAR–47 are classified 

Secret. 

g. The Rockwell Collins 629F–23 is an 

exportable version the ARC–210 

programmable digital communication 

system. The 629F–23 is a fully digital 

transceiver, with performance from 30 

to 512 MHz and provides 

interoperability between ground and 

airborne military forces and land-based 

civil agencies. The 629F–23 is 

Unclassified. This version does not offer 

a SAT COM or COMSEC capability. 

h. The AN/APX–117 is a combined 

interrogator/transponder and is 

unclassified. The AN/APX–117 

Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) is an 

exportable version of the USMC AN/

APX–118 IFF with Modes 1,2,3,4, and 

Mode 5 capable being provided. 

i. The H–1 Technical Refresh Mission 

Computer (TRMC) is an upgrade to the 

H–1 weapon system. The TRMC will 

contain the mission processor, video/

graphics processing, and I/O required 

interfacing the TRMC with other 

elements of the Integrated Avionics 

Suite. The TRMC hardware is 

Unclassified. The OFP and Data Files 

used in the TRMC are classified Secret. 

j. The crew is equipped with the 

Optimized Top Owl (OTO) helmetmounted sight and display system. The 

OTO has a Day Display Module (DDM) 

and a Night Display Module (NDM to 

provide day/night capability.) 

k. The H764 Embedded Global 

Positioning System/Inertial Navigation 

Systems (EGIs) is a modification of the 

H–1 CN–1689(V)13 units used on the 

USMC AH–1Z and UH–1Y to meet 

export requirements. The export version 

will remove the Precise Positioning 

Service-Security Module (PPS_SM) and 

replace it with a Standard Positioning 

service (SPS) GPS Receiver. The 

classification of the EGI is Unclassified. 

l. The AGM–114 R Hellfire II missile 

is an air-to-surface missile with a multimission, multi-target, precision strike 

capability. The Hellfire can be launched 

from multiple air platforms and is the 

primary precision weapon for the 

United States Army. 

m. The highest level for release of the 

AGM–114 R Hellfire II is Secret, based 

upon the software. The highest level of 

classified information that could be 

disclosed by a proposed sale or by 

testing of the end item is Secret; the 

highest level that must be disclosed for 

production, maintenance, or training is 

Confidential. Reverse engineering could 

reveal Confidential information. 

Vulnerability data, countermeasures, 

vulnerability/susceptibility analyses, 

and threat definitions are classified 

Secret or Confidential. 

n. The M197 20mm Gun System is a 

three-barreled electric Gatling-type 

rotary cannon used by the USMC AH– 

1Z aircraft. The Gun System 

incorporates a link less feed system that 

corrects problems with jamming. The 

system is capable of holding 650 rounds 

in the storage unit. The Gun system is 

Unclassified. 

o. The Joint Mission Planning 

Systems (JMPS) provide support for 

unit-level mission planning for all 

phases of military flight operations and 

have the capability to provide necessary 

mission data for the aircrew. JMPS will 

support the downloading of data to 

electronics data transfer devices for 

transfer to aircraft and weapon systems. 

The JMPS will be tailored to the specific 

releasable configuration for the AH–1Z. 

The Joint Mission Planning System is 

Secret. 

2. If a technologically advance 

adversary were to obtain knowledge of 

the specific hardware and software 

elements, the information could be used 

to develop countermeasures or 

equivalent system with might reduce 

weapon system effectiveness or be used 

in the development of a system with 

similar or advanced capabilities. 

3. A determination has been made 

that the Government of Pakistan can 

provide substantially the same degree of 

protection for the sensitive technology 

being released as the U.S. Government. 

This sale is necessary in furtherance of 

the U.S. foreign policy and national 

security objectives outlined in the 

Policy Justification. 

4. All defense articles and services 

listed in this transmittal have been 

authorized for release and export to the 

Government of Pakistan. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Independent Review Panel on Military 

Medical Construction Standards; 

Notice of Federal Advisory Committee 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense is 

publishing this notice to announce the 

following Federal Advisory Committee 

meeting of the Independent Review 

Panel on Military Medical Construction 

Standards (‘‘the Panel’’). 

DATES: 

Thursday, April 30, 2015 

8:00 a.m.–8:45 a.m. EDT (Preparatory 

Session) 

8:45 a.m.–11:45 a.m. EDT (Open 

Session) 

11:45 a.m.–5:00 p.m. EDT 

(Preparatory Session) 

ADDRESSES: Defense Health 

Headquarters (DHHQ), Pavilion 

Executive Conference Room 4P143, 

7700 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church, 

Virginia 22042 (escort required; see 

guidance in SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION, ‘‘Public’s Accessibility to 

the Meeting’’). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Executive Director is Ms. Christine 

Bader, 7700 Arlington Boulevard, Suite 

5101, Falls Church, Virginia 22042, 


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