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possesses special competence, which 

could be used to assist United States 

enterprises and Untied States industrial 

joint research and development 

ventures. 15 U.S.C. 278(h)(1). The 

Committee shall submit, through the 

Director of NIST, to the Secretary and 

the Congress such additional reports on 

specific policy matters as it deems 

appropriate. 15 U.S.C. 278(h)(2). 

3. The Committee will function solely 

as an advisory body, in accordance with 

the provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 

App. 

4. The Committee shall report to the 

Director of NIST. 

Membership 

1. The Director of NIST shall appoint 

the members of the Committee. 

Members shall be selected on a clear, 

standardized basis, in accordance with 

applicable Department of Commerce 

guidance. 15 U.S.C. 278(a). Members 

shall be selected solely on the basis of 

established records of distinguished 

service; shall provide representation of 

a cross-section of traditional and 

emerging United States industries; and 

shall be eminent in fields such as 

business, research, new product 

development, engineering, labor, 

education, management consulting, 

environment, and international 

relations. No employee of the Federal 

Government shall serve as a member of 

the Committee. 15 U.S.C. 278(b). 

2. Members of the Committee shall 

serve as Special Government Employees 

(SGEs) and will be subject to the ethics 

standards applicable to SGEs. 

3. The Committee shall consist of not 

fewer than nine members appointed by 

the Director of NIST, a majority of 

whom shall be from United States 

industry. 15 U.S.C. 278(a). The term of 

office of each member of the Committee 

shall be three years, except that vacancy 

appointments shall be for the remainder 

of the unexpired term of the vacancy. 15 

U.S.C. 278(c)(1). Members shall serve at 

the discretion of the Director of NIST. 

4. Any person who has completed two 

consecutive full terms of service on the 

Committee shall be ineligible for 

appointment for a third term during the 

one-year period following the expiration 

of the second term. 15 U.S.C. 278(c)(1). 

5. Pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 278(f), the 

Committee chairperson and vice 

chairperson shall be elected by the 

members of the Committee at each 

annual meeting occurring in an evennumbered year. The vice chairperson 

shall perform the duties of the 

chairperson in his or her absence. In 

case a vacancy occurs in the position of 

the chairperson or vice chairperson, the 

Committee shall elect a member to fill 

such vacancy. 

6. Members of the Committee will not 

be compensated for their services, but 

will, upon request, be allowed travel 

expenses in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 

5701 et seq., while attending meetings 

of the Committee or of its 

subcommittees, or while otherwise 

performing duties at the request of the 

chairperson, while away from their 

homes or a regular place of business. 

7. Pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 278(g), the 

Committee may, with the concurrence 

of a majority of its members, permit the 

appointment of a staff consisting of not 

more than four professional staff 

members and such clerical staff 

members as may be necessary. Such 

staff members shall be appointed by the 

Director after consultation with the 

chairperson of the Committee and 

assigned at the direction of the 

Committee. 

8. Subcommittees: Pursuant to 15 

U.S.C. 278(e), the Committee shall have 

an executive committee, and may 

delegate to it such powers and functions 

of the Committee as it deems 

appropriate. The Committee and/or the 

Director of NIST may establish such 

other subcommittees, task forces, and 

working groups consisting of members 

from the parent Committee as may be 

necessary, subject to the provisions of 

FACA, the FACA implementing 

regulations, and applicable Department 

of Commerce guidance. Subcommittees 

must report back to the Committee and 

any recommendations based on their 

work will be deliberated and agreed 

upon by the Committee prior to 

dissemination to NIST. 

Miscellaneous 

1. Meetings of the VCAT usually take 

place at the NIST headquarters in 

Gaithersburg, Maryland. The Committee 

will meet at least twice each year at the 

call of the chairperson or whenever onethird of the members so request in 

writing. The Committee shall not act in 

the absence of a quorum, which shall 

consist of a majority of the members of 

the Committee not having a conflict of 

interest in the matter being considered 

by the Committee. 15 U.S.C. 278(d). 

2. Generally, Committee meetings are 

open to the public. 

Nomination Information 

1. Nominations are sought from all 

fields described above. 

2. Nominees should have established 

records of distinguished service and 

shall be eminent in fields such as 

business, research, new product 

development, engineering, labor, 

education, management consulting, 

environment and international relations. 

The category (field of eminence) for 

which the candidate is qualified should 

be specified in the nomination letter. A 

summary of the candidate’s 

qualifications should be included with 

the nomination, including (where 

applicable) current or former service on 

Federal advisory boards and Federal 

employment. In addition, each 

nomination letter should state that the 

candidate agrees to the nomination, 

acknowledges the responsibilities of 

serving on the VCAT, and will actively 

participate in good faith in the tasks of 

the VCAT. 

3. The Department of Commerce is 

committed to equal opportunity in the 

workplace and seeks a broad-based and 

diverse VCAT membership. 

Alicia Chambers, 

NIST Executive Secretariat. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XB940] 

Pacific Fishery Management Council; 

Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public online meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Groundfish 

Subcommittee of the Pacific Fishery 

Management Council’s (Pacific 

Council’s) Scientific and Statistical 

Committee (SSC) will hold a meeting to 

review proposed revisions to the Terms 

of Reference for the Groundfish Stock 

Assessment Review Process for 2023 

and 2024. The meeting is open to the 

public. 

DATES: The SSC Groundfish 

Subcommittee’s online meeting will be 

held Friday, April 22, 2022, beginning 

at 1 p.m. and continuing until 5 p.m., 

Pacific Daylight Time or until business 

for the day has been completed. 

ADDRESSES: The SSC’s Groundfish 

Subcommittee’s meeting will be an 

online meeting. Specific meeting 

information, including directions on 

how to join the meeting and system 

requirements, will be provided in the 

meeting announcement on the Pacific 

Council’s website (see 

www.pcouncil.org). You may send an 

email to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt 

(kris.kleinschmidt@noaa.gov) or contact 


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him at (503) 820–2412 for technical 

assistance. 

Council address: Pacific Fishery 

Management Council, 7700 NE 

Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, 

OR 97220. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

John DeVore, Staff Officer, Pacific 

Fishery Management Council; 

telephone: (503) 820–2413. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of the SSC Groundfish 

Subcommittee’s meeting is to review 

proposed changes to the Terms of 

Reference for the Groundfish Stock 

Assessment Reviews that will inform 

the process for conducting and 

reviewing groundfish assessments in 

2023 and 2024. Members of the Pacific 

Council’s groundfish advisory bodies 

are encouraged to attend. Proposed 

changes to the Terms of Reference 

(https://www.pcouncil.org/documents/ 

2022/02/e-8-attachment-4-draft-termsof-reference-for-the-groundfish-andcoastal-pelagic-species-stockassessment-process-for-2023-2024.pdf/) 

were provided to the Pacific Council at 

their March 2022 virtual meeting, which 

were adopted by the Pacific Council for 

public review. The Pacific Council is 

scheduled to adopt a final Terms of 

Reference at their June meeting in 

Vancouver, WA. 

No management actions will be 

decided by the SSC’s Groundfish 

Subcommittee. The SSC Groundfish 

Subcommittee members’ role will be 

development of recommendations and 

reports for consideration by the SSC and 

Pacific Council at the June meeting in 

Vancouver, WA. 

Although nonemergency issues not 

contained in the meeting agendas may 

be discussed, those issues may not be 

the subject of formal action during this 

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 Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act, 

provided the public has been notified of 

the intent of the SSC Groundfish 

Subcommittee to take final action to 

address the emergency. 

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 (kris.kleinschmidt@

noaa.gov; (503) 820–2412) at least 10 

days prior to the meeting date. 

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

Dated: April 1, 2022. 

Rey Israel Marquez, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XB855] 

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to 

Specified Activities; Taking Marine 

Mammals Incidental to Marine Site 

Characterization Surveys Off of 

Coastal Virginia 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; proposed incidental 

harassment authorization; request for 

comments on proposed authorization 

and possible renewal. 

SUMMARY: NMFS has received a request 

from Virginia Electric and Power 

Company doing business as Dominion 

Energy Virginia (Dominion Energy) for 

authorization to take marine mammals 

incidental to marine site 

characterization surveys off of Virginia 

in support of the Coastal Virginia 

Offshore Wind Commercial (CVOW 

Commercial) Project. Pursuant to the 

Marine Mammal Protection Act 

(MMPA), NMFS is requesting comments 

on its proposal to issue an incidental 

harassment authorization (IHA) to 

incidentally take marine mammals 

during the specified activities. NMFS is 

also requesting comments on a possible 

one-time, one-year renewal that could 

be issued under certain circumstances 

and if all requirements are met, as 

described in Request for Public 

Comments at the end of this notice. 

NMFS will consider public comments 

prior to making any final decision on 

the issuance of the requested MMPA 

authorizations and agency responses 

will be summarized in the final notice 

of our decision. 

DATES: Comments and information must 

be received no later than May 6, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to Jolie Harrison, Chief, 

Permits and Conservation Division, 

Office of Protected Resources, National 

Marine Fisheries Service and should be 

submitted via email to ITP.Davis@

noaa.gov. 

Instructions: NMFS is not responsible 

for comments sent by any other method, 

to any other address or individual, or 

received after the end of the comment 

period. Comments, including all 

attachments, must not exceed a 25- 

megabyte file size. All comments 

received are a part of the public record 

and will generally be posted online at 

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/permit/ 

incidental-take-authorizations-undermarine-mammal-protection-act without 

change. All personal identifying 

information (e.g., name, address) 

voluntarily submitted by the commenter 

may be publicly accessible. Do not 

submit confidential business 

information or otherwise sensitive or 

protected information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Leah Davis, Office of Protected 

Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401. 

Electronic copies of the application and 

supporting documents, as well as a list 

of the references cited in this document, 

may be obtained online at: https://

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/permit/ 

incidental-take-authorizations-undermarine-mammal-protection-act. In case 

of problems accessing these documents, 

please call the contact listed above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The MMPA prohibits the ‘‘take’’ of 

marine mammals, with certain 

exceptions. sections 101(a)(5)(A) and (D) 

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

direct the Secretary of Commerce (as 

delegated to NMFS) to allow, upon 

request, the incidental, but not 

intentional, taking of small numbers of 

marine mammals by U.S. citizens who 

engage in a specified activity (other than 

commercial fishing) within a specified 

geographical region if certain findings 

are made and either regulations are 

issued or, if the taking is limited to 

harassment, a notice of a proposed 

incidental take authorization may be 

provided to the public for review. 

Authorization for incidental takings 

shall be granted if NMFS finds that the 

taking will have a negligible impact on 

the species or stock(s) and will not have 

an unmitigable adverse impact on the 

availability of the species or stock(s) for 

taking for subsistence uses (where 

relevant). Further, NMFS must prescribe 

the permissible methods of taking and 

other ‘‘means of effecting the least 

practicable adverse impact’’ on the 

affected species or stocks and their 

habitat, paying particular attention to 

rookeries, mating grounds, and areas of 

similar significance, and on the 

availability of the species or stocks for 

taking for certain subsistence uses 

(referred to in shorthand as 

‘‘mitigation’’); and requirements 

pertaining to the mitigation, monitoring 


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