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meeting will be held on Wednesday, 

April 22, 2009, at 7 p.m., at the Center 

for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat 

Research, NOAA/NCNERR 

Administration Building Auditorium, 

101 Pivers Island Road, Beaufort, North 

Carolina. 

The Kachemak Bay (Alaska) National 

Estuarine Research Reserve evaluation 

site visit will be held April 28–May 1, 

2009. One public meeting will be held 

during the week. The public meeting 

will be held on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 

at 6 p.m., at the Kachemak Bay National 

Estuarine Research Reserve, Alaska 

Islands and Ocean Visitor Center, 

Seminar Room, 95 Sterling Highway, 

Homer, Alaska. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of states’ most recent 

performance reports, as well as OCRM’s 

evaluation notification and 

supplemental information request 

letters to the states, are available upon 

request from OCRM. Written comments 

from interested parties regarding these 

National Estuarine Research Reserves 

are encouraged and will be accepted 

until 15 days after the last public 

meeting held for a Reserve. Please direct 

written comments to Kate Barba, Chief, 

National Policy and Evaluation 

Division, Office of Ocean and Coastal 

Resource Management, NOS/NOAA, 

1305 East-West Highway, 10th Floor, 

N/ORM7, Silver Spring, Maryland 

20910. When the evaluation is 

completed, OCRM will place a notice in 

the Federal Register announcing the 

availability of the Final Evaluation 

Findings. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kate 

Barba, Chief, National Policy and 

Evaluation Division, Office of Ocean 

and Coastal Resource Management, 

NOS/NOAA, 1305 East-West Highway, 

10th Floor, N/ORM7, Silver Spring, 

Maryland 20910, (301) 563–1182. 

Dated: March 25, 2009. 

David M. Kennedy, 

Director, Office of Ocean and Coastal 

Resource Management, National Ocean 

Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Hydrographic Services Review Panel 

Meeting 

AGENCY: National Ocean Service, 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA), Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Hydrographic Services 

Review Panel (HSRP) was established 

by the Secretary of Commerce to advise 

the Under Secretary of Commerce for 

Oceans and Atmosphere on matters 

related to the responsibilities and 

authorities set forth in section 303 of the 

Hydrographic Services Improvement 

Act of 1998, its amendments, and such 

other appropriate matters that the Under 

Secretary refers to the Panel for review 

and advice. 

DATE AND TIME: The public meeting will 

be held April 14–15, 2009, from 8 a.m. 

to 5 p.m. The times and agenda topics 

are subject to change. Refer to the HSRP 

Web site listed below for the most 

current meeting agenda. 

LOCATION: Renaissance Baltimore 

Harborplace Hotel, 202 East Pratt Street, 

Baltimore, Maryland 21202, Tel: (410) 

547–1200, and Fax: (410) 539–5780. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Captain Steven Barnum, NOAA, 

Designated Federal Official (DFO), 

Office of Coast Survey, National Ocean 

Service (NOS), NOAA (N/CS), 1315 East 

West Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland 

20910; Telephone: 301–713–2770, Fax: 

301–713–4019; e-mail: 

Hydroservices.panel@noaa.gov or visit 

the NOAA HSRP Web site at http:// 

nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/ocs/hsrp/ 

hsrp.htm. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting will be open to the public and 

public comment periods will be 

scheduled at various times throughout 

the meeting. These comment periods 

will be part of the final agenda that will 

be published before the meeting date on 

the HSRP Web site listed above. Each 

individual or group making a verbal 

presentation will be limited to a total 

time of five (5) minutes. Written 

comments (at least 30 copies) should be 

submitted to the DFO by April 3, 2009. 

Written comments received by the DFO 

after April 3, 2009, will be distributed 

to the HSRP, but may not be reviewed 

before the meeting date. Approximately 

25 seats will be available for the public, 

on a first-come, first-served basis. 

Matters To Be Considered: (1) 

NOAA’s Next Generation Strategic Plan 

and agency/congressional updates; (2) 

Panel discussion with various 

stakeholders in the region on use of and 

interest in NOAA Navigation Services; 

(3) Updates on NOAA PORTS® project, 

NOAA’s Height Modernization, Print on 

Demand, Integrated Ocean and Coastal 

Mapping, and Arctic issues; and (4) 

public statements. 

Dated: March 23, 2009. 

Captain Steven R. Barnum, 

Director, Office of Coast Survey, National 

Ocean Service, National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Marine Protected Areas Federal 

Advisory Committee; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Ocean Service, 

NOAA, Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of a 

meeting of the Marine Protected Areas 

Federal Advisory Committee 

(Committee) in Annapolis, Maryland. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

Tuesday, April 21, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 

5:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 22, from 

8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursday, April 

23, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. These 

times and the agenda topics described 

below are subject to change. Refer to the 

Web page listed below for the most upto-date meeting agenda. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Historic Inns of Annapolis, 58 State 

Circle, Annapolis, Maryland. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lauren Wenzel, Designated Federal 

Officer, MPA FAC, National Marine 

Protected Areas Center, 1305 East West 

Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland 

20910. (Phone: 301–713–3100 x136, 

Fax: 301–713–3110); e-mail: 

lauren.wenzel@noaa.gov; or visit the 

National MPA Center Web site at 

http://www.mpa.gov). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Committee, composed of external, 

knowledgeable representatives of 

stakeholder groups, was established by 

the Department of Commerce (DOC) to 

provide advice to the Secretaries of 

Commerce and the Interior on 

implementation of Section 4 of 

Executive Order 13158 on MPAs. The 

meeting will be open to public 

participation from 4:45 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. 

on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, and from 

8:35 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. on Thursday, 

April 23, 2009. In general, each 

individual or group will be limited to a 

total time of five (5) minutes. If 

members of the public wish to submit 

written statements, they should be 

submitted to the Designated Federal 

Official by April 17, 2009. 

Matters to be Considered: The 

Committee will hear a panel 

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presentation and discussion on 

evaluation of the national system, and 

will consider draft reports and 

recommendations from the Scientific 

and Technical Subcommittee and the 

Review and Evaluation Subcommittee. 

It will also hear an update on NOAA’s 

Next Generation Strategic Plan and 

presentations on the development of the 

national system of marine protected 

areas, including the gap analysis 

processes and education and outreach 

initiatives. Representatives from NOAA 

and the Department of Interior have 

been invited to present on the 

Administration’s vision for ocean 

conservation. Committee members and 

the public are also invited to attend a 

ceremony to announce the first sites 

accepted into the National System of 

Marine Protected Areas. The agenda is 

subject to change. The latest version 

will be posted at http://www.mpa.gov. 

Dated: March 25, 2009. 

David M. Kennedy, 

Director, Office of Ocean and Coastal 

Resource Management. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XO40 

Unified Synthesis Product 

Development Committee 

AGENCY: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: A major activity of the 

Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) 

is the production of a series of 21 

Synthesis and Assessment Products 

(SAPs) that are designed to inform and 

aid decision making by policy makers, 

resource managers, stakeholders, the 

media, and the general public on issues 

related to global climate change. The 

Unified Synthesis Product (USP) 

Development Committee (USPDC), 

established by a Decision Memorandum 

on February 29, 2008, is the Federal 

Advisory Committee charged with 

responsibility to develop a draft USP 

that will synthesize the information 

contained in the 21 SAPs in the context 

of other recent climate and global 

change scientific studies and formal 

assessments. Please note that meeting 

location, times, and agenda topics 

described here are subject to change. 

Meeting information will be available 

online on the USPDC website: 

http://www.climate.noaa.gov/ 

index.jsp?pg=./ccsp/ 

unifiedlsynthesis.jsp 

DATES: The meeting will convene at 8 

a.m. on Thursday, April 16, 2009 and 

adjourn at 5:30 p.m. on that day. The 

location will be the US Climate Change 

Science Program Office, 1717 

Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 

20006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Christopher D. Miller, USPDC DFO and 

the Program Manager, NOAA/OAR/ 

Climate Program Office, Climate Change 

Data and Detection Program Element, 

1315 East-West Highway, Room 12239, 

Silver Spring, Maryland 20910; 

telephone 301–734–1241, e-mail: 

Christopher.D.Miller@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Status 

The meeting will be open to public 

participation and will include a 30- 

minute public comment period on April 

16, 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. (check the 

USPDC website to confirm this time and 

the room in which the meeting will be 

held). Seats will be available to the 

public on a first-come, first-served basis. 

In general, each individual or group 

wishing to make a statement that 

addresses the agenda topics (see Matters 

To Be Considered) will be allotted a 

total time of five (5) minutes. Written 

comments (at least 35 copies) that 

address the agenda topics will also be 

accepted and should be received by the 

USPDC Designated Federal Official 

(DFO) by April 6, 2009 to provide 

sufficient time for review. Written 

comments received after April 6 will be 

distributed to the USPDC, but may not 

be reviewed prior to the meeting date. 

Matters To Be Considered 

The meeting will discuss a roll-out 

strategy for the USP and various aspects 

of outreach activities that will be 

employed to disseminate the 

information in the final report. 

Dated: March, 23, 2009. 

Captain Todd Stiles, 

Executive Director, Office of the Deputy 

Under Secretary, National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration 

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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND 

COMMUNITY SERVICE 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Corporation for National and 

Community Service. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Corporation for National 

and Community Service (hereinafter the 

‘‘Corporation’’), as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to 

provide the general public and Federal 

agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing collections of information in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA95) (44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program 

helps to ensure that requested data can 

be provided in the desired format, 

reporting burden (time and financial 

resources) is minimized, collection 

instruments are clearly understood, and 

the impact of collection requirement on 

respondents can be properly assessed. 

Currently, the Corporation is 

soliciting comments concerning the 

proposed renewal of its 

AmeriCorps*VISTA Recovery Act 

Progress Report Supplement (OMB 

Control Number 3045–0131), the 

previously approved Progress Report 

will expire on September 30, 2009. 

This extension without changes 

reflects the Corporation’s intent to 

continue to collect data around the 

results of Recovery Act funded VISTA 

activities. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

ADDRESSES section by June 1, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by the title of the information 

collection activity, by any of the 

following methods: 

(1) By Mail Sent to: Corporation for 

National and Community Service, Attn. 

Craig Kinnear, Program Analyst, Room 

9103A, 1201 New York Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20525. 

(2) By hand delivery or by courier to 

the Corporation’s mailroom at Room 

8100 at the mail address given in 

paragraph (1) above, between 9 a.m. and 

4 p.m. Monday through Friday except 

Federal holidays. 

(3) By Fax to: (202) 565–2789, 

Attention Mr. Craig Kinnear, Program 

Analyst. 

(4) Electronically through the 

Corporation’s E-Mail Address System: 

ckinnear@cns.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Craig Kinnear (202) 606–6708 or by email at ckinnear@cns.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Corporation is particularly interested in 

comments which: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the