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specifically listed in this notice and any 

issues arising after publication of this 

notice that require emergency action 

under section 305(c) of the MagnusonStevens Act, provided the public has 

been notified of the Council’s intent to 

take final action to address the 

emergency. The public also should be 

aware that the meeting will be recorded. 

Consistent with 16 U.S.C. 1852, a copy 

of the recording is available upon 

request. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, at 

(978) 465–0492, at least 5 days prior to 

the meeting date. 

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

Dated: July 30, 2021. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

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–XB294] 

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council (MAFMC); Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council’s Spiny Dogfish 

Advisory Panel will hold a public 

meeting. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Thursday, August 19, 2021, from 10 

a.m. to 1 p.m. For agenda details, see 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held 

via webinar. Webinar connection 

information will be available at: https:// 

www.mafmc.org/council-events. 

Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council, 800 N State 

Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; 

telephone: (302) 674–2331 or on their 

website at www.mafmc.org. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive 

Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council, telephone: (302) 

526–5255. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of the meeting is for the 

Advisory Panel to create a Fishery 

Performance Report including advisor 

input on related specifications and 

management measures. 

Special Accommodations 

The meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

Shelley Kimbel-Spedden at the Council 

Office, (302) 526–5251, at least 5 days 

prior to the meeting date. 

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

Dated: July 30, 2021. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Notice of Availability of a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Proposed Lake Ontario National 

Marine Sanctuary; Announcement of 

Public Meetings 

AGENCY: Office of National Marine 

Sanctuaries (ONMS), National Ocean 

Service (NOS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Department of Commerce (DOC). 

ACTION: Notice of virtual public 

meetings; correction. 

SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 

has prepared a draft environmental 

impact statement (DEIS) for the 

proposed designation of a national 

marine sanctuary to manage a nationally 

significant collection of shipwrecks and 

other underwater cultural resources in 

New York’s eastern Lake Ontario and 

the Thousand Islands region of the St. 

Lawrence River. NOAA previously 

announced public meetings during the 

comment period, and is replacing the 

two in-person meetings with additional 

virtual meetings and providing 

registration links for the previously 

announced virtual meetings. 

DATES: NOAA will continue to accept 

comments received by September 10, 

2021. NOAA will conduct a total of four 

virtual public meetings on the following 

dates: 

(1) Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 

Location and time: Virtual Meeting, 

6:30–8:30 p.m. EDT 

Registration via this link: https://

attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/ 

8226916950939600400 

By phone: (415) 655–0060 

Access Code: 439–509–724. Audio PIN: 

Shown after joining the webinar 

(2) Date: Thursday, August 19, 2021 

Location and time: Virtual Meeting, 

6:30–8:30 p.m. EDT 

Registration via this link: https://

attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/ 

8864690869654406928 

By phone: (914) 614–3221 

Access Code: 237–285–132. Audio PIN: 

Shown after joining the webinar 

(3) Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2021 

Location and time: Virtual Meeting, 2:30 

to 4 p.m. EDT 

Registration via this link: https://

register.gotowebinar.com/register/ 

5067664901003984652 

Access code: 346–751–009. Audio PIN: 

Shown after joining the webinar 

By phone: (562) 247–8422, PIN: 346– 

751–009 

(4) Date: Thursday, August 26, 2021 

Location and time: Virtual Meeting, 6:30 

p.m. to 8 p.m. EDT 

Registration via this link: https://

register.gotowebinar.com/register/ 

2978792919345892364 

By phone: (415) 655–0052, PIN: 819– 

641–913 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the DEIS can be 

downloaded or viewed on the internet 

at www.regulations.gov (search for 

docket NOAA–NOS–2021–0050) or at 

http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/lakeontario/. Copies can also be obtained by 

contacting Ellen Brody (in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 

this notice). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ellen Brody, Great Lakes Regional 

Coordinator, address: 4840 South State 

Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48108–9719; 

phone: 734–276–6387; email: 

ellen.brody@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

In accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA, 42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and the NMSA (16 

U.S.C. 1434), NOAA prepared a DEIS for 

a proposed national marine sanctuary in 

New York’s eastern Lake Ontario and 

the Thousand Islands region of the St. 

Lawrence River. NOAA announced the 

availability of the DEIS in a notice 

issued on July 7, 2021 (86 FR 35757). In 

that notice, NOAA announced there 

would be four public meetings, two of 

which were planned to be virtual 

meetings, and two of which NOAA 


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1https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/ 

uploads/2019/06/M-19-18.pdf. 

2https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/ 

2019/02/14/2019-02544/maintaining-americanleadership-in-artificial-intelligence. 

planned to hold in person. When the 

notice was issued, NOAA included a 

caveat to the in-person meetings stating 

‘‘A virtual meeting platform may 

substitute if public safety concerns 

remain to prevent the spread of COVID– 

19.’’ 

NOAA has determined that the two 

meetings previously scheduled for 

August 18, 2021 and August 19, 2021 

will now be conducted virtually. 

Interested parties should register to 

attend a virtual meeting via the 

information provided in the DATES

section of this notice or at https://

sanctuaries.noaa.gov/lake-ontario/. 

(Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.) 

Rebecca R. Holyoke, 

Acting Director, Office of National Marine 

Sanctuaries, National Ocean Service, 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Technical Information Service 

[Docket No.: 191122–0088] 

Opportunity To Enter Into a Joint 

Venture Partnership With the National 

Technical Information Service for Data 

Innovation Support 

AGENCY: National Technical Information 

Service, Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Technical 

Information Service (NTIS) requests 

proposals from interested private-sector 

organizations to assist Federal agencies 

in the development and implementation 

of innovative ways to collect, connect, 

access, secure, analyze, disseminate and 

enable effective and efficient use of data 

to address unique and complex national 

data priorities. Specifically, NTIS is 

interested in partnering with 

organizations that have specialized 

skills and capabilities in applied data 

science areas, such as artificial 

intelligence, machine learning, robotics, 

and cybersecurity, to assist the Federal 

government in leveraging data as a 

strategic asset to achieve Federal agency 

mission outcomes. Organizations that 

are selected in accordance with the 

evaluation criteria and selection process 

set forth in this notice will be invited to 

enter into a joint venture partnership 

agreement with NTIS to be eligible to 

compete for Federal data service 

opportunities identified by NTIS in 

cooperation with other Federal agencies. 

In accordance with the President’s 

Executive Order on Advancing Racial 

Equity and Support for Underserved 

Communities Through the Federal 

Government, E.O. 13985 of Jan 20, 2021, 

NTIS encourages all individuals and 

organizations to apply who meet the 

listed qualifications and requirements in 

this notice, including those who come 

from underserved communities, such as 

Black, Latino, Indigenous and Native 

American, Asian Americans and Pacific 

Islanders and other persons of color; 

members of religious minorities; 

lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and 

queer (LGBTQ+) persons; persons with 

disabilities; persons who live in rural 

areas; and persons otherwise adversely 

affected by persistent poverty or 

inequality and the organizations that 

support these individuals and groups. 

DATES: Proposals will be received and 

evaluated on an ongoing basis. 

Proposals will not be accepted after 

August 24, 2024. This Notice replaces 

the notice published on December 13, 

2019, 84 FR 68147. Applicants that have 

already submitted proposals under the 

2019 notice do not need to resubmit 

under this notice. 

ADDRESSES: Submit proposals 

electronically, with the subject line 

‘‘Opportunity to Enter into a Joint 

Venture Partnership with the National 

Technical Information Service for Data 

Innovation Support’’, by emailing both 

OpportunityAnnouncement@ntis.gov 

and Randy Caldwell at rcaldwell@

ntis.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Randy Caldwell at (703) 605–6321, or by 

email at rcaldwell@ntis.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction/Background for 

Potential Joint Venture Partners (JVPs) 

NTIS, an agency of the U.S. 

Department of Commerce, is seeking 

proposals from potential JVPs that can 

work with NTIS to assist Federal 

agencies to leverage innovative ways to 

collect, connect, access, secure, analyze, 

disseminate and enable effective and 

efficient use of data to address unique 

and complex national data priorities. 

Federal agencies are currently 

addressing national issues in such areas 

as fraud detection, improper payments, 

public services, health and safety, 

cybersecurity, technology transfer, 

supply chain optimization, and internal 

requirements to operate more effectively 

and efficiently. Addressing these 

mission-critical data issues requires new 

capabilities in machine learning, 

artificial intelligence, predictive 

analytics and other advanced data 

science expertise. See OMB M–19–18 1

and Executive Order 13859.2 Federal 

agencies that need the data services of 

NTIS and its JVPs require holistic 

solutions that may require the 

application of multiple data and 

technological capabilities in new and 

innovative ways in order to support the 

agencies’ strategic plans and missioncritical priorities. Many of the 

challenges facing Federal agencies are at 

the intersection of data science and 

information technology (IT) 

modernization. Solutions often require 

related capabilities in emerging 

technologies, innovation, change 

management, and agile delivery 

methods. Mission areas that NTIS 

supports include, but are not limited to, 

fraud detection, public services, health 

and safety, technology transfer, and 

national security. 

Activities conducted by NTIS and its 

JVPs in support of other Federal 

agencies may include: (1) Designing, 

testing, analyzing, or demonstrating the 

application of Federal data and data 

services, either alone or in combination 

with non-Federal data; (2) based on 

Federal data or the use of Federal data 

in some combination with open Federal 

data and non-Federal data, facilitating 

the creation of suites of products, 

platforms, and services that assist 

Federal agencies in meeting the needs of 

businesses, innovators, government 

agencies, and others; and (3) otherwise 

enhancing data discovery and usability, 

data interoperability and standards, data 

analytics and forecasting, or data 

infrastructure and security. Projects that 

can be accomplished by a Federal 

agency via a commercial-off-the-shelf 

(COTS) procurement or acquisition 

action will not be conducted by NTIS 

with its JVPs. 

Organizations that enter into joint 

venture partnership agreements with 

NTIS, pursuant to this notice, will have 

opportunities to engage in early 

discussions about projects with NTIS 

and the sponsoring Federal agencies and 

may subsequently compete for the 

opportunity to work with NTIS to 

provide data services on specific 

projects under a merit-based selection 

process established by NTIS. 

Under a separate notice that will be 

published in the Federal Register 

(‘‘assistive technologies JVPs notice’’), 

NTIS will accept proposals from 

interested private-sector organizations 

to become a JVP eligible to work with 


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