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of business, may be allowed travel 

expenses, including per diem in lieu of 

subsistence, as authorized by Section 

5703 of Title 5, United States Code, for 

individuals in the Government serving 

without pay. Nothing in this section 

shall be construed to prohibit members 

of the Committee who are officers of 

employees of the United States from 

being allowed travel expenses, 

including per diem in lieu of 

subsistence, in accordance with existing 

law. 

Members shall not reference or 

otherwise utilize their membership on 

the Committee or its subcommittees in 

connection with public statements made 

in their personal capacities without a 

disclaimer that the views expressed are 

their own and do not represent the 

views of the Committee or its 

subcommittees, NIST, the Office of 

Science and Technology Policy, the 

Department of Defense, the Department 

of Energy, the Department of State, the 

Attorney General, the Office of National 

Intelligence, the Initiative Office, the 

President, or the Department of 

Commerce. 

Miscellaneous 

Meetings will be conducted at least 

twice each year. 

1. Generally, Committee meetings are 

open to the public. 

2. Meeting may be held in-person in 

selected locations across the country 

and/or virtually. 

Nomination Information 

1. Nominations are sought from all 

fields, sectors, and perspectives 

described above. 

2. Nominees should represent broad 

and interdisciplinary expertise and 

perspectives, including from academic 

institutions, companies across diverse 

sectors, nonprofit and civil society 

entities, including civil rights and 

disability rights organizations, and 

Federal laboratories, who represent 

geographic diversity, and who are 

qualified to provide advice and 

information on science and technology 

research, development, ethics, 

standards, education, technology 

transfer, commercial application, 

security, and economic competitiveness 

related to artificial intelligence. The 

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 whether 

the candidate seeks to serve on the 

Committee, the Subcommittee, or both; 

and that the candidate acknowledges 

the responsibilities of serving and will 

actively participate in good faith in the 

tasks of the Committee or 

Subcommittee, as appropriate. Thirdparty nomination letters should state 

that the candidate agrees to the 

nomination. 

3. The Department of Commerce seeks 

a broad-based and diverse Committee 

and subcommittee membership. 

Alicia Chambers, 

NIST Executive Secretariat. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID: 0648–XB360] 

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 Surfclam and 

Ocean Quahog Committee (Committee) 

will hold a public meeting. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Friday, October 15, 2021, from 9:30 a.m. 

until 12 p.m. 

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; 

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 MidAtlantic Fishery Management Council’s 

Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Committee 

will meet to review the draft document 

being prepared for the Council to 

address issues related to the species 

separation requirements in the Atlantic 

surfclam and ocean quahog fisheries. 

Special Accommodations 

The meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aid should be directed to 

Shelley Spedden, (302) 526–5251, at 

least 5 days prior to the meeting date. 

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

Dated: September 3, 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–XB408] 

New England Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The New England Fishery 

Management Council (Council, NEFMC) 

will hold a three-day meeting to 

consider actions affecting New England 

fisheries in the exclusive economic zone 

(EEZ). Due to ongoing public safety 

considerations related to COVID–19, 

this meeting will be conducted entirely 

by webinar. 

DATES: The webinar meeting will be 

held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and 

Thursday, September 28, 29, and 30, 

2021, beginning at 9 a.m. each day. 

ADDRESSES: All meeting participants 

and interested parties can register to 

join the webinar at https://

register.gotowebinar.com/register/ 

6852048029928028172. 

Council address: New England 

Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 

Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950; 

telephone (978) 465–0492; 

www.nefmc.org. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, 

New England Fishery Management 

Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492, ext. 

113. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Agenda 

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 

After introductions and brief 

announcements, NMFS’s Regional 

Administrator for the Greater Atlantic 

Regional Fisheries Office (GARFO) will 

swear in new and reappointed Council 

members. The Council then will 

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Reports on recent activities will be next. 

The Council will hear from its Chairman 

and Executive Director, GARFO’s 

Regional Administrator, the Northeast 

Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) 

Director, the NOAA Office of General 

Counsel, the Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council liaison, staff from 

the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries 

Commission (ASMFC), and 

representatives from the U.S. Coast 

Guard, NOAA’s Office of Law 

Enforcement, the Stellwagen Bank 

National Marine Sanctuary, and NMFS’s 

Highly Migratory Species Advisory 

Panel. Next, the Council will receive an 

overview of H.R 4690, ‘‘Sustaining 

America’s Fisheries for the Future Act 

of 2021,’’ which is a bill to reauthorize 

the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act. The 

Council will discuss the bill and 

approve comments. 

Following the lunch break, the 

Council will receive a presentation from 

GARFO on two actions under the 

Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction 

Plan. These will cover: (1) The Phase 1 

final rule for Northeast lobster and 

Jonah crab trap/pot fisheries; and (2) 

Phase 2 scoping on potential measures 

for U.S. gillnet and other trap/pot 

fisheries to reduce entanglements of 

North Atlantic right whales, humpback 

whales, and fin whales with commercial 

fishing gear. The Council will discuss 

Phase 2 and provide input on scoping 

comments. Next, the Council will 

discuss and take final action on 

Framework Adjustment 9 to the Atlantic 

Herring Fishery Management Plan 

(FMP). This framework includes a 

rebuilding plan to address the 

overfished status of Atlantic herring, 

and it contains adjustments to herring 

accountability measures. As the final 

order of business for the day, the 

Council will receive an overview of 

NMFS’s National Standard 1 Draft 

Technical Guidance Memo on managing 

with annual catch limits (ACLs) for 

data-limited stocks in federal fishery 

management plans. Following 

discussion, the Council will approve 

comments on the draft memo. 

Wednesday, September 29, 2021 

The Council will start off the day with 

a report on the 43rd annual meeting of 

the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries 

Organization (NAFO). Then, the Council 

will receive a presentation from the 

Scientific and Statistical Committee’s 

(SSC) Social Science Subpanel on its 

review of socioeconomic information in 

Groundfish Framework Adjustment 59 

and Scallop Framework Adjustment 32. 

The Council will discuss the results of 

this review. The Scallop Committee 

Report will be next. The Council will 

receive a summary of 2021 scallop 

survey results and a progress report on 

Framework Adjustment 34 to the 

Atlantic Sea Scallop FMP, which 

includes 2022 fishery specifications, 

2023 default specifications, and 

measures that will be made available 

soon under Amendment 21 to the FMP. 

Additionally, the Council will receive: 

(1) A progress report on work being 

done to evaluate the scallop fishery’s 

rotational area management program; 

and (2) an update on the Scallop Survey 

Working Group’s activities. The Council 

then will transition into groundfish 

issues, beginning with a report from the 

Transboundary Resources Assessment 

Committee (TRAC) on the TRAC’s 2021 

assessment results and updates for 

shared U.S./Canada resources, which 

include Eastern Georges Bank cod, 

Eastern Georges Bank haddock, and 

Georges Bank yellowtail flounder. The 

Council then will hear the SSC’s 

recommendations on overfishing limits 

(OFLs) and acceptable biological catches 

(ABCs) for Georges Bank yellowtail 

flounder for fishing years 2022 and 

2023. This will be followed by the 

Transboundary Management Guidance 

Committee’s recommendations for 2022 

total allowable catches (TACs) for 

shared U.S./Canada resources on 

Georges Bank. The Council will review 

and approve the recommendations. 

Following the lunch break, the 

Council will receive the Groundfish 

Committee Report, which will cover two 

items. The first will be a progress report 

on Framework Adjustment 63 to the 

Northeast Multispecies (Groundfish) 

FMP, which includes (1) 2022 TACs for 

U.S./Canada shared resources on 

Georges Bank; (2) 2022–23 

specifications for Georges Bank 

yellowtail flounder; (3) 2022–24 

specifications for Georges Bank cod and 

Gulf of Maine cod; (4) possible 

adjustment of 2022 specifications for 

Georges Bank and Gulf of Maine 

haddock; (5) adjustment of 2022 

specifications for white hake based on a 

rebuilding plan; (6) additional measures 

to promote stock rebuilding; and (7) 

alternatives for setting groundfish 

default specifications. The second 

groundfish item pertains to the recent 

series of Atlantic Cod Stock Structure 

Workshops. The Council will consider 

measures that can be adopted regardless 

of outcomes from the next stock 

assessments for Atlantic cod. Then, the 

Council will receive the Skate 

Committee Report, starting with the 

SSC’s overfishing limit and acceptable 

biological catch recommendations for 

the 2022–23 fishing years. The Council 

will take final action on 2022–23 skate 

specifications. Following this 

discussion, the Council will receive an 

update on recent meetings of the 

Northeast Trawl Advisory Panel 

(NTAP). The Council will review and 

approve a revised NTAP charter. After 

that, the Council will adjourn for the 

day. 

Thursday, September 30, 2021 

The Council will begin the third day 

of its meeting with a report from its 

Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management 

(EBFM) Committee, which will include 

updates on: (1) EBFM public 

information workshops; (2) National 

Standard 1 issues related to potentially 

managing catches by stock complex 

rather than as individual stocks; and (3) 

a potential committee recommendation 

for an example EBFM Management 

Strategy Evaluation exercise. The 

Habitat Committee Report will follow. 

The Council will receive updates on: (1) 

Recent Council comments to federal 

agencies on offshore wind projects and 

other issues; (2) upcoming comment 

opportunities; and (3) other habitatrelated work. The Monkfish Committee 

then will report on its discussion of 

analyses of discard estimation methods 

and potential next steps resulting from 

this work. Next, the Northeast Fisheries 

Science Center will provide a 

presentation on the peer review of the 

June 2021 Management Track Stock 

Assessments for black sea bass, scup, 

Atlantic mackerel, and golden tilefish. 

This will be followed by the Whiting 

Committee Report, which will include 

an overview of the committee’s 

discussion on the 2020 Annual 

Monitoring Report and follow-up on 

whether management adjustments are 

needed. 

After the lunch break, members of the 

public will have the opportunity to 

speak during an open comment period 

on issues that relate to Council business 

but are not included on the published 

agenda for this meeting. The Council 

asks the public to limit remarks to 3–5 

minutes. These comments will be 

received through the webinar. A guide 

for how to publicly comment through 

the webinar is available on the Council 

website at https://s3.amazonaws.com/ 

nefmc.org/NEFMC-meeting-remoteparticipation_generic.pdf. Following the 

public comment period, the Council 

will begin its initial discussion on 2022 

Council Priorities for all fishery 

management plans and other Council 

responsibilities. Final action on 2022 

priorities will take place during the 

Council’s December 2021 meeting. After 

this discussion, the Council will close 

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Although non-emergency issues not 

contained on this agenda may come 

before the Council for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during this meeting. Council 

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 MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and 

Management 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 being conducted 

entirely by webinar. Requests for 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

Thomas A. Nies (see ADDRESSES) at least 

5 days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: September 3, 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–XB397] 

Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Gulf of Mexico Fishery 

Management Council (Council) will 

hold a four-day in-person and virtual 

(hybrid) meeting of its Standing, Reef 

Fish, Socioeconomic, and Ecosystem 

Scientific and Statistical Committees 

(SSC). 

DATES: The meeting will take place 

Monday, September 27 to Thursday, 

September 30, 2021, from 8:30 a.m. to 

5 p.m., EDT daily. 

ADDRESSES: The in-person meeting will 

take place at the Gulf Council office. If 

you are unable to travel, you may attend 

via webinar. Registration information 

will be available on the Council’s 

website by visiting www.gulfcouncil.org 

and clicking on the SSC meeting on the 

calendar. 

Council address: Gulf of Mexico 

Fishery Management Council, 4107 W 

Spruce Street, Suite 200, Tampa, FL 

33607; telephone: (813) 348–1630. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Ryan Rindone, Lead Fishery Biologist, 

Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management 

Council; ryan.rindone@gulfcouncil.org, 

telephone: (813) 348–1630. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Monday, September 27, 2021; 8:30 

a.m.–5 p.m., EDT 

The meeting will begin with 

Introductions and Adoption of Agenda, 

Approval of Verbatim Minutes and 

Meeting Summary from the August 

9–11, 2021 webinar meeting, and review 

of Scope of Work. The Committees will 

select an SSC Representative for the 

October 25–28, 2021 Gulf Council 

Meeting, and then briefly discuss the 

Final Draft of the Scientific and Statistic 

Committee’s Best Practices and Voting 

Procedures. Next, the Committees will 

review and discuss a Decision Tree for 

Making Informed Decisions on 

Parameters for Yield Projections, along 

with an Evaluation of a Novel Projection 

Method to Streamline Allocationinformed Yields. 

The Committees will review and 

discuss SEDAR 70: Gulf of Mexico 

Greater Amberjack Stock Assessment, 

including presentations, discussion of 

Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) 

proxies, and projections using the 

updated method. The Committees will 

then review and discuss the Terms of 

Reference for Gulf of Mexico Migratory 

Group Spanish Mackerel Operational 

Assessment, followed by the Scope of 

Work for Gulf of Mexico Migratory 

Group Cobia Operational Assessment. 

Tuesday, September 28, 2021; 8:30 

a.m.–5 p.m., EDT 

The Committees will review a 

presentation and supporting 

documentation for Red Tide Ecosystem 

Modeling. Next, the Committees will 

review and discuss SEDAR 72: Gulf of 

Mexico Gag Stock Assessment Report, 

including presentations on the data, 

analyses, and projections used in the 

assessment. The Committees will then 

review a presentation on Using Field 

Experiments to Assess Alternative 

Mechanisms for Distributing Fish to the 

Recreational Sector. 

Wednesday, September 29, 2021; 8:30 

a.m.–5 p.m., EDT 

The Committees will spend the day 

reviewing the LGL Ecological Associates 

absolute abundance study of Red 

Snapper off Louisiana, beginning with 

the Introduction: Estimating Absolute 

Abundance of Red Snapper off 

Louisiana. The Committees will review 

presentations on Study Area and 

Habitats, Habitat Areas and Discrete 

Structures, and Sampling Sites. Next, 

the Committees will review Field 

Surveys and Sample Processing, with 

presentations on: Hydroacoustic Field 

Surveys and Initial Data Processing; 

Hydroacoustic Data Processing 

Methods; and Other Survey Methods, 

including Camera Surveys, Hook and 

Line Surveys, Mark/Recapture Surveys, 

and Age Determinations. The 

Committees will then review Statistical 

Analyses and Modeling, with 

presentations on Mean Site Abundance 

of Red Snapper, Modeled Abundance of 

Red Snapper, Mark/Recapture 

Population Estimates, and Growth and 

Condition. The Committees will then 

review the project Results, with 

presentations on Mean Site Abundance 

Results; Modeled Site Abundance; and 

Age, Growth, and Condition. Finally, 

the Committees will have Discussion, 

with presentations on Overall 

Abundance, Impact on Stock Status, and 

Summary and Conclusions. 

Thursday, September 30, 2021; 8:30 

a.m.–5 p.m., EDT 

The Committees will review the 

Finalized Great Red Snapper Count 

Report, including a presentation on the 

Response to Reviewer Comments and 

Final Project Outcomes. Next the 

Committees will receive a presentation 

on the Essential Fish Habitat 

Consultation Process, followed by 

reviews of the SEDAR Schedule and the 

Council’s Interim Analysis Schedule. 

The Committees will then review the 

Standardized Bycatch Reporting 

Methodology. Lastly, the Committees 

will receive public comment before 

addressing any items under Other 

Business. 

—Meeting Adjourns 

The meeting will be also be broadcast 

via webinar. You may register for the 

webinar by visiting www.gulfcouncil.org 

and clicking on the SSC meeting on the 

calendar. 

The Agenda is subject to change, and 

the latest version along with other 

meeting materials will be posted on 

www.gulfcouncil.org as they become 

available. 

Although other non-emergency issues 

not on the agenda may come before the 

Scientific and Statistical Committees for 

discussion, in accordance with the 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act, 

those issues may not be the subject of 

formal action during this meeting. 

Actions of the Scientific and Statistical 

Committee will be restricted to those 


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