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meetings at least two days prior to the 

meeting. 

DATES: Monday, April 25, 2022, 4:00 

p.m.–5:30 p.m. EDT. The deadline for 

members of the public to register for the 

meeting or to submit written comments 

for dissemination prior to the meeting is 

5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 20, 

2022. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held 

virtually. The access information will be 

provided by email to registrants. 

Requests to register (including to speak 

or for auxiliary aids) and any written 

comments should be submitted by email 

to TTAB@trade.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Aguinaga, the United States 

Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, 

National Travel and Tourism Office, 

U.S. Department of Commerce; 

telephone: 202–482–2404; email: 

TTAB@trade.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Public Participation: The meeting will 

be open to the public and will be 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Any member of the public requesting to 

join the meeting is asked to register in 

advance by the deadline identified 

under the DATES caption. Requests for 

auxiliary aids must be submitted by the 

registration deadline. Last minute 

requests will be accepted but may not be 

possible to fill. There will be fifteen (15) 

minutes allotted for oral comments from 

members of the public joining the 

meeting. To accommodate as many 

speakers as possible, the time for public 

comments may be limited to three (3) 

minutes per person. Members of the 

public wishing to reserve speaking time 

during the meeting must submit a 

request at the time of registration, as 

well as the name and address of the 

proposed speaker. If the number of 

registrants requesting to make 

statements is greater than can be 

reasonably accommodated during the 

meeting, the International Trade 

Administration may conduct a lottery to 

determine the speakers. Speakers are 

requested to submit a written copy of 

their prepared remarks by 5:00 p.m. 

EDT on Wednesday, April 20, 2022, for 

inclusion in the meeting records and for 

circulation to the members of the Board. 

In addition, any member of the public 

may submit pertinent written comments 

concerning the Board’s affairs at any 

time before or after the meeting. 

Comments may be submitted to Jennifer 

Aguinaga at the contact information 

indicated above. EDT on Wednesday, 

April 20, 2022, to ensure transmission 

to the Board prior to the meeting. 

Comments received after that date and 

time will be transmitted to the Board 

but may not be considered during the 

meeting. Copies of Board meeting 

minutes will be available within 90 days 

of the meeting. 

This Notice is published pursuant to 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended (FACA), 5 U.S.C., app., 9(c). It 

has been determined that the Committee 

is necessary and in the public interest. 

The Committee was established 

pursuant to Commerce’s authority under 

15 U.S.C. 1512, established under the 

FACA, as amended, 5 U.S.C. app., and 

with the concurrence of the General 

Services Administration. 

Jennifer Aguinaga, 

Designated Federal Officer, United States 

Travel and Tourism Advisory Board. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XB947] 

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council (MAFMC); Public Meetings and 

Request for Comments 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; public meetings and 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council (Council) will 

hold five public hearings (including one 

webinar) and accept written comments 

regarding an action intended to rebuild 

the Atlantic mackerel stock. 

DATES: The hearings will be held 

between April 25, 2022 and May 2, 

2022. Written comments must be 

received by May 9, 2022. See 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for details, 

including the dates and times for all 

hearings. 

ADDRESSES: See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for hearing details. 

Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council, 800 N State 

Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; 

telephone: (302) 674–2331; 

www.mafmc.org. 

Written comments may be submitted 

to: 

• Email to: jdidden@mafmc.org (use 

subject ‘‘Mackerel Rebuilding’’). 

• Via webform at: https://

www.mafmc.org/comments/mackerelrebuilding. 

• Mail to: Chris Moore, Ph.D., 

Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic 

Fishery Management Council, 800 North 

State Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901. 

Mark the outside of the envelope 

‘‘Mackerel Rebuilding.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive 

Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council, telephone: (302) 

526–5255. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Council will hold five public hearings 

and accept written comments regarding 

an action intended to rebuild the 

Atlantic mackerel stock. Potential 

management measures include 

commercial quotas, recreational bag 

limits, a 3-inch commercial minimum 

mesh requirement, and permitting 

clarifications. The action would also 

continue to set a river herring and shad 

catch cap for the mackerel fishery. A 

public hearing document with 

additional details can be found at 

https://www.mafmc.org/actions/ 

atlantic-mackerel-rebuildingamendment. 

Hearing 1—New Bedford, 

Massachusetts, Monday, April 25, 

2022, 6 p.m.–9 p.m., Fairfield Inn and 

Suites, 185 MacArthur Drive, New 

Bedford, MA 02740, phone: (774) 

634–2000; 

Hearing 2—Plymouth, Massachusetts, 

Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 6 p.m.–9 

p.m., Hilton Garden Inn, 4 Home 

Depot Drive, Plymouth, MA 02360, 

phone: (508) 830–0200; 

Hearing 3—Portsmouth, New 

Hampshire, Wednesday, April 27, 

2022, 6 p.m.–8 p.m., Urban Forestry 

Center. 45 Elwyn Rd, Portsmouth, NH 

03801; phone: (603) 431–6774; 

Hearing 4—Brunswick, Maine, 

Thursday, April 28, 2022, 5:30 p.m.– 

8 p.m., Curtis Memorial Library 

(Morrell Meeting Room), 23 Pleasant 

Street, Brunswick, ME 04011, phone: 

(207) 725–5242; and 

Hearing 5—Webinar: Monday, May 2, 

2022, 6 p.m.–10 p.m. Connection 

details can be found at the Council’s 

website calendar or https://

www.mafmc.org/actions/atlanticmackerel-rebuilding-amendment. 

Written comments are accepted at the 

hearings or via the submission methods 

described above, by May 9, 2022. 

Special Accommodations 

These meetings are 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. 


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21098 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 69 / Monday, April 11, 2022 / Notices 

Dated: April 6, 2022. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2022–07695 Filed 4–8–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XB898] 

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to 

Specified Activities; Taking Marine 

Mammals Incidental to Marine Site 

Characterization Surveys Offshore of 

New Jersey 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments on 

proposed Renewal incidental 

harassment authorization (IHA). 

SUMMARY: NMFS received a request from 

Ocean Wind LLC (Ocean Wind) for the 

Renewal of their currently active 

incidental harassment authorization 

(IHA) to take marine mammals 

incidental to marine site 

characterization survey activities off the 

coast of New Jersey in the areas of the 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

(BOEM) Commercial Lease of 

Submerged Lands for Renewable Energy 

Development on the Outer Continental 

Shelf (OCS)–A 0498 (Lease Area) and 

federal and state waters along potential 

export cable routes (ECRs) to landfall 

locations between Raritan Bay (part of 

the New York Bight) and Delaware Bay. 

These activities are identical to those 

covered in the current authorization, 

which expires on May 9, 2022. Pursuant 

to the Marine Mammal Protection Act, 

prior to issuing the currently active IHA, 

NMFS requested comments on both the 

proposed IHA and the potential for 

renewing the initial authorization if 

certain requirements were satisfied. The 

Renewal requirements have been 

satisfied, and NMFS is now providing 

an additional 15-day comment period to 

allow for any additional comments on 

the proposed Renewal not previously 

provided during the initial 30-day 

comment period. 

DATES: Comments and information must 

be received no later than April 26, 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.Harlacher@

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. Attachments to 

comments will be accepted in Microsoft 

Word or Excel or Adobe PDF file 

formats only. All comments received are 

a part of the public record and will 

generally be posted online at https://

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: 

Jenna Harlacher, Office of Protected 

Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401. 

Electronic copies of the original 

application, Renewal request, and 

supporting documents (including NMFS 

Federal Register notices of the original 

proposed and final authorizations, and 

the previous IHA), 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 Marine Mammal Protection Act 

(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, an incidental 

harassment authorization is issued. 

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 such species or stocks for 

taking for certain subsistence uses 

(referred to here as ‘‘mitigation 

measures’’). Monitoring and reporting of 

such takings are also required. The 

meaning of key terms such as ‘‘take,’’ 

‘‘harassment,’’ and ‘‘negligible impact’’ 

can be found in section 3 of the MMPA 

(16 U.S.C. 1362) and the agency’s 

regulations at 50 CFR 216.103. 

NMFS’ regulations implementing the 

MMPA at 50 CFR 216.107(e) indicate 

that IHAs may be renewed for 

additional periods of time not to exceed 

one year for each reauthorization. In the 

notice of proposed IHA for the initial 

authorization (86 FR 17783; April 06, 

2021), NMFS described the 

circumstances under which we would 

consider issuing a Renewal for this 

activity, and requested public comment 

on a potential Renewal under those 

circumstances. Specifically, on a caseby-case basis, NMFS may issue a onetime one-year Renewal IHA following 

notice to the public providing an 

additional 15 days for public comments 

when (1) up to another year of identical, 

or nearly identical, activities as 

described in the Detailed Description of 

Specified Activities section of the initial 

IHA issuance notice is planned or (2) 

the activities as described in the 

Description of the Specified Activities 

and Anticipated Impacts section of this 

notice would not be completed by the 

time the initial IHA expires and a 

Renewal would allow for completion of 

the activities beyond that described in 

the DATES section of the notice of 

issuance of the initial IHA, provided all 

of the following conditions are met: 

1. A request for renewal is received no 

later than 60 days prior to the needed 

Renewal IHA effective date (recognizing 

that the Renewal IHA expiration date 

cannot extend beyond one year from 

expiration of the initial IHA). 

2. The request for renewal must 

include the following: 

• An explanation that the activities to 

be conducted under the requested 

Renewal IHA are identical to the 

activities analyzed under the initial 

IHA, are a subset of the activities, or 

include changes so minor (e.g., 

reduction in pile size) that the changes 

do not affect the previous analyses, 

mitigation and monitoring 

requirements, or take estimates (with 

the exception of reducing the type or 

amount of take). 


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