33470 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 106 / Thursday, June 2, 2022 / Notices 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held by 

web conference via Webex. Instructions 

for connecting to the web conference 

and providing oral public comments 

will be posted on the Council website at 

www.wpcouncil.org. For assistance with 

the web conference connection, contact 

the Council office at (808) 522–8220. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director, 

Western Pacific Fishery Management 

Council; telephone: (808) 522–8220. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The REAC 

meeting will be held between 1 p.m. 

and 4 p.m. on June 17, 2022, Hawaii 

Standard Time. Public comment periods 

will be provided in the agendas. The 

order in which agenda items are 

addressed may change. The meeting 

will run as late as necessary to complete 

scheduled business. 

Agenda for the REAC Meeting 

1. Welcome and Introductions 

2. Overview of the Past REAC Meetings 

and REAC Responsibilities 

3. Seafood Strategy 

4. Topics for Future REAC Discussion 

5. Public Comment 

6. Other Business 

7. Discussion and Recommendations 

Special Accommodations 

The meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

Kitty M. Simonds, phone: (808) 522– 

8220 (voice) or (808) 522–8226 (fax), at 

least 5 days prior to the meeting date. 

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

Dated: May 26, 2022. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2022–11796 Filed 6–1–22; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XC027] 

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 workshop 

to develop methods for constructing 

abundance indices based on hook-andline surveys. Additionally, the SSC 

Groundfish Subcommittee will review 

the Species Distribution Model in 

Template Model Builder. The workshop 

and methodology review meeting is 

open to the public. 

DATES: The SSC Groundfish 

Subcommittee’s online workshop and 

methodology review meeting will be 

held Tuesday, June 21, 2022 through 

Thursday, June 23, 2022 beginning at 8 

a.m. each day and continuing until 5 

p.m. Pacific Time or until business for 

the day has been completed. 

ADDRESSES: The SSC Groundfish 

Subcommittee’s methodology review 

meeting and workshop 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 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 develop 

methods and best practices for 

constructing abundance indices based 

on hook-and-line surveys in a 

workshop. Recommendations of SSC 

Groundfish Subcommittee members will 

inform the 2023 Accepted Practices 

Guidelines for Stock Assessments, 

which is a compilation of guidelines for 

groundfish stock assessment scientists. 

Additionally, the SSC Groundfish 

Subcommittee will review the Species 

Distribution Model in Template Model 

Builder (sdmTMB). The sdmTMB model 

is proposed for developing relative 

biomass indices in future groundfish 

stock assessments. The SSC Groundfish 

Subcommittee report of workshop and 

methodology review findings and 

recommendations will be provided to 

the Pacific Council and the SSC at the 

November 2022 Pacific Council 

meeting. 

No management actions will be 

decided by the SSC 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 November 2022 

Pacific Council meeting. 

Although nonemergency issues not 

contained in the meeting agendas may 

be discussed, those issues may not be 

the subject of formal action during these 

meetings. 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 

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: May 26, 2022. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2022–11795 Filed 6–1–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XC039] 

Taking and Importing Marine 

Mammals; Taking Marine Mammals 

Incidental to Construction and 

Operation of the Sunrise Wind 

Offshore Wind Farm, Offshore New 

York 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; receipt of application for 

regulations and Letter of Authorization; 

request for comments and information. 

SUMMARY: NMFS has received a petition 

from Sunrise Wind, LLC (Sunrise 

Wind), a 50/50 joint venture between 

Orsted North America Inc. (Orsted) and 

Eversource Investment LLC 

(Eversource), requesting authorization to 

take small numbers of marine mammals 

incidental to construction and operation 

activities associated with the Sunrise 

Wind Offshore Wind Farm in a 

designated lease area on the Outer 

Continental Shelf (OSC–A 0487) 


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