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advice on the activities, plans and 

policies of the Program; (2) assessments 

of the soundness of the plans and 

strategies of the Program; and (3) 

assessments of current performance 

against the plans of the Program. 

Background information on the MEP 

Advisory Board is available at http://

www.nist.gov/mep/about/advisoryboard.cfm. 

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 

app., notice is hereby given that the 

MEP Advisory Board will meet on 

Wednesday, June 8, 2022 from 9:00 a.m. 

to 3:00 p.m. Central Time. The meeting 

will be open to the public except for the 

closed session. The public portion of the 

meeting will include an update on MEP 

programmatic operations, as well as a 

discussion on current activities related 

to the MEP National NetworkTM 2017– 

2022 Strategic Plan. During the closed 

session on Wednesday, June 8, 2022 

from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Central 

Time the MEP Advisory Board will 

discuss the status of developing the 

MEP National NetworkTM 2023–2028 

Strategic Plan. 

The agenda may change to 

accommodate committee business. The 

final agenda will be posted on the MEP 

Advisory Board website at http://

www.nist.gov/mep/about/advisoryboard.cfm. 

Individuals and representatives of 

organizations who would like to offer 

comments and suggestions related to the 

MEP Advisory Board’s business are 

invited to request a place on the agenda. 

Approximately 15 minutes will be 

reserved for public comments at the end 

of the meeting. Speaking times will be 

assigned on a first-come, first-served 

basis. The amount of time per speaker 

will be determined by the number of 

requests received but is likely to be no 

more than three to five minutes each. 

Requests must be submitted by email to 

cheryl.gendron@nist.gov and must be 

received by June 6, 2022 to be 

considered. The exact time for public 

comments will be included in the final 

agenda that will be posted on the MEP 

Advisory Board website at http://

www.nist.gov/mep/about/advisoryboard.cfm. Questions from the public 

will not be considered during this 

period. Speakers who wish to expand 

upon their oral statements, those who 

wished to speak but could not be 

accommodated on the agenda or those 

who are/were unable to attend the 

meeting are invited to submit written 

statements electronically by email to 

cheryl.gendron@nist.gov. 

The Acting Chief Financial Officer 

and Assistant Secretary for 

Administration, with the concurrence of 

the Assistant General Counsel for 

Employment, Litigation, and 

Information, formally determined, 

pursuant to Section 10(d) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, as amended 

by Section 5(c) of the Government in the 

Sunshine Act, Public Law 94–409, that 

the meeting of the MEP Advisory Board 

may be partially closed to the public in 

accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(4), 

because the meeting is likely to disclose 

trade secrets and commercial or 

financial information obtained from a 

person and that are privileged or 

confidential. During the closed session, 

the Board will receive an update and 

initial findings from data analysis that 

was used to draft the MEP National 

NetworkTM 2023–2028 Strategic Plan, 

which contains confidential and 

proprietary information. The data 

analyzed includes Personally 

Identifiable Information (PII) and 

Business Identifiable Information (BII) 

from MEP Centers’ clients as well as 

additional confidential material that is 

managed by an independent third party 

for privacy and proprietary sensitivities. 

This data has been used to provide vital 

criterion and selection of an architecture 

for the new 2023–2028 strategic plan. 

Pursuant to 41 CFR 102–3.150(b), the 

Federal Register notice for this meeting 

is being published fewer than 15 

calendar days prior to the meeting as 

exceptional circumstances exist. It is 

imperative that the meeting be held on 

June 8, 2022 to accommodate the 

scheduling priorities of the key 

participants. In addition, MEP did not 

become aware until recently that they 

would need to discuss the MEP National 

NetworkTM 2023–2028 Strategic Plan at 

the June 2022 MEP Advisory Board 

Meeting, which necessitated 

commencing meeting closure 

procedures in accordance with 41 CFR 

102–3.155; the original anticipate date 

for the discussion was August 2022. The 

Federal Register notice could not be 

published previously due to the need to 

accommodate the key participants’ 

schedules, as well as the logistical and 

scheduling challenges of arranging for 

an in-person meeting as well as 

potential virtual options due to the 

COVID–19 pandemic. 

Admittance Instructions: Anyone 

wishing to attend the MEP Advisory 

Board meeting must submit their name, 

email address and phone number to 

Cheryl Gendron (Cheryl.Gendron@

nist.gov or 301–975–2785) no later than 

Monday, June 6, 2022, 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time. 

Alicia Chambers, 

Executive Secretariat. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XC079] 

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic 

Zone Off Alaska; Request for 

Information on Bristol Bay Red King 

Crab Mortality Mitigation Measures 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notification; Request for 

Information (RFI). 

SUMMARY: The North Pacific Fishery 

Management Council (Council) is 

requesting information from the public 

on ways to reduce fishing related 

mortality for Bristol Bay red king crab 

(BBRKC). Information from commercial 

fishing sectors is critical to that effort 

and, therefore, the Council is seeking 

public input. This notice invites the 

public to submit written comments on 

the topic generally and in response to 

specific questions outlined below. 

DATES: Comments must be received via 

the Council’s eAgenda meeting portal by 

5 p.m. AKT on September 23, 2022 at 

https://meetings.npfmc.org/Meeting/ 

Details/2941. 

ADDRESSES: Please submit written 

comments to the Council’s’ eAgenda 

meeting portal, at ‘‘Bristol Bay Red King 

Crab—Request for Information (RFI)’’: 

https://meetings.npfmc.org/Meeting/ 

Details/2941 by the September 23, 2022, 

deadline. 

Council address: North Pacific 

Fishery Management Council, 1007 W 

3rd Ave., Anchorage, AK 99501–2252; 

telephone: (907) 271–2809. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sam 

Cunningham, Council staff; email: 

sam.cunningham@noaa.gov; telephone: 

(907) 271–2809. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The results of the 2021 eastern Bering 

Sea bottom trawl survey continued a 

trend of overall decreasing BBRKC 

biomass. This trend is primarily driven 

by a decrease in mature female red king 

crab abundance. While the abundance 

of female red king crab has been low in 


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recent years, 2021 was the first year 

since 1995 that the mature female red 

king crab abundance fell below the 

established threshold in the State of 

Alaska’s harvest strategy to hold a 

directed fishery. As a result, the 

directed BBRKC fishery was closed for 

the 2021/22 season. To better 

understand the decline of BBRKC and 

scope potential management actions 

that are within the Council’s authority, 

the Council has reviewed an analysis of 

trawl gear crab prohibited species catch 

limits (February 2021) and an 

emergency rule analysis to expand the 

Red King Crab Savings Area (RKCSA) in 

the Bering Sea (December 2021). In 

April 2022, the Council reviewed a 

discussion paper addressing an array of 

topics including red king crab biology, 

existing management and stock 

assessment boundaries, seafloor contact 

by pelagic trawl gear, and flexible 

spatial management tools used in other 

fisheries. At its April 2022 meeting, the 

Council both initiated this RFI and 

tasked Council and NMFS staff to 

produce an expanded discussion paper 

that is fully described in the April 9, 

2022, motion linked below. That paper 

will consider annual or seasonal gear 

closures to the RKCSA, provide data on 

BBRKC mortality, identify information 

that would be needed to implement 

dynamic time/area closures that could 

protect mature female BBRKC, assess 

available information on groundfish 

predation on BBRKC, and analyze the 

impacts of limiting groundfish pot gear 

activity. 

Request for Information 

This notice requests comment on the 

motion put forward by the Council on 

April 9, 2022, which can be viewed at 

https://tinyurl.com/D1BBRKCcouncil

motion4-9-22. In particular, the Council 

wishes to hear from Bering Sea 

commercial fishery sectors that may 

cause BBRKC mortality, including both 

directed crab fishing and directed 

groundfish fishing where red king crab 

are encountered. See ADDRESSES for 

information on how to submit 

comments. 

The scope of public comments is not 

limited, but questions that may be 

considered include: 

1. Voluntary measures for 

implementation in 2023 and beyond to 

avoid BBRKC and reduce crab mortality 

in the non-directed fisheries; 

2. Measures in the directed crab 

fishery to reduce discard mortality of 

BBRKC; 

3. Description of research that would 

inform development of more flexible 

and effective spatial management 

measures; gear modifications to reduce 

impacts on the BBRKC stock, or to 

evaluate unobserved mortality in the 

trawl sector. 

The Council will review comments 

submitted in response to this request for 

information at the October 2022 Council 

meeting, which is scheduled to begin on 

October 3, 2022. The schedule and 

agenda will be available prior to that 

meeting. All responses to this request 

for information will be posted and 

publicly available on the Council 

agenda for the October 2022 meeting. 

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

Dated: June 1, 2022. 

Jennifer M. Wallace, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XC056] 

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 (MAFMC) 

Bluefish Advisory Panel will hold a 

public meeting, jointly with the Atlantic 

States Marine Fisheries Commission 

(ASMFC) Bluefish Advisory Panel. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Wednesday, June 22, 2022, from 5 p.m. 

to 6 p.m. For agenda details, see 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held 

via webinar. Webinar connection, 

agenda items, and any additional 

information will be available at 

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 this meeting is for the 

Advisory Panel to develop a fishery 

performance report (FPR). The intent of 

the FPR is to facilitate a venue for 

structured input from the Advisory 

Panel for the bluefish specifications 

process. The FPR will be used by the 

MAFMC’s Scientific and Statistical 

Committee (SSC) and the Bluefish 

Monitoring Committee (MC) when 

reviewing 2023 management measures 

designed to achieve the recommended 

bluefish catch and landings limits. 

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 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: June 1, 2022. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2022–12057 Filed 6–3–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

BUREAU OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL 

PROTECTION 

[Docket No. CFPB–2022–0035] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Submission for OMB 

Review: Comment Request 

AGENCY: Bureau of Consumer Financial 

Protection. 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), the Consumer Financial 

Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) is 

requesting Office of Management and 

Budget’s (OMB’s) approval of a generic 

Information Collection titled, ‘‘Making 

Ends Meet Survey,’’ under the Generic 

Information Collection Plan entitled, 

‘‘Generic Information Collection Plan 

for Surveys Using the Consumer Credit 

Panel.’’ 

DATES: Written comments are 

encouraged and must be received on or 

before July 6, 2022 to be assured of 

consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. In general, all 

comments received will become public 

records, including any personal 

information provided. Sensitive 


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