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be restricted to those issues specifically 

identified in this notice and any issues 

arising after publication of this notice 

that require emergency action under 

Section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Act, provided the public has been 

notified of the Council’s intent to take 

final action to address the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to Gail 

Bendixen at (907) 271–2809 at least 7 

working days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: April 27, 2010. 

William D. Chappell, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–10187 Filed 4–30–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XW17 

North Pacific 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: North Pacific Fishery 

Management Council will host a 

meeting of the Council Coordination 

Committee (CCC), consisting of the 

Regional Fishery Management Council 

chairs, vice chairs, and executive 

directors on May 19–20–21, 2010. 

DATES: The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. 

on Wednesday, May 19, 2010, recess at 

5:30 p.m. or when business is complete; 

reconvene at 8 a.m. on Thursday, May 

20, 2010, recess at 5:15 p.m. or when 

business is complete; and reconvene at 

8 a.m. on Friday, 21, 2010 and adjourn 

by 12 noon. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Hotel Captain Cook, 939 W 5th 

Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. 

Council address: North Pacific 

Fishery Management Council, 605 W. 

4th Avenue, Suite 306, Anchorage, AK 

99501–2252. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chris Oliver; telephone: (907) 271–2809. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Agenda 

Wednesday, May 19, 1 p.m. 

Welcome comments and open session 

with Councils; Report from North 

Pacific Research Board/Alaska Ocean 

Observing System; adopt the CCC Terms 

of Reference; discuss Ocean Policy Task 

Force and Coastal and Marine Spatial 

Planning; Catch Share Implementation 

Plan. 

Thursday, May 20, 8 a.m. 

Council progress on developing Catch 

Share Programs; Annual Catch Limits 

(ACLs), and Scientific Statistical 

Committee integration. Updates on 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA); Marine Protection Area (MPA) 

nominations; President’s budget and 

other budget issues, 2010 National SSC 

workshop, National Standard 2 

Guidelines; Council/NMFS relations 

concerning regulatory review process; 

Outreach activities; Recreational Fishery 

Report; and Endangered Species/Marine 

Mammal Protection Act issues. 

Friday, May 21, 8 a.m. 

Discuss Statement of Organizations, 

Operations and Procedures (SOPPS); 

Enforcement Issues; 5-year grant 

application process; and discuss the 

January 2011 CCC meeting agenda. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, in 

accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during these meetings. Actions 

will be restricted to those issues 

specifically identified in this notice and 

any issues arising after publication of 

this notice that require emergency 

action under Section 305(c) of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Act, provided the 

public has been notified of the Council’s 

intent to take final action to address the 

emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

These meetings are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 

should be directed to Gail Bendixen at 

(907) 271–2809 at least 7 working days 

prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: April 27, 2010. 

William D. Chappell, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–10186 Filed 4–30–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XW16 

New England 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 New England Fishery 

Management Council (Council) is 

scheduling a public meeting of its Joint 

Skate Committee and Advisory Panel, in 

May, 2010, to consider actions affecting 

New England fisheries in the exclusive 

economic zone (EEZ). 

Recommendations from this group will 

be brought to the full Council for formal 

consideration and action, if appropriate. 

DATES: This meeting will be held on 

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held at 

the Holiday Inn, One Newbury Street, 

Peabody, MA 01960; telephone: (978) 

535–4600; fax: (978) 535–8238. 

Council address: New England 

Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 

Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

J. Howard, Executive Director, New 

England Fishery Management Council; 

telephone: (978) 465–0492. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Oversight Committee and Advisory 

Panel will meet jointly to discuss and 

develop alternatives and options for an 

action that would amend the Skate 

Fishery Management Plan for the 2011 

and 2012 fishing years, based on 

updated survey and fishery information. 

Other unrelated skate management 

issues may also be discussed at the 

Chair’s discretion, but no formal action 

will be taken on them. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during this meeting. 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 

Act, provided the public has been 

notified of the Council’s intent to take 

final action to address the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 


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auxiliary aids should be directed to Paul 

J. Howard, Executive Director, at (978) 

465–0492, at least 5 days prior to the 

meeting date. 

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

Dated: April 27, 2010. 

William D. Chappell, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–10185 Filed 4–30–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XW15 

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 will convene a 

meeting of the Standing, Special Reef 

Fish and Special Red Drum Scientific 

and Statistical Committees. 

DATES: The meeting will convene at 9 

a.m. on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 and 

conclude by 3 p.m. on Friday, May 21, 

2010. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management 

Council, 2203 North Lois Avenue, Suite 

1100, Tampa, FL 33607; telephone: 

(813) 348–1630. 

Council address: Gulf of Mexico 

Fishery Management Council, 2203 N. 

Lois Avenue, Suite 1100, Tampa, FL 

33607. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Steven Atran, Population Dynamics 

Statistician; Gulf of Mexico Fishery 

Management Council; telephone: (813) 

348–1630. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Committee will meet to discuss a 

number of issues related to the 

development of Reef Fish Amendment 

32 (gag rebuilding and gag and red 

grouper adjustments to annual catch 

limits) and the Generic Annual Catch 

Limits/Accountability Measures (ACL/ 

AM) Amendment. During part of the 

meeting, the Standing SSC will meet 

jointly with the Special Red Drum SSC 

to review available information to 

determine if a red drum acceptable 

biological catch (ABC) can be 

established in the exclusive economic 

zone (EEZ). The remainder of the 

meeting will be a joint meeting of the 

Standing and Special Reef Fish SSC. 

The SSC will (1) review updated yield 

projections for gag and red grouper that 

incorporate 2009 landings data and will 

re-evaluate their ABC recommendations 

for these stocks based on the new 

information; (2) review a decisionmaking spreadsheet being prepared by 

the Southeast Regional Office for 

analyses of combinations of bag limits, 

closed seasons, minimum size limits 

and slot limits for the recreational gag 

fishery to determine if use of the 

spreadsheet represents the best available 

scientific information when evaluating 

potential management measures; (3) 

review a critique by the Southeast 

Fisheries Science Center of a species 

groupings analyses prepared by the 

Southeast Regional Office, and will 

consider possible revisions to the 

proposed species groupings for 

purposes of setting annual catch limits; 

(4) develop a strategy for assigning 

ABCs to species and species groupings 

that require an ABC under the Generic 

ACL/AM Amendment; (5) continue the 

process of developing an ABC control 

rule for assigning future ABCs; (6) 

review tentative ABC values used by the 

Council on an interim basis in order to 

develop alternatives for allowable 

octocorals, stone crab claws, royal red 

shrimp, and the Peneid shrimp species 

in the Generic ACL/AM Amendment 

options paper; and (7) discuss possible 

strategies to resolve differences between 

the Gulf Council SSC and the South 

Atlantic Council SSC in ABC 

recommendations for the black grouper 

stock, which straddles jurisdictional 

boundaries. 

Copies of the agenda and other related 

materials can be obtained by calling 

(813) 348–1630 or can be downloaded 

from the Council’s ftp site, 

ftp.gulfcouncil.org. 

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 

Committees will be restricted to those 

issues specifically identified in the 

agenda 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 Council’s intent to take action to 

address the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to Tina 

O’Hern at the Council (see ADDRESSES) 

at least 5 working days prior to the 

meeting. 

Dated: April 27, 2010. 

William D. Chappell, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–10184 Filed 4–30–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–AT31 

American Lobster Fishery 

Management 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meetings; 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: NMFS has prepared a draft 

environmental impact statement (DEIS) 

that identifies several proposed 

management actions and alternatives for 

the American lobster fishery in Federal 

waters. The management actions are 

based on recommendations to NMFS by 

the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries 

Commission (Commission) as part of the 

Commission’s Interstate Fishery 

Management Plan for American Lobster 

(ISFMP). Two of the three proposed 

management measures evaluated in the 

DEIS would implement limited access 

programs (LAPs), limiting future access 

in two Lobster Conservation 

Management Areas (Areas) Area 2 and 

the Outer Cape Area based upon 

historical participation within the 

fishery. The third proposed measure 

would implement an individual 

transferable trap program (ITT) in three 

Areas--Area 2, Area 3, and the Outer 

Cape Area. The DEIS evaluates four ITT 

alternatives. NMFS has not selected a 

preferred alternative to implement the 

ITT program. NMFS will hold public 

meetings to receive comments on the 

potential biological, economic, and 

social impacts of proposed measures 

evaluated in this DEIS. 

DATES: Written comments on the DEIS 

must be received no later than 5 p.m., 

Eastern Standard Time, on June 29, 

2010. Also, verbal comments may be 

presented at public meetings which are 


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