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project proposals to be funded with 

Title II money; (4) Create a timeline to 

receive and review new project 

proposals and schedule the next 

meeting; and (5) Public Comment. 

Persons who wish to bring related 

matters to the attention of the 

Committee may file written statements 

with the Committee staff before or after 

the meeting. 

Dated: September 2, 2010. 

Dan S. Dallas, 

Forest Supervisor. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–11–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XY90 

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) will 

hold a three-day Council meeting to 

consider actions affecting New England 

fisheries in the exclusive economic zone 

(EEZ). 

DATES: The meetings will be held 

Tuesday, September 28 through 

Thursday, September 30, 2010. The 

meeting will begin each day at 8:30 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Hotel Viking, One Bellevue Avenue, 

Newport, RI 02840; telephone: (401) 

847–3300; fax: (401) 848–4864. 

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: 

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 

Following introductions and any 

announcements, reappointed members 

will be sworn in for their three-year 

terms and the Council will hold 

elections for 2010–11 officers. These 

events will be followed by a series of 

brief reports from the Council Chairman 

and Executive Director, the NOAA 

Fisheries Regional Administrator 

(Northeast Region), NOAA General 

Counsel, Northeast Fisheries Science 

Center and Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council liaisons, and 

representatives of the U.S. Coast Guard, 

the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries 

Commission and NOAA Enforcement. 

During the remainder of the morning 

session the schedule includes a review 

of any experimental fishery permit 

applications received since the last 

Council meeting and a brief open period 

for interested parties to comment on 

issues relevant to Council business but 

not listed on the meeting agenda. There 

also will be a presentation on the MidAtlantic Fishery Management Council’s 

(MAFMC) recent action on spiny 

dogfish. Specifically, this will include 

acceptable biological catch, annual 

catch limits and accountability 

measures. The New England Council 

may take similar action on these 

measures at this meeting. The remainder 

of the day will be focused on Atlantic 

herring. The Council’s Herring 

Committee will present management 

measures included in a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Amendment 5 to the Herring Fishery 

Management Plan (FMP). Final action 

on the following is scheduled: (1) a 

catch monitoring program for the 

herring fishery (including but not 

limited to reporting requirements, 

observer coverage, portside sampling, 

measures to maximize sampling, 

measures to address net slippage, 

maximized retention, electronic 

monitoring); (2) measures to address 

river herring bycatch, interactions with 

the Atlantic mackerel fishery and to 

protect spawning fish; and (3) criteria 

for midwater trawl access to groundfish 

closed areas. 

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 

Northeast Fisheries Science Center 

staff will report on the June 2010 Stock 

Assessment Workshop/Stock 

Assessment Review Committee 

meetings which addressed the status of 

pollock, monkfish and sea scallops. This 

briefing will be followed by a report 

from the Council’s Scientific and 

Statistical Committee (SSC) Chairman. 

Issues to be reviewed include the 

committee’s recommendations for 

updated acceptable biological catches 

for monkfish, sea scallops and several 

groundfish stocks (pollock, Gulf of 

Maine winter flounder, northern and 

southern windowpane flounder, ocean 

pout and Georges Bank yellowtail 

flounder). The Council will then discuss 

the implication for management of the 

SSC report on monkfish reference points 

and acceptable biological catch 

recommendations, and possibly initiate 

a framework adjustment. Next, the 

Council will consider final measures to 

be included in Amendment 15 to the 

Atlantic Sea Scallop FMP. If approved 

these would: (1) include annual catch 

limits; (2) address excess capacity in the 

limited access scallop fishery through 

stacking of permits and/or leasing of 

scallop effort; and (3) implement several 

adjustments to make the overall FMP 

more effective including adjustments to 

the general category management 

program and the overfishing definition, 

modifications to the essential fish 

habitat (EFH) closed areas, 

modifications to the research set-aside 

program and change the start date of the 

fishing year to May 1. The meeting will 

close for the day with a report from the 

Joint Groundfish/Scallop Committee 

concerning a recommendation to 

forward advisory panel advice to this 

committee to individual committees and 

possibly suspend the joint committee 

until a future date. 

Thursday, September 30, 2010 

The last day of the Council meeting 

will begin with a briefing on 

Amendment 18 to the South Atlantic 

Council’s (SAFMC) Snapper Grouper 

FMP. 

The SAFMC is amending its FMP for 

snapper grouper complex species 

throughout their range to meet the new 

annual catch limit requirements of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Act. Based on the 

landings of some of these species in the 

New England Council’s jurisdiction, the 

SAFMC is considering extending the 

management boundaries for all species 

in the snapper grouper complex 

northward to include the New England 

Council’s jurisdiction (except black sea 

bass, golden tilefish, and scup). 

Following a presentation on the 

proposed measures, there will be an 

opportunity for the Council and public 

to ask questions and/or offer comments. 

Following this discussion, the Council 

intends to review and approve final 

measures to be included in Amendment 

3 to Red Crab FMP. The action will 

implement annual catch limits, 

accountability measures, quota-based 

management and other FMP 

modifications to address MagnusonStevens Act requirements, as well as 

include fishery specifications for 2011– 

13. A report on the July 2010 

Transboundary Resources Assessment 

Committee (TRAC) meeting will follow 

and include a review of the status of the 

transboundary stocks managed through 

the U.S./Canada Resource Sharing 

Understanding. These are Eastern 

Georges Bank cod and haddock and 

Georges Bank yellowtail flounder. Using 

information based on the TRAC report, 

the Transboundary Management 

Guidance Committee will present its 

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recommendations for fishing year 2011 

total allowable catches of these same 

stocks. The day will conclude with the 

Groundfish Committee’s Report which 

will include a recommendation to take 

initial action on Framework Adjustment 

45 to the Northeast Multispecies FMP. 

Measures under consideration include 

revising the pollock status 

determination criteria, changing the 

acceptable biological catch for pollock, 

modifying the Georges Bank yellowtail 

flounder rebuilding strategy, 

implementing measures to protect 

spawning cod in the inshore Gulf of 

Maine, implementing additional sectors, 

changing monitoring requirements for 

handgear A and B permitted vessels and 

changing the general category scallop 

vessel restrictions in the Great South 

Channel. Other issues could be 

considered as a result of the September 

3, 2010 Groundfish Committee meeting. 

The groundfish agenda items will 

continue until meeting adjournment at 

the end of the day. 

Although other non-emergency issues 

not contained in this agenda may come 

before this Council for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subjects 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 Act, provided that 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 Paul 

J. Howard (see ADDRESSES) at least 5 

days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: September 7, 2010. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[Docket No. 100820388–0388–01] 

RIN 0648–ZC20 

NOAA Regional Ocean Partnership 

Funding Program—FY2011 Funding 

Competition 

AGENCY: National Ocean Service, 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA), Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The purpose of this document 

is to advise eligible state, local, territory 

and tribal governments, regional ocean 

partnerships, institutions of higher 

learning, and non-profit and for-profit 

organizations (requirements described 

in full announcement) that NOAA is 

soliciting proposals for competitive 

funding for Regional Ocean Partnerships 

that include or emphasize regional 

Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning 

(CMSP) efforts. This competition is 

focused on advancing effective coastal 

and ocean management through regional 

ocean governance and the goals for 

national ocean policy set out in the July 

2010 Final Recommendations of the 

Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, 

which includes a national CMSP 

Framework. The Regional Ocean 

Partnership Funding Program (ROPFP) 

will support two categories of activities: 

(1) Implementation of activities that 

contribute to achieving the priorities 

identified by Regional Ocean 

Partnerships (ROPs) while also 

advancing CMSP as envisioned in the 

national CMSP Framework; and 

(2) ROP Development and Governance 

Support for administration and 

operations of existing ROPs, and for 

start-up costs of those regions beginning 

ROPs. 

Eligible entities must submit to 

NOAA full proposals on or before 

December 10, 2010, in order to 

participate in this Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 

funding opportunity. Total anticipated 

funding is approximately $20,000,000 

and is subject to the availability of FY 

2011 appropriations. Additional funds 

of approximately $10,000,000 from 

NOAA or other Federal agencies may be 

used for FY 2011 or multi-year awards 

from this competition. The start date on 

proposals should be the first day of July, 

August or September, but no later than 

October 1, of 2011. Statutory authority 

for this program is provided under 

Coastal Zone Management Act, 16 

U.S.C. 1456c (Technical Assistance). 

DATES: Full proposals must be received 

no later than 11:59 p.m. ET, December 

10, 2010. For proposals submitted 

through Grants.gov, a date and time 

receipt indication by Grants.gov will be 

the basis of determining timeliness. 

Hard copy applications will be date and 

time-stamped when they are received. 

Full proposals received after the 

submission deadline will not be 

reviewed or considered. Anticipated 

Announcement of Award: June 1, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Full proposal application 

packages, including any letters of 

support, should be submitted through 

the apply function on Grants.gov. If an 

applicant does not have Internet access, 

one set of originals (signed) and two 

copies of the proposals and related 

forms should be mailed to the attention 

of James Lewis Free, NOAA Coastal 

Services Center, 2234 South Hobson 

Avenue, Charleston, South Carolina 

29405–2413. No e-mail or fax copies 

will be accepted. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

administrative questions, contact James 

Lewis Free, NOAA CSC; 2234 South 

Hobson Avenue, Room B–119; 

Charleston, South Carolina 29405–2413, 

phone 843–740–1185, fax 843–740– 

1224, e-mail James.L.Free@noaa.gov. 

For technical questions regarding this 

announcement, contact Rebecca Smyth, 

phone 510–251–8324, e-mail 

Rebecca.Smyth@noaa.gov. To obtain a 

copy of the Final Recommendations of 

the Interagency Ocean Policy Task 

Force, please refer to http://www.

whitehouse.gov/files/documents/OPTF_

FinalRecs.pdf. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Announcement of Funding Opportunity 

also available at http:// 

www.csc.noaa.gov/funding/. 

Federal Agency Name(s): Coastal 

Services Center, National Ocean 

Service, National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Department of Commerce. 

Funding Opportunity Title: NOAA 

Regional Ocean Partnership Funding 

Program—FY 2011 Funding 

Competition. 

Announcement Type: Initial 

Announcement. 

Funding Opportunity Number: 

NOAA–NOS–CSC–2011–2002718. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance Number: 11.473, Coastal 

Services Center. 

Full Text of Announcement 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

A. Program Objectives 

This Regional Ocean Partnership 

Funding Program (ROPFP) is focused on 

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