39984 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 162 / Wednesday, August 23, 2017 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Advisory Committee on Earthquake 

Hazards Reduction Meeting 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Advisory Committee on 

Earthquake Hazards Reduction (ACEHR 

or Committee), will hold a meeting via 

webinar on Wednesday, September 6, 

2017, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time. Interested members of the 

public will be able to view the meeting 

materials and participate from remote 

locations. The primary purpose of this 

meeting is to review and finalize the 

Committee’s 2017 Report on the 

Effectiveness of the National Earthquake 

Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). 

The agenda may change to 

accommodate Committee business. The 

agenda and meeting materials will be 

posted on the NEHRP Web site at http:// 

nehrp.gov/. 

DATES: The ACEHR will hold a meeting 

via webinar on Wednesday, September 

6, 2017, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time. The meeting will be open 

to the public. 

ADDRESSES: Questions regarding the 

meeting should be sent to the National 

Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program 

Director, National Institute of Standards 

and Technology (NIST), 100 Bureau 

Drive, Mail Stop 8604, Gaithersburg, 

Maryland 20899–8604. For instructions 

on how to participate in the meeting via 

the webinar, please see the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tina 

Faecke, Management and Program 

Analyst, NEHRP, Engineering 

Laboratory, NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, 

Mail Stop 8604, Gaithersburg, Maryland 

20899. She can also be contacted by 

email at tina.faecke@nist.gov, or by 

phone at (301) 975–5911. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Committee was established in 

accordance with the requirements of 

Section 103 of the NEHRP 

Reauthorization Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 

108–360). The Committee is currently 

composed of 15 members appointed by 

the Director of NIST, who were selected 

for their established records of 

distinguished service in their 

professional community, their 

knowledge of issues affecting NEHRP, 

and to reflect the wide diversity of 

technical disciplines, competencies, and 

communities involved in earthquake 

hazards reduction. In addition, the 

Chairperson of the U.S. Geological 

Survey Scientific Earthquake Studies 

Advisory Committee serves as an exofficio member of the Committee. 

The Committee assesses: 

• Trends and developments in the 

science and engineering of earthquake 

hazards reduction; 

• the effectiveness of NEHRP in 

performing its statutory activities; 

• any need to revise NEHRP; and 

• the management, coordination, 

implementation, and activities of 

NEHRP. 

Background information on NEHRP 

and the Advisory Committee is available 

at http://nehrp.gov/. 

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory 

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

App., notice is hereby given that the 

ACEHR will hold an open meeting via 

webinar on Wednesday, September 6, 

2017, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time. The primary purpose of 

this meeting is to review and finalize 

the Committee’s 2017 Report on the 

Effectiveness of the NEHRP. The agenda 

and meeting materials will be posted on 

the NEHRP Web site at http://nehrp. 

gov/. 

All participants in the meeting are 

required to pre-register. Anyone wishing 

to participate must register by 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time, Wednesday, August 30, 

2017. Please submit your first and last 

name, email address, and phone number 

to Tina Faecke at tina.faecke@nist.gov or 

(301) 975–5911. After pre-registering, 

participants will be provided with 

detailed instructions on how to join the 

webinar remotely. Individuals and 

representatives of organizations who 

would like to offer comments and 

suggestions related to the Committee’s 

affairs are invited to request a place on 

the agenda. Approximately 15 minutes 

will be reserved from 4:45 p.m.–5:00 

p.m. Eastern Time for public comments. 

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 about three 

minutes each. Questions from the public 

will not be considered during this 

period. All those wishing to speak must 

submit their request by email to the 

attention of Tina Faecke, tina.faecke@

nist.gov by 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, 

Wednesday, August 30, 2017. 

Speakers who wish to expand upon 

their oral statements, those who had 

wished to speak but could not be 

accommodated, and those who were 

unable to participate are invited to 

submit written statements to NEHRP, 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, MS 

8604, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, or 

electronically by email to tina.faecke@

nist.gov. 

Kevin Kimball, 

NIST Chief of Staff. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XE117 

Groundfish Operational Assessment 

Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: NMFS and the Northeast 

Regional Stock Assessment Workshop 

(SAW) will convene a peer review of 

Operational Stock Assessments of 

twenty fish stocks. These stocks are 

managed by the New England Fishery 

Management Council and are included 

within the Northeast Multispecies 

Fishery Management Plan. This will be 

a formal, scientific peer review of 

operational assessments, which 

incorporate recent data. Results of the 

review will be used as a basis for 

management decisions for fish stocks in 

U.S. waters of the northwest Atlantic. 

Assessments are prepared by stock 

assessment scientists primarily from the 

Northeast Fisheries Science Center and 

reviewed by a panel of stock assessment 

experts. The public is invited to attend 

the presentations and discussions by 

reviewers and scientists who have 

participated in the stock assessment 

process. 

DATES: The public portion of the Stock 

Assessment Review Committee Meeting 

will be held from September 11, 2017, 

through September 15, 2017. The 

meeting will commence on September 

11, 2017, at 9 a.m. Eastern Daylight 

Time. Please see SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for the daily meeting 

agenda. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

the S.H. Clark Conference Room in the 

Aquarium Building of the National 

Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast 

Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), 166 

Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sheena Steiner, 508–495–2177; email: 

sheena.steiner@noaa.gov; or James 


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