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industry adopt to best address these 

challenges? 

(3) Funding and Knowledge 

Considerations 

Uncertain market needs, imperfect 

investment levels and mechanisms, 

undeveloped technology, challenges in 

dissemination of information, and 

technology transfer are some of the 

potential barriers to adoption of QIS 

technology. What are the greatest 

technical and organizational barriers to 

advancing important near-term and 

future applications of QIS and what 

should be done to address these 

barriers? What methods might be 

adopted to encourage both small and 

large efforts to provide a healthy 

industrial base? Which areas are 

underfunded, inconsistently funded, or 

need better funding clarity from the 

government for progress of the industry 

as a whole? At what level of knowledge 

or development should intellectual 

property move from being freely 

available to exclusive? How can 

industry or government address these 

concerns? 

Workshop 

The purpose of the workshop is to 

convene stakeholders in the 

development and commercialization of 

quantum technologies to address the 

identified key challenges via industrial, 

academic, and governmental means. 

Topics to be discussed include 

opportunities for research and 

development and means and methods of 

facilitating interaction and collaboration 

such as creation of consortia, providing 

support for emerging market areas, 

identifying barriers to near-term and 

future applications, and understanding 

workforce needs. Information gathered 

at this workshop will be used in the 

development and coordination of U.S. 

Government policies, programs, and 

budgets to advance U.S. 

competitiveness in QIS. Furthermore, 

this workshop will provide a discussion 

place for industry to consider methods 

of collaboration in a neutral setting, 

including the potential benefits of 

developing a technology perspective 

study as well as other helpful organizing 

elements, including consortia and future 

roadmap development for subfields. 

This workshop will focus on 

addressing the key challenges described 

above under ‘‘Request for Information.’’ 

It will include invited presentations by 

leading experts from academia, 

industry, and government; time for 

group discussion; and breakout sessions 

for discussing subfields, potential 

consortia frameworks, and the role of 

technology perspective studies. 

There is no cost for participating in 

the workshop. No proprietary 

information will be accepted, presented 

or discussed as part of the workshop, 

and all information accepted, presented 

or discussed at the workshop will be in 

the public domain. 

All workshop participants must preregister at the following web address to 

be admitted: https://www.nist.gov/newsevents/events/2017/10/quantumindustry-day. Anyone wishing to attend 

this meeting must register by 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time on September 29, 2017, in 

order to attend. Also, please note that 

federal agencies, including NIST, can 

only accept a state-issued driver’s 

license or identification card for access 

to federal facilities if such license or 

identification card is issued by a state 

that is compliant with the REAL ID Act 

of 2005 (Pub. L. 109–13), or by a state 

that has an extension for REAL ID 

compliance. NIST currently accepts 

other forms of federally-issued 

identification in lieu of a state-issued 

driver’s license. For detailed 

information please contact Kimberly 

Emswiler at (301) 975–4208 or visit: 

http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/ 

visitor/. 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 272(b)(1), (4), (11) & 

15 U.S.C. 272(c)(12). 

Kevin Kimball, 

NIST Chief of Staff. 

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Administration 

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New England Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The New England Fishery 

Management Council (Council, NEFMC) 

will hold a three-day meeting to 

consider actions affecting New England 

fisheries in the exclusive economic zone 

(EEZ). 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 

September 26, 27, and 28, 2017, 

beginning at 9 a.m. on September 26, 

8:30 a.m. on September 27, and 8:30 

a.m. on September 28. 

ADDRESSES: 

Meeting address: The meeting will be 

held at the Beauport Hotel, 55 

Commercial Street, Gloucester, MA 

01930; telephone (978) 282–0008; 

online at www.beauporthotel.com. 

Council address: New England 

Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 

Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950; 

telephone (978) 465–0492; 

www.nefmc.org. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, 

New England Fishery Management 

Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492, ext. 

113. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Agenda 

Tuesday, September 26, 2017 

After introductions and brief 

announcements, the meeting will begin 

with the swearing-in of reappointed 

Council members, followed by the 

election of 2017–2018 officers. The 

Council then will hear reports from the 

Council Chairman and Executive 

Director, NMFS’s Regional 

Administrator for the Greater Atlantic 

Regional Fisheries Office (GARFO), 

liaisons from the Northeast Fisheries 

Science Center (NEFSC) and MidAtlantic Fishery Management Council, 

representatives from NOAA General 

Counsel and the Office of Law 

Enforcement, and staff from the Atlantic 

States Marine Fisheries Commission 

and U.S. Coast Guard. In addition, the 

Northeast Trawl Advisory Panel will 

provide a report. Next, the Council will 

hear from its Whiting Committee, which 

will cover three items of business. The 

first involves Amendment 22 to the 

Northeast Multispecies Fishery 

Management Plan (FMP). The 

amendment is being developed to 

potentially limit access to the smallmesh multispecies fishery, which 

includes red, silver, and offshore hakes. 

The Council is expected to select 

limited access, permitting, and 

possession limit preferred alternatives 

for Amendment 22 to send to public 

hearing. Next, the Whiting Plan 

Development Team (PDT) will present 

the Annual Monitoring Report, which 

summarizes 2016 fishing year activity 

and contains an assessment update and 

specification recommendations. Finally, 

the Council will initiate an action to 

develop 2018–20 specifications for the 

small-mesh multispecies fishery. 

Following the lunch break, the 

Council will resume the whiting 

discussion if necessary. Otherwise, it 

will move on to the Atlantic Herring 

Committee report and address three 

items related to Draft Amendment 8 to 

the Atlantic Herring FMP. First, the 


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Council will review and clarify 

unresolved details related to alternatives 

under consideration in the amendment. 

Next, it will review results from the 

Management Strategy Evaluation 

process used to develop a new 

acceptable biological catch (ABC) 

control rule for Atlantic herring. Finally, 

the Council potentially will select 

preferred alternatives for an ABC 

control rule. Following these actions, 

the Council will adjourn for the day. 

Wednesday, September 27, 2017 

The second day of the meeting will 

begin with a report from the 

Transboundary Resource Assessment 

Committee (TRAC) summarizing results 

from the 2017 stock assessments for 

Eastern Georges Bank cod, Eastern 

Georges Bank haddock, and Georges 

Bank yellowtail flounder. The Scientific 

and Statistical Committee (SSC) will 

report next with 2018–19 overfishing 

limit (OFL) and ABC recommendations 

for Georges Bank yellowtail flounder 

and the Northeast skate complex. A 

short SSC working group update will 

follow. Next, the Council will hear from 

U.S. representatives to the 

Transboundary Management Guidance 

Committee (TMGC) and potentially 

approve TMGC recommendations for 

2018 total allowable catches (TACs) for 

shared U.S./Canada groundfish stocks 

on Georges Bank. The TMGC considers 

TRAC advice when formulating 

recommendations. Members of the 

public then will be able to speak during 

an open comment period on issues that 

relate to Council business but are not 

included on the published agenda for 

this meeting. The Council asks the 

public to limit remarks to 3–5 minutes. 

Following the public comment period, 

the Council will receive a Groundfish 

Committee report, beginning with an 

update on Framework Adjustment 57 to 

the Northeast Multispecies FMP. The 

framework includes: (1) 2018–2020 

Fishery specifications; (2) 2018 TACs 

for U.S./Canada stocks; (3) Atlantic 

halibut accountability measures (AMs); 

(4) recreational management measures; 

(5) common pool trimester TAC 

adjustments; and (6) southern 

windowpane flounder AMs. During the 

Groundfish Committee report, the 

Council also will receive and potentially 

further discuss the TMGC’s TAC 

recommendations for U.S./Canada 

shared stocks and the SSC’s OFL and 

ABC recommendations for Georges Bank 

yellowtail flounder. Finally, the 

Committee will present a progress 

report on Groundfish Monitoring 

Amendment 23. 

After a lunch break, the Groundfish 

Committee report will continue until 

related business is concluded. The Skate 

Committee Report will follow. The 

Council will receive the Annual 

Monitoring Report on fishing year 2016 

activity and then discuss Framework 

Adjustment 5 to the Northeast Skate 

Complex FMP. The Council may 

consider final action on the framework, 

which was initiated to develop fishing 

year 2018–2019 specifications and allow 

the landing of barndoor skates. The 

Council also will receive an update on 

Amendment 5 to potentially develop a 

limited access program for skates. At the 

conclusion of the skate discussion, the 

Council will adjourn for the day. 

Thursday, September 28, 2017 

The third day of the meeting will 

begin with a preliminary discussion of 

2018 Council priorities. Here, the 

Council will review and discuss a draft 

list of possible actions and tasks for 

further development in 2018 covering 

all committees. The Council will not 

take final action on priorities until its 

December meeting. Next, the Council 

will hear from its Scallop Committee, 

beginning with a summary of 2017 

scallop survey results. The Council then 

will receive a progress report on 

Framework Adjustment 29 to the 

Atlantic Sea Scallop FMP. This 

framework contains: (1) Fishery 

specifications for the 2018 fishing year 

and default specifications for 2019; (2) 

scallop fishery AMs for yellowtail 

flounder and windowpane flounder; (3) 

Northern Gulf of Maine Management 

Area modifications; and (4) Closed Area 

I Scallop Access Area changes to be 

consistent with pending habitat area 

revisions. The Ecosystem-Based Fishery 

Management (EBFM) Committee then 

will provide a progress report on 

developing an example Fishery 

Ecosystem Plan for Georges Bank. The 

EBFM PDT will report on the 

application of operating models for a 

Georges Bank Ecosystem Production 

Unit, describing how the models could 

be used to support a Management 

Strategy Evaluation. Next, the Council 

will receive three brief habitat-related 

updates: One on the Omnibus Deep-Sea 

Coral Amendment; another on the Clam 

Dredge Framework; and a third on wind 

energy development. 

Following a lunch break, the Council 

will receive an update on the status of 

the Council Program Review. The 

Research Steering Committee will report 

next on three issues: (1) Developing a 

process to prioritize Council research 

priorities; (2) providing input to the 

Northeast Cooperative Research 

Program; and (3) reviewing collaborative 

research projects. The Council then will 

discuss two issues related to 

Standardized Bycatch Reporting 

Methodology (SBRM). First the Council 

is expected to take final action on the 

SBRM Omnibus Framework Adjustment 

to address assigning at-sea observers to 

the lobster pot fleet in an unbiased 

manner through the Northeast Fishery 

Observer Program. It then will receive 

an update on the SBRM Three-Year 

Report. The Council will close out the 

meeting with ‘‘other business’’ and then 

potentially go into closed session to 

discuss ongoing litigation. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained on this agenda may come 

before this Council for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject 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 the public has 

been notified of the Council’s intent to 

take final action to address the 

emergency. The public also should be 

aware that the meeting will be recorded. 

Consistent with 16 U.S.C. 1852, a copy 

of the recording is available upon 

request. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

Thomas A. Nies (see ADDRESSES) at least 

5 days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: September 5, 2017. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

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Administration 

RIN 0648–XF661 

North Pacific Fishery Management 

Council; Notice of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meetings of the 

North Pacific Fishery Management 

Council Ecosystem Committee. 

SUMMARY: The North Pacific Fishery 

Management Council (Council) 

Ecosystem Committee will meet in 

Seatte, WA. The meeting will be 

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