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Pollutants From the Portland Cement 

Manufacturing Industry Residual Risk 

and Technology Review.’’ The EPA is 

extending the comment period on the 

proposed rule that was scheduled to 

close on November 6, 2017, by 15 days 

until November 21, 2017. The EPA is 

making this change based on one 

request for additional time to prepare 

comments on this proposed rule. 

DATES: The public comment period for 

the proposed rule published in the 

Federal Register on September 21, 2017 

(82 FR 44254), is being extended. 

Written comments must be received on 

or before November 21, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: The EPA has established a 

docket for the proposed rulemaking 

(available at http://

www.regulations.gov). The Docket ID 

No. is EPA–HQ–OAR–2016–0442. 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2016– 

0442, at http://www.regulations.gov. 

Follow the online instructions for 

submitting comments. Once submitted, 

comments cannot be edited or removed 

from Regulations.gov. The EPA may 

publish any comment received to its 

public docket. Do not submit 

electronically any information you 

consider to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

If you need to include CBI as part of 

your comment, please visit http://

www.epa.gov/dockets/comments.html 

for instructions. Multimedia 

submissions (audio, video, etc.) must be 

accompanied by a written comment. 

The written comment is considered the 

official comment and should include 

discussion of all points you wish to 

make. 

For additional submission methods, 

the full EPA public comment policy, 

and general guidance on making 

effective comments, please visit http:// 

www.epa.gov/dockets/comments.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information on this action, 

contact Brian Storey, Sector Policies and 

Programs Division, Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards (D243–04), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711; 

telephone number: (919) 541–1103; 

email address: storey.brian@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To allow 

additional time for stakeholders to 

provide comments, the EPA has decided 

to extend the public comment period 

until November 21, 2017. 

Dated: October 31, 2017. 

Stephen Page, 

Director, Office of Air Quality Planning and 

Standards. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 660 

RIN 0648–BG74 

Fisheries Off West Coast States; 

Coastal Pelagic Species Fisheries; 

Amendment 16 to the Coastal Pelagic 

Species Fishery Management Plan 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Availability of fishery 

management plan amendment; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: NMFS announces that the 

Pacific Fishery Management Council 

(Council) has submitted Amendment 16 

to the Coastal Pelagic Species (CPS) 

Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for 

review by the Secretary of Commerce. 

Amendment 16 would add a description 

to the CPS FMP of a very small sector 

of the CPS fishery that is not part of the 

primary commercial directed fishery 

and harvests minor amounts of CPS 

finfish. Total landings from this sector 

typically make up less than one percent 

of the total landings of any particular 

CPS stock. Currently, when directed 

fishing closures are enacted, these very 

small-scale fisheries have been 

precluded from fishing and/or 

harvesting these minor amounts because 

they do not fall under the existing 

exemptions during closures for 

incidental harvest or for harvesting CPS 

to be sold as live bait. The intent of 

Amendment 16 is to allow this sector to 

continue targeting CPS finfish after a 

directed fishery closure, while keeping 

the aggregate catch level within the 

applicable annual catch limit (ACL). 

DATES: Comments on Amendment 16 

must be received by January 5, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on this document, identified by NOAANMFS-2017-0135, by any of the 

following methods: 

• Electronic Submissions: Submit all 

electronic public comments via the 

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. Go to 

www.regulations.gov/ 

#!docketDetail;D=NOAA-NMFS-2017- 

0135, click the ‘‘Comment Now!’’ icon, 

complete the required fields, and enter 

or attach your comments. 

• Mail: Submit written comments to 

Barry A. Thom, Regional Administrator, 

West Coast Region, NMFS, 501 W. 

Ocean Blvd., Ste. 4200, Long Beach, CA 

90802–4250; Attn: Joshua Lindsay. 

Instructions: Comments must be 

submitted by one of the above methods 

to ensure that the comments are 

received, documented, and considered 

by NMFS. Comments sent by any other 

method, to any other address or 

individual, or received after the end of 

the comment period, may not be 

considered. All comments received are 

a part of the public record and will 

generally be posted for public viewing 

on www.regulations.gov without change. 

All personal identifying information 

(e.g., name, address, etc.) submitted 

voluntarily by the sender will be 

publicly accessible. Do not submit 

confidential business information, or 

otherwise sensitive or protected 

information. NMFS will accept 

anonymous comments (enter ‘‘N/A’’ in 

the required fields if you wish to remain 

anonymous). 

Copies of the draft CPS FMP as 

amended through Amendment 16, with 

notations showing how Amendment 16 

would change the FMP, if approved, are 

available via the Federal eRulemaking 

Portal: http://www.regulations.gov, 

docket NOAA–NMFS–2017–0135, or by 

contacting the Pacific Fisheries 

Management Council, 7700 NE 

Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, 

OR 97220–1384. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joshua B. Lindsay, Sustainable Fisheries 

Division, NMFS, at 562–980–4034; or 

Kerry Griffin, Pacific Fishery 

Management Council, at 503–820–2280. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The CPS 

fishery in the U.S. exclusive economic 

zone (EEZ) off the West Coast is 

managed under the CPS FMP, which 

was developed by the Council pursuant 

to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act 

(MSA), 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. Species 

managed under the CPS FMP include 

Pacific sardine, Pacific mackerel, jack 

mackerel, northern anchovy, market 

squid and krill. The CPS FMP was 

approved by the Secretary of Commerce 

and was implemented by regulations at 

50 CFR part 660, subpart I. 

The MSA requires each regional 

fishery management council to submit 

any amendment to a FMP to NMFS for 

review and approval, disapproval, or 

partial approval. The MSA also requires 

that NMFS, upon receiving an 

amendment to a FMP, publish 


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notification in the Federal Register that 

the amendment is available for public 

review and comment. NMFS will 

consider the public comments received 

during the comment period described 

above in determining whether to 

approve, disapprove, or partially 

approve Amendment 16. 

In recent years the primary directed 

fishery for Pacific sardine has 

experienced extremely shortened 

fishing seasons or complete fishing year 

closures. However, the CPS FMP allows 

incidental catch of CPS and live bait 

fishing to continue when directed 

fisheries are closed, provided the Pacific 

sardine stock is not overfished or 

experiencing overfishing. These small 

allowances continue to be subject to 

ACLs and comport with the 

conservation goals of the CPS FMP. 

Management measures for incidental 

landing allowances are typically 

expressed as allowable percentages of 

that species in a landing of the 

dominant species catch. However, 

during the directed fishing closures 

some other very small-scale fisheries 

have been precluded from fishing and/ 

or harvesting even de minimis amounts 

because they would exceed existing 

incidental allowances or they are not 

caught incidental to another CPS 

species (i.e., within allowances) and the 

fish are not sold as live bait. In the case 

of Pacific sardine, these small-scale CPS 

fisheries typically sell their catch as 

specialty dead bait to recreational and 

commercial fisheries, or as fresh fish to 

restaurants and the public. For example, 

landings by a beach seine operation may 

often be over 50 percent sardine, which 

would exceed typically incidental 

landing allowances, yet total only a few 

hundred pounds. Pursuant to a request 

from the Council at their April 2016 

meeting, the Coastal Pelagic Species 

Management Team (CPSMT) explored 

management options to account for 

these small-scale fisheries that have 

been negatively impacted by the closure 

of the directed sardine fishery. 

At the April 2017 Council meeting, 

the Council adopted Amendment 16 to 

the CPS FMP to allow minor directed 

fishing to continue after a directed 

fishery is closed. Minor directed fishing 

would be allowed unless otherwise 

specified, or if an applicable ACL is 

anticipated to be exceeded. As a further 

restriction, to ensure the minor directed 

landing provision is not exploited to 

make large aggregate harvests, 

Amendment 16 limits this directed 

fishing exemption so that landings 

cannot exceed 1 metric ton (mt) per day 

per vessel or person, and which is 

limited to one fishing trip per day by 

any vessel. The intent of distinguishing 

between a ‘‘vessel’’ and ‘‘person’’ is that 

some participants in this small sector of 

the CPS fishery fish from a platform 

other than a vessel (e.g. beach seine) and 

in a single fishing trip (e.g. a single haul 

of a beach seine) may only land a few 

hundred pounds. Therefore, the Council 

recommended allowing a person to 

make multiple fishing trips without 

using a vessel in a single day as long as 

their total landings do not exceed 1 mt 

in a day. The Council recommended 

that vessels be limited to a single trip as 

their typical landings are much greater 

per trip. 

Public comments on Amendment 16 

must be received by January 5, 2018. 

The Council has also submitted 

proposed regulations to implement 

Amendment 16 for Secretarial review 

and approval. NMFS expects to publish 

and request public comment on the 

proposed regulation to implement 

Amendment 16 in the near future. 

Public comments on Amendment 16 

must be received by the end of the 

comment period to be considered in the 

approval/disapproval decision on 

Amendment 16. All comments received 

by the end of the comment period on 

Amendment 16, whether specifically 

directed to Amendment 16 or the 

proposed rule, will be considered in the 

approval/disapproval decision. 

Comments received after that date will 

not be considered in the approval/ 

disapproval decision of Amendment 16. 

To be considered, comments must be 

received by close of business on the last 

day of the comment period; that does 

not mean postmarked or otherwise 

transmitted by that date. 

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

Dated: November 1, 2017. 

Emily H. Menashes, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

50 CFR Chapter I 

[Docket Nos. FWS–HQ–ES–2015–0126 and 

FWS–HQ–ES–2015–0165; 

FXES11140900000–178–FF09E33000] 

Mitigation Policies of the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service; Request for 

Comments 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Policy review; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), are 

requesting public comment on portions 

of our existing Mitigation Policy and 

Endangered Species Act Compensatory 

Mitigation Policy (ESA–CMP). We 

specifically request comment on the 

policies’ mitigation planning goals. 

Based on comments received, the 

Service will decide whether and how to 

revise the policies. 

DATES: We will accept comments from 

all interested parties until January 5, 

2018. Please note that if you are using 

the Federal eRulemaking Portal (see 

ADDRESSES below), the deadline for 

submitting an electronic comment is 

11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on 

this date. 

ADDRESSES:

Document availability: The Service’s 

Mitigation Policy was published 

November 21, 2016, at 81 FR 83440 and 

is available at https://www.regulations.

gov at Docket No. FWS–HQ–ES–2015– 

0126. The Service’s ESA–CMP was 

published December 27, 2106, at 81 FR 

95316 and is available at https://www.

regulations.gov at Docket No. FWS–HQ– 

ES–2015–0165. 

Comment submission: You may 

submit comments by one of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. In the Search box, 

enter the docket number for the policy, 

which is FWS–HQ–ES–2015–0126 for 

the mitigation policy and FWS–HQ–ES– 

2015–0165 for the ESA–CMP. You may 

enter a comment by clicking on the 

‘‘Comment Now!’’ button. Please ensure 

that you have found the correct 

document before submitting your 

comment. 

• U.S. mail or hand delivery: Public 

Comments Processing, Attn: Docket No. 

[FWS–HQ–ES–2015–0126 or FWS–HQ– 

ES–2015–0165]; Division of Policy, 

Performance, and Management 

Programs; U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service; MS: BPHC; 5275 Leesburg Pike, 

Falls Church, VA 22041–3803. 

We will post all comments on https:// 

www.regulations.gov. This generally 

means that we will post any personal 

information you provide us (see Request 

for Information below for more 

information). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Craig Aubrey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Division of Environmental 

Review, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls 

Church, VA 22041–3803, telephone 

703–358–2442. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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