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Rather, the NOC will seek to address
this concern through other approaches
aimed at international stewardship (e.g.,
capacity building, diplomatic outreach,
etc.)
24. Magnitude of the Violations
Comment: One public comment
requested: ‘‘The Task Force should
weigh the magnitude of labeling
violations and impact on U.S. consumer
prior to deeming a species at risk. The
following are examples of mislabeling
that should represent lower concern and
should NOT be the sole basis from an
at risk determination: Species that are
mislabeled within the same genus or
within the same acceptable market
name grouping.’’
Response: The Working Group took
known violations from the past five
years into account in evaluating species
for at risk’’ determination. Adding a
value judgment on the magnitude of the
violations was beyond the capacity of
the Working Group.
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25. Poor Species Identification in the
Catch and/or Trade Data
Comment: One public comment noted
that the lack of species identification in
catch and trade data can increase a
species’ vulnerability to IUU fishing.
Response: This issue will be captured
under the draft principles concerning
any history of species mislabeling and
the existence of a catch documentation
scheme. In addition, the Working Group
recognizes the concern regarding import
codes. This issue will be discussed
through the work on Task Force
Recommendation 10 ‘‘to standardize
and clarify rules on identifying the
species, common name, and origin of
seafood.’’
26. Existing Traceability System
Comment: Multiple comments
recommended that the Working Group
review and take into account whether
there is already a certification system or
traceability system for a species.
Example comment: ‘‘Some private
industry sectors have initiated
traceability requirements.’’
Response: The Working Group
commends organizations and fishing
groups that have initiated traceability
programs on their own and recognizes
the investment by the private sector in
developing improved traceability. For
species with a recently implemented
traceability program, the number of
enforcement violations over the past
five years can be used as a measure of
the effectiveness of the program and
will allow us to either remove these
species from our list of at risk species
or, where appropriate, include existing
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catch documentation provisions into a
traceability program to further address
risk of IUU fishing and seafood fraud.
Dated: July 28, 2015.
Samuel D. Rauch III,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for
Regulatory Programs, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
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Caribbean Fishery Management
Council; Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.
AGENCY:
The Caribbean Fishery
Management Council (Council) will
hold its 153rd meeting.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
August 19–20, 2015. The Council will
convene on Wednesday, August 19,
2015, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and will
reconvene on Thursday, August 20,
2015, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Holiday Inn & Tropical Casino
Mayaguez, 2701 Hostos Avenue, Puerto
Rico 00680.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Caribbean Fishery Management Council,
˜
270 Munoz Rivera Avenue, Suite 401,
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918; telephone:
(787) 766–5926.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Council will hold its 153rd regular
Council Meeting to discuss the items
contained in the following agenda:
SUMMARY:
August 19, 2015
Æ Call to Order
Æ Adoption of Agenda
Æ Consideration of 152nd Council
Meeting Verbatim Transcriptions
Æ Executive Director’s Report
Æ SSC National Workshop Report—Dr.
Richard Appeldoorn
Æ Island-Based Fishery Management:
Choosing Species to be Included for
Federal Management Within Each
Island Group
• Outcomes from the Panel of Experts
and District Advisory Panel
Meetings
Æ Participation
Æ Presentations
• Review Draft List of Species
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Puerto Rico
St. Croix
St. Thomas/St. John
Next Steps in Developing Island
Based
Æ Action 2—Species Complexes
Æ Action 3—Reference Points
Æ Other Needed Actions
Æ Comprehensive Amendment:
Application of Accountability
Measures in the Council Fishery
Management Plans
• Review Draft Comprehensive
Amendment/Select Preferred
Alternative
• Final Action/Revisit Codified Text,
Including:
Æ Clarifying Queen Conch Minimum
Size Limits
Æ Addition of Accountability
Measures-Based Closure Language
—Public Comment Period—
(5-minutes presentations)
Æ
Æ
Æ
•
5:15 p.m.–6 p.m.
Æ Administrative Matters
—Budget Update FY 2015/16
—Other Administrative Business
—Closed Session
August 20, 2015
9 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
Æ ABT Public Hearing
10:45 a.m.–5 p.m.
Æ Abrir/Bajo/Tourmaline: Revision of
Management Regulations in Federal
Portion of Each Area
• Review Draft Amendment
• HMS input on requests from CFMC
• Discuss Outcomes of Public Hearing
• Final Action
• Review Codified Text, Including:
D Coordinate-Based Definition of
State/Federal Closure Boundaries
Æ Timing of Accountability MeasuresBased Closures Amendment
D Review Public Hearing Draft
Document/Select Preferred
Alternatives
D Schedule Public Hearings; Discuss
Next Steps
Æ Saltonstall-Kennedy Funding
Program: Caribbean Projects—Dr.
Bonnie Ponwith
Æ Outreach and Education Report—Dr.
´
Alida Ortız
Æ Enforcement Issues:
—Puerto Rico-DNER
—U.S. Virgin Islands-DPNR
—U.S. Coast Guard
—NMFS/NOAA
Æ Meetings Attended by Council
Members and Staff
Public Comment Period (5-minute
presentations)
Æ Other Business
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Æ Next Council Meeting
The established times for addressing
items on the agenda may be adjusted as
necessary to accommodate the timely
completion of discussion relevant to the
agenda items. To further accommodate
discussion and completion of all items
on the agenda, the meeting may be
extended from, or completed prior to
the date established in this notice.
The meeting is open to the public,
and will be conducted in English.
Fishers and other interested persons are
invited to attend and participate with
oral or written statements regarding
agenda issues.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda may come
before this group for discussion, those
issues may not be subjects for formal
action during this meeting. 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
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act, provided that the public has been
notified of the Council’s intent to take
final action to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
The meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. For more
information or request for sign language
interpretation and/other auxiliary aids,
´
please contact Mr. Miguel A. Rolon,
Executive Director, Caribbean Fishery
˜
Management Council, 270 Munoz
Rivera Avenue, Suite 401, San Juan,
Puerto Rico, 00918, telephone (787)
766–5926, at least 5 days prior to the
meeting date.
Dated: July 29, 2015.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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student financial assistance programs
authorized under title IV of the Higher
Education Act of 1965, as amended (the
HEA), to apply to participate in a new
institution-based experiment under the
Experimental Sites Initiative (ESI).
Under the ESI, the Secretary has
authority to grant waivers from certain
title IV HEA statutory or regulatory
requirements to allow a limited number
of institutions to participate in
experiments to test alternative methods
for administering the title IV HEA
programs. The alternative methods of
title IV HEA administration that the
Secretary is permitting under the ESI are
designed to facilitate efforts by
institutions to test certain innovative
practices aimed at improving student
outcomes and the delivery of services.
Under this experiment, participating
institutions will provide Federal Pell
Grant funding to otherwise eligible
students who are incarcerated in
Federal or State penal institutions.
Details of the experiment are provided
below in the ‘‘The Experiment’’ section
of this notice.
DATES: Letters of application to
participate in the proposed experiment
described in this notice must be
received by the Department of
Education (the Department) no later
than October 2, 2015 in order for an
institution to receive priority to be
considered for participation in the
experiment. Institutions submitting
letters that are received after October 2,
2015 may still, at the discretion of the
Secretary, be considered for
participation.
Letters of application must
be submitted by electronic mail to the
following email address:
experimentalsites@ed.gov. For formats
and other required information, see
‘‘Instructions for Submitting Letters of
Application’’ under SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Notice Inviting Postsecondary
Educational Institutions To Participate
in Experiments Under the Experimental
Sites Initiative; Federal Student
Financial Assistance Programs Under
Title IV of the Higher Education Act of
1965, as Amended
Warren Farr, U.S. Department of
Education, Federal Student Aid, 830
First Street NE., Washington, DC 20002.
Telephone: (202) 377–4380 or by email
at: Warren.Farr@ed.gov.
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD) or a text
telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay
Service (FRS), toll free, at 1–800–877–
8339.
Office of Postsecondary
Education, Department of Education.
ACTION: Notice.
Instructions for Submitting Letters of
Application
The Secretary invites
postsecondary educational institutions
(institutions) that participate in the
Letters of application should take the
form of an Adobe Portable Document
Format (PDF) attachment to an email
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message sent to the email address
provided in the ADDRESSES section of
this notice. The subject line of the email
should read ‘‘ESI 2015—Pell for
Students who are Incarcerated.’’ The
text of the email should include the
name and address of the institution. The
letter of application should be on
institutional letterhead and be signed by
the institution’s financial aid
administrator. The letter of application
must include the institution’s official
name and the Department’s Office of
Postsecondary Education Identification
(OPEID), as well as the name of a
contact person at the institution, a
mailing address, email address, FAX
number, and telephone number. Please
include in the letter a listing of the
academic programs that the institution
is considering for inclusion in this
experiment and, for each of those
programs, an estimate of the number of
participating students. We understand
that institutions’ academic program
listings and the actual number of
students who participate may vary from
the information submitted in the letter.
Background
Section 401(b)(6) of the HEA provides
that students who are incarcerated in a
Federal or State penal institution are not
eligible to receive Federal Pell Grant
funds. This prohibition is included in
the Department’s regulations at 34 CFR
668.32(c)(2)(ii).
The experiment outlined below will
allow participating institutions to
provide Federal Pell Grant funding to
otherwise eligible students who are
incarcerated in Federal or State penal
institutions and who are eligible for
release into the community, particularly
those who are likely to be released
within five years of enrollment in the
program.
The prison population is significantly
less educated than the general
population. For nearly half of all
incarcerated individuals in Federal or
State facilities, a high school diploma or
General Educational Development
(GED) certificate is their highest level of
education. Only 11 percent of
incarcerated individuals in State
correctional facilities and 24 percent of
individuals incarcerated in Federal
prisons have completed at least some
postsecondary education.1 In addition,
educational offerings at Federal and
State penal institutions are limited in
that they generally focus on adult basic
education and secondary education that
1 Caroline Wolf Harlow. ‘‘Education and
Correctional Populations.’’ U.S. Department of
Justice, Office of Justice Programs. January 2003.
Accessed on June 12, 2015 at: www.bjs.gov/content/
pub/pdf/ecp.pdf.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XE032
Caribbean Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Caribbean Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold
its 153rd meeting.
DATES: The meeting will be held on August 19-20, 2015. The Council will
convene on Wednesday, August 19, 2015, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and will
reconvene on Thursday, August 20, 2015, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn & Tropical
Casino Mayaguez, 2701 Hostos Avenue, Puerto Rico 00680.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Caribbean Fishery Management Council,
270 Mu[ntilde]oz Rivera Avenue, Suite 401, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00918;
telephone: (787) 766-5926.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Council will hold its 153rd regular
Council Meeting to discuss the items contained in the following agenda:
August 19, 2015
[cir] Call to Order
[cir] Adoption of Agenda
[cir] Consideration of 152nd Council Meeting Verbatim Transcriptions
[cir] Executive Director's Report
[cir] SSC National Workshop Report--Dr. Richard Appeldoorn
[cir] Island-Based Fishery Management: Choosing Species to be Included
for Federal Management Within Each Island Group
Outcomes from the Panel of Experts and District Advisory
Panel Meetings
[cir] Participation
[cir] Presentations
Review Draft List of Species Selected for Management
[cir] Puerto Rico
[cir] St. Croix
[cir] St. Thomas/St. John
Next Steps in Developing Island Based
[cir] Action 2--Species Complexes
[cir] Action 3--Reference Points
[cir] Other Needed Actions
[cir] Comprehensive Amendment: Application of Accountability Measures
in the Council Fishery Management Plans
Review Draft Comprehensive Amendment/Select Preferred
Alternative
Final Action/Revisit Codified Text, Including:
[cir] Clarifying Queen Conch Minimum Size Limits
[cir] Addition of Accountability Measures-Based Closure Language
--Public Comment Period--
(5-minutes presentations)
5:15 p.m.-6 p.m.
[cir] Administrative Matters
--Budget Update FY 2015/16
--Other Administrative Business
--Closed Session
August 20, 2015
9 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
[cir] ABT Public Hearing
10:45 a.m.-5 p.m.
[cir] Abrir/Bajo/Tourmaline: Revision of Management Regulations in
Federal Portion of Each Area
Review Draft Amendment
HMS input on requests from CFMC
Discuss Outcomes of Public Hearing
Final Action
Review Codified Text, Including:
[ssquf] Coordinate-Based Definition of State/Federal Closure
Boundaries
[cir] Timing of Accountability Measures-Based Closures Amendment
[ssquf] Review Public Hearing Draft Document/Select Preferred
Alternatives
[ssquf] Schedule Public Hearings; Discuss Next Steps
[cir] Saltonstall-Kennedy Funding Program: Caribbean Projects--Dr.
Bonnie Ponwith
[cir] Outreach and Education Report--Dr. Alida Ort[iacute]z
[cir] Enforcement Issues:
--Puerto Rico-DNER
--U.S. Virgin Islands-DPNR
--U.S. Coast Guard
--NMFS/NOAA
[cir] Meetings Attended by Council Members and Staff
Public Comment Period (5-minute presentations)
[cir] Other Business
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[cir] Next Council Meeting
The established times for addressing items on the agenda may be
adjusted as necessary to accommodate the timely completion of
discussion relevant to the agenda items. To further accommodate
discussion and completion of all items on the agenda, the meeting may
be extended from, or completed prior to the date established in this
notice.
The meeting is open to the public, and will be conducted in
English. Fishers and other interested persons are invited to attend and
participate with oral or written statements regarding agenda issues.
Although non-emergency issues not contained in this agenda may come
before this group for discussion, those issues may not be subjects for
formal action during this meeting. 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 Fishery Conservation and
Management Act, provided that the public has been notified of the
Council's intent to take final action to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
The meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities.
For more information or request for sign language interpretation and/
other auxiliary aids, please contact Mr. Miguel A. Rol[oacute]n,
Executive Director, Caribbean Fishery Management Council, 270
Mu[ntilde]oz Rivera Avenue, Suite 401, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00918,
telephone (787) 766-5926, at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.
Dated: July 29, 2015.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
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