Inland Waterways Users Board; Request for Nominations, 38629-38630 [06-6037]
Download as PDF
<![CDATA[
cprice-sewell on PROD1PC66 with NOTICES
Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 130 / Friday, July 7, 2006 / Notices
Mexico, or Coastal Migratory Pelagics
Fisheries of the South Atlantic Region
and the Gulf of Mexico Region.
The applicant requires authorization
to harvest and possess the following
numbers of fishes during each 12-month
period from July 15, 2006, to July 14,
2008: 50 almaco jack, 100 Atlantic
spadefish, 10 bank sea bass, 10 black
grouper, 20 black margate, 50 black sea
bass, 50 black snapper, 100 bluestriped
grunt, 10 cero, 20 cobia, 10 coney, 30
cubera snapper, 20 dog snapper, 20
dolphin fish, 100 French grunt, 10 gag,
5 golden tilefish, 1 goliath grouper, 20
gray snapper, 5 gray triggerfish, 10
graysby, 20 greater amberjack, 5 hogfish,
20 jolthead porgy, 20 knobbed porgy, 20
lane snapper, 10 lesser amberjack, 10
little tunny, 10 mahogany snapper, 10
margate, 20 mutton snapper, 1 Nassau
grouper, 3 ocean triggerfish, 3 queen
triggerfish, 10 red grouper, 10 red hind,
10 red porgy, 50 red snapper, 10 rock
hind, 20 rock sea bass, 10 saucereye
porgy, 10 scamp, 50 schoolmaster, 5
sheepshead, 1 snowy grouper, 10
Spanish mackerel, 5 speckled hind, 10
spiny lobster, 50 tomtate, 50 vermilion
snapper, 2 wahoo, 1 warsaw grouper, 5
wreckfish, 1 yellowfin grouper, 1
yellowmouth grouper, and 30 yellowtail
snapper. Specimens would be collected
primarily from Federal waters off the
coast of Georgia but may also be
collected from Federal waters off the
coasts of South Carolina, Florida,
Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and
Texas during 2006, 2007, and 2008.
Fishes would be captured in some
areas using barrier and hand nets in
conjunction with SCUBA, hook and
line, and traps. The barrier net would be
set up underwater to provide a barrier
to a school of fish. The fish would be
herded into the barrier net and then
hand netted. The net would be set for
approximately 1 hour at a time and
monitored by divers using SCUBA at all
times. The net is 50 ft (15.2 m) long and
5 ft (1.5 m) deep with 1–inch (2.5–cm)
monofilament mesh. Hook and line
would be employed at depths less than
100 ft (30.4 m) to capture bottomdwelling fish, and in the water column
for other species. Methods would be
identical to that used by charter fishing
boats. Fish traps will be used in some
areas and are constructed from 1.5–inch
(3.8–cm) wire mesh and are
approximately 3 ft (1 m) long, 3 ft (1 m)
wide and 4 ft (1.2 m) high. The entrance
to the traps is a vertical slit 2 inches (5
cm) wide and 12 inches (0.30 m) long.
Ten traps would be deployed for up to
10 fishing periods of 12 hours each.
NMFS finds this application warrants
further consideration. Based on a
preliminary review, NMFS intends to
VerDate Aug<31>2005
15:46 Jul 06, 2006
Jkt 208001
issue an EFP. Possible conditions the
agency may impose on this permit, if it
is indeed granted, include but are not
limited to: Reduction in the number or
species of fish to be collected;
restrictions on the placement of traps;
restrictions on the size of fish to be
collected; prohibition of the harvest of
any fish with visible external tags; and
specification of locations, dates, and/or
seasons allowed for collection of
particular fish species. A final decision
on issuance of the EFP will depend on
a NMFS review of public comments
received on the application,
consultations with the affected states,
the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management
Council, the South Atlantic Fishery
Management Council, and the U.S.
Coast Guard, and a determination that it
is consistent with all applicable laws.
The applicant requests a 24-month
effective period for the EFP.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: June 30, 2006.
James P. Burgess,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E6–10605 Filed 7–6–06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–22–S
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army
Inland Waterways Users Board;
Request for Nominations
Department of the Army, DOD.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: Section 302 of Public Law 99–
662 established the Inland Waterways
Users Board. The Board is an
independent Federal advisory
committee. The Secretary of the Army
appoints its 11 members. This notice is
to solicit nominations for five (5)
appointments or reappointments to twoyear terms that will begin after
November 1, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant
Secretary of the Army (Civil Works),
Attetion: Inland Waterways Users Board
Nominations Committee, 108 Army
Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310–0108.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the
Army (Civil Works), (703) 697–8986.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
selection, service, and appointment of
Board members are covered by
provisions of Section 302 of Public Law
99–662. The substance of those
provisions is as follows:
a. Selection. Members are to be
selected from the spectrum of
PO 00000
Frm 00032
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
38629
commercial carriers and shippers using
the inland and intracostal waterways, to
represent geographical regions, and to
be representative of waterborne
commerce as determined by commodity
ton-miles statistics.
b. Service. The Board is required to
meet at least semi-annually to develop
and make recommendations to the
Secretary of the Army on waterways
construction and rehabilitation
priorities and spending levels for
commercial navigation improvements,
and report its recommendations
annually to the Secretary and Congress.
c. Appointment. The operation of the
Board and appointment of its members
are subject to the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, as
amended) and departmental
implementing regulations. Members
serve without compensation but their
expenses due to Board activities are
reimbursable. The considerations
specified in Section 302 for the
selection of the Board members, and
certain terms used therein, have been
interpreted, supplemented, or otherwise
clarified as follows:
(1) Carriers and Shippers. The law
uses the terms ‘‘primary users and
shipper.’’ Primary users have been
intepreted to mean the providers of
transportation services on inland
waterways such as barge or towboat
operators. Shippers have been
interpreted to mean the purchasers of
such services for the movement of
commodities they own or control.
Individuals are appointed to the Board,
but they must be either a carrier or
shipper, or represent a firm that is a
carrier or shipper. For that purpose a
trade or regional association is neither a
shipper or primary user.
(2) Geographical Representation. The
law specifies ‘‘various’’ regions. For the
purpose of selecting Board members, the
waterways subjected to fuel taxes and
described in Public Law 95–502, as
amended, have been aggregated into six
regions. They are (1) the Upper
Mississippi River and its tributaries
above the mouth of the Ohio; (2) the
Lower Mississippi River and its
tributaries below the mouth of the Ohio
and above Baton Rouge; (3) the Ohio
River and its tributaries; (4) the Gulf
Intracoastal Waterway in Louisiana and
Texas; (5) the Gulf Intracoastal
Waterway east of New Orleans and
associated fuel-taxed waterways
including the Tennessee-Tombigbee,
plus the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
below Norfolk; and (6) the ColumbiaSnake Rivers System and Upper
Willamette. The intent is that each
region shall be represented by at least
one Board member, with that
E:\FR\FM\07JYN1.SGM
07JYN1
cprice-sewell on PROD1PC66 with NOTICES
38630
Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 130 / Friday, July 7, 2006 / Notices
representation determined by the
regional concentration of the
individual’s traffic on the waterways.
(3) Commodity Representation.
Waterway commerce has been
aggregated into six commodity
categories based on ‘‘inland’’ ton-miles
shown in Waterborne Commerce of the
United States. These categories are (1)
Farm and Food Products; (2) Coal and
Coke; (3) Petroleum, Crude and
Products; (4) Minerals, Ores, and
Primary Metals and Mineral Products;
(5) Chemical and Allied Products; and
(6) All other. A consideration in the
selection of Board members will be that
the commodities carried or shipped by
those individuals or their firms will be
reasonably representative of the above
commodity categories.
d. Nomination. Reflecting preceding
selection criteria, the current
representation by the five (5) Board
members whose terms will expire is one
member each representing regions 2, 3
and 6, and two members representing
region 1. Also, one of these Board
members represents a shipper, two
represent carriers and two represent a
carrier/shipper.
Two of the five members whose terms
will expire are eligible for
reappointment. Nominations to replace
Board members whose terms expire may
be made by individuals, firms or
associations. Nominations will:
(1) State the region to be represented.
(2) State whether the nominee is
representing carriers, shippers or both.
(3) Provide information on the
nominee’s personal qualifications.
(4) Include the commercial operations
of the carrier and/or shipper with whom
the nominee is affiliated. This
commercial operations information will
show the actual or estimated ton-miles
of each commodity carried or shipped
on the inland waterways system in a
recent year (or years) using the
waterway regions and commodity
categories previously listed.
Nominations received in response to
Federal Register notices published on
March 17, 2005 (70 FR 13016) and
February 17, 2006 (71 FR 8568) have
been retained for consideration.
Renomination is not required but may
be desirable.
e. Deadline for Nominations. All
nominations must be received at the
address shown above no later than
August 11, 2006.
Brenda S. Bowen,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 06–6037 Filed 7–6–06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3710–92–M
VerDate Aug<31>2005
15:46 Jul 06, 2006
Jkt 208001
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
National Assessment Governing
Board; Meeting
National Assessment
Governing Board, Education.
ACTION: Notice of open meeting and
partially closed meetings.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The notice sets forth the
schedule and proposed agenda of a
forthcoming meeting of the National
Assessment Governing Board. This
notice also describes the functions of
the Board. Notice of this meeting is
required under Section 10(a)(2) of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act. This
document is intended to notify members
of the general public of their
opportunity to attend. Individuals who
will need special accommodations in
order to attend the meeting (i.e.,
interpreting services, assistive living
devices, materials in alternative format)
should notify Munira Mwalimu at 202–
357–6938 or at
Munira.Mwalimu@ed.gov no later than
July 24, 2006. We will attempt to meet
requests after this date, but cannot
guarantee availability of the requested
accommodation. The meeting site is
accessible to individuals with
disabilities.
DATES:
August 3–5, 2006.
Times
August 3
Committee Meetings
Assessment Development Committee:
Closed Session—9 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Ad Hoc Committee on Planning for
NAEP 12th Grade Assessments in 2009:
Open Session—1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Reporting and Dissemination
Committee: Open Session—3 p.m. to
4:30 p.m.
Executive Committee: Open Session—
4:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.; Closed Session
5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
August 4
Full Board: Open Session—8:30 a.m.
to 12:15 p.m.; Closed Session—12:15
p.m. to 1:30 p.m.; Open Session—1:30
p.m.–4:15 p.m.
Committee Meetings
Assessment Development Committee:
Open Session—9:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Committee on Standards, Design and
Methodology: Open Session—9:45 a.m.
to 12:15 p.m.
Reporting and Dissemination
Committee: Open Session—9:45 a.m. to
12:15 p.m.
PO 00000
Frm 00033
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
August 5
Nominations Committee: Open
Session—8:15 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.
Full Board: Open Session—9 a.m. to
12 p.m.
Location: The Ritz-Carlton Tysons
Corner, 1700 Tysons Boulevard,
McLean, VA 22102.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Munira Mwalimu, Operations Officer,
National Assessment Governing Board,
800 North Capitol Street, NW., Suite
825, Washington, DC 20002–4233,
Telephone: (202) 357–6938.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
National Assessment Governing Board
is established under section 412 of the
National Education Statistics Act of
1994, as amended.
The Board is established to formulate
policy guidelines for the National
Assessment of Educational Progress
(NAEP). The Board’s responsibilities
include selecting subject areas to be
assessed, developing assessment
objectives, developing appropriate
student achievement levels for each
grade and subject tested, developing
guidelines for reporting and
disseminating results, and developing
standards and procedures for interstate
and national comparisons.
The Assessment Development
Committee will meet in closed session
on August 3 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (four
hours) to review secure reading passages
and items for grade 8 (approximately
200 reading items) for the 2007 National
Assessment of Education Progress
(NAEP) Reading pilot test. The meeting
must be conducted in closed session as
disclosure of proposed test items for the
Reading pilot test would significantly
impede implementation of the NAEP
program, and is therefore protected by
exemption 9(B) of section 552b(c) of
Title 5 U.S.C.
The Ad Hoc Committee on Planning
for NAEP 12th Grade Assessments in
2009 will meet in open session on
August 3 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and
Reporting and Dissemination Committee
will meet in open session on August 3
p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thereafter, the
Executive Committee will meet in open
session from 4:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
The Executive Committee will meet in
closed session on August 3, 2006 from
5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. For the first
agenda item during this closed session,
the Executive Committee will receive
independent government cost estimates
from the Associate Commissioner,
National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES) for proposed contracts for item
development, data collection, scoring
and analysis, and reporting of National
Assessment of Educational Progress
E:\FR\FM\07JYN1.SGM
07JYN1
]]>Agencies
[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 130 (Friday, July 7, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38629-38630]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-6037]
=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army
Inland Waterways Users Board; Request for Nominations
AGENCY: Department of the Army, DOD.
ACTION: Notice.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: Section 302 of Public Law 99-662 established the Inland
Waterways Users Board. The Board is an independent Federal advisory
committee. The Secretary of the Army appoints its 11 members. This
notice is to solicit nominations for five (5) appointments or
reappointments to two-year terms that will begin after November 1,
2006.
ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works),
Attetion: Inland Waterways Users Board Nominations Committee, 108 Army
Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310-0108.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Office of the Assistant Secretary of
the Army (Civil Works), (703) 697-8986.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The selection, service, and appointment of
Board members are covered by provisions of Section 302 of Public Law
99-662. The substance of those provisions is as follows:
a. Selection. Members are to be selected from the spectrum of
commercial carriers and shippers using the inland and intracostal
waterways, to represent geographical regions, and to be representative
of waterborne commerce as determined by commodity ton-miles statistics.
b. Service. The Board is required to meet at least semi-annually to
develop and make recommendations to the Secretary of the Army on
waterways construction and rehabilitation priorities and spending
levels for commercial navigation improvements, and report its
recommendations annually to the Secretary and Congress.
c. Appointment. The operation of the Board and appointment of its
members are subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-
463, as amended) and departmental implementing regulations. Members
serve without compensation but their expenses due to Board activities
are reimbursable. The considerations specified in Section 302 for the
selection of the Board members, and certain terms used therein, have
been interpreted, supplemented, or otherwise clarified as follows:
(1) Carriers and Shippers. The law uses the terms ``primary users
and shipper.'' Primary users have been intepreted to mean the providers
of transportation services on inland waterways such as barge or towboat
operators. Shippers have been interpreted to mean the purchasers of
such services for the movement of commodities they own or control.
Individuals are appointed to the Board, but they must be either a
carrier or shipper, or represent a firm that is a carrier or shipper.
For that purpose a trade or regional association is neither a shipper
or primary user.
(2) Geographical Representation. The law specifies ``various''
regions. For the purpose of selecting Board members, the waterways
subjected to fuel taxes and described in Public Law 95-502, as amended,
have been aggregated into six regions. They are (1) the Upper
Mississippi River and its tributaries above the mouth of the Ohio; (2)
the Lower Mississippi River and its tributaries below the mouth of the
Ohio and above Baton Rouge; (3) the Ohio River and its tributaries; (4)
the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in Louisiana and Texas; (5) the Gulf
Intracoastal Waterway east of New Orleans and associated fuel-taxed
waterways including the Tennessee-Tombigbee, plus the Atlantic
Intracoastal Waterway below Norfolk; and (6) the Columbia-Snake Rivers
System and Upper Willamette. The intent is that each region shall be
represented by at least one Board member, with that
[[Page 38630]]
representation determined by the regional concentration of the
individual's traffic on the waterways.
(3) Commodity Representation. Waterway commerce has been aggregated
into six commodity categories based on ``inland'' ton-miles shown in
Waterborne Commerce of the United States. These categories are (1) Farm
and Food Products; (2) Coal and Coke; (3) Petroleum, Crude and
Products; (4) Minerals, Ores, and Primary Metals and Mineral Products;
(5) Chemical and Allied Products; and (6) All other. A consideration in
the selection of Board members will be that the commodities carried or
shipped by those individuals or their firms will be reasonably
representative of the above commodity categories.
d. Nomination. Reflecting preceding selection criteria, the current
representation by the five (5) Board members whose terms will expire is
one member each representing regions 2, 3 and 6, and two members
representing region 1. Also, one of these Board members represents a
shipper, two represent carriers and two represent a carrier/shipper.
Two of the five members whose terms will expire are eligible for
reappointment. Nominations to replace Board members whose terms expire
may be made by individuals, firms or associations. Nominations will:
(1) State the region to be represented.
(2) State whether the nominee is representing carriers, shippers or
both.
(3) Provide information on the nominee's personal qualifications.
(4) Include the commercial operations of the carrier and/or shipper
with whom the nominee is affiliated. This commercial operations
information will show the actual or estimated ton-miles of each
commodity carried or shipped on the inland waterways system in a recent
year (or years) using the waterway regions and commodity categories
previously listed.
Nominations received in response to Federal Register notices
published on March 17, 2005 (70 FR 13016) and February 17, 2006 (71 FR
8568) have been retained for consideration. Renomination is not
required but may be desirable.
e. Deadline for Nominations. All nominations must be received at
the address shown above no later than August 11, 2006.
Brenda S. Bowen,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 06-6037 Filed 7-6-06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3710-92-M
