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Dated: August 15, 2007.
Gary Taverman,
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
The President’s Export Council:
Meeting of the President’s Export
Council; Correction
International Trade
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce.
AGENCY:
Notice of a time change for an
open meeting via teleconference.
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The President’s Export
Council will hold a meeting via
teleconference to deliberate a draft letter
of recommendation to the President.
This meeting was announced in a
Federal Register document published
on August 13, 2007 (72 FR 45224). This
notice corrects the time of that meeting.
Date: August 23, 2007.
Time: 1 p.m. (EDT); Correction.
For the Conference Call-In Number
and Further Information, Contact: The
President’s Export Council Executive
Secretariat, Room 4043, Washington, DC
20230 (Phone: 202–482–1124), or visit
the PEC Web site, https://
www.ita.doc.gov/td/pec.
Dated: August 16, 2007.
J. Marc Chittum,
Executive Secretary and Staff Director,
President’s Export Council.
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Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of
Mexico, and South Atlantic;
Amendment 29 to the Fishery
Management Plan for the Reef Fish
Resources of the Gulf of Mexico
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; intent to prepare a draft
environmental impact statement (DEIS);
scoping meetings; request for comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: NMFS, Southeast Region, in
collaboration with the Gulf of Mexico
Fishery Management Council (Council)
intends to prepare a DEIS to describe
and analyze management alternatives to
be included in an amendment to the
Fishery Management Plan for the Reef
Fish Resources of the Gulf of Mexico.
These alternatives will consider
measures to rationalize effort and
reduce overcapacity in the commercial
grouper fishery to achieve and maintain
optimum yield in the multi-species
grouper fishery. The purpose of this
notice of intent is to solicit public
comments on the scope of issues to be
addressed in the DEIS.
DATES: Written comments on the scope
of issues to be addressed in the DEIS
must be received by NMFS by
September 20, 2007. Nine scoping
meetings will be held in September
2007. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
for specific dates and times.
ADDRESSES: Written comments on the
scope of the DEIS, suggested alternatives
and potential impacts, and requests for
additional information on the
amendment should be sent to Sarah
DeVido, National Marine Fisheries
Service, Southeast Regional Office, 263
13th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL
33701–5511; telephone (727) 824–5305;
fax (727) 824–5308. Comments may also
be sent by email to
Sarah.DeVido@noaa.gov.
Requests for information packets and
for sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to the
Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management
Council, 2203 North Lois Avenue, Suite
1100, Tampa, FL 33607; telephone: 813–
348–1630; fax: 813–348–1711. Requests
may also be sent by email to
steven.atran@gulfcouncil.org.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sarah DeVido; phone: (727) 824–5305;
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fax: (727) 824–5308; email:
Sarah.DeVido@noaa.gov.
Current
regulatory measures used in the
management of the grouper complex
include a license limitation system,
quotas, trip limits, minimum size limits,
area/gear restrictions, and season
closures. Nonetheless, the commercial
grouper fishery has become
overcapitalized which means the
collective harvest capacity of
participants is in excess of that required
to efficiently harvest the commercial
share of the total allowable catch. The
overcapitalization observed in the
fishery has caused commercial grouper
regulations to become increasingly
restrictive over time, intensifying derby
conditions under which fishermen race
to harvest as many fish as possible
before the quota is reached. The
intensification of derby conditions has,
in some years, led to premature closures
of the fishery.
Incentives for overcapitalization and
derby fishery conditions are expected to
be maintained as long as the current
management structure persists. Under
this management structure, the
commercial grouper fishery is expected
to continue to be characterized by
higher than necessary levels of capital
investment, increased operating costs,
increased likelihood of shortened
seasons, reduced safety at-sea, wide
fluctuations in grouper supply and
depressed ex vessel prices. These
conditions lead to deteriorating working
conditions and profitability for
participants.
Therefore, NMFS, in collaboration
with the Council will develop a DEIS to
describe and analyze management
alternatives to rationalize effort and
reduce overcapacity in the commercial
grouper fishery in order to achieve and
maintain optimum yield in this multispecies fishery. These alternatives
include, but are not limited to:
elimination of latent permits, a buyback
or buyout program, permit
endorsements, an individual fishing
quota program, or an individual
transferable effort quota program.
In accordance with NOAA’s
Administrative Order 216–6, Section
5.02(c), Scoping Process, NMFS in
collaboration with the Council has
identified preliminary environmental
issues as a means to initiate discussion
for scoping purposes only. These
preliminary issues may not represent
the full range of issues that eventually
will be evaluated in the EIS.
NMFS, in collaboration with the
Council, has scheduled the following
nine scoping meetings to provide the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration
The President's Export Council: Meeting of the President's Export
Council; Correction
AGENCY: International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of a time change for an open meeting via teleconference.
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SUMMARY: The President's Export Council will hold a meeting via
teleconference to deliberate a draft letter of recommendation to the
President. This meeting was announced in a Federal Register document
published on August 13, 2007 (72 FR 45224). This notice corrects the
time of that meeting.
Date: August 23, 2007.
Time: 1 p.m. (EDT); Correction.
For the Conference Call-In Number and Further Information, Contact:
The President's Export Council Executive Secretariat, Room 4043,
Washington, DC 20230 (Phone: 202-482-1124), or visit the PEC Web site,
https://www.ita.doc.gov/td/pec.
Dated: August 16, 2007.
J. Marc Chittum,
Executive Secretary and Staff Director, President's Export Council.
[FR Doc. 07-4111 Filed 8-17-07; 9:33 am]
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