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The SSC meeting will be
held at the Council Office Conference
Room, 1164 Bishop St., Suite 1400,
Honolulu, HI; telephone: (808) 522–
8220.
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director;
telephone: (808) 522–8220.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Dates and Times and Locations
The SSC meeting will be held
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Tuesday,
September 25, 2007, and between 8:30
a.m. and 5 p.m. on Wednesday and
Thursday September 26–27, 2007 at the
Council Office Conference Room, 1164
Bishop St., Suite 1400, Honolulu, HI;
telephone: (808) 522–8220.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007, 9 a.m.
1. Introductions
2. Approval of Draft Agenda and
Assignment of Rapporteurs
3. Approval of the Minutes of the 95th
SSC Meeting
4. Report from the Pacific Fisheries
Science Center Director
5. The New Role of the SSC
A. The 2–Tier System
B. Magnuson Stevens Act Five-Year
Research Plan
C. Annual Catch Limits
D. Stock Assessment Reviews
6. Data Collection
A. Federal Management Unit Species
Fishery Permitting and Reporting
Options (ACTION ITEM)
B. Report on status of Marine
Recreational Information Program
C. Public Comment
7. Insular Fisheries
A. Bottomfish Management
1. Bottomfish Risk Assessment Model
(ACTION ITEM)
B. Public Comment
C. Discussion and Recommendations
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007, 8:30
a.m.
8. Rights-based Management
9. Pelagic Fisheries
A. Longline Management
1. Hawaii Swordfish Fishery Effort
Options (ACTION ITEM)
2. Pelagics Total Allowable Catch
Amendment (ACTION ITEM)
3. Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands Closed Area Options
(ACTION ITEM)
4. American Samoa Program
Modifications (ACTION ITEM)
B. Non-Longline Management
1. Purse-Seine Closed Areas (ACTION
ITEM)
a. Marianas Archipelago
b. American Samoa
2. Non-Longline Pelagic Fishery
Management Options (ACTION ITEM)
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C. American Samoa and Hawaii
Longline Quarterly Reports
D. Stock Assessment Review
1. Western & Central Pacific Ocean
Yellowfin Tuna
2. North Pacific Blue Shark
3. North Pacific Albacore Tuna
4. North Pacific Striped Marlin
E. International Fisheries
1. Inter-American Tropical Tuna
Commission Meeting
2. International Scientific Committee
Meeting
3. Western & Central Pacific Fisheries
Commission (WCPFC) Science
Committee Meeting
4. WCPFC Northern Committee
Meeting
5. Bellagio II ’Comeback Leatherback’
F. Public Comment
G. Discussion and Recommendations
Thursday, September 27, 2007, 8:30
a.m.
10. Program Planning
A. Community Development Plan
Process Options
B. Hawaii Marine Conservation Plan
C. Public Comment
D. Discussion and Recommendations
11. Other Business
A. 97th SSC Meeting
12. Summary of SSC
Recommendations to the Council
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda may come
before this group for discussion, those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during this meeting. Action 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 the public has been
notified of the Council’s intent to take
final action to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to
Kitty M. Simonds, (808) 522–8220
(voice) or (808) 522–8226 (fax), at least
5 days prior to the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C.1801 et seq.
Dated: August 29, 2007.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
National Estuarine Research Reserve
System
Estuarine Reserves Division,
Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource
Management, National Ocean Service,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Approval and
Availability of the Revised Management
Plan for the Wells (Maine) National
Estuarine Research Reserve.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that
the Estuarine Reserves Division, Office
of Ocean and Coastal Resource
Management, National Ocean Service,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), U.S.
Department of Commerce has approved
the revised management plan, which
includes an expansion of the boundary
of the reserve, for the Wells National
Estuarine Research Reserve.
The Wells Reserve was designated in
February 1984 pursuant to Section 315
of the Coastal Zone Management Act of
1972, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 1461. The
reserve has been operating under a
management plan approved in 1996.
Pursuant to 15 CFR 921.33(c), a state
must revise their management plan
every five years. The submission of this
plan fulfills this requirement and sets a
course for successful implementation of
the goals and objectives of the reserve.
Since the last management plan, the
Wells Reserve acquired two key parcels
of land, changed its boundary,
constructed needed facilities, and
implemented several system-wide
programs. It acquired the 27-acre
Alheim property and the 21⁄2-acre Lord
parcel, and changed its boundary to
include 359 acres of the watershed areas
of the Reserve. The Reserve built the
Maine Coastal Ecology Center, new
interpretive exhibits, the Alheim
Commons dormitory, and the Forest
Learning Shelter, and equipped and
opened the Coastal Resource Library.
This new management plan serves as
the primary guidance document for the
operation of the Wells Reserve’s core
and system-wide programs in research
and monitoring, education and coastal
training, and resource management and
stewardship. The plan provides
guidance on the acquisition of land to
be added to the Reserve and on the
construction and renovation of
buildings and exhibits that support
reserve programs. It also guides the
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Reserve in important related programs,
such as volunteerism and outreach to
communities to encourage stewardship
of coastal resources in southern Maine.
The Wells Reserve is a public/private
partnership whose administrative
oversight is vested in the Reserve
Management Authority (RMA). This
independent state agency was
established in 1990 to support and
promote the interests of the Wells
Reserve. The RMA has a Board of
Directors composed of representatives
having a property, management, or
program interest in the Wells Reserve.
The RMA members represent the Maine
Department of conservation, the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, the Town of
Wells, the Laudholm Trust, the Maine
State Planning Office, and the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris Grimm at (301) 563–7107 or
Laurie McGilvray at (301) 563–1158 of
NOAA’s National Ocean Service,
Estuarine Reserves Division, 1305 EastWest Highway, N/ORM5, 10th floor,
Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Dated: August 27, 2007.
David M. Kennedy,
Director, Office of Ocean and Coastal
Resource Management, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
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Secretary of Defense (Personnel and
Readiness), Room 2B271, The Pentagon,
Washington, DC 20301–4000, telephone
(703) 697–9271.
Persons
desiring to make oral presentations or
submit written statements for
consideration at the Committee meeting
must contact Dr. Jane M. Arabian at the
address or telephone number above no
later than September 10, 2007.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Dated: August 29, 2007.
L.M. Bynum,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department
of Defense.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Air Force
Air Force Special Operations
Command Assets Beddown, Cannon
Air Force Base, NM
AGENCY:
Department of the Air Force,
DOD.
ACTION:
Record of Decision.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Pursuant to Public Law 92–
463, notice is hereby given that a
meeting of the Defense Advisory
Committee on Military Personnel
Testing is scheduled to be held. The
purpose of the meeting is to review
planned changes and progress in
developing computerized and paperand-pencil enlistment tests.
DATES: September 20, 2007, from 8 a.m.
to 4 p.m., and September 21, from 8 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Sheraton Ferncroft Resort, 50
Ferncroft Road, Danvers, Massachusetts
01923.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Jane M. Arabian, Assistant Director,
Accession Policy, Officer of the Under
SUMMARY: On August 20, 2007, the
United States Air Force signed the
Record of Decision (ROD) for the Air
Force Special Operations Command
Assets Beddown at Cannon Air Force
Base (AFB), New Mexico. The ROD
states the Air Force decision to
implement the Preferred Alternative
(East West Airfield Alternative at
Cannon AFB, the Two Target
Alternative at Melrose Air Force Range,
and the use of Cannon scheduled
airspace).
The decision was based on matters
discussed in the Final Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS), inputs from the
public and regulatory agencies, and
other relevant factors. The Final EIS was
made available on July 20, 2007 in the
Federal Register (Volume 72, Number
139, Page 39808) with a wait period
ending August 20, 2007. The ROD
documents only the decision of the Air
Force with respect to the proposed Air
Force actions analyzed in the Final EIS.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
Defense Advisory Committee on
Military Personnel Testing
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Under Secretary of Defense for
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Mr.
Carl T. Hoffman, Headquarters Air Force
Special Operations Command/A7PP,
Hurlburt Field, FL, 32544–5434 or call
(850) 884–5984.
Bao-Anh Trinh,
Air Force Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy
Revised Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement/
Overseas Environmental Impact
Statement for the Virginia Capes
Range Complex and Notice of Request
for Public Scoping Comments
Department of the Navy, DoD.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: This notice is to inform the
public that the Department of the Navy
is expanding the Virginia Capes
(VACAPES) Range Complex
Environmental Impact Statement/
Overseas Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS/OEIS) area of
consideration and to invite the public to
provide comments for consideration
during preparation of the EIS/OEIS.
Since the December 2006 EIS/OEIS
scoping notice [FR 71143], potential
shallow water inert mine warfare
training areas have been identified in
the southern portion of the Chesapeake
Bay, south of latitude 37° 25′N. The
proposed training areas would consist of
instrumented shapes placed temporarily
for training purposes. Each of the two
proposed training areas would be
approximately one by four square
nautical miles in area. Training in these
mine warfare areas would not involve
use of active sonar. Arrangement could
vary periodically and location within
the proposed training areas would vary
depending on operational requirements;
however shipping lanes will be avoided.
Divers will be required to perform
periodic maintenance and replacement
of the instrumented shapes.
Scoping comments previously
submitted following publication of the
December 2006 Notice of Intent to
Prepare an EIS/OEIS for the VACAPES
Range Complex are still valid and need
not be resubmitted. The Navy
encourages additional comments or
concerns on the expanded area of
consideration. VACAPES Range
Complex requirements, additional EIS/
OEIS information, proposed action
background, alternatives, environmental
considerations, and public participation
inputs can be found at https://
www.vacapesrangecomplexeis.com.
More detailed information regarding
this notice of intent can be found on the
project Web site.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Erin Swiader, Naval Facilities
Engineering Command Atlantic, 6506
Hampton Boulevard, Norfolk, Virginia
23508–1278; telephone: 757–322–4960.
You may submit written comments to
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Estuarine Research Reserve System
AGENCY: Estuarine Reserves Division, Office of Ocean and Coastal
Resource Management, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Approval and Availability of the Revised Management
Plan for the Wells (Maine) National Estuarine Research Reserve.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Estuarine Reserves Division,
Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, National Ocean
Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S.
Department of Commerce has approved the revised management plan, which
includes an expansion of the boundary of the reserve, for the Wells
National Estuarine Research Reserve.
The Wells Reserve was designated in February 1984 pursuant to
Section 315 of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended, 16
U.S.C. 1461. The reserve has been operating under a management plan
approved in 1996. Pursuant to 15 CFR 921.33(c), a state must revise
their management plan every five years. The submission of this plan
fulfills this requirement and sets a course for successful
implementation of the goals and objectives of the reserve.
Since the last management plan, the Wells Reserve acquired two key
parcels of land, changed its boundary, constructed needed facilities,
and implemented several system-wide programs. It acquired the 27-acre
Alheim property and the 2\1/2\-acre Lord parcel, and changed its
boundary to include 359 acres of the watershed areas of the Reserve.
The Reserve built the Maine Coastal Ecology Center, new interpretive
exhibits, the Alheim Commons dormitory, and the Forest Learning
Shelter, and equipped and opened the Coastal Resource Library. This new
management plan serves as the primary guidance document for the
operation of the Wells Reserve's core and system-wide programs in
research and monitoring, education and coastal training, and resource
management and stewardship. The plan provides guidance on the
acquisition of land to be added to the Reserve and on the construction
and renovation of buildings and exhibits that support reserve programs.
It also guides the
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Reserve in important related programs, such as volunteerism and
outreach to communities to encourage stewardship of coastal resources
in southern Maine.
The Wells Reserve is a public/private partnership whose
administrative oversight is vested in the Reserve Management Authority
(RMA). This independent state agency was established in 1990 to support
and promote the interests of the Wells Reserve. The RMA has a Board of
Directors composed of representatives having a property, management, or
program interest in the Wells Reserve. The RMA members represent the
Maine Department of conservation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
the Town of Wells, the Laudholm Trust, the Maine State Planning Office,
and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Doris Grimm at (301) 563-7107 or
Laurie McGilvray at (301) 563-1158 of NOAA's National Ocean Service,
Estuarine Reserves Division, 1305 East-West Highway, N/ORM5, 10th
floor, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Dated: August 27, 2007.
David M. Kennedy,
Director, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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