General Advisory Committee and Scientific Advisory Subcommittee to the U.S. Section to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission; Meeting Announcement, 18535-18536 [2011-7946]
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ACTION:
Notice of public meeting.
The review panel (Panel) for
assessment methods for data-poor
species will hold a work session that is
open to the public.
DATES: The Review of Assessment
Methods for Data-Poor Species will be
held beginning at 8 a.m., Monday, April
25, 2011 and end at 5:30 p.m. or as
necessary to complete business for the
day. The Panel will reconvene on
Tuesday, April 26 and will continue
through Friday, April 29, 2011
beginning at 8 a.m. and ending at 5:30
p.m. each day, or as necessary to
complete business. The Panel will
adjourn on Friday, April 29, 2011.
ADDRESSES: The Review of Assessment
Methods for Data-Poor Species will be
held at the Santa Cruz Laboratory of the
NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science
Center, 110 Shaffer Road, Santa Cruz,
CA 95060; telephone: (831) 420–3900.
Council address: Pacific Fishery
Management Council (Pacific Council),
7700 NE Ambassador Place, Suite 101,
Portland, OR 97220–1384.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Stacey Miller, NMFS Northwest
Fisheries Science Center; telephone:
(541) 961–8475; or Mr. John DeVore,
Pacific Fishery Management Council;
telephone: (503) 820–2280.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
purpose of the Review of Assessment
Methods for Data-Poor Species is to
review assessment methods for use on
data-poor or data-limited stocks in the
Pacific Council’s Groundfish Fishery
Management Plan (FMP) and provide a
list of endorsed methods to the Pacific
Fishery Management Council. Stock
assessment methods including
Depletion-Corrected Average Catch
(DCAC) and Depletion-Based Stock
Reduction Analysis (DB–SRA) will be
reviewed at the meeting. Several
developments of these methods have
been proposed, which could raise stocks
from Category 3 (catch-based only) to
Category 2 in the Groundfish FMP tier
system. Category 2 stocks are those
where a basic assessment model is fit to
trend information.
No management actions will be
decided by the Panel. The Panel’s role
will be development of
recommendations and reports for
consideration by the Pacific Council at
its June meeting in Spokane, WA.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in the meeting agenda may
come before the Panel participants for
discussion, those issues may not be the
subject of formal Review Panel action
during this meeting. Panel action will be
restricted to those issues specifically
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listed 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 Panel participants’ 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 Mr.
Kris Kleinschmidt at (503) 820–2280 at
least 5 days prior to the meeting date.
Dated: March 30, 2011.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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General Advisory Committee and
Scientific Advisory Subcommittee to
the U.S. Section to the Inter-American
Tropical Tuna Commission; Meeting
Announcement
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:
NMFS announces a meeting
of the General Advisory Committee
(GAC) to the U.S. Section to the InterAmerican Tropical Tuna Commission
(IATTC) on May 26, 2011, and a meeting
of the Scientific Advisory Subcommittee
(SAS) on May 25, 2011. Meeting topics
are provided under the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this notice.
DATES: The meeting of the SAS will be
held on May 25, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. PDT (or until business is
concluded), and the meeting of the GAC
will be held on May 26, 2011, from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT (or until business is
concluded).
ADDRESSES: Both meetings will be held
in the Large Conference Room (Room
370) at NMFS, Southwest Fisheries
Science Center, 3333 North Torrey Pines
Court, La Jolla, California, 92037–1023.
Please notify Heidi Hermsmeyer prior to
May 6, 2011, of your plans to attend
either meeting, or interest in a
teleconference option.
SUMMARY:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Heidi Hermsmeyer, Southwest Region,
NMFS at Heidi.Hermsmeyer@noaa.gov,
or at (562) 980–4036.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Tuna Conventions
Act, as amended, the Department of
State has appointed a General Advisory
Committee (GAC) and a Scientific
Advisory Subcommittee (SAS) to the
U.S. Section to the IATTC. The U.S.
Section consists of four U.S.
Commissioners to the IATTC and a
representative of the Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Oceans and
Fisheries. The GAC and SAS support
the U.S. Section to the IATTC in an
advisory capacity; in particular, they
provide advice on the development of
U.S. policies, positions, and negotiating
tactics. NOAA Fisheries Southwest
Regional office administers the GAC and
SAS in cooperation with the
Department of State. The next annual
meeting of the IATTC is scheduled for
June 29–July 8, 2011, in La Jolla, CA.
For more information on this meeting,
please visit the IATTC’s Web site:
https://www.iattc.org/HomeENG.htm.
Meeting Topics
The SAS meeting topics will include,
but are not limited to, the following: (1)
Relevant stock status updates, including
yellowfin, bigeye, skipjack, and albacore
tunas; (2) updates on bycatch mitigation
measures; (3) evaluation of the IATTC’s
recommended conservation measures,
U.S. proposals, and proposals from
other IATTC members; (4) input to the
GAC; and (5) other issues as they arise.
The GAC meeting topics will include,
but are not limited to, the following: (1)
Relevant stock status updates, including
yellowfin, bigeye, skipjack, and albacore
tunas; (2) U.S. regulatory changes that
could affect tuna fisheries in the eastern
Pacific Ocean; (3) updates on
international agreements that could
affect the IATTC; (4) the upcoming
meeting of the five tuna regional fishery
management organizations (also known
as Kobe III); (5) the status of U.S
legislation to implement the Antigua
Convention; (6) outcomes of the IATTC
Capacity Working Group meeting; (7)
input from the SAS; (8) input and
advice from the GAC on issues that may
arise at the upcoming 2011 IATTC
meetings, including the IATTC’s
recommended conservation measures,
potential U.S. proposals, and potential
proposals from other IATTC members;
and (9) other issues as they arise.
Special Accommodations
The meeting location is physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language
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interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to Heidi Hermsmeyer
at (562) 980–4036 by May 6, 2011.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: March 29, 2011.
Emily H. Menashes,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq. (PRA), this notice
announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted
below has been forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and comment. The ICR describes
the nature of the information collection
and its expected costs and burden.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before May 4, 2011.
For Further Information or a Copy
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‘‘Collection of information’’ is defined in
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submit reports, keep records, or provide
information to a third party. Section
3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A), requires Federal agencies
to provide a 60-day notice in the
Federal Register for each proposed
collection of information before
submitting the collection to OMB for
approval. Accordingly, on January 11,
2011 the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission (Commission or CFTC)
published such a notice in the Federal
Register, in connection with a recently
adopted interim final rule for reporting
pre-enactment swap transactions.1 The
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1 The Federal Register notice with a 60-day
comment period soliciting comments on this
collection of information was published on January
11, 2011. 76 FR 1603.
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comment period closed on March 14,
2011; one comment was received.2
OMB regulations at 5 CFR 1320,
which implement provisions of the
PRA, further require that on or before
the date of submission to OMB of an
ICR, an agency shall publish in the
Federal Register a notice stating that
OMB approval is being sought and
requesting that comments be submitted
to OMB within 30 days of the notice’s
publication. An agency may not conduct
or sponsor, and a person is not required
to respond to, a collection of
information unless it displays a valid
OMB control number. Accordingly, the
Commission has submitted a request to
OMB for approval of a collection of
information for 17 CFR part 44—Interim
Final Rule for Reporting Pre-Enactment
Swap Transactions. The Commission is
requesting a 3-year term of approval for
this information collection activity.
Abstract: Section 729 of the Wall
Street Reform and Consumer Protection
Act (Dodd-Frank Act) 3 required the
Commission to adopt, within 90 days of
enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act, an
interim final rule for the reporting of
swap transactions entered into before
July 21, 2010 whose terms had not
expired as of that date (‘‘pre-enactment
unexpired swaps’’). Pursuant to this
mandate, the CFTC adopted an interim
final rule requiring specified parties to
pre-enactment unexpired swap
transactions to report certain
information related to those transactions
to a swap data repository (SDR) or to the
Commission by a compliance date to be
established in reporting rules required
under Section 2(h)(5) of the Commodity
Exchange Act (CEA), or within 60 days
after an appropriate SDR becomes
registered under Section 21 of the CEA
and commences operations, whichever
occurs first. An interpretative note to
the rule advises that, in order to comply
with the reporting provisions of the
rule, reporting parties that may be
required to report to an SDR or to the
CFTC will need to preserve information
related to the terms of such swaps.
The Commission initially estimated
that approximately 1,800 entities would
be affected by this rule. That number
was based on the current estimate of the
number of swap dealers (250), major
swap participants (50) and other
counterparties (1,500).4 Because the
Commission has not heretofore
regulated the swap market, it has not
previously collected data to support its
estimate. In its comment letter, the
Coalition correctly observed that this
estimate did not take into account
roughly 2,900 members of the Coalition.
Moreover, the Commission has
estimated that there are roughly 30,000
non-financial entities engaging in swap
transactions 5 (including the Coalition
members) which may be subject to the
requirements of the interim final rule.
Accordingly, the initial estimate of
1,800 affected entities has been revised
to 32,000.
Because the interim final rule requires
only that affected entities maintain data
in its current form, and imposes no
collection, manipulation, compilation or
reporting of the data, the Commission
initially estimated that the hourly
burden would be de minimis.6 The
Coalition suggests that the burden to be
measured is not the time it would take
each affected entity to advise its
employees to retain particular records,
but would also include time spent in
reviewing, interpreting and analyzing
the CEA, the Commission’s jurisdiction
over pre-enactment unexpired swaps,
and the relevance of the interim final
rule to the particular industry. Finally,
the Coalition notes that the burden to
‘‘collect and retain’’ records is only a
first step; should the Commission
require any manipulation, compilation
or interpretation of the data the burden
will be significantly higher. The
Commission has considered these
comments and for the following reasons
has concluded that its estimate is not
inconsistent with the burden imposed
by the interim final rule. The rule
requires merely that affected parties
retain data related to swap transactions
to the extent that and in whatever form
they currently keep such data until such
time as permanent rules governing data
recordkeeping and reporting are
proposed and adopted by the
Commission. None of the activities cited
by the Coalition are contemplated by the
interim final rule.
Burden Statement: The respondent
burden for this collection is estimated to
average .5 hours per response. This
4 76
FR 1603, 1604.
CFTC NPRM: End-User Exception to
Mandatory Clearing of Swaps, 75 FR 80747, 80756
(Dec. 23, 2010). The Commission estimates that
there are approximately 30,000 end users who are
counterparties to a swap in a given year. While it
is possible that the number of end users having preenactment swap transactions to report will be
significantly lower, the 30,000 figure is the more
conservative estimate.
6 76 FR 1603, 1604. The estimated average hourly
burden was estimated at .5 hours.
5 See
2 Letter dated March 14, 2011, from trade
associations comprising the ‘‘Not-for-Profit Electric
End User Coalition’’ (Coalition). The Coalition
challenged the CFTC’s estimates with respect to the
number and diversity of affected entities. In
response to this comment, the Commission has
revised its estimates; these revisions are reflected in
the instant notice as well as in the ICR forwarded
to OMB.
3 Public Law 111–203, 124 Stat. 1376 (2010).
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General Advisory Committee and Scientific Advisory Subcommittee
to the U.S. Section to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission;
Meeting Announcement
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
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SUMMARY: NMFS announces a meeting of the General Advisory Committee
(GAC) to the U.S. Section to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna
Commission (IATTC) on May 26, 2011, and a meeting of the Scientific
Advisory Subcommittee (SAS) on May 25, 2011. Meeting topics are
provided under the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice.
DATES: The meeting of the SAS will be held on May 25, 2011, from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. PDT (or until business is concluded), and the meeting of the
GAC will be held on May 26, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT (or until
business is concluded).
ADDRESSES: Both meetings will be held in the Large Conference Room
(Room 370) at NMFS, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, 3333 North
Torrey Pines Court, La Jolla, California, 92037-1023. Please notify
Heidi Hermsmeyer prior to May 6, 2011, of your plans to attend either
meeting, or interest in a teleconference option.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Heidi Hermsmeyer, Southwest Region,
NMFS at Heidi.Hermsmeyer@noaa.gov, or at (562) 980-4036.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the Tuna Conventions Act,
as amended, the Department of State has appointed a General Advisory
Committee (GAC) and a Scientific Advisory Subcommittee (SAS) to the
U.S. Section to the IATTC. The U.S. Section consists of four U.S.
Commissioners to the IATTC and a representative of the Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Oceans and Fisheries. The GAC and SAS support
the U.S. Section to the IATTC in an advisory capacity; in particular,
they provide advice on the development of U.S. policies, positions, and
negotiating tactics. NOAA Fisheries Southwest Regional office
administers the GAC and SAS in cooperation with the Department of
State. The next annual meeting of the IATTC is scheduled for June 29-
July 8, 2011, in La Jolla, CA. For more information on this meeting,
please visit the IATTC's Web site: https://www.iattc.org/HomeENG.htm.
Meeting Topics
The SAS meeting topics will include, but are not limited to, the
following: (1) Relevant stock status updates, including yellowfin,
bigeye, skipjack, and albacore tunas; (2) updates on bycatch mitigation
measures; (3) evaluation of the IATTC's recommended conservation
measures, U.S. proposals, and proposals from other IATTC members; (4)
input to the GAC; and (5) other issues as they arise.
The GAC meeting topics will include, but are not limited to, the
following: (1) Relevant stock status updates, including yellowfin,
bigeye, skipjack, and albacore tunas; (2) U.S. regulatory changes that
could affect tuna fisheries in the eastern Pacific Ocean; (3) updates
on international agreements that could affect the IATTC; (4) the
upcoming meeting of the five tuna regional fishery management
organizations (also known as Kobe III); (5) the status of U.S
legislation to implement the Antigua Convention; (6) outcomes of the
IATTC Capacity Working Group meeting; (7) input from the SAS; (8) input
and advice from the GAC on issues that may arise at the upcoming 2011
IATTC meetings, including the IATTC's recommended conservation
measures, potential U.S. proposals, and potential proposals from other
IATTC members; and (9) other issues as they arise.
Special Accommodations
The meeting location is physically accessible to people with
disabilities. Requests for sign language
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interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Heidi
Hermsmeyer at (562) 980-4036 by May 6, 2011.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: March 29, 2011.
Emily H. Menashes,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
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