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Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 107 / Wednesday, June 4, 2014 / Notices
The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
SUMMARY:
Written comments must be
submitted on or before August 4, 2014.
DATES:
Direct all written comments
to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer,
Department of Commerce, Room 6616,
14th and Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the
Internet at JJessup@doc.gov).
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument(s) and instructions should
be directed to Ana Valentin, Phone:
(301) 427–8187 or ana.valentin@
NOAA.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Abstract
This request is for a new information
collection.
Marine recreational anglers are
surveyed to collect catch and effort data,
fish biology data, and angler
socioeconomic characteristics. These
data are required to carry out provisions
of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act (16
U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), as amended,
regarding conservation and management
of fishery resources.
The For-Hire Survey (FHS) will
collect recreational fishing catch and
effort data through a telephone, Webbased data collection, and log sheet
methods. Amendments to the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
require the development of an improved
data collection program for recreational
fisheries. To meet these requirements,
NOAA Fisheries has designed a
telephone questionnaire in the
Computer Assisted Telephone Interview
(CATI) system for surveying and
collecting catch and effort data from
recreational anglers. The FHS will
sample a week’s activity from 10% of
vessels that are permitted for-hire or
charter vessel trips. Each interview will
collect the number of recreational
fishing trips, and log sheets submitted
by the permit holders will show
corresponding effort data (e.g. time at
sea, amounts of catch from each
fishery), within the sample selected
week.
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II. Method of Collection
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Information will be collected through
telephone interviews using a CATI
System. In lieu of telephone interviews,
respondents may also provide
information via a Web-based
application.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–XXXX.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(request for a new information
collection).
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
20,000.
Estimated Time per Response: 31⁄2
minutes for a telephone interview; 31⁄2
minutes to complete their responses on
the web-based application; 1 minute for
fax the log-sheet.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1,334.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0 in recordkeeping/reporting
costs.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
Dated: May 29, 2014.
Gwellnar Banks,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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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 Public Comment
Period for the Waquoit Bay,
Massachusetts National Estuarine
Research Reserve Management Plan
revision.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
the Estuarine Reserves Division, Office
of Ocean and Coastal Resource
Management, National Ocean Service,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce is announcing a thirty day
public comment period for the Waquoit
Bay, Massachusetts National Estuarine
Research Reserve Management Plan
revision.
The Waquoit Bay Reserve revised
plan will replace the plan approved in
2006. The revised management plan
outlines the administrative structure;
the research & monitoring, education,
training, and stewardship goals of the
reserve; and the plans for future land
acquisition and facility development to
support reserve operations. The revised
management plan will serve as the
guiding document for the 2,804 acre
Waquoit Bay Reserve for the next five
years.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael Migliori at (301) 563–1126 or
Erica Seiden at (301) 563–1172 of
NOAA’s National Ocean Service,
Estuarine Reserves Division, 1305 EastWest Highway, N/ORM5, 10th floor,
Silver Spring, MD 20910.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant
to 15 CFR 921.33(c), the revised plan
meets the reserve’s requirements for
compliance. The Waquoit Bay Reserve
revised plan will replace the plan
approved in 2006.
The revised management plan
outlines the administrative structure;
the research & monitoring, education,
training, and stewardship goals of the
reserve; and the plans for future land
acquisition and facility development to
support reserve operations.
The Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts
Reserve takes an integrated approach to
management, linking research,
education, training and stewardship
functions to address high priority issues
SUMMARY:
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including the impact of climate change
on estuarine ecosystems; connections
between watershed land-use and water
quality; assessment of ecosystem
response to natural variability and
human impacts; and understanding and
enhancing ecosystem services of coastal
habitats. Since the last management
plan, the reserve implemented its core
programs, expanded its monitoring
infrastructure to establish a groundwater
monitoring program and a Salt Marsh
Observatory; enhanced its facilities with
energy efficiency installations, campus
building improvements, and updated
educational exhibits; and furthered land
conservation in the reserve’s
watersheds.
This management plan calls for a
boundary expansion of 23 acres. The
lands consist of the 11.4 acre Caleb
Pond parcel on the northeast corner of
Waquoit Bay as well as the addition of
12.4 acres to the Quashnet River lands.
The Caleb Pond parcel is the largest
single undeveloped parcel on Waquoit
Bay and contains an upland coastal
pine-oak forest habitat with fringing salt
marsh and a connecting stream that
contains diadromous fish runs of
American eel and has historically
supported an anadramous river herring
run. The parcel is especially suitable for
educational purposes and creates 40
acres of contiguous protected lands
across the head of Waquoit Bay. The
Quashnet River land parcel expands
important contiguous and unfragmented
habitat that is valuable as wildlife
habitat and corridor as well as increases
protection of terrestrial, groundwater,
and aquatic systems. This parcel is
appropriate for education, recreation,
and upland research purposes.
The revised management plan will
serve as the guiding document for the
2,804 acre Waquoit Bay Reserve for the
next five years. The Waquoit Bay
Reserve Management Plan revision can
be viewed at (https://
www.waquoitbayreserve.org/about/
management-plan/). Comments can be
provided to the Reserve Manager at
james.rassman@state.ma.us.
Dated: May 29, 2014.
Christopher C. Cartwright,
Associate Assistant Administrator for
Management and CFO/CAO, Ocean Services
and Coastal Zone Management, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[RIN 0648–XD174]
Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to
Specified Activities; Seabird
Monitoring and Research in Glacier
Bay National Park, Alaska, 2014
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; proposed incidental
harassment authorization; request for
comments.
AGENCY:
NMFS has received an
application from Glacier Bay National
Park (Glacier Bay NP) to take marine
mammals, by harassment incidental to
conducting seabird research from July
through September, 2014. The proposed
dates for this action would be July 22,
2014 through September 30, 2014. Per
the Marine Mammal Protection Act, we
are requesting comments on our
proposal to issue an Authorization to
the Glacier Bay NP to incidentally take,
by Level B harassment only, one species
of marine mammals during the specified
activity.
DATES: NMFS must receive comments
and information on or before July 7,
2014.
SUMMARY:
Address comments on the
application to Jolie Harrison,
Supervisor, Incidental Take Program,
Permits and Conservation Division,
Office of Protected Resources, National
Marine Fisheries Service, 1315 EastWest Highway, Silver Spring, MD
20910. The mailbox address for
providing email comments is ITP.Cody@
noaa.gov. Please include 0648–XD174
in the subject line. Comments sent via
email to ITP.Cody@noaa.gov, including
all attachments, must not exceed a 25megabyte file size. NMFS is not
responsible for email comments sent to
addresses other than the one provided
here.
Instructions: All submitted comments
are a part of the public record and
NMFS will post them to https://
www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/
incidental.htm#applications without
change. All Personal Identifying
Information (for example, name,
address, etc.) voluntarily submitted by
the commenter may be publicly
accessible. Do not submit confidential
business information or otherwise
sensitive or protected information.
To obtain an electronic copy of the
application containing a list of the
ADDRESSES:
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references used in this document, write
to the previously mentioned address,
telephone the contact listed here (see
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT), or
visit the internet at: https://
www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/
incidental.htm#applications.
We will prepare an environmental
assessment (EA) in accordance with the
National Environmental Policy Act to
evaluate the environmental effects
related to the scope of our federal
action, which is the proposed issuance
of an Authorization to Glacier Bay NP
for their proposed seabird research
activities. This notice presents detailed
information on the scope of our federal
action under NEPA (i.e., the proposed
Authorization including mitigation
measures and monitoring) and we will
consider comments submitted in
response to this notice as we prepare
our EA. Information in Glacier Bay NP’s
application and this notice collectively
provide the environmental information
related to proposed issuance of the
Authorization for public review and
comment.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jeannine Cody, NMFS, Office of
Protected Resources, NMFS (301) 427–
8401.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Section 101(a)(5)(D) of the Marine
Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as
amended (MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et
seq.) directs the Secretary of Commerce
to allow, upon request, the incidental,
but not intentional, taking of small
numbers of marine mammals of a
species or population stock, by U.S.
citizens who engage in a specified
activity (other than commercial fishing)
within a specified geographical region
if, after NMFS provides a notice of a
proposed authorization to the public for
review and comment: (1) NMFS makes
certain findings; and (2) the taking is
limited to harassment.
An Authorization shall be granted for
the incidental taking of small numbers
of marine mammals if NMFS finds that
the taking will have a negligible impact
on the species or stock(s), and will not
have an unmitigable adverse impact on
the availability of the species or stock(s)
for subsistence uses (where relevant).
The Authorization must also set forth
the permissible methods of taking; other
means of effecting the least practicable
adverse impact on the species or stock
and its habitat; and requirements
pertaining to the mitigation, monitoring
and reporting of such taking. NMFS has
defined ‘‘negligible impact’’ in 50 CFR
216.103 as ‘‘an impact resulting from
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[FR Doc No: 2014-12929]
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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 Public Comment Period for the Waquoit Bay,
Massachusetts National Estuarine Research Reserve Management Plan
revision.
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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, U.S.
Department of Commerce is announcing a thirty day public comment period
for the Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts National Estuarine Research Reserve
Management Plan revision.
The Waquoit Bay Reserve revised plan will replace the plan approved
in 2006. The revised management plan outlines the administrative
structure; the research & monitoring, education, training, and
stewardship goals of the reserve; and the plans for future land
acquisition and facility development to support reserve operations. The
revised management plan will serve as the guiding document for the
2,804 acre Waquoit Bay Reserve for the next five years.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Migliori at (301) 563-1126 or
Erica Seiden at (301) 563-1172 of NOAA's National Ocean Service,
Estuarine Reserves Division, 1305 East-West Highway, N/ORM5, 10th
floor, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to 15 CFR 921.33(c), the revised
plan meets the reserve's requirements for compliance. The Waquoit Bay
Reserve revised plan will replace the plan approved in 2006.
The revised management plan outlines the administrative structure;
the research & monitoring, education, training, and stewardship goals
of the reserve; and the plans for future land acquisition and facility
development to support reserve operations.
The Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts Reserve takes an integrated approach
to management, linking research, education, training and stewardship
functions to address high priority issues
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including the impact of climate change on estuarine ecosystems;
connections between watershed land-use and water quality; assessment of
ecosystem response to natural variability and human impacts; and
understanding and enhancing ecosystem services of coastal habitats.
Since the last management plan, the reserve implemented its core
programs, expanded its monitoring infrastructure to establish a
groundwater monitoring program and a Salt Marsh Observatory; enhanced
its facilities with energy efficiency installations, campus building
improvements, and updated educational exhibits; and furthered land
conservation in the reserve's watersheds.
This management plan calls for a boundary expansion of 23 acres.
The lands consist of the 11.4 acre Caleb Pond parcel on the northeast
corner of Waquoit Bay as well as the addition of 12.4 acres to the
Quashnet River lands. The Caleb Pond parcel is the largest single
undeveloped parcel on Waquoit Bay and contains an upland coastal pine-
oak forest habitat with fringing salt marsh and a connecting stream
that contains diadromous fish runs of American eel and has historically
supported an anadramous river herring run. The parcel is especially
suitable for educational purposes and creates 40 acres of contiguous
protected lands across the head of Waquoit Bay. The Quashnet River land
parcel expands important contiguous and unfragmented habitat that is
valuable as wildlife habitat and corridor as well as increases
protection of terrestrial, groundwater, and aquatic systems. This
parcel is appropriate for education, recreation, and upland research
purposes.
The revised management plan will serve as the guiding document for
the 2,804 acre Waquoit Bay Reserve for the next five years. The Waquoit
Bay Reserve Management Plan revision can be viewed at (https://www.waquoitbayreserve.org/about/management-plan/). Comments can be
provided to the Reserve Manager at james.rassman@state.ma.us.
Dated: May 29, 2014.
Christopher C. Cartwright,
Associate Assistant Administrator for Management and CFO/CAO, Ocean
Services and Coastal Zone Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
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