New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting, 886-887 [2020-00096]

Download as PDF 886 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 5 / Wednesday, January 8, 2020 / Notices Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Meetings of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and its advisory committees. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and its advisory committees will meet January 27, 2020 to February 2, 2020. DATES: The Council will begin its plenary session at 8 a.m. in the South Room on Wednesday, January 29 continuing through Sunday, February 2, 2020. The Council’s Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) will begin at 8 a.m. in the East Room on Monday, January 27 and continue through Wednesday, January 29, 2020. The Council’s Advisory Panel (AP) will begin at 8 a.m. in the North/West Room on Tuesday, January 28 and continue through Friday, January 31, 2020. The Ecosystem Committee will meet on Tuesday, January 28, 2020, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (room TBD). The Partial Coverage Fishery Monitoring Advisory Committee will meet Tuesday, January 28, 2020, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. (room TBD). ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Renaissance Hotel, 515 Madison St., Seattle, WA 98104. Council address: North Pacific Fishery Management Council, 1007 West 3rd, Suite 400; telephone: (907) 271–2809. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diana Evans, Council staff; telephone: (907) 271–2809. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: SUMMARY: Agenda jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES Monday, January 27, 2020 Through Sunday, February 2, 2020 Council Plenary Session: The agenda for the Council’s plenary session will include the following issues. The Council may take appropriate action on any of the issues identified. (1) Executive Director’s Report (2) NMFS Management Report (3) NOAA General Counsel Report (4) Alaska Fisheries Science Center Report (5) ADF&G Report (6) USCG Report (7) USFWS Report (8) Charter Halibut Annual Management Measures for Area 3A (9) Norton Sound Red King Crab— Specifications, BSAI Crab Plan Team Report (10) Central GOA Rockfish Reauthorization (11) Economic Data Report regulatory changes VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:18 Jan 07, 2020 Jkt 250001 (12) Sculpin/Squid Product Types (13) Partial Coverage Cost Efficiencies (14) Standardized Bycatch Reporting Methodology in FMPs (15) Bering Sea Fishery Ecosystem Plan Action Modules (16) BSAI Halibut ABM (17) Crab e-logbooks Cost Analysis (18) Social Science Planning Team (19) Staff Tasking The Advisory Panel will address the same agenda issues as the Council with the exception of the B reports (issues 1– 7). The SSC’s agenda will include: (1) Sculpin/Squid Product Types (2) Alaska Fisheries Science Center Report (3) Norton Sound Red King Crab— Specifications, BSAI Crab Plan Team Report (4) Bering Sea Fishery Ecosystem Plan Action Modules (5) Social Science Planning Team (6) Economic Data Report regulatory changes (7) Economic SAFE report—Review (8) Multi Regional Social Accounting Matrix tool—Review (9) Marine Mammal Conservation Status—Annual Update Additionally, the SSC will be holding a Research Priorities Planning Workshop at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, January 29, 2020 in the East Room. In addition to providing ongoing scientific advice for fishery management decisions, the SSC functions as the Council’s primary peer review panel for scientific information, as described by the Magnuson-Stevens Act section 302(g)(1)(e), and the National Standard 2 guidelines (78 FR 43066). The peer review process is also deemed to satisfy the requirements of the Information Quality Act, including the OMB Peer Review Bulletin guidelines. The agenda for the Partial Coverage Fishery Monitoring Advisory Committee includes the opportunity to review, give staff feedback, and make recommendations to the Council on a draft workplan that establishes different elements and options for a cost efficient monitoring program that can be supported by industry fees. The agenda for the Ecosystem Committee includes fur seal updates from NOAA and St. Paul, skate nursery research update, deep sea coral research update, and FEP action module updates. The Agenda is subject to change, and the latest version will be posted at https://meetings.npfmc.org/Meeting/ Details/1243. Public Comment Public comment letters will be accepted and should be submitted either PO 00000 Frm 00014 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 electronically at: https:// meetings.npfmc.org/Meeting/Details/ 1243 or through the mail: North Pacific Fishery Management Council, 1007 West 3rd Ave., Suite 400, Anchorage, AK 99501. Deadline for comments is January 24, 2020 at 12 p.m. Special Accommodations These meetings are physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Shannon Gleason at (907) 271–2809 at least 7 working days prior to the meeting date. Dated: January 3, 2020. Tracey L. Thompson, Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. [FR Doc. 2020–00099 Filed 1–7–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–22–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [RTID 0648–XA004] New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Notice; public meeting. AGENCY: The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is scheduling a public meeting of its Groundfish Committee to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Recommendations from this group will be brought to the full Council for formal consideration and action, if appropriate. DATES: This meeting will be held on Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 9 a.m. ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Four Points Sheraton, One Audubon Road, Wakefield, MA 01880; Phone: (781) 245–9300. Council address: New England Fishery Management Council, 50 Water Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, New England Fishery Management Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: SUMMARY: Agenda The committee will meet to discuss recreational measures for fishing year 2020 and provide recommendations to the Groundfish Committee on E:\FR\FM\08JAN1.SGM 08JAN1 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 5 / Wednesday, January 8, 2020 / Notices recreational measures for Gulf of Maine cod and Gulf of Maine haddock. They will also discuss Amendment 23: Groundfish Monitoring to review the draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and recommend preliminary preferred alternatives to the Groundfish Committee. The committee will receive an overview of the Council’s 2020 priorities. Other business will be discussed as necessary. 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 these meetings. Action will be restricted to those issues specifically listed in this notice and any issues arising after publication of this notice that require emergency action under section 305(c) of the MagnusonStevens 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 Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, at (978) 465–0492, at least 5 days prior to the meeting date. This meeting will be recorded. Consistent with 16 U.S.C. 1852, a copy of the recording is available upon request. Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. Dated: January 3, 2020. Tracey L. Thompson, Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. [FR Doc. 2020–00096 Filed 1–7–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–22–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY National Nuclear Security Administration Notice of Availability of Final Supplement Analysis of the Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy. ACTION: Notice of availability. jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES AGENCY: The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semi-autonomous agency within the United States (U.S.) Department of Energy (DOE), announces the availability of a Final Supplement Analysis (SA) of the Complex SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:18 Jan 07, 2020 Jkt 250001 Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (SPEIS) (DOE/EIS–0236–SA– 02). NNSA prepared the Final SA to determine whether, prior to implementing a Modified Distributed Center of Excellence (DCE) Alternative for plutonium operations to enable producing plutonium pits at a rate of no fewer than 80 pits per year by 2030, the existing Complex Transformation SPEIS should be supplemented, a new environmental impact statement be prepared, or that no further National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analysis is required. NNSA published the Draft Supplement Analysis of the Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on June 28, 2019, and announced a 45-day comment period. After considering all comments received, NNSA prepared the Final SA and concluded that no further NEPA documentation at a programmatic level is required. DATES: This notice will be published on January 8, 2020. ADDRESSES: The Final SA, which includes an Appendix which contains NNSA’s responses to comments received on the Draft SA, is available on the internet at https://www.energy.gov/ nnsa/nnsa-nepa-reading-room and https://www.energy.gov/nepa/listings/ supplement-analyses-sa. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information about this Notice, please contact Mr. James R. Sanderson, Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20585–0119; phone: 202–586–1402; email to: NEPA-SRS@srs.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NNSA prepared the Final SA to determine whether, prior to implementing a Modified Distributed Center of Excellence (DCE) Alternative for plutonium operations to enable producing plutonium pits at a rate of no fewer than 80 pits per year by 2030, the existing Complex Transformation SPEIS should be supplemented, a new environmental impact statement be prepared, or that no further National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analysis is required. Implementing a Modified DCE Alternative would enable NNSA to meet federal law and national policy by producing a minimum of 50 pits per year at a repurposed MixedOxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) and a minimum of 30 pits per year at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). An additional surge capacity would be available at each site, if needed, to meet PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 887 the requirements of producing pits at a rate of no fewer than 80 pits per year by 2030 for the nuclear weapons stockpile. The Final SA includes NNSA’s determination that no further NEPA documentation at a programmatic level is required. The SA of the Complex Transformation SPEIS is an important element of the overall NEPA strategy related to fulfilling national requirements for pit production. DOE announced this NEPA strategy on June 10, 2019 (84 FR 26849). National security policies require DOE, through NNSA, to maintain the United States’ nuclear weapons stockpile, as well as the nation’s core competencies in nuclear weapons. NNSA has the mission to maintain and enhance the safety, security, and effectiveness of the nuclear weapons stockpile. Plutonium pits are critical components of every nuclear weapon, with nearly all current stockpile pits having been produced from 1978–1989. Today, the United States’ capability to produce plutonium pits is limited. Since 2008, the United States has emphasized the need to eventually produce 80 pits per year. Since 2014, federal law has required the Secretary of Energy to produce no less than 30 war reserve plutonium pits by 2026 and thereafter demonstrate the capability to produce war reserve plutonium pits at a rate sufficient to produce 80 pits per year (50 U.S.C. 2538a). On January 27, 2017, the President directed the Department of Defense (DoD) to conduct an updated Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) to ensure a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent that protects the homeland, assures allies, and above all, deters adversaries. The 2018 NPR echoed the need for pit production and confirmed that the United States will pursue initiatives to ensure the necessary capability, capacity, and responsiveness of the nuclear weapons infrastructure and the needed skill of the workforce, including providing the enduring capability and capacity to produce plutonium pits at a rate of no fewer than 80 pits per year by 2030. In 2018, Congress enacted as formal policy of the United States that LANL will produce a minimum of 30 pits per year for the national production mission and will implement surge efforts to exceed 30 pits per year to meet NPR and national policy (Pub. L. 115–232, Section 3120). To these ends, the DoD Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment and the NNSA Administrator issued a Joint Statement on May 10, 2018, identifying their recommended alternative to meet the pit production requirement based on the E:\FR\FM\08JAN1.SGM 08JAN1

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XA004]


New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice; public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is 
scheduling a public meeting of its Groundfish Committee to consider 
actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone 
(EEZ). Recommendations from this group will be brought to the full 
Council for formal consideration and action, if appropriate.

DATES: This meeting will be held on Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 9 
a.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Four Points Sheraton, One 
Audubon Road, Wakefield, MA 01880; Phone: (781) 245-9300.
    Council address: New England Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, 
New England Fishery Management Council; telephone: (978) 465-0492.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Agenda

    The committee will meet to discuss recreational measures for 
fishing year 2020 and provide recommendations to the Groundfish 
Committee on

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recreational measures for Gulf of Maine cod and Gulf of Maine haddock. 
They will also discuss Amendment 23: Groundfish Monitoring to review 
the draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and recommend 
preliminary preferred alternatives to the Groundfish Committee. The 
committee will receive an overview of the Council's 2020 priorities. 
Other business will be discussed as necessary.
    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 these meetings. Action will be restricted to 
those issues specifically 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 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 Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, at (978) 465-
0492, at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.
    This meeting will be recorded. Consistent with 16 U.S.C. 1852, a 
copy of the recording is available upon request.

    Authority:  16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

    Dated: January 3, 2020.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2020-00096 Filed 1-7-20; 8:45 am]
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