Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting, 104089-104090 [2024-30476]
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II. Method of Collection
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Estimated Number of Respondents:
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Estimated Time per Response:
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online survey in 60 minutes and
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teacher-respondents will complete two
online surveys in 30 minutes each.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 3,539.
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Public: $0 in recordkeeping/reporting
costs.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
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Commerce Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
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Pacific Fishery Management Council;
Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
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Notice of public online meeting.
The Pacific Fishery
Management Council’s (Pacific Council)
Ad-Hoc Klamath River Fall Chinook
Workgroup (KRWG) will hold a two-day
online meeting.
DATES: The online meeting will be held
Monday, January 13, 2025, from 10 a.m.
until 4 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time and
Tuesday, January 14, 2025, from 9 a.m.
until 4 p.m., Pacific Time, or until
business for the day concludes.
ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held
online. Specific meeting information,
including directions on how to join and
system requirements will be provided in
the meeting announcement on the
Pacific Council’s website (see
www.pcouncil.org). You may send an
email to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt
(kris.kleinschmidt@noaa.gov) or contact
him at (503) 820–2280, extension 412
for technical assistance.
Council Address: Pacific Fishery
Management Council, 7700 NE
Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland,
OR 97220–1384.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Angela Forristall, Staff Officer, Pacific
Council; telephone: (503) 820–2419.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
primary purpose of the meeting is to
address guidance received from the
Pacific Council at their November 2024
meeting. The KRWG may discuss and
further develop interim management
measures, or a management framework,
intended to address the response of
Klamath River fall Chinook to the
dynamic nature of the Klamath River
environment and the available habitat
immediately following dam removal,
and post-dam removal until the natural
environment is stabilized and the
salmon population is more predictable.
Additional discussions may include, but
are not limited to, future meetings,
workload planning, and upcoming items
on the upcoming Pacific Council
meeting agenda.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in the meeting agenda may be
discussed, those issues may not be the
subject of formal action during this
meeting. Action will be restricted to
those issues specifically listed in this
document and any issues arising after
publication of this document 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 intent to take final action to address
the emergency.
SUMMARY:
Special Accommodations
Requests for sign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids
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should be directed to Mr. Kris
Kleinschmidt (kris.kleinschmidt@
noaa.gov; (503) 820–2412) at least 10
days prior to the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: December 17, 2024.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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Administration
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Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to
Specified Activities; Taking Marine
Mammals Incidental to U.S. Coast
Guard Fast Response Cutter
Homeporting in Seward and Sitka,
Alaska
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
AGENCY:
Notice; issuance of incidental
harassment authorizations.
ACTION:
In accordance with the
regulations implementing the Marine
Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as
amended, notification is hereby given
that NMFS has issued two incidental
harassment authorizations (IHAs) to the
United States Coast Guard (USCG) to
incidentally harass marine mammals
during construction activities associated
with fast response cutter (FRC)
homeporting in Seward and Sitka,
Alaska.
SUMMARY:
These authorizations are
effective from September 1, 2026,
through August 31, 2027, and from
March 1, 2027, through February 29,
2028.
DATES:
Electronic copies of the
application and supporting documents,
as well as a list of the references cited
in this document, may be obtained
online at: https://
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/
marine-mammal-protection/incidentaltake-authorizations-constructionactivities. In case of problems accessing
these documents, please call the contact
listed below.
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ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Alyssa Clevenstine, Office of Protected
Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Background
The MMPA prohibits the ‘‘take’’ of
marine mammals, with certain
exceptions. Sections 101(a)(5)(A) and
(D) of the MMPA (16 U.S.C. 1361 et
seq.) direct the Secretary of Commerce
(as delegated to NMFS) to allow, upon
request, the incidental, but not
intentional, taking of small numbers of
marine mammals by U.S. citizens who
engage in a specified activity (other than
commercial fishing) within a specified
geographical region if certain findings
are made and either regulations are
proposed or, if the taking is limited to
harassment, a notice of a proposed IHA
is provided to the public for review.
Authorization for incidental takings
shall be granted 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
taking for subsistence uses (where
relevant). Further, NMFS must prescribe
the permissible methods of taking and
other ‘‘means of effecting the least
practicable adverse impact’’ on the
affected species or stocks and their
habitat, paying particular attention to
rookeries, mating grounds, and areas of
similar significance, and on the
availability of the species or stocks for
taking for certain subsistence uses
(referred to in shorthand as
‘‘mitigation’’); and requirements
pertaining to the monitoring and
reporting of the takings. The definitions
of all applicable MMPA statutory terms
cited above are included in the relevant
sections below.
Summary of Request
On January 19, 2024, NMFS received
a request from the USCG for two IHAs
to take marine mammals incidental to
pile driving (installation and removal)
associated with construction of two FRC
homeporting docks in Seward and Sitka,
Alaska. Following NMFS’ review of the
application, the USCG submitted
revised versions on April 3, 2024, June
6, 2024, and June 11, 2024. The
application was deemed adequate and
complete on June 11, 2024. The USCG’s
request is for take of 11 species (18
stocks) of marine mammals by Level B
harassment and, for a subset of 5 of
these species, Level A harassment.
Neither the USCG nor NMFS expect
serious injury or mortality to result from
this activity and, therefore, IHAs are
appropriate.
Description of the Specified Activity
Overview
The USCG plans to construct shoreside facilities and associated
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infrastructure at Moorings Seward to
homeport one FRC located in the
Seward Marine Industrial Center (SMIC)
boat basin, and demolishing and
constructing shore-side facilities at
Moorings Sitka in Sitka Harbor to
support a second FRC. The shore-side
facilities and associated infrastructure
for Moorings Seward will be
constructed parallel to the existing
SMIC dock. Construction of a new
floating dock at Moorings Sitka will be
attached to the existing pier. The
projects are needed to provide adequate
vessel berthing capability to support
modern USCG cutters and ultimately,
readiness as part of the USCG’s overall
mission. The USCG plans to use a
variety of methods, including impact,
down-the-hole (DTH), and vibratory pile
driving, to install and remove piles,
including concrete, steel, plastic, and
timber piles. These methods of pile
driving will introduce underwater
sounds that may result in take, by Level
A and Level B harassment, of marine
mammals. Pile removal may occur by
vibratory, cutting, or clipping methods.
Cutting and clipping are not anticipated
to have the potential to result in
incidental take of marine mammals
because they are either above water, do
not last for sufficient duration to present
the reasonable potential for disruption
of behavioral patterns, do not produce
sound levels with likely potential to
result in marine mammal harassment, or
some combination of the above.
Each IHA will be effective for 1 year
from the date of issuance. Pile
extraction and installation activities at
Moorings Seward will occur for a total
of 22 non-consecutive days, of which
pile removal is anticipated to take 2
days and pile installation is anticipated
to take a maximum of 20 days (15 days
to complete installation plus 5
additional days to account for potential
weather-related delays). Pile removal
and installation activities at Moorings
Sitka will occur for a total of 117 nonconsecutive days, of which pile removal
is anticipated to take 3 days and pile
installation is anticipated to take a
maximum of 114 days (89 days to
complete installation plus 25 additional
days to account for potential weatherrelated delays).
A detailed description of the planned
construction project is provided in the
Federal Register notice for the proposed
IHA (89 FR 60359, July 25, 2024). Since
that time, no changes have been made
to the planned activities. Therefore, a
detailed description is not provided
here. Please refer to that Federal
Register notice for the description of the
specific activity.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[RTID 0648-XE523]
Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public online meeting.
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SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Pacific Council) Ad-
Hoc Klamath River Fall Chinook Workgroup (KRWG) will hold a two-day
online meeting.
DATES: The online meeting will be held Monday, January 13, 2025, from
10 a.m. until 4 p.m., Pacific Daylight Time and Tuesday, January 14,
2025, from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m., Pacific Time, or until business for the
day concludes.
ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held online. Specific meeting
information, including directions on how to join and system
requirements will be provided in the meeting announcement on the
Pacific Council's website (see www.pcouncil.org). You may send an email
to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt ([email protected]) or contact him at
(503) 820-2280, extension 412 for technical assistance.
Council Address: Pacific Fishery Management Council, 7700 NE
Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, OR 97220-1384.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Angela Forristall, Staff Officer,
Pacific Council; telephone: (503) 820-2419.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The primary purpose of the meeting is to
address guidance received from the Pacific Council at their November
2024 meeting. The KRWG may discuss and further develop interim
management measures, or a management framework, intended to address the
response of Klamath River fall Chinook to the dynamic nature of the
Klamath River environment and the available habitat immediately
following dam removal, and post-dam removal until the natural
environment is stabilized and the salmon population is more
predictable. Additional discussions may include, but are not limited
to, future meetings, workload planning, and upcoming items on the
upcoming Pacific Council meeting agenda.
Although non-emergency issues not contained in the meeting agenda
may be discussed, those issues may not be the subject of formal action
during this meeting. Action will be restricted to those issues
specifically listed in this document and any issues arising after
publication of this document 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 intent to
take final action to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids
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should be directed to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt
([email protected]; (503) 820-2412) at least 10 days prior to
the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: December 17, 2024.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
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