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Byrd at SEDAR (see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT) to request an
invitation providing webinar access
information. Please request webinar
invitations at least 24 hours in advance
of each webinar.
SEDAR address: South Atlantic
Fishery Management Council, 4055
Faber Place Drive, Suite 201, N.
Charleston, SC 29405;
www.sedarweb.org.
Julia
Byrd, SEDAR Coordinator, 4055 Faber
Place Drive, Suite 201, North
Charleston, SC 29405; phone (843) 571–
4366; email: julia.byrd@safmc.net.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

The Gulf
of Mexico, South Atlantic, and
Caribbean Fishery Management
Councils, in conjunction with NOAA
Fisheries and the Atlantic and Gulf
States Marine Fisheries Commissions,
have implemented the Southeast Data,
Assessment and Review (SEDAR)
process, a multi-step method for
determining the status of fish stocks in
the Southeast Region. SEDAR is a threestep process including: (1) Data
Workshop; (2) Assessment Process
utilizing webinars; and (3) Review
Workshop. The product of the Data
Workshop is a data report which
compiles and evaluates potential
datasets and recommends which
datasets are appropriate for assessment
analyses. The product of the Assessment
Process is a stock assessment report
which describes the fisheries, evaluates
the status of the stock, estimates
biological benchmarks, projects future
population conditions, and recommends
research and monitoring needs. The
assessment is independently peer
reviewed at the Review Workshop. The
product of the Review Workshop is a
Summary documenting panel opinions
regarding the strengths and weaknesses
of the stock assessment and input data.
Participants for SEDAR Workshops are
appointed by the Gulf of Mexico, South
Atlantic, and Caribbean Fishery
Management Councils and NOAA
Fisheries Southeast Regional Office,
Highly Migratory Species Management
Division, and Southeast Fisheries
Science Center. Participants include:
Data collectors and database managers;
stock assessment scientists, biologists,
and researchers; constituency
representatives including fishermen,
environmentalists, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs);
international experts; and staff of
Councils, Commissions, and state and
federal agencies.
The items of discussion at the Data
Scoping webinar are as follows:

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1. Participants will review and
discuss SEDAR 50 stock ID
recommendations.
2. Participants will identify potential
data sources and discuss data needs and
treatments in order to prepare for the
Data Workshop.
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 intent to take final action
to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is accessible to people
with disabilities. Requests for auxiliary
aids should be directed to the SAFMC
office (see ADDRESSES) at least 5
business days prior to the meeting.
Note: The times and sequence specified in
this agenda are subject to change.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: October 21, 2016.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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connection option. Details on how to
connect to the webinar by computer and
by telephone will be available at: http://
www.mafmc.org.
Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council, 800 N. State
Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901;
telephone: (302) 674–2331; Web site:
www.mafmc.org.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive
Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council, telephone: (302)
526–5255.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The MidAtlantic Fishery Management Council’s
Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea
Bass Advisory Panel, together with the
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries
Commission’s Advisory Panel, will meet
on Thursday, November 17, 2016 (see
DATES and ADDRESSES). The purpose of
this meeting is to discuss recreational
management measures (e.g., bag limits,
size limits, and seasons) and strategies
for recreational summer flounder, scup,
and black sea bass fisheries in 2017. A
detailed agenda and background
documents will be made available on
the Council’s Web site (www.mafmc.org)
prior to the meeting.
Special Accommodations
The meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aid should be directed to M.
Jan Saunders, (302) 526–5251, at least 5
days prior to the meeting date.
Dated: October 21, 2016.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management
Council (MAFMC); Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public meeting.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

AGENCY:

The Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council’s (Council)
Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea
Bass Advisory Panel will hold a public
meeting jointly with the Atlantic States
Marine Fisheries Commission’s
(ASMFC’s) Summer Flounder, Scup,
and Black Sea Bass Advisory Panel.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Thursday, November 17, 2016 from 2
p.m. to 5 p.m. See SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION for agenda details.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place
over webinar with a telephone-only
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Proposed Information Collection;
Comment Request; American
Lobster—Annual Trap Transfer
Program
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

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

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collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This
action proposes to revise and extend
information collection for the American
lobster fishery Trap Transfer Program.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before December 27,
2016.
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).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
directed to Peter Burns, Fishery Policy
Analyst, NMFS, Greater Atlantic
Regional Fisheries Office, 55 Great
Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930;
(978) 281–9144, Peter.burns@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Abstract
This is a request for revision and
extension of a currently approved
information collection.
The American lobster resource and
fishery are cooperatively managed by
the states and NMFS under the
authority of the Atlantic Coastal
Fisheries Cooperative Management Act,
according to the framework set forth by
the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries
Commission (ASMFC) in Amendment 3
of its Interstate Fishery Management
Plan (ISFMP). This collection of
information is in response to several
addenda to Amendment 3 of the ISFMP
that work to reduce trap fishing effort
through limited entry fishing and trap
allocation limit reductions. This
program is intended to help control
fishing efforts while increasing
economic flexibility in the American
lobster trap fishery.
Currently, Federal lobster permit
holders qualified to fish with trap gear
in Lobster Conservation Management
Areas 2 and 3 are undergoing scheduled
annual trap allocation reductions of 5
percent per year until 2021 (Area 2) and
2020 (Area 3). In 2015, in an effort to
help mitigate the initial economic
burden of these reductions, NMFS and
state agencies implemented the Lobster
Trap Transfer Program that allows all
qualified Federal lobster permit holders
to buy and sell trap allocation from
Areas 2, 3, or Outer Cape Cod. Each
transaction includes a conservation tax
of 10 percent, which deducts a number
of traps equal to 10 percent of the total
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permanently removing them from the
fishery.
NMFS collects annual application
forms from Lobster permit holders who
wish to buy and/or sell Area 2, 3, or
Outer Cape trap allocation through the
Trap Transfer Program. The transfer
applications are only accepted during a
2-month period (from August 1 through
September 30) each year, and the
revised allocations for each
participating lobster permit resulting
from the transfers become effective at
the start of the following Federal lobster
fishing year, on May 1. Both the seller
and buyer of the traps are required to
sign the application form, which
includes each permit holder’s permit
and vessel information, the number of
traps sold, and the revised number of
traps received by the buyer, inclusive of
the amount removed according to the
transfer tax. Both parties must sign the
form as an agreement to the number of
traps in the transfer. The parties must
date the document and clearly show
that the transferring permit holder has
sufficient allocation to transfer and the
permit holder receiving the traps has
sufficient room under any applicable
trap cap. This information allows NMFS
to process and track transfers of lobster
trap allocations through the Trap
Transfer Program, and better enables the
monitoring and management of the
American lobster fishery as a whole.
Originally, this collection was part of
a new rulemaking action, and included
efforts to obtain information from
American lobster permit holders to
implement a limited access permit
program. NMFS used the information to
qualify permit holders for participation
in Area 2 and/or the Outer Cape Area,
and to allocate traps to each qualified
permit. This limited access portion of
the collection is complete and no longer
necessary, so a revision is requested to
remove it from the collection. Also, now
that the Trap Transfer Program has been
in place for two years, NMFS can better
estimate the number of applicants/
respondents and have made a minor
revision to the burden. The initial
estimate of 432 respondents with 216
two-party transaction responses was
nearly double what was actually
received through the Trap Transfer
Program in the first two years; with
fewer permit holders participating in
the program overall, and/or completing
multiple transactions between their own
permits. Adjusted estimates of
respondents, total burden hours, and
costs are noted below in Section III.
II. Method of Collection
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August 1 through September 30 by mail,
fax, or email.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0673.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(revision and extension of a current
information collection).
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profit organizations; Individuals or
households; Federal government; and
State, Local, or Tribal government.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
102.
Estimated Time per Response: 10
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 17.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $573.24 in reporting/
recordkeeping 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: October 21, 2016.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
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Commodity Futures Trading
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ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(‘‘PRA’’), this notice announces that the
Information Collection Request (‘‘ICR’’)
abstracted below has been forwarded to

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