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Although non-emergency issues not
contained on the agenda may come
before this Council for discussion, those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during this meeting. Council
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. The public also should be
aware that the meeting will be recorded.
Consistent with 16 U.S.C. 1852, a copy
of the recording is available upon
request.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to Cate
O’Keefe, Executive Director, at (978)
465–0492, at least 5 days prior to the
meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: August 30, 2023.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Special Accommodations
The meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to
Shelley Spedden at the Council Office,
(302) 526–5251, at least 5 days prior to
the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: August 30, 2023.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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Administration

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Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management
Council (MAFMC); Public Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public meeting.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration

AGENCY:

The Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council (MAFMC)’s Spiny
Dogfish and Monkfish Committees
(Committees) will hold a public
meeting. For agenda details, see
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Wednesday, September 20, 2023, from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held
via webinar. Webinar connection,
agenda items, and any additional
information will be available at
www.mafmc.org/council-events.
Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council, 800 N State
Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901;
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telephone: (302) 674–2331 or on their
website at 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
purpose of this meeting is for the
Committees to discuss potential
measures to reduce bycatch of Atlantic
sturgeon in the monkfish and spiny
dogfish gillnet fisheries, developed from
the recommendations in NOAA’s Action
Plan to Reduce Atlantic Sturgeon
Bycatch in Federal Large-Mesh Gillnet
Fisheries. They will also further refine
the draft range of alternatives discussed
by the Councils (NEFMC and MAFMC),
to be considered for reducing bycatch of
Atlantic sturgeon in the monkfish and
spiny dogfish gillnet fisheries. Other
business may be discussed, as
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The meeting will be held
via webinar. Connection information
will be posted to the calendar prior to
the meeting at www.mafmc.org.
Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council, 800 N State
Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901;
telephone: (302) 674–2331;
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
Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea
Bass Monitoring Committee will meet
via webinar, jointly with the Atlantic
States Marine Fisheries Commission’s
Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea
Bass Technical Committee. The purpose
of this meeting is to continue
discussions on the use of the
Recreational Demand Model in
projecting recreational harvest and
setting future recreational management
measures for these three species. An
additional Monitoring and Technical
Committee meeting will be held in
November 2023 to discuss specific
recommendations for 2024–2025
recreational measures for summer
flounder and scup and 2024 measures
for black sea bass. Meeting materials
will be posted to www.mafmc.org.
ADDRESSES:

Special Accommodations
The meeting is physically accessible
to people with disabilities. Requests for
sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aid should be directed to
Shelley Spedden, (302) 526–5251, at
least 5 days prior to the meeting date.
(Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.)
Dated: August 29, 2023.
Rey Israel Marquez,
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.
AGENCY:

The Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council’s Summer
Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass
Monitoring Committee will hold a
public webinar meeting.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Wednesday, September 20, 2023, from 9
a.m. until 12 p.m. EDT. For agenda
details, see SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; For-Hire Telephone Survey
National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of information collection,
request for comment.
AGENCY:

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The Department of
Commerce, in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to comment on
proposed, and continuing information
collections, which helps us assess the
impact of our information collection
requirements and minimize the public’s
reporting burden. The purpose of this
notice is to allow for 60 days of public
comment preceding submission of the
collection to OMB.
DATES: To ensure consideration,
comments regarding this proposed
information collection must be received
on or before November 6, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments to
Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer,
at NOAA.PRA@noaa.gov. Please
reference OMB Control Number 0648–
0709 in the subject line of your
comments. Do not submit Confidential
Business Information or otherwise
sensitive or protected information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
specific questions related to collection
activities should be directed to John
Foster, National Marine Fisheries
Service, Office of Science and
Technology, 1315 East-West Hwy./
FST1, Silver Spring, MD 21910, Phone:
(301) 427–8130 or john.foster@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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SUMMARY:

I. Abstract
This request is for extension of a
currently approved information
collection. The For-Hire Survey (FHS) is
conducted for NMFS to estimate fishing
effort on for-hire vessels (i.e., charter
boats and head boats) in coastal states
from Maine to Mississippi. 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 FHS collects fishing effort
information from for-hire vessel
representatives by telephone interview.
For-hire vessels are randomly selected
for the FHS from a comprehensive
sample frame developed and
maintained by NMFS. A sample of 10%
of the vessels on the FHS frame are
selected for reporting each week. Each
interview collects information about the
vessel, the number and type of trips the
vessel made during the reporting week,
the number of anglers on each trip, and
other trip-level information.
For-hire fishing effort is estimated in
numbers of angler-trips per sub-region,
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fishing area (inshore, nearshore,
offshore). To get a total for-hire effort
estimate, weekly FHS effort estimates
are summed to produce wave estimates
that are adjusted to account for frame
coverage and reporting error. The FHS
estimates are then combined with forhire catch-rate estimates derived from
complementary MRIP surveys, to
estimate total, state-level fishing catch.
These estimates are used in the
development, implementation, and
monitoring of fishery management
programs by the NMFS, regional fishery
management councils, interstate marine
fisheries commissions, and state fishery
agencies.
II. Method of Collection
Telephone interviews will be
conducted using Computer Assisted
Telephone Interviewing (CATI)
methodology.

summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this ICR. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you may ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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III. Data
OMB Control Number: 0648–0709.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Review: Regular submission
(extension of a current information
collection).
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; Business or other for-profit
organizations.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
22,000.
Estimated Time per Response: 31⁄2
minutes each for a telephone interview.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1,283.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0 in recordkeeping/reporting
costs.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act.
IV. Request for Comments
We are soliciting public comments to
permit the Department/Bureau to: (a)
Evaluate whether the proposed
information collection is necessary for
the proper functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the
accuracy of our estimate of the time and
cost burden for this proposed collection,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c)
Evaluate ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) Minimize the
reporting burden on those who are to
respond, including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or

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Marine Mammals; File No. 27459
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; receipt of application.
AGENCY:

Notice is hereby given that
Robin Trayler, Ph.D., University of
California, Merced, 5200 N Lake Road,
Science and Engineering 1, 283, Merced,
CA 95343, has applied in due form for
a permit to import marine mammal
specimens for scientific research.
DATES: Written comments must be
received on or before October 5, 2023.
ADDRESSES: The application and related
documents are available for review by
selecting ‘‘Records Open for Public
Comment’’ from the ‘‘Features’’ box on
the Applications and Permits for
Protected Species (APPS) home page,
https://apps.nmfs.noaa.gov, and then
selecting File No. 27459 from the list of
available applications. These documents
are also available upon written request
via email to NMFS.Pr1Comments@
noaa.gov.
Written comments on this application
should be submitted via email to
NMFS.Pr1Comments@noaa.gov. Please
include File No. 27459 in the subject
line of the email comment.
Those individuals requesting a public
hearing should submit a written request
via email to NMFS.Pr1Comments@
noaa.gov. The request should set forth
the specific reasons why a hearing on
this application would be appropriate.
SUMMARY:

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