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Commission (in accordance with 15
U.S.C. 7265). Individuals must be U.S.
citizens and, in addition, cannot be
federally registered lobbyists or
registered as a foreign agent under the
Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938,
as amended.
Members of the Board are selected, in
accordance with applicable Department
guidelines and after consultation with
the Secretaries of State and Homeland
Security, based on their ability to carry
out the objectives of the Board and as
set forth above. The diverse membership
of the Board assures perspectives
reflecting the breadth of the Board’s
responsibilities and, where possible, the
Department will also consider the
ethnic, racial, and gender diversity and
various abilities of the United States
population.
Those selected for the Board must be
able to meet the time and effort
commitments of the Board. Board
members serve at the discretion of the
Secretary of Commerce (who may
remove any member of the Board for
good cause). The terms of office of each
member of the Board appointed by the
Secretary shall be three (3) years. Board
members can serve a maximum of two
consecutive full three-year terms. Board
members are not considered Federal
government employees by virtue of their
service as a member of the Board and
will receive no compensation from the
Federal government for their
participation in Board activities.
Members participating in Board
meetings and events may be paid actual
travel expenses and per diem by the
Corporation when away from their usual
places of residence.
Individuals who want to be
considered for appointment to the Board
should submit the following
information by the Friday, September 6,
2024, deadline to the email address
listed in the ADDRESSES section above:
1. Name, title, and personal resume of
the individual requesting consideration,
including address, email address, and
phone number.
2. A brief statement of why the person
should be considered for appointment
to the Board. This statement should also
address the individual’s relevant
international travel and tourism
marketing experience and audit
committee financial expertise, if any,
and indicate clearly the sector or sectors
enumerated above in which the
individual has the requisite expertise
and experience. Individuals who have
the requisite expertise and experience in
more than one sector can be appointed
for only one of those sectors.
Appointments of members to the Board

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will be made by the Secretary of
Commerce.
3. An affirmative statement that the
applicant (1) is a U.S. citizen, (2) is not
a federally-registered lobbyist and
further, and (3) is not required to
register as a foreign agent under the
Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938,
as amended.
4. A statement acknowledging that the
applicant is or is not an audit committee
financial expert as defined by the
Securities and Exchange Commission
(in accordance with 15 U.S.C. 7265).
Curtis Cottle,
Senior Policy Advisor/Team Lead for
Outreach and Engagement, National Travel
and Tourism Office.
[FR Doc. 2024–14083 Filed 6–26–24; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P

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; West Coast Region Gear
Identification Requirements
The Department of Commerce will
submit the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication
of this notice. We invite 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. Public
comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on April 2,
2024, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration,
Commerce.
Title: West Coast Region Gear
Identification Requirements.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0352.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular Submission
[Extension of a current information
collection].
Number of Respondents: 942.
Average Hours per Response: 15
minutes per marking.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 848.
Needs and Uses: This request is for
extension of a currently approved

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information collection. The success of
fisheries management programs
depends significantly on regulatory
compliance. The requirements that
fishing gear be marked are essential to
facilitate enforcement. The ability to
link fishing gear to the vessel owner or
operator is crucial to enforcement of
regulations issued under the authority
of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act. The
marking of fishing gear is also valuable
in actions concerning damage, loss, and
civil proceedings. The regulations
specify that fishing gear must be marked
with the vessel’s official number,
Federal permit or tag number, or some
other specified form of identification.
The regulations further specify how the
gear is to be marked (e.g., location and
color). Law enforcement personnel rely
on gear marking information to assure
compliance with fisheries management
regulations. Gear that is not properly
identified is confiscated. Gear violations
are more readily prosecuted when the
gear is marked, and this allows for more
cost-effective enforcement. Gear
marking helps ensure that a vessel
harvests fish only from its own traps/
pots/other gear and the gear are not
illegally placed. Cooperating fishermen
also use the gear marking numbers to
report suspicious or non-compliant
activities that they observe, and to
report placement or occurrence of gear
in unauthorized areas. The identifying
number on fishing gear is used by the
National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS), the United States Coast Guard
(USCG), and other marine agencies in
issuing regulations, prosecutions, and
other enforcement actions necessary to
support sustainable fisheries behaviors
as intended in regulations. Regulationcompliant fishermen ultimately benefit
from these requirements, as
unauthorized and illegal fishing is
deterred, and more burdensome
regulations are avoided.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Every 5 years.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Fixed-gear marking
requirements are set forth in the
regulations implementing the Pacific
Coast Groundfish Fisheries Management
Plan at 50 CFR 660.219 and 660.319.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the

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following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0648–0352.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024–14117 Filed 6–26–24; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[RTID 0648–XE035]

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental
To Specified Activities; Taking Marine
Mammals Incidental to the Sunrise
Wind Offshore Wind Farm Project
Offshore New York
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; issuance of letter of
authorization.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Marine Mammal Protection Act
(MMPA) as amended, and implementing
regulations, notification is hereby given
that a Letter of Authorization (LOA) has
been issued to Sunrise Wind, LLC
(Sunrise Wind), a 50/50 joint venture
between ;rsted North America, Inc.,
(;rsted) and Eversource Investment,
LLC, for the taking of marine mammals
incidental to the construction of the
Sunrise Wind Offshore Wind Farm
Project (hereafter known as the
‘‘Project’’).
DATES: The LOA is effective from June
21, 2024, through June 20, 2029.
ADDRESSES: The LOA and supporting
documentation are available online at:
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/permit/
incidental-take-authorizations-undermarine-mammal-protection-act. In case
of problems accessing these documents,
please call the contact listed below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jaclyn Daly, Office of Protected
Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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SUMMARY:

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

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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, regulations are promulgated
(when applicable), and public notice
and an opportunity for public comment
are provided.
An authorization for incidental taking
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). If such findings are made,
NMFS must prescribe the permissible
methods of taking; ‘‘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 as
‘‘mitigation’’); and requirements
pertaining to the monitoring and
reporting of such takings. The MMPA
defines ‘‘take’’ to mean harass, hunt,
capture, or kill, or attempt to harass,
hunt, capture, or kill any marine
mammal (16 U.S.C. 1362(13); 50 CFR
216.103). Level A harassment is defined
as any act of pursuit, torment, or
annoyance which has the potential to
injure a marine mammal or marine
mammal stock in the wild (16 U.S.C.
1362(18); 50 CFR 216.3). Level B
harassment is defined as any act of
pursuit, torment, or annoyance which
has the potential to disturb a marine
mammal or marine mammal stock in the
wild by causing disruption of behavioral
patterns, including, but not limited to,
migration, breathing, nursing, breeding,
feeding, or sheltering (16 U.S.C.
1362(18); 50 CFR 216.3). Section
101(a)(5)(A) of the MMPA and the
implementing regulations at 50 CFR part
216, subpart I authorize NMFS to
propose and, if appropriate, promulgate
regulations and issue associated LOA(s).
On May 22, 2024, NMFS promulgated
a final rule (89 FR 45292) responding to
a request from Sunrise Wind for
authorization to take small numbers of
marine mammals (16 species
comprising 16 stocks) by Level B
harassment (all 16 stocks) and by Level
A harassment (7 of the 16 stocks)
incidental to select construction
activities occurring in Federal and State
waters off of New York, specifically
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Energy Management (BOEM)
Commercial Lease of Submerged Lands
for Renewable Energy Development on
the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Lease
Area OCS–A 0487 (Lease Area) and
along one export cable route to sea-toshore transition points over the course
of 5 years (June 21, 2024, through June
20, 2029). The specified activities are
impact pile driving wind turbine
generators (WTGs) on monopile
foundations and a single offshore
converter substation (OCS–DC) on a
jacket foundation using pin piles;
pneumatic hammering for installation
and removal of temporary casing pipes
and vibratory pile driving for
installation and removal of temporary
goal post and sheet piles at the cable
landfall site in Shirley, New York;
impact and vibratory pile driving
associated with the Smith Point County
Park temporary pier; detonating up to
three unexploded ordnance or
munitions and explosives of concern
(UXO/MEC) of different charge weights;
high-resolution geophysical (HRG)
marine site characterization surveys
using active acoustic sources; trenching,
laying, and burial activities associated
with the installation of the export cable
route from the OCS–DC to the shorebased converter station and inter-array
cables between turbines; fishery and
ecological monitoring surveys; the
placement of scour protection; vessel
transit within the specified geographical
region to transport crew, supplies, and
materials; and WTG operation.
Marine mammals exposed to elevated
noise levels during foundation pile
driving and/or UXO/MEC detonation,
may be taken by Level A harassment
(limited to fin whales, humpback
whales, sei whales, minke whale, harbor
porpoise, gray seal, and harbor seal) and
Level B harassment (all 16 species), and
marine mammals exposed to elevated
noise levels during impact and vibratory
pile driving during foundation
installation, cable landfall construction,
pier construction activities, and site
characterization surveys may be taken
by Level B harassment. For reasons
described in the final rule, no mortality
or serious injury of any marine mammal
is anticipated to occur or authorized.
Further, for reasons described in the
final rule, no take by Level A
harassment of several species, including
the North Atlantic right whale, is
expected to occur or authorized.
Authorization
In accordance with the final rule (89
FR 45292, May 22, 2024; see 50 CFR
217.316), we have issued a LOA to
Sunrise Wind authorizing the take, by
harassment, of marine mammals

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