[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 153 (Wednesday, August 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41129-41130]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20134]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 073096C]


Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will 
convene a public meeting.

DATES: This meeting will be held on August 29, 1996, from 8:30 a.m to 
3:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held at the Radisson Inn New Orleans 
Airport, 2150 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Kenner, LA; telephone: 504-
467-3111.
    Council address: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 5401 
West Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 331, Tampa, FL 33609.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Richard Hoogland, Biologist; 
telephone: 813-228-2815.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A panel of concerned representatives of 
Mississippi and Louisiana recreational and commercial fishing groups, 
conservation organizations, academia and state and federal resource 
agencies will gather to review and discuss marine fishery habitat 
issues.
    The Mississippi/Louisiana group is part of a three-unit Habitat 
Protection Advisory Panel (AP) to the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management 
Council. The principal role of the advisory panels is to assist the 
Council in attempting to maintain optimum conditions within the habitat 
and ecosystems supporting the marine resources of the Gulf of Mexico. 
Advisory panels serve as a first alert system to call to the Council's 
attention proposed projects being developed and other activities which 
may adversely impact the Gulf marine fisheries and their supporting 
ecosystems. The panels may also provide advice to the Council on its 
policies and procedures for addressing environmental affairs.
    At this meeting, the AP will review coastal restoration projects in 
Louisiana, oil spill response and natural resource damage assessment, 
hypoxia in the Gulf and ways to address it, and Mississippi River water 
diversion projects.
    A copy of the agenda can be obtained by contacting the Council (see 
ADDRESSES).

Special Accommodations

    This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other

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auxiliary aids should be directed to Anne Alford at the Council (see 
ADDRESSES) by August 22, 1996.

    Dated: July 31, 1996.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 96-20134 Filed 8-6-96; 8:45 am]
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