[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 165 (Friday, August 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43530-43531]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21516]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 081596E]


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 of the Texas Habitat Protection Committee.

DATES: This meeting will be held on September 18, 1996, beginning at 
9:00 a.m.

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held at the Sheraton Crown Hotel & 
Conference Center, 15700 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Houston, Texas; 
telephone: 713/442-5100.
    Council address: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 5401 
West Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 331, Tampa, FL 33609.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Richard Hoogland, Biologist, Gulf of 
Mexico Fishery Management Council; telephone: 813-228-2815.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A panel of concerned representatives of 
Texas 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 Texas group is part of a three-unit Habitat Protection Advisory 
Panel (AP) to the Council. The principal role of the APs 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. APs 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 APs may also provide advice to the Council on its 
policies and procedures for addressing environmental affairs.
    At this meeting, the AP will review a large wetland management 
project at Wild Cow Bayou, extension of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway 
into Mexico, brown tide, and the hard head catfish die-off.

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    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 auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Anne Alford at the Council (see ADDRESSES) by 
September 11, 1996.

    Dated: August 15, 1996.
Richard H. Schaefer,
Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 96-21516 Filed 8-22-96; 8:45 am]
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