[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 175 (Friday, September 10, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49164-49165]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-23485]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 082699A]


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 will convene a 
public meeting of the Mississippi/Louisiana Habitat Protection Advisory 
Panel (AP).

DATES: The meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, September 23, 
1999 and conclude by 3:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the New Orleans Airport Hilton, 
901 Airline Highway, New Orleans, LA 70062; telephone: 504-469-5000.
    Council address: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 3018 
U.S. Highway 301 North, Suite 1000, Tampa, FL 33619.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff Rester, Gulf States Marine 
Fisheries Commission; telephone: 228-875-5912.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Louisiana/Mississippi group is part of a 
three unit Habitat Protection Advisory Panel of 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

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may also provide advice to the Council on its policies and procedures 
for addressing environmental affairs.
    At this meeting, the AP will discuss revision of the Council's 
Habitat Policy to include essential fish habitat (EFH) provisions, an 
update on EFH assessments in Council fishery management plan 
amendments, an update on the status of the EFH lawsuit, review of the 
Turkey Creek Development project in south Mississippi, and an update on 
the Broadwater Casino expansion project.
    Although other issues not on the agenda may come before the AP for 
discussion, in accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 
Conservation and Management Act, those issues may not be the subject of 
formal action during this meeting. The AP's actions will be restricted 
to those issues specifically identified in the agenda listed as 
available by this notice.

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 16, 1999.

    Dated: September 3, 1999.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 99-23485 Filed 9-9-99; 8:45 am]
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