[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 112 (Tuesday, June 11, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39959-39960]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-14668]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 060502D]


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 
public meetings of the Reef Fish Advisory Panel (AP) and the Standing 
and Special Reef Fish Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) from 
June 24 through June 27, 2002.

DATES: The Council's Reef Fish AP will convene at 9 a.m. on Monday, 
June 24, 2002 and conclude by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 25, 2002. The SSC 
will convene at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, June 26, 2002 and will conclude by 
5 p.m. on Thursday, June 27, 2002.

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at the Hilton Tampa Airport 
Westshore Hotel, 2225 Lois Avenue, Tampa, FL; telephone: 813-877-6688.
    Council address: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 3018 
U.S. Highway 301 North, Suite 1000, Tampa, FL 33619.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Steven Atran, Population Dynamics 
Statistician, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 3018 U.S. 
Highway 301 North, Suite 1000, Tampa, FL 33619; telephone: 813-228-
2815.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The AP and the SSC will review a report of 
the Council's Socioeconomic Panel (SEP). The major content of the SEP 
report is a bioeconomic model evaluation of the economic implications 
of various measures proposed to rebuild the Gulf of Mexico red grouper 
stock under the draft Secretarial Amendment 1 to the Reef Fish Fishery 
Management Plan to Set a 10-Year Rebuilding Plan for Red Grouper, with 
Associated Impacts on Gag and Other Groupers and Draft Supplemental 
Environmental Impact Statement. The AP and SSC will also provide 
recommendations to the Council on red grouper regulations.
    Although other non-emergency issues not on the agenda may come 
before the AP/SSC for discussion, in accordance with the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, those issues may not 
be the subject of formal action during these meetings. Actions of the 
AP/SSC will be restricted to those issues specifically identified in 
the agendas and any issues arising after publication of this notice 
that require emergency action under Section 305(c) of the Magnuson-
Stevens Act, provided the public has been notified of the Council's 
intent to take action to address the emergency.
    Copies of the agendas of these meetings, and draft Secretarial 
Amendment 1, can be obtained by calling the Council office at 813-228-
2815 (toll-free 888-833-1844). Additional materials, including an 
addendum to Secretarial Amendment 1 (reflecting changes to the 
Council's preferred alternatives made at the May Council meeting), and 
the Socioeconomic Panel report, can also be obtained from the Council 
office but may not be available until just prior to the meetings.

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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 
June 17, 2002.

    Dated: June 5, 2002.
Virginia M. Fay,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 02-14668 Filed 6-10-02; 8:45 am]
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