[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 3 (Wednesday, January 5, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 791-792]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-3930]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 123004B]


Pacific 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 Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Council) Ad Hoc 
Groundfish Information Policy

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Committee (GIPC) will hold a working meeting, which is open to the 
public.

DATES: The GIPC meeting will be held Tuesday, January 25, 2005 from 
8:30 a.m. until business for the day is completed. The GIPC meeting 
will reconvene Wednesday, January 26, 2005, from 8:30 a.m. until noon.

ADDRESSES: The GIPC meeting will be held at the Embassy Suites Hotel 
Portland Airport, Cedars I and II Rooms, 7900 NE 82nd Avenue, Portland, 
Oregon 97220. Telephone: 503-460-3000.
    Council address: Pacific Fishery Management Council, 7700 NE 
Ambassador Place, Suite 200, Portland, Oregon 97220-1384.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. John DeVore, Groundfish Management 
Coordinator; telephone: 503-820-2280.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the GIPC meeting is to 
formulate and recommend a groundfish information management policy to 
the Council. The recommended policy will categorize the types and 
sources of information in use for groundfish management, consider what 
new types of information may be available in the future, specify review 
requirements for new information before it can become part of the 
decision-making process, consider guidelines for replacing older 
information with new or updated information, and recommend an 
implementation time line that facilitates the groundfish management 
process while considering the magnitude of potential harm to the 
species of concern and disruption to the fishery that can result from 
untimely incorporation of new information. Specific topics that will be 
discussed at this meeting will be a schedule of new observer data 
reports, development of a policy for mid-term optimum yield adjustments 
during a biennial management cycle, development of a policy for 
inseason management adjustments, and development of a policy for 
considering data and models when deciding biennial specifications and 
management measures. No management actions will be decided by the GIPC. 
The GIPC's role will be development of recommendations for 
consideration by the Council at its March meeting in Sacramento, 
California.
    Although nonemergency issues not contained in the meeting agenda 
may come before the GIPC for discussion, those issues may not be the 
subject of formal committee action during this meeting. Committee 
action will be restricted to those issues specifically listed in this 
notice and any issues arising after publication of this notice that 
require emergency action under Section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens 
Fishery Conservation and Management Act, provided the public has been 
notified of the GIPC's intent to take final action to address the 
emergency.

Special Accommodations

    This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Ms. Carolyn Porter at 503-820-2280 at least 5 
days prior to the meeting date.

    Dated: December 30, 2004.
Alan D. Risenhoover,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E4-3930 Filed 1-4-05; 8:45 am]
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