[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 155 (Monday, August 12, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48860-48861]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-19446]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XC802


New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings

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

ACTION: Notice; public meetings.

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SUMMARY: The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold 
public meetings of two of its advisory bodies, the ABC Control Rule 
Working Group (ABC WG) and Electronic Monitoring Working Group (EM WG).

DATES: The first meeting of the ABC Control Rule Working Group will be 
on Tuesday, September 3, 2013. The meeting will be held at the 
Doubletree by Hilton in Danvers, MA and it will start at 10 a.m. 
Additional meetings may be held between August 15, 2013 and January 31, 
2014. Specific information about the dates, times and places for the 
meetings will be posted on the Council's Web site, http://nefmc.org/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director,

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New England Fishery Management Council; telephone: (978) 465-0492.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Council has established these working 
groups to develop background information and approaches to problems and 
issues to be considered by the Council and its committees. The working 
groups will not make any final decisions about the selection of 
approaches or alternatives that might be adopted by the Council.
    The purpose of the ABC Control Rule Working Group is to prepare a 
work plan on how the Council should proceed in developing acceptable 
biological catch (ABC) control rules that incorporate the Council's 
risk tolerance into the process for setting ABCs. The work plan will 
enable the Council to approve a process for developing the risk policy 
as a Council priority.
    The purpose of the Electronic Monitoring Working Group is to 
identify barriers or necessary steps to the approval by NMFS of 
Northeast Multispecies (Groundfish) sector operations plans that rely 
on electronic monitoring to achieve the compliance and catch 
attribution requirements for groundfish sectors.

Special Accommodations

    The meetings will be physically accessible to people with 
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other 
auxiliary aids should be directed to Thomas A. Nies, Executive 
Director, at (978) 465-0492, at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.

    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

    Dated: August 7, 2013.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2013-19446 Filed 8-9-13; 8:45 am]
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