[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 136 (Tuesday, July 16, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 33922]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-15078]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XH095


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 (Pacific Council) 
Highly Migratory Species Management Team (HMSMT) will hold a meeting, 
which is open to the public.

DATES: The meeting will be held Wednesday, August 7 and Thursday, 
August 8, 2019, and will start at 8:30 a.m. and continue until business 
is concluded on each day.

ADDRESSES:
    Meeting address: The meeting will be held at the Glenn M. Anderson 
Federal Building, 501 W Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90802, on the Third 
Floor in Room 3300.
    Visitors need to present photo ID and pass through electronic 
security equipment to enter the building. There is no visitor parking 
available in the building for the general public. Metered street 
parking is nearby. Commercial parking lots are within walking distance 
to the building. For meeting location information, you may contact Lyle 
Enriquez by email at [email protected] or phone: (562) 980-4025.
    Council address: Pacific Fishery Management Council, 7700 NE 
Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, OR 97220.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Kit Dahl, Pacific Council; 
telephone: (503) 820-2422.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the HMSMT meeting is to 
review the analysis of the range of alternatives (including the 
preliminary preferred alternative) for authorizing a fishery using 
deep-set buoy gear adopted by the Pacific Council in March 2019. The 
Pacific Council is scheduled to use this analysis to choose a final 
preferred alternative at its September 2019 meeting. The HMSMT may also 
discuss other HMS, administrative, or ecosystem items on upcoming 
Pacific Council meeting agendas and associated tasks. These items may 
include international management of HMS, review of exempted fishing 
permit proposals and related process issues, potential actions by the 
Pacific Council on the pelagic longline and large mesh drift gillnet 
fisheries, and updates to the HMS Stock Assessment and Fishery 
Evaluation document. An agenda listing candidate discussion topics will 
be made available on the Pacific Council website in advance of the 
meeting.
    Although non-emergency issues not contained in the meeting agenda 
may be discussed, those issues may not be the subject of formal action 
during this meeting. Action will be restricted to those issues 
specifically listed in this document and any issues arising after 
publication of this document 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 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 Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt (503) 820-2411, at least 10 
business days prior to the meeting date.

    Dated: July 11, 2019.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2019-15078 Filed 7-15-19; 8:45 am]
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