[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 18, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2888-2889]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-00855]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XC682]


Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

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

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery Management Council's (Pacific Council) Ad 
Hoc Marine Planning Committee (MPC) will hold an online public meeting.

DATES: The online meeting will be held Thursday, February 2, 2023, from 
10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Pacific Standard Time or until business for the day 
has been completed.

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held online. Specific meeting 
information, including a proposed agenda and directions on how to join 
the meeting and system requirements will be provided in the meeting 
announcement on the Pacific Council's website (see www.pcouncil.org). 
You may send an email to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt 
([email protected]) or contact him at (503) 820-2412 for 
technical assistance.
    Council address: Pacific Fishery Management Council, 7700 NE 
Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, OR 97220-1384.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kerry Griffin, Staff Officer, Pacific 
Council; telephone: (503) 820-2409.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of this online meeting is for 
the MPC to consider current offshore wind energy and aquaculture issues 
and to provide information and advice to the Pacific Council for 
consideration at its March 2023 meeting. Potential topics may include:
    1. Update on suitability modeling being conducted by the National 
Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and the Bureau of Ocean Energy 
Management to support identification of offshore Wind Energy Areas for 
two Call Areas off the Oregon Coast;
    2. Update on the Draft NOAA Aquaculture Opportunity Areas 
Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement; and
    3. Summarizing the December 2022 lease auction for five offshore 
Wind Energy Areas off Central and Northern California.

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    Other relevant topics may be addressed as appropriate.
    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

    Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Mr. Kris Kleinschmidt 
([email protected]; (503) 820-2412) at least 10 days prior to 
the meeting date.
    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

    Dated: January 12, 2023.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2023-00855 Filed 1-17-23; 8:45 am]
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