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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[RTID 0648–XA511]

New England Fishery Management
Council; Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:

The New England Fishery
Management Council is convening a
public meeting of its Scientific and
Statistical Committee (SSC) via webinar
to consider actions affecting New
England fisheries in the exclusive
economic zone (EEZ).
Recommendations from this group will
be brought to the full Council for formal
consideration and action, if appropriate.
DATES: This webinar will be held on
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 at 9 a.m.
Webinar registration URL information:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/
register/3850303213161369355. Call in
information: +1 (562) 247–8422, Access
Code 632–479–325.
ADDRESSES: Council address: New
England Fishery Management Council,
50 Water Street, Mill 2, Newburyport,
MA 01950.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director,
New England Fishery Management
Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

notice that require emergency action
under section 305(c) of the MagnusonStevens Act, provided the public has
been notified of the Council’s intent to
take final action to address the
emergency. The public also should be
aware that the meeting will be recorded.
Consistent with 16 U.S.C. 1852, a copy
of the recording is available upon
request.
Special Accommodations
This meeting is 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: September 23, 2020.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Agenda

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Applications and Reporting
Requirements for the Incidental Take
of Marine Mammals by Specified
Activities (Other Than Commercial
Fishing Operations) Under the Marine
Mammal Protection Act

The Scientific and Statistical
Committee will meet to review recent
stock assessment information from the
2020 Groundfish Management Track
Assessments, information provided by
the Council’s Groundfish Plan
Development Team (PDT) and
recommend the overfishing limits and
acceptable biological catch (ABC) for
Georges Bank (GB) winter flounder, Gulf
of Maine (GOM) winter flounder,
Acadian redfish, ocean pout, Atlantic
halibut, wolffish, northern windowpane
flounder, and southern windowpane
flounder for fishing years 2022–23.
Other business will be discussed as
necessary.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained on the agenda may come
before this Council for discussion, those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during this meeting. Council
action will be restricted to those issues
specifically listed in this notice and any
issues arising after publication of this

The Department of Commerce will
submit the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication
of this notice. We invite the general
public and other Federal agencies to
comment on proposed, and continuing
information collections, which helps us
assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. Public
comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on June 22,
2018 (83 FR 29212) during a 60-day
comment period. This notice allows for
an additional 30 days for public
comments.
Agency: National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration.
Title: Applications and Reporting
Requirements for the Incidental Take of
Marine Mammals by Specified

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Activities (other than Commercial
Fishing Operations) Under the Marine
Mammal Protection Act.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0151.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(Revision to an existing information
collection).
Number of Respondents: 188.
Average Hours per Response:
Incidental Harassment Authorization
(IHA) Application: 281 hours; IHA
Interim Report: 30 hours; IHA Draft
Annual Report: 140 hours; IHA Final
Annual Report: 28 hours; Letter of
Authorization (LOA) Initial Application:
1200 hours; LOA Annual Application:
70 hours; LOA Draft Annual Report: 225
Hours; LOA Draft Final Report: 225
hours; LOA Final Annual Report: 70
hours; LOA Draft Comprehensive
Report: 640 hours; LOA Comprehensive
Final Report: 300 hours; Gulf of Mexico
(GOM) Draft Annual Report: 140 hours;
GOM Final Annual Report: 28 hours.
Response times will vary for the public
based upon the complexity of the
requested action.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 25,973.
Needs and Uses: This request is for a
revision of a currently approved
information collection.
The Marine Mammal Protection Act
of 1972 (MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et. seq.)
prohibits the ‘‘take’’ of marine mammals
unless otherwise authorized or
exempted by law. Among the provisions
that allow for lawful take of marine
mammals, sections 101(a)(5)(A) and (D)
of the MMPA direct the Secretary of
Commerce to allow, upon request, the
incidental, but not intentional, taking of
small numbers of marine mammals by
U.S. citizens who engage in a specified
activity (other than commercial fishing),
within a specified geographical region
if, after notice and opportunity for
public comment, we find that the taking
will have a negligible impact on the
affected species or stock(s) and will not
have an immitigable adverse impact on
the availability of the species or stock(s)
for subsistence uses (where relevant).
NMFS also must set forth the
permissible methods of taking; other
means of effecting the least practicable
adverse impact on the species or stock
and its habitat (mitigation); and
requirements pertaining to the
monitoring and reporting of such taking.
NMFS Office of Protected Resources
leads the process for the agency.
Issuance of an incidental take
authorization (Authorization) under
section 101(a)(5)(A) or 101(a)(5)(D) of
the MMPA requires three sets of
information collection: (1) A complete
application for an Authorization, as set
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50 CFR 216.104, which provides the
information necessary for us to make the
necessary statutory determinations,
including estimates of take and an
assessment of impacts on the affected
species and stocks; (2) information
relating to required monitoring; and (3)
information related to required
reporting. These collections of
information enable us to: (1) Evaluate
the proposed activity’s impact on
marine mammals; (2) arrive at the
appropriate determinations required by
the MMPA and other applicable laws
prior to issuing the authorization; and
(3) monitor impacts of activities for
which we have issued Authorizations to
determine if our predictions regarding
impacts on marine mammals remain
valid.
On June 22, 2018, NMFS published a
Federal Register Notice (83 FR 29212)
notifying the public of a proposal to
issue 5-year incidental take regulations
that would allow for the take of marine
mammals incidental to geophysical
survey activities conducted by industry
operators in Federal waters of the U.S.
Gulf of Mexico (GOM). NMFS does not
anticipate that the proposed regulations
will substantially add to the burden to
individual private applicants for
incidental take authorizations. In fact,
we expect individual applicant’s
information collection burdens will be
substantially less than the typical
applicant under the existing OMB
Control Number. This is due to the fact
that the application for these regulations
(the first information collection burden
noted above) was completed by the
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
(BOEM) instead of individual
applicants. The other difference we
expect related to these proposed
regulations is that there will be a larger
number of applicants/respondents than
accounted for in the existing OMB
Control Number. The proposed rule
forecasts that 95 to 151 geophysical
surveys will take place annually on
average over the five years of the
proposed regulations in the GOM that
would be subject to potential
information collection requirements.
Affected Public: Not-for-profit
institutions; state, local, or tribal
governments; businesses or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency:
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Marine Mammal
Protection Act of 1972 (MMPA, 16
U.S.C. 1361 et. seq.).
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.

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Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0648–0151.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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Federal Consistency Appeal by Jordan
Cove Energy Project, L.P. and Pacific
Connector Gas Pipeline, LP
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Department of Commerce (DOC).
ACTION: Notice of stay—closure of
administrative appeal decision record.
AGENCY:

This announcement provides
notice that the Department of Commerce
has stayed, for a period of 60 days,
closure of the decision record in an
administrative appeal filed by Jordan
Cove Energy Project, L.P. and Pacific
Connector Gas Pipeline, LP
(collectively, ‘‘Appellants’’) under the
Coastal Zone Management Act.
Appellants appealed to the Secretary of
Commerce to override an objection by
the Oregon Department of Land
Conservation and Development to a
consistency certification for a proposed
project to construct and operate a
liquified natural gas export terminal and
a 229-mile natural gas pipeline and
compressor station off the Pacific Coast.
DATES: The decision record for
Appellants’ federal consistency appeal
of Oregon Department of Land
Conservation and Development’s
objection will now close on November
27, 2020.
ADDRESSES: NOAA has provided access
to publicly available materials and
related documents comprising the
appeal record on the following website:
https://www.regulations.gov/
docket?D=NOAA-HQ-2020-0058.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions about this Notice, contact
Rachel Morris, Attorney-Advisor,
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NOAA Office of the General Counsel,
Oceans and Coasts Section, and Patrick
Carroll, Attorney-Advisor, NOAA Office
of the General Counsel, Oceans and
Coasts Section, at jordancove.appeal@
noaa.gov or (301) 713–7387.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March
20, 2020, the NOAA Administrator,
pursuant to authority delegated by the
Secretary of Commerce to decide
Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972
(CZMA) federal consistency appeals,
received a ‘‘Notice of Appeal’’ filed by
Jordan Cove Energy Project, L.P. and
Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, LP
(collectively, ‘‘Appellants’’) under the
CZMA, 16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq., and
implementing regulations found at 15
CFR part 930, subpart H. The Notice of
Appeal is taken from an objection by the
Oregon Department of Land
Conservation and Development to
Appellants’ consistency certification for
a proposed project to construct and
operate a liquified natural gas export
terminal and a 229-mile natural gas
pipeline and compressor station off the
Pacific Coast. This matter constitutes an
appeal of an ‘‘energy project’’ within the
meaning of the CZMA regulations. See
15 CFR 930.123(c).
Under the CZMA, the NOAA
Administrator may override Oregon
Department of Land Conservation and
Development’s objection on grounds
that the project is consistent with the
objectives or purposes of the CZMA, or
is necessary in the interest of national
security. To make the determination
that the proposed activity is ‘‘consistent
with the objectives or purposes of the
CZMA,’’ the Department of Commerce
must find that: (1) The proposed activity
furthers the national interest as
articulated in sections 302 or 303 of the
CZMA, in a significant or substantial
manner; (2) the national interest
furthered by the proposed activity
outweighs the activity’s adverse coastal
effects, when those effects are
considered separately or cumulatively;
and (3) no reasonable alternative is
available that would permit the
proposed activity to be conducted in a
manner consistent with the enforceable
policies of the applicable coastal
management program. 15 CFR 930.121.
To make the determination that the
proposed activity is ‘‘necessary in the
interest of national security,’’ the
Department of Commerce must find that
a national defense or other national
security interest would be significantly
impaired if the proposed activity is not
permitted to go forward as proposed. 15
CFR 930.122.
The NOAA Administrator must close
the decision record in a federal

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