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Coordinating Committee, through the
Secretary of Commerce, on the
development and administration of
programs to expand U.S. exports of
environmental technologies, goods,
services, and products. The ETTAC was
most recently re-chartered through
August 16, 2024.
On Tuesday, May 21, 2024 from 10:00
a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 to 3:00 p.m.
EST, the ETTAC will hold the eighth
meeting of its current charter term.
During the meeting, committee members
will discuss issues of interest to specific
environmental technology sectors,
deliberate on potential recommendation
topics, and hear briefings from the U.S.
government related to tax incentives for
carbon management projects, among
other topics. An agenda will be made
available one week prior to the meeting
upon request to Megan Hyndman.
The meeting will be open to the
public and time will be permitted for
public comment before the close of the
meeting. Members of the public seeking
to attend the meeting are required to
register by Wednesday, May 15, at 5:00
p.m. EST, via the contact information
provided above. This meeting is
physically accessible to people with
disabilities. Requests for sign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to OEEI at
[email protected] or (202)
823–1839 no less than one week prior
to the meeting. Requests received after
this date will be accepted, but it may
not be possible to accommodate them.
Written comments concerning ETTAC
affairs are welcome any time before or
after the meeting. To be considered
during the meeting, written comments
must be received by Wednesday, May
15, 2024, at 5:00 p.m. EST to ensure
transmission to the members before the
meeting. Draft minutes will be available
within 30 days of this meeting.
Dated: April 30, 2024.
Man K. Cho,
Deputy Director, Office of Energy and
Environmental Industries.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Northeast Region Observer
Providers Requirements
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 January 31,
2024, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: Northeast Region Observer
Providers Requirements.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0546.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
(extension and revision of a currently
approved information collection).
Number of Respondents: 626.
Average Hours per Response:
Response time varies between 10
minutes to 10 hours depending on the
information collection.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 6,475.
Needs and Uses: Under the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
(Magnuson-Steven Act), the Secretary of
Commerce (Secretary) has the
responsibility for the conservation and
management of marine fishery
resources. Much of this responsibility
has been delegated to the NOAA/
National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS). Under this stewardship role,
the Secretary was given certain
regulatory authorities to ensure the most
beneficial uses of these resources. One
of the regulatory steps taken to carry out
the conservation and management
objectives is to collect data from users
of the resource.
Regulations at 50 CFR 648.11(g)
require observer service providers to
comply with specific requirements in
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provider in the Atlantic sea scallop
(scallop) fishery. Observer service
providers must comply with the
following requirements: submit
applications for approval as an observer
service provider; formally request
observer training by the Northeast
Fisheries Observer Program (NEFOP);
submit observer deployment reports and
biological samples; give notification of
whether a vessel must carry an observer
within 24 hours of the vessel owner’s
notification of a prospective trip;
maintain an updated contact list of all
observers that includes the observer
identification number; observer’s name
mailing address, email address, phone
numbers, homeports or fisheries/trip
types assigned, and whether or not the
observer is ‘‘in service.’’ The regulations
also require observer service providers
submit any outreach materials, such as
informational pamphlets, payment
notification, and descriptions of
observer duties as well as all contracts
between the service provider and
entities requiring observer services for
review to NMFS/NEFOP. Observer
service providers also have the option to
respond to application denials, and
submit a rebuttal in response to a
pending removal from the list of
approved observer providers. During the
60-day comment period for this renewal
NMFS approved an additional observer
service provider, increasing the number
of providers from three to four. The
additional burden hours necessary to
accommodate the additional provider
are reflected in the updated total burden
hours.
Regulations at § 648.11(k)(2) require
that limited access, limited access
general category individual fishing
quota, and Northern Gulf of Maine
scallop vessels notify NMFS prior to the
beginning of a scallop trip to facilitate
the deployment of at-sea observers.
Previously, vessels either called or
emailed to notify NMFS of an upcoming
scallop trip. NMFS has added a new
method for notification called the PreTrip Notification System (PTNS). The
integration of the scallop notification
requirement into the PTNS helps
standardize observer operations
between fisheries and modernize
reporting systems. The PTNS is a
mobile-friendly website that is more
sophisticated and flexible than the aging
interactive voice response technology.
The change to the PTNS does not affect
determination of scallop coverage rates
or the compensation analysis. There are
no changes to the requirements vessels
must abide by if selected to carry an
observer, such as equal
accommodations, a harassment-free

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environment, and other safety
requirements. This change is not
expected to impact the burden response
time, but NOAA will continue to
monitor use of this new tool, and will
update the collection if it results in any
burden changes at our next renewal.
There will still be an email and a phone
option for vessels to notify. These
requirements allow NMFS/NEFOP to
effectively administer the scallop
observer program.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organization.
Frequency: Weekly
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
Obtain Benefits.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Steven
Act
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.
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 0648–0546.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
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Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management
Council; Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; public meeting.
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AGENCY:

A sub-panel of the MidAtlantic and New England Fishery
Management Councils’ Scientific and
Statistical Committees (SSC) and the
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries
Commission (ASMFC) Assessment
Science Committee will hold a meeting.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Wednesday, May 22, 2024, starting at
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9:30 a.m. and continue through 12:30
p.m. on Friday, May 24, 2024. See
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for agenda
details.
ADDRESSES: This will be an in-person
meeting with a virtual option.
Participants and members of the public
will have the option to participate in
person at the Northeast Fisheries
Science Center Narragansett Lab, 28
Tarzwell Drive, Narragansett, RI, or
virtually via webinar. Webinar
connection instructions and briefing
materials will be available at:
www.mafmc.org.
Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council, 800 N State
Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901;
telephone: (302) 674–2331; website:
www.mafmc.org.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive
Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council, telephone: (302)
526–5255.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The joint
sub-panel, consisting of Mid-Atlantic
and New England SSC members and
ASMFC Assessment Science Committee
members, will meet to review and
provide input on the Northeast Fisheries
Science Center (NEFSC) draft survey
mitigation plans relative to offshore
wind development. NOAA Fisheries
and the Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management (BOEM) developed the
Federal Survey Mitigation Strategy
(Strategy) which describes the impacts
of wind energy development on
fisheries-independent surveys and
outlines the goals, objectives, and
actions to guide the development and
implementation of a program to mitigate
the impacts on fisheries-independent
surveys. To address the actions outlined
in the Strategy, the NEFSC developed
the Northeast Survey Mitigation
Program and survey-specific mitigation
plans to ensure NEFSC can continue to
provide equal or higher quality science
for each of the long-term, recurring
surveys conducted by NEFSC that will
be impacted by offshore wind
development. The survey mitigation
plans include descriptions of the
impacted survey, specific stakeholders
for the data collected, impacts of
offshore wind development, and
planned mitigation measures to address
the impacts of wind energy
development on scientific surveys.
To ensure the survey mitigation plans
represent the best science available, the
joint sub-panel will peer review the
draft survey mitigation plans prepared
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will evaluate the detail and scientific
soundness of the mitigation approaches
described in each plan, following a set
of Terms of Reference. The NEFSC will
consider the feedback received from the
sub-panel and will address and/or
incorporate into revised survey
mitigation plans as appropriate.
A detailed agenda and background
documents will be made available on
the Council’s website (www.mafmc.org)
prior to the meeting.
Special Accommodations
These meetings are physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aid
should be directed to Shelley Spedden,
(302) 526–5251, at least 5 days prior to
the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C 1801 et seq.
Dated: May 1, 2024.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Administration
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Fisheries of the South Atlantic;
Southeast Data, Assessment, and
Review (SEDAR); Public Meeting
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of SEDAR 92 Atlantic
Blueline Tilefish Landings Stream
Topical Working Group (LS–TWG)
Webinar I.
AGENCY:

The SEDAR 92 assessment of
the Atlantic stock of blueline tilefish
will consist of a series of assessment
webinars. SEDAR 92 Webinar I is
scheduled for May 22, 2024. See
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
DATES: The SEDAR 92 Atlantic Blueline
Tilefish LS–TWG Webinar I is
scheduled for May 22, 2024, from 1 p.m.
to 3 p.m., eastern. The established times
may be adjusted as necessary to
accommodate the timely completion of
discussion relevant to the assessment
process. Such adjustments may result in
the meeting being extended from or
completed prior to the time established
by this notice.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held
via webinar. The webinar is open to
SUMMARY:

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