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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 18 / Friday, January 29, 2021 / Notices
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Sheleen Dumas, Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Commerce Department.

Dated: January 25, 2021.
Rey Israel Marquez, Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration RTID 0648XA828

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.

AGENCY:

ACTION:

Notice; public meeting.

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget OMB for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Applications and Reporting Requirements for Incidental Taking of Marine Mammals by Specified Activities Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.

AGENCY:

Notice of information collection, request for comment.

ACTION:

The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Council will hold a meeting of its River Herring and Shad RH/S Advisory Panel AP via webinar.

SUMMARY:

The meeting will be held on Monday, February 8, 2021, from 1 p.m.
to 4 p.m. See SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION below for agenda details.
DATES:

The meeting will be held via online webinar, with connection information available via the Councils website at www.mafmc.org.
Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, 800 N State Street, Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901;
telephone: 302 6742331 or on their website at www.mafmc.org.

ADDRESSES:

Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, telephone: 302
5265255.
The purpose of the meeting is gather AP
input on several RH/S white papers being developed by Council staff.
Briefing materials will be posted to the Councils website at www.mafmc.org.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Special Accommodations The meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aid should be directed to Kathy Collins, 302 5265253, at least 5 days prior to any meeting date.

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To ensure consideration, comments regarding this proposed information collection must be received on or before March 30, 2021.

DATES:

Interested persons are invited to submit written comments to Adrienne Thomas, NOAA PRA Officer, at Adrienne.thomas@noaa.gov. Please reference OMB Control Number 0648
0151 in the subject line of your comments. Do not submit Confidential Business Information or otherwise sensitive or protected information.

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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

The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
PRA, invites 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 publics reporting burden. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment preceding submission of the collection to OMB.

SUMMARY:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or specific questions related to collection activities should be directed to Dwayne Meadows, Ph.D., National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Protected Resources F/PR1, 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, 301 4278647, Dwayne.Meadows@
noaa.gov.
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I. Abstract This request is for an extension 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 101a5A 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 stocks and will not have an unmitigable adverse impact on the availability of the species or stocks 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 101a5A or 101a5D of the MMPA requires three sets of information collection: 1 A complete application for an Authorization, as set forth in our implementing regulations at 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 activitys 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.
We do not propose any changes to the information collection beyond expecting an increased number of respondents and responses due to increases in the number of requests for incidental take authorizations.

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