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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 248 / Thursday, December 30, 2021 / Notices
financial, and technical assistance to MBEs in rural areas?
5. Are there examples or success stories from organizations that provide services to MBEs in rural areas?
6. How should MBDA measure success for rural business centers?
7. What specific performance metrics should MBDA consider for rural business centers that would measure service to rural businesses?
8. What factors should be measured to demonstrate elements of success from the perspective of organizations that support, or customers served by rural businesses?
9. What is the most effective role for Minority Serving Institutions MSIs to foster the establishment and growth of MBEs in rural America and how should that impact be measured?
10. How many MSIs have degree and/
or academic programs focused on business-related topics e.g., entrepreneurship, supply chains, advanced manufacturing/
manufacturing, innovation, etc. or offer business accelerator programs and/or business incubators? Provide names and locations of MSIs that have these programs.
11. What is the most effective way for MSIs to collaborate with communitybased organizations? Please provide examples.
In addition, MBDA is seeking public comment regarding the focal points for the rural business centers as directed by the section 100302c of the MBDA Act:
i The adoption of broadband internet access service as defined in section 8.1b of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, or any successor regulation, digital literacy skills, and ecommerce by rural minority business enterprises; ii advanced manufacturing; iii the promotion of manufacturing in the United States; iv ways in which rural minority business enterprises can meet gaps in the supply chain of critical supplies and essential goods and services for the United States;
v improving the connectivity of rural minority business enterprises through transportation and logistics; vi promoting trade and export opportunities by rural minority business enterprises; vii securing financial capital; viii facilitating entrepreneurship in rural areas; and ix creating jobs in rural areas.
All comments must be submitted in electronic form Word or other consistent software program to the comment mailbox listed in the ADDRESSES section above. Comments should include the name or organization represented, contact information for the commenter, and the specific issue or
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subject addressed in accordance with this notice and the provisions of the MBDA Act, Rural Business Center Program section.
Josephine Arnold, Chief Counsel, Minority Business Development Agency.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration RTID 0648XB590

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic; Exempted Fishing Permit National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of receipt of an application for an exempted fishing permit; request for comments.
AGENCY:

NMFS announces the receipt of an application for an exempted fishing permit EFP from the REEF
Environmental Education Foundation REEF. If granted, the EFP would authorize the deployment of noncontainment and spiny lobster traps in the Federal waters of the South Atlantic by research and contracted commercial vessels to target lionfish. The project would seek to determine the effectiveness of these traps for attracting and collecting invasive lionfish while avoiding impacts to non-target species and habitats.
DATES: Written comments must be received on or before January 14, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on the application, identified by NOAANMFS20210119 by any of the following methods:
Electronic Submission: Submit all electronic public comments via the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. Go to https www.regulations.gov and enter NOAANMFS20210119 in the Search box. Click the Comment icon, complete the required fields, and enter or attach your comments.
Mail: Kelli ODonnell, Southeast Regional Office, NMFS, 263 13th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701.
Instructions: Comments sent by any other method, to any other address or individual, or received after the end of the comment period, may not be considered by NMFS. All comments received are a part of the public record and will generally be posted for public SUMMARY:

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viewing on www.regulations.gov without change. All personal identifying information e.g., name, address, confidential business information, or otherwise sensitive information submitted voluntarily by the sender will be publicly accessible. NMFS will accept anonymous comments enter N/
A in the required fields if you wish to remain anonymous.
Electronic copies of the application and programmatic environmental assessment PEA may be obtained from the Southeast Regional Office website at https www.fisheries.noaa.gov/action/
lionfish-traps-exempted-fishing-permitapplications.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kelli ODonnell, 7278245305; email:
kelli.odonnell@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EFP is requested under the authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act 16
U.S.C 1801 et seq., and regulations at 50 CFR 600.745b concerning exempted fishing.
Lionfish is an invasive marine species that occurs in both the Gulf of Mexico Gulf and South Atlantic. The harvest of lionfish in the Federal waters of the Gulf and South Atlantic is not currently managed by NMFS. The EFP application submitted to NMFS involves the use of prohibited gear in Federal waters.
Federal regulations prohibit the use or possession of a fish trap in Federal waters in the Gulf and South Atlantic 50 CFR 622.9c. In South Atlantic Federal waters, the term fish trap refers to a trap capable of taking fish, except for a seabass pot, a golden crab trap, or a crustacean trap, which are a type of trap historically used in the directed fishery for blue crab, stone crab, red crab, jonah crab, or spiny lobster and that contains at any time not more than 25 percent, by number, of fish other than blue crab, stone crab, red crab, jonah crab, and spiny lobster 50
CFR 622.2. The EFP would exempt these activities from the regulations prohibiting the use or possession of a fish trap in Federal waters of the South Atlantic at 50 CFR 622.9c and exempt the activities from the spiny lobster seasonal closures at 50 CFR 622.403b and c. This allows the applicant to use non-containment traps and spiny lobster traps to target lionfish throughout the calendar year, including during the spiny lobster closed season off Florida.
This exemption does not apply to fishing in areas where spiny lobster trap fishing is currently prohibited in Federal waters to protect corals 50 CFR
622.406. As described in more detail later in this notice, the EFP will allow
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