[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 6 (Friday, January 9, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 889-890]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-143]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN: 0648-XM57


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 (Council) Groundfish 
Allocation Committee

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(GAC) will hold a working meeting, which is open to the public.

DATES: The GAC meeting will be held Tuesday, January 27, 2009, from 
8:30 a.m. until business for the day is completed. The GAC will 
reconvene on Wednesday, January 28 and Thursday, January 29, 2009, at 
8:30 a.m. each day until their business is completed.

ADDRESSES: The GAC meeting will be held at the Shilo Inn Portland 
Airport, Mt. Hood Room, 11707 NE Airport Way, Portland, OR 97220; 
telephone: +(503) 252-7500.
    Council address: Pacific Fishery Management Council, 7700 NE 
Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, OR 97220-1384.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. John DeVore, Groundfish Management 
Coordinator; telephone: (503) 820-2280.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the GAC meeting is to 
consider draft alternatives and other material for a contemplated 
allocation of future harvests of selected groundfish species and stock 
complexes to limited entry trawl sectors and other sectors of the west 
coast groundfish fishery; accumulation and control limits for 
individual fishing quotas assigned to limited entry trawl permit 
holders in a contemplated rationalized shoreside trawl sector; and a 
new limited entry licensing system for west coast open access 
groundfish fisheries (open access license limitation). No management 
actions will be decided by the GAC. The GAC's role will be development 
of recommendations and preferred alternatives for analysis in 
contemplated NEPA-compliant environmental analyses for these three 
initiatives. The GAC recommendations will be provided for consideration 
by the Council at its March and April 2009 meetings in Seattle, 
Washington and Millbrae, CA, respectively.
    Although non-emergency issues not contained in the meeting agenda 
may come before the GAC for discussion, those issues may not be the 
subject of formal GAC action during this meeting. GAC action will be 
restricted to those issues specifically listed in this notice and any 
issues arising after publication of this notice 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 GAC's intent to take final action to address the emergency.

Special Accommodations

    This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. 
Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids 
should be directed to Ms. Carolyn Porter at (503) 820-2280 at least 5 
days prior to the meeting date.

    Dated: January 5, 2008.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E9-143 Filed 1-8-09; 8:45 am]
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