Federal Register Notices: 2010

Federal Register Notices 2010

Notices published in the Federal Register relating to Pacific Fishery Management Council business (Date Published Calendar Year 2010).

  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October
  • November
  • December
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    December

    • Temporary Rule: Emergency Action and Request for Comments on the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan Amendments 20 and 21 — Trawl Rationalization Program; Allocations for the Start of the 2011 Fishery (December 30, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting: Council’s Highly Migratory Species Management Team (December 29, 2010)
    • Notice: Public Notice and Opportunity for Comment on the List of Nominations Received from State and Territorial Marine Protected Area Programs to Join the National System of Marine Protected Areas (December 27, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting: NMFS Will Host a Meeting of the Council Coordination Committee, Consisting of the Regional Fishery Management Council Chairs, Vice Chairs, and Executive Directors in January 2011 (December 27, 2010)
    • Notification of Annual Determination: 2011 Annual Determination for Sea Turtle Observer Requirement (December 27, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting: The Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Groundfish Management Team (December 22, 2010)
    • Notice of Availability: Reports, Public Meetings, and Hearings for the Council’s Annual Preseason Management Process for the 2011 Ocean Salmon Fisheries (December 21, 2010)
    • Final Rule: Shipping Act, Merchant Marine, and Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act Provisions; Fishing Vessel, Fishing Facility and Individual Fishing Quota Lending Program (December 16, 2010)
    • Final Rule: Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan; Amendments 20 and 21; Trawl Rationalization Program; (December 15, 2010)
    • Proposed Rule: NMFS is Extending the Comment Period for the Proposed Rule to Implement the 2011–2012 Biennial Specifications and Management Measures; Amendment 16–5; and Amendment 23 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish FMP (December 3, 2010)
    • Final Rule: Inseason Adjustments to Biennial Groundfish Management Measures (December 3, 2010)

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    November

    • Notice: Request for Nominations by the Secretary of Commerce to the Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee (November 19, 2010)
    • Notice and Request for Comments: Plan for Periodic Review of Regulations (November 15, 2010)
    • Temporary Rule: Western and Central Pacific Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species; 2010 Bigeye Tuna Longline Fishery Closure (November 9, 2010)
    • Notice: National Saltwater Angler Registry Program Designation of Exempted States (November 8, 2010)
    • Notice: Office of Education Requests Comments on the Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program (November 8, 2010)
    • Final Rule: List of Fisheries for 2011 (November 8, 2010)
    • Notice: Proposed Information Collection for U.S.-Canada Albacore Treaty Reporting System (November 4, 2010)
    • Notice: Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey (November 4, 2010)
    • Proposed Rule, Request for Comments: Fisheries Off West Coast States; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery – 2011–2012 Biennial Specifications and Management Measures; Amendment 16–5 and Amendment 23 (November 3, 2010)
    • Notice of Public Meetings: Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Ad Hoc Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat Review Committee (November 3, 2010)
    • Final Rule – Correction: to Trip Limits for Commercial Groundfish Fisheries Through the End of 2010 to Reflect Recent Changes That Were Implemented on 10/04/2010 (November 1, 2010)

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    October

    • Notice of a Public Meeting: Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Tule Chinook Workgroup (October 29, 2010)
    • Notice of Availability: of NOAA’s Draft Policy for the Assessment of Civil Administrative Penalties and Permit Sanctions (October 21, 2010)
    • Notice: Type-Approval Vessel Monitoring Systems; Approved Mobile Transmitting Units and Communications Service Providers for Use in the Fisheries of the Western and Central Pacific (October 15, 2010)
    • Notice of Open Meeting: Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee (October 15, 2010)
    • Notice of Availability: for Public Comment on the Interagency Ocean Observation Committee Proposed Certification Design Process (October 15, 2010)
    • Notice: Proposed Information Collection and Request for Comments on Pacific Tuna Fisheries Logbook (October 12, 2010)
    • Final Rule: NMFS Amends the Framework Regulations Specifying Procedures for Implementing Fishing Capacity Reduction Programs (October 8, 2010)
    • Notice of Public Hearings: Pacific Fishery Management Council Will Hold Public Hearings on Development of Community Fishing Association Provisions for its Groundfish Trawl Catch Share Plan (October 7, 2010)
    • Notice: Department of Commerce Proposed Information Collection; Expanded Vessel Monitoring System Requirement in the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery (October 7, 2010)
    • Notice and Request for Applications: NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council (October 5, 2010)
    • Final Rule: Inseason Adjustments to Biennial Groundfish Management Measures (October 4, 2010)
    • Final Rule: Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan Amendments 20 and 21; Trawl Rationalization Program (October 1, 2010)
    • Notice of Availability: NMFS Announces That the Pacific Fishery Management Council Has Submitted Amendments 16–5 and 23 to the Groundfish Fishery Management Plan for Secretarial Review (October 1, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting: of the Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee (October 1, 2010)

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    September

    • Notice of a Public Meeting: National Sea Grant Advisory Board (September 28, 2010)
    • Final Rule: NMFS Publishes Changes to the Regulations That Address the Operations and Administration of the Regional Fishery Management Councils (September 27, 2010)
    • Temporary Rule, Closure: NMFS is Prohibiting Directed Fishing for Pacific Sardine off the Coasts of Washington, Oregon and California (September 27, 2010)
    • Notice of Availability: Draft NOAA Climate Service Strategic Vision and Framework for Public Review, and Notice of Informational Webinar Meetings (September 22, 2010)
    • Proposed Rule: Coastal Pelagic Species Fisheries, Annual Specifications (September 17, 2010)
    • NMFS is Soliciting Nominations to the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Section to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (September 15, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting: Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team and Scientific and Statistical Committee’s Subcommittee on Coastal Pelagic Species (September 14, 2010)
    • Notice: NOAA Regional Ocean Partnership Funding Program–FY 2011 Funding Competition (September 13, 2010)
    • Modification of Fishing Seasons, Salmon Inseason Actions #9, #10, and #11; (September 9, 2010)
    • Proposed Rule: for Pacific Tuna Fisheries; Vessel Capacity Limit in the Purse Seine Fishery in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (September 3, 2010)
    • Notice of Availability: NMFS Extends Public Comment for Mitchell Act DRAFT EIS (September 3, 2010)
    • Notice: National Saltwater Angler Registry Program; Designation of Exempted States for Anglers, Spear Fishers, and For-Hire Fishing Vessels (September 2, 2010)

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    August

    • Proposed Rule: NMFS Proposes Specific Measures for the Implementation of Amendments 20 and 21 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (August 31, 2010)
    • Notice of Availability, Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Harvest Specifications and Management Measures for the 2011–2012 Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery and Amendment 16–5 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish FMP, and Adopt a Rebuilding Plan for Petrale Sole (August 27, 2010)
    • Proposed Rule, Correction and Reopening of Comment Period: Amendment of the Fisheries Finance Program’s Programmatic Regulations (August 25, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting: Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Tule Chinook Workgroup (August 25, 2010)
    • Notice of Public Meetings — CORRECTION to the Supplementary Information to a Notice Published in the Federal Register on August 19, 2010); September 10-16 Council Meeting (August 24, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting: Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Salmon Technical Team, Scientific and Statistical Committee’s Salmon Subcommittee, and Model Evaluation Workgroup (August 24, 2010)
    • Final Rule: Inseason Adjustments to Commercial Fishery Management Measures for Several Groundfish Species (August 23, 2010)
    • Notice: Proposed Information Collection for the Observer Program for Vessels in the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery (August 23, 2010)
    • Notice of Public Meetings: Pacific Fishery Management Council and its Advisory Entities to Meet September 10-16, 2010 (August 19, 2010)
    • Modifications to West Coast Commercial and Recreational Salmon Fisheries: Inseason Actions #5, #6, #7, and #8; (August 19, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting, Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team (August 16, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting, NMFS Announces a Meeting of the General Advisory Committee and the Scientific Advisory Subcommittee to the U.S. Section to the IATTC (August 12, 2010)

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    July

    • Modifications to West Coast Commercial and Recreational Salmon Fisheries; Inseason Actions #1, #2, #3, and #4 (July 30, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting, Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee (July 29, 2010)
    • Temporary Rule – Closure, NMFS is Prohibiting Directed Fishing for Pacific Sardine off the Coasts of Washington, Oregon and California (July 22, 2010)
    • Notice and Request for Applications, Availability of Seats for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council (July 21, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting, the Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Salmon Technical Team and Habitat Committee Sub-committees to Hold Joint Work Session (July 20, 2010)
    • Notice of Intent, NOAA Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management Announces its Intent to Evaluate the Performance of the Elkhorn Slough California National Estuarine Research Reserve (July 20, 2010)
    • Final Rule, Inseason Adjustments to Biennial Groundfish Management Measures; Request for Comments (July 16, 2010)
    • Notice, Proposed Information Collection; Conflict of Interest Disclosure for Nonfederal Government Individuals Who Are Candidates To Conduct Peer Reviews (July 13, 2010)
    • Notice, Extension of Comment Period and Correction to Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment and Conduct San Joaquin River Chinook Salmon (July 8, 2010)
    • Final Rule, (Correction) Groundfish Biennial Harvest Specifications and Management Measures (July 8, 2010)
    • Notice of Petition Finding, NMFS Received a Petition to List Puget Sound Populations of Coho Salmon (July 6, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting, Council’s Ecosystem Plan Development Team (July 2, 2010)
    • Final Rule, Inseason Adjustments to Biennial Groundfish Management Measures; Revisions to the 2010 Harvest Guidelines for Yelloweye (July 1, 2010)

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    June

    • Proposed rule – Correction, NMFS is Correcting Dates Referenced in the Preamble to the Proposed Rule for Amendments 20 and 21 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (June 30, 2010)
    • Notice and Request for Comments, on NOAA’s Next Generation Strategic Plan (June 29, 2010)
    • Notice of Availability, Groundfish Amendments 20 and 21 Final Environmental Impact Statement (June 25, 2010)
    • Proposed Rule, National Marine Fisheries Service Publishes its Proposed List of Fisheries for 2011 (June 25, 2010)
    • Final Rule, Regulations to Amend the Civil Procedures – NOAA’s Administrative Proceedings (June 23, 2010)
    • Notice and Request for Comments, NOAA is Providing Notice of the Interagency Estuary Habitat Restoration Council’s Intent to Revise the “Estuary Habitat Restoration Strategy” (June 21, 2010)
    • Temporary Rule, NMFS is Prohibiting Directed Fishing for Pacific Sardine off the Coasts of Washington, Oregon and California (June 15, 2010)
    • Proposed Rule; NMFS Proposes Amendments to the Framework Regulations Specifying Procedures for Implementing Fishing Capacity Reduction Programs (June 14, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting; Pacific Fishery Management Council Will Hold a Meeting of its Ad Hoc Regulatory Deeming Workgroup, (June 14, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting; Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee, (June 11, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting; Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Groundfish Fishery Management Team (June 11, 2010)
    • Fishing Restrictions; Suspension of the Primary Pacific Whiting Season for the Shore-based Sector South of 42° North Latitude; (June 11, 2010)
    • Proposed Rule; Fisheries Off West Coast States; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan; Amendments 20 and 21; Trawl Rationalization Program (June 10, 2010)
    • Presidential Documents; Proclamation of National Oceans Month 2010 (June 7, 2010)
    • Notice and Request for Comments, NMFS Announces Exempted Fishing Permit for Pacific Sardine Warrants Further Consideration (June 3, 2010)
    • Notice, Extension of Comment Period on the Proposed Listing of Nine Distinct Population Segments of Loggerhead Sea Turtles as Endangered or Threatened (June 2, 2010)
    • Notice, Extension of Application Period for Seats for the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council (June 2, 2010)

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    May

    • Proposed Rule, Completion of a Review of the Status of the Oregon Coast Evolutionarily Significant Unit of Coho Salmon; Proposal to Promulgate Rule Classifying Species as Threatened (May 26, 2010)
    • Notice of Public Meetings, Pacific Fishery Management Council and its Advisory Entities to Meet June 10-17, 2010 (May 26, 2010)
    • Notice of Updates to the List of National System Marine Protected Areas (May 25, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting, Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Salmon Advisory Subpanel to Hold Conference Call (May 21, 2010)
    • Extension of Public Comment Period; Correction, for the Draft Recovery Plan for Central California Coast Coho Salmon, (May 18, 2010)
    • 2010 Annual Determination for Sea Turtle Observer Requirements (May 18, 2010)
    • Rule, NMFS Announces Catch Retention Requirements for U.S. Purse Seine Fishing Vessels Operating in the Area of Application of the Convention on the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (May 14, 2010)
    • Availability of Amendments, NMFS Announces that the Pacific Fishery Management Council has Submitted Amendments 20 and 21 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan to the Secretary of Commerce (May 12, 2010)
    • Extension of Public Comment Period, for the Draft Recovery Plan for Central California Coast Coho Salmon (May 7, 2010)
    • Final Rule, NMFS Establishes Fishery Management Measures for the 2010 Ocean Salmon Fisheries off Washington, Oregon, and California and the 2011 Salmon Seasons Opening Earlier Than May 1, 2011 (May 5, 2010)
    • Final Rule, Inseason Adjustments to Groundfish Management Measures, Pacific Whiting Harvest Specifications and Tribal Allocation (May 4, 2010)
    • Final Rule, Inseason Adjustments to Management Measures, Announcement of Elimination of Incidental Pacific Halibut Retention Allowance (May 4, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting, Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Ad Hoc Regulatory Deeming Workgroup (May 4, 2010)

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    April

    • Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Implementation of Fish and Fish Product Import Provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (April 30, 2010)
    • Final Rule on Ocean Dumping — Designation of Ocean Dredged Material Disposal Sites Offshore of the Siuslaw River, Oregon (April 29, 2010)
    • Final Rule Threatened Status for the Puget Sound/Georgia Basin Distinct Population Segments of Yelloweye and Canary Rockfish and Endangered Status for the Puget Sound/Georgia Basin Distinct Population Segment of Bocaccio Rockfish (April 28, 2010)
    • Notice of Web Site Publication for the NOAA Climate Program Office (April 28, 2010)
    • Issuance of Permit to NMFS SWFSC, to Take Green, Loggerhead, Olive Ridley, and Leatherback Sea Turtles for Research Purposes (April 27, 2010)
    • Notice Intent To Initiate Consultation and Coordinate NOAA’s Responsibilities Under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act With the Ongoing NEPA Process Supporting the Review of the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Management Plan (April 27, 2010)
    • Notice; Proposed Information Collection for Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey (April 23, 2010)
    • Proposed Information Collection and Comment Request Statement of Financial Interests, Regional Fishery Management Councils (April 21, 2010)
    • Notice Proposed Information Collection and Request for Comments on the Northwest Region Pacific Whiting Shoreside Fishery Monitoring and Catch Accounting Program (April 21, 2010)
    • Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment and to Conduct a San Joaquin River Chinook Salmon Scoping Meeting (April 21, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Ad Hoc Salmon Amendment Committee (April 16, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Ecosystem Advisory Subpanel (April 16, 2010)
    • Notice of Availability NOAA Soliciting Proposals for Grant Funding for Three NOAA Sea Grant Programs (April 14, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Coastal Pelagic Species Management Team (April 8, 2010)
    • NMFS is Reopening Comment Period; Request for Information on Identification of Nations Whose Fishing Vessels Are Engaged in Illegal, Unreported, or Unregulated Fishing and/or Bycatch of Protected Living Marine Resources (April 6, 2010)
    • Notice of 90-Day Petition Finding NMFS is Seeking Scientific and Commercial Data and Other Information Relevant to the Status of Coho Salmon in the Coastal Counties South of San Francisco Bay (April 2, 2010)

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    March

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    February

    • Notice and Request for Applications; Availability of Seats for the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council (February 26, 2010)
    • Final Rule; Inseason Adjustments to Biennial Groundfish Management Measures (February 26, 2010)
    • Proposed Rule; Extension of Public Comment Period on Proposed Rule to Revise the Critical Habitat Designation for the Endangered Leatherback Sea Turtle (February 19, 2010)
    • Notice of Funding Availability NMFS is Soliciting Proposals for the Species Recovery Grants to Tribes Program (February 19, 2010)
    • Notice of Public Meetings The Pacific Fishery Management Council and its Advisory Entities Will Meet March 5–11, 2010 (February 19, 2010)
    • Final Rule; Correction to the Initial Implementation of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention (February 19, 2010)
    • Notice Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request on the Pacific Coast Groundfish, Rationalization Sociocultural Study (February 5, 2010)
    • Notice of Supplemental Funding for NOAA Coastal and Marine Habitat Restoration Projects (February 4, 2010)
    • Proposed Rule NMFS Proposes to Approve and Implement Changes to the Pacific Halibut Catch Sharing Plan for the International Pacific Halibut Commission’s Regulatory Area 2A off Washington, Oregon, and California (February 4, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee Meeting (February 2, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Hearings NMFS Will Hold Two Public Hearings on the Proposed Rule to Revise the Critical Habitat Designation for the Endangered Leatherback Sea Turtle (February 1, 2010)

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    January

    • Final Rule NMFS is Collecting Data to Support Implementation of a Future Trawl Rationalization Program Under the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (January 29, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting Pacific Fishery Management Council Will Convene a Joint Meeting of the Ecosystem Plan Development Team and Ecosystem Advisory Subpanel (January 27, 2010)
    • Notice of Availability and Request for Public Comment NOAA Announces the Availability of the Draft Report of the SAB Oceans and Health Working Group (January 26, 2010)
    • Final Rule Central Pacific Fisheries for Highly
      Migratory Species; Initial Implementation of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention (January 21, 2010)
    • Final Rule Revising Identification Requirements for U.S.
      Vessels that Fish for Pelagic Management Unit Species in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (January 21, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting The Pacific Fishery
      Management Council’s Highly Migratory Species Management Team (January 20, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting The Pacific Fishery
      Management Council Will Hold a Joint Meeting of Subcommittees From the Following Advisory Bodies:
      Enforcement Consultants, Groundfish Advisory Subpanel, Groundfish Management Team, and the Ad Hoc
      Trawl Individual Quota Committee (January 20, 2010)
    • Notice and Request for Applications ONMS is Seeking
      Applicants for Vacant Seats on the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council (January 19, 2010)
    • Notice of Public Meeting The Joint Canada-U.S. Review
      Panel for Pacific Hake/Whiting Will Hold a Work Session (January 15, 2010)
    • Proposed Rule NMFS Proposes a Regulation to Implement the Annual Harvest Guideline and Seasonal Allocations for Pacific Sardine (January 13, 2010)
    • Proposed Rule; Request for Comments NMFS Proposes Regulations to Implement International Conservation and Management Measures Adopted by ICCAT, CCAMLR, NAFO, WCPFC, IATTC,
      and the Agreement on the International Dolphin Conservation Program (January 11, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting Pacific Fishery
      Management Council’s Scientific and Statistical Committee, Coastal Pelagic Species Management
      Team, and Groundfish Management Team (January 7, 2010)
    • Notice of a Public Meeting Pacific Fishery
      Management Council’s Ad Hoc Salmon Amendment Committee (January 7, 2010)
    • Public Notice and Opportunity
      for Comment       on the List of Nominations Received from Federal, State and Territorial Marine Protected Area Programs to Join the National System of Marine Protected Areas (January 7, 2010)
    • Final Rule Fisheries Off West Coast States; Coastal Pelagic Species Fisheries; Annual Specifications (January 7, 2010)
    • Proposed Rule; Request for Comments NMFS Proposes Revising the Current Critical Habitat for the Leatherback Sea Turtle (January 5, 2010)

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