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1090 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 4 / Thursday, January 7, 2021 / Notices

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held by 6. Public Comment identified by NOAA–NMFS–2020–0151, web conference via WebEx. Audio and 7. Other business by either of the following methods: visual portions for all of the web 8. Discussions and recommendations • Electronic Submission: Submit conferences can be accessed at: https:// Special Accommodations electronic information via the Federal e- wprfmc.webex.com/wprfmc/onstage/ Rulemaking Portal. Go to g.php?MTID=e3e70e10f64290 This meeting is physically accessible www.regulations.gov and enter NOAA– c1a9428b8175c2627d2. Web conference to people with disabilities. Requests for NMFS–2020–0151. Click on the access information and instructions for sign language interpretation or other ‘‘Comment Now!’’ icon and complete providing public comments will be auxiliary aids should be directed to the required fields. Enter or attach your posted on the Council website at Kitty M. Simonds, (808) 522–8220 comments. www.wpcouncil.org. For assistance with (voice) or (808) 522–8226 (fax), at least • Email: Submit written comments to the web conference connection, contact 5 days prior to the meeting date. Lance Smith at [email protected]. the Council office at (808) 552–8220. Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. Instructions: Comments sent by any FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dated: January 4, 2021. other method, to any other address or individual, or received after the end of Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director, Rey Israel Marquez, Western Pacific Fishery Management the specified period, may not be Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable considered. All comments received are Council; telephone: (808) 522–8220. Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION a part of the public record and will : [FR Doc. 2021–00049 Filed 1–6–21; 8:45 am] The Intersessional FDCRC meeting generally be posted for public viewing will be held on January 21, 2021, from BILLING CODE 3510–22–P on www.regulations.gov without change. 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time All personal identifying information (e.g., name, address, etc.), confidential (HST) (noon to 4 p.m. Samoa Standard DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Time (SST); 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on January business information, or otherwise 22, 2021, Chamorro Standard Time National Oceanic and Atmospheric sensitive or protected information (ChST)). Opportunities to present oral Administration submitted voluntarily by the sender will public comment will be provided at the be publicly accessible. NMFS will end of the agenda. The order of the [RTID 0648–XA681] accept anonymous submissions (enter ‘‘N/A’’ in the required fields if you wish agenda may change, and will be Endangered and Threatened Species; to remain anonymous). announced in advance at the meetings. Notice of Initiation of a 5-Year Review The meetings may run past the of Indo--building FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: scheduled times noted above to Lance Smith at (808) 725–5131 or complete scheduled business. AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries [email protected]. Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Schedule and Agenda for the APT Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Meeting notice announces our review of the Commerce. following Indo-Pacific reef-building Thursday, January 21, 2021, 1 p.m.–5 ACTION: Notice; request for information. species listed as threatened under p.m. the ESA: globiceps, Acropora SUMMARY: NMFS announces the jacquelineae, Acropora lokani, 1. Welcome remarks and introductions initiation of a 5-year review for 15 Indo- 2. Round robin updates on impacts of Acropora pharaonis, Acropora retusa, Pacific reef-building corals (Acropora COVID on data collection Acropora rudis, Acropora speciosa, globiceps, Acropora jacquelineae, 3. Data collection improvement updates Acropora tenella, Anacropora spinosa, Acropora lokani, Acropora pharaonis, A. Status of mandatory license and paradivisa, Acropora retusa, Acropora rudis, reporting regulations development crateriformis, Montipora australiensis, Acropora speciosa, Acropora tenella, and implementation diffluens, Porites napopora, and Anacropora spinosa, Euphyllia 1. Guam Seriatopora aculeata. Section 4(c)(2)(A) paradivisa, Isopora crateriformis, 2. Commonwealth of the Northern of the ESA requires that we conduct a Montipora australiensis, Pavona Mariana Islands review of listed species at least once diffluens, Porites napopora, and 3. American Samoa every 5 years. This will be the first Seriatopora aculeata). NMFS is required B. Implementation of the Catchit-Logit review of these species since they were by the Act (ESA) to electronic reporting listed in 2014. The regulations in 50 C. Pacific Island Fishery Science conduct 5-year reviews to ensure that CFR 424.21 require that we publish a Center fishery-dependent data the listing classifications of species are notice in the Federal Register collection improvements accurate. The 5-year review must be announcing species currently under 4. Discussion on addressing the 2019 based on the best scientific and active review. On the basis of such Pacific Islands Fishery Monitoring commercial data available at the time of reviews under ESA Section 4(c)(2)(B), and Assessment Planning Summit the review. We request submission of we determine whether any species recommendations any such information on these 15 coral should be removed from the list (i.e., A. Moving towards electronic self- species, particularly information on the delisted) or reclassified from reporting status, threats, and recovery of the endangered to threatened or from B. Moving creel surveys to Marine species that has become available since threatened to endangered (16 U.S.C. Recreational Information Program their listing, effective September 10, 1533(c)(2)(B)). As described by the C. Moving towards electronic 2014. technologies for the market regulations in 50 CFR 424.11(e), the sampling DATES: To allow us adequate time to Secretary shall delist a species if the D. Improved data collection conduct this review, we must receive Secretary finds that, after conducting a coordination and effective outreach your information no later than February status review based on the best and communication 8, 2021. scientific and commercial data 5. Strategic planning session for the ADDRESSES: You may submit available: (1) The species is extinct; (2) FDCRC Technical Committee information on this document, the species does not meet the definition

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of an endangered species or a threatened Dated: January 4, 2021. • Email: Submit written comments to species; and/or (3) the listed entity does Angela Somma, [email protected]. not meet the statutory definition of a Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office Instructions: We may not consider species. Any change in Federal of Protected Resources, National Marine comments if they are sent by any other classification would require a separate Fisheries Service. method, to any other address or rulemaking process. [FR Doc. 2021–00031 Filed 1–6–21; 8:45 am] individual, or received after the end of BILLING CODE 3510–22–P the specified period. All comments Background information on each of received are a part of the public record the 15 species is available on the NMFS and will generally be posted for public website at: https:// DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE viewing on www.regulations.gov www.fisheries.noaa.gov/corals. without change. All personal identifying National Oceanic and Atmospheric Public Solicitation of New Information information (e.g., name, address, etc.), Administration confidential business information, or To ensure that the reviews are [RTID 0648–XA644] otherwise sensitive information complete and based on the best submitted voluntarily by the sender will available scientific and commercial Endangered and Threatened Species; be publicly accessible. We will accept information, we are soliciting new Initiation of a 5-Year Review of anonymous comments (enter ‘‘N/A’’ in information from the public, , , Pillar the required fields if you wish to remain governmental agencies, Tribes, the Coral, Rough Cactus Coral, Lobed Star anonymous). scientific community, industry, Coral, Mountainous Star Coral, and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: environmental entities, and any other Boulder Star Coral Alison Moulding at the above email interested parties concerning the status AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries address or by phone at 727–551–5607. of Acropora globiceps, Acropora Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 9, jacquelineae, Acropora lokani, Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 2006, we listed elkhorn coral and Acropora pharaonis, Acropora retusa, Commerce. staghorn coral as threatened under the Acropora rudis, Acropora speciosa, ACTION: Notice of initiation of 5-Year ESA (71 FR 26852). On September 10, Acropora tenella, Anacropora spinosa, Review; request for information. 2014, we listed lobed star coral, , Isopora mountainous star coral, boulder star crateriformis, Montipora australiensis, SUMMARY: NMFS announces a 5-year coral, rough cactus coral, and pillar Pavona diffluens, Porites napopora, and review of staghorn coral (Acropora coral as threatened and reaffirmed the Seriatopora aculeata. Categories of cervicornis), elkhorn coral (Acropora status of elkhorn coral and staghorn requested information include: (1) palmata), (Dendrogyra coral as threatened (79 FR 53852). Species biology including, but not cylindrus), rough cactus coral Section 4(c)(2)(A) of the ESA requires (Mycetophyllia ferox), lobed star coral limited to, population trends, that we conduct a review of listed (Orbicella annularis), mountainous star species at least once every 5 years. The distribution, abundance, demographics, coral (Orbicella faveolata), and boulder ESA’s implementing regulations at 50 and genetics; (2) habitat conditions star coral (Orbicella franksi) under the CFR 424.21 require that we publish a including, but not limited to, amount, Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA). notice in the Federal Register distribution, and important features for A 5-year review is based on the best announcing those species currently conservation; (3) status and trends of scientific and commercial data available under active review. On the basis of this threats to the species and its habitats; (4) at the time of the review; therefore, we review, under section 4(c)(2)(B), we conservation measures that have been are requesting submission of any such determine whether these species should implemented that benefit the species, information on staghorn coral, elkhorn be delisted or reclassified from including, but not limited to, coral, pillar coral, rough cactus coral, endangered to threatened or from monitoring data demonstrating lobed star coral, mountainous star coral, threatened to endangered. As described effectiveness of such measures; and (5) and boulder star coral that has become in 50 CFR 424.11(e), the Secretary will other new information, data, or available since their original listings as delist a species if the Secretary finds corrections including, but not limited threatened species or the most recent that, after conducting a status review to, taxonomic or nomenclatural changes, status review for staghorn and elkhorn based on the best scientific and and improved analytical methods for coral in 2014. commercial data available: (1) The evaluating extinction risk. DATES: To allow us adequate time to species is extinct; (2) the species does If you wish to provide information for conduct this review, we must receive not meet the definition of an the reviews, you may submit your your information no later than March 8, endangered species or threatened species; or (3) the listed entity does not information and materials electronically 2021. However, we will continue to accept meet the statutory definition of a or via mail (see ADDRESSES section). We new information about any listed species. Changes to the listing status of request that all information be species at any time. a species can only be made following accompanied by supporting ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, publication of a proposed rule with an documentation such as maps, identified by NOAA–NMFS–2020–0147, opportunity for public comment and our bibliographic references, or reprints of by either of the following methods: consideration of the comments before pertinent publications. We also would • Electronic Submissions: Submit all making a final determination to appreciate the submitter’s name, electronic public comments via the reclassify or delist the species. address, and any association, Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. Public Solicitation of New Information institution, or business that the person 1. Go to www.regulations.gov/ represents; however, anonymous document?D=NOAA-NMFS-2020-0147, To ensure that the 5-year review is submissions will also be accepted. 2. Click the ‘‘Comment Now!’’ icon, complete and based on the best (Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) complete the required fields, and available scientific and commercial 3. Enter or attach your comments. information, we are soliciting new

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