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standardized post-event survey tool that reporting burden on those who are to meeting location, proposed agenda, will be offered to recipients of Natural respond, including the use of automated webinar listen-in access, and briefing Hazards Center Quick Response Grants. collection techniques or other forms of materials. The information will be used as part of information technology. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The a pilot study to explore methods for Comments that you submit in following items are on the agenda, more systematically collecting post- response to this notice are a matter of though agenda items may be addressed event data in support of program public record. We will include or out of order (changes will be noted on evaluation for NOAA’s tornado watch/ summarize each comment in our request the Council’s website when possible.) warning system. to OMB to approve this ICR. Before including your address, phone number, Wednesday, February 10, 2021 II. Method of Collection email address, or other personal North Atlantic Right Whale Issues A primary method of data collection identifying information in your intends to gather tornado survivor comment, you should be aware that NMFS presentation on Atlantic Large stories through a web-based interface. your entire comment—including your Whale Take Reduction Plan Draft Currently a web-based App is under personal identifying information—may Environmental Impact Statement and development at NSSL. The aim is for be made publicly available at any time. proposed rule and Draft Batched this to be similar to the United States While you may ask us in your comment Biological Opinion. Geological Survey (USGS) ‘Did You Feel to withhold your personal identifying Aquaculture Updates It’ (DYFI) pages used for reporting information from public review, we earthquakes and feeding in to a realistic cannot guarantee that we will be able to NMFS presentations on Aquaculture Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) scale do so. Opportunity Areas and EEZ Regional report. Specific questions in the web- Aquaculture Projects. Sheleen Dumas, based App are aimed at discovering Staff River Herring and Shad White Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of whether tornado watches and warnings Papers were received, and if they were, how the Chief Information Officer, Commerce Department. they were received as well as what Review staff white papers on river action citizens did or did not take. This [FR Doc. 2021–00879 Filed 1–14–21; 8:45 am] herring and shad issues. will help to define value action gaps BILLING CODE 3510–KE–P Bluefish Allocation and Rebuilding more completely. Additionally the web- Amendment based App allows citizens to be DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Review and approve joint Public involved as part of the overall scientific Hearing Document for the Bluefish endeavor, helping scientists and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Allocation and Rebuilding Amendment researchers understand what helps Administration and (Board only) approve draft increase survivability to tornadoes as [RTID 0648–XA808] Commission amendment document for well as what undermines it. public comment. III. Data Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Thursday, February 11, 2021 OMB Control Number: 0648–XXXX. Council (MAFMC); Public Meetings Offshore Wind Update Form Number(s): [None]. AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Type of Review: New information Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Receive staff update on relevant collection. Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), offshore wind activities. Affected Public: Individuals or Commerce. Business Session households. ACTION: Estimated Number of Respondents: Notice of public meetings. Committee Reports; Executive 1000. SUMMARY: The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Director’s Report (review and approve Estimated Time per Response: 5 Management Council (Council) will SOPP updates); Organization Reports; minutes. hold public meetings of the Council. and Liaison Reports. Estimated Total Annual Burden DATES: The meetings will be held Continuing and New Business Hours: 83 hours. Wednesday, February 10, 2021, from 9 Estimated Total Annual Cost to Although non-emergency issues not a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Thursday, Public: None. contained in this agenda may come Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. February 11, 2021, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. before this group for discussion, in Legal Authority: For agenda details, see SUPPLEMENTARY accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens INFORMATION. Fishery Conservation and Management IV. Request for Comments ADDRESSES: This meeting will be Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), those We are soliciting public comments to conducted entirely by webinar. Webinar issues may not be the subject of formal permit the Department/Bureau to: (a) registration details will be available on action during these meetings. Actions Evaluate whether the proposed the Council’s website at https:// will be restricted to those issues information collection is necessary for www.mafmc.org/briefing/february-2021. specifically identified in this notice and the proper functions of the Department, Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery any issues arising after publication of including whether the information will Management Council, 800 N. State St, this notice that require emergency have practical utility; (b) Evaluate the Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; telephone: action under Section 305(c). accuracy of our estimate of the time and (302) 674–2331. cost burden for this proposed collection, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Special Accommodations including the validity of the Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D. Executive These meetings are physically methodology and assumptions used; (c) Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery accessible to people with disabilities. Evaluate ways to enhance the quality, Management Council; telephone: (302) Requests for sign language utility, and clarity of the information to 526–5255. The Council’s website, interpretation or other auxiliary aid be collected; and (d) Minimize the www.mafmc.org also has details on the should be directed to Dr. Christopher

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Moore (see ADDRESSES), at least 5 days aboriginal subsistence use of bowhead forbid the taking of calves or any whale prior to the meeting date. whales from the Bering-Chukchi- accompanied by a calf. Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. Beaufort Seas stock. The bowhead and NOAA regulations (at 50 CFR 230.4) other aboriginal subsistence whaling contain a number of other prohibitions Dated: January 12, 2021. catch limits were based on a joint relating to aboriginal subsistence Rey Israel Marquez, request by Denmark on behalf of whaling, some of which are summarized Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable Greenland, the Russian Federation, St. here: Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. Vincent and the Grenadines, and the • Only licensed whaling captains or [FR Doc. 2021–00909 Filed 1–14–21; 8:45 am] United States, accompanied by crew under the control of those captains BILLING CODE 3510–22–P documentation concerning the needs of may engage in whaling. • the Native groups. Captains and crew must follow the The IWC set a seven-year block catch provisions of the relevant cooperative DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE limit of 392 bowhead whales landed. agreement between NOAA and a Native For each of the years 2019 through 2025, American whaling organization. National Oceanic and Atmospheric • The aboriginal hunters must have Administration the number of bowhead whales struck may not exceed 67, with unused strikes adequate crew, supplies, and equipment [RTID 0648–XA709] from the three prior quota blocks carried to engage in an efficient operation. • Crew may not receive money for forward and added to the annual strike Whaling Provisions; Aboriginal participating in the hunt. quota of subsequent years, provided that Subsistence Whaling Quotas • No person may sell or offer for sale no more than 50 percent of the annual whale products from whales taken in AGENCY: strike limit is added to the strike quota National Marine Fisheries the hunt, except for authentic articles of for any one year. At the end of the 2020 Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Native American handicrafts. Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), harvest, there were 33 unused strikes • Captains may not continue to whale Commerce. available for carry-forward, so the after the relevant quota is taken, after ACTION: Notice; notification of quota for combined strike quota set by the IWC the season has been closed, or if their bowhead whales. for 2021 is 100 (67 + 33). licenses have been suspended. They An arrangement between the United SUMMARY: NMFS notifies the public of may not engage in whaling in a wasteful States and the Russian Federation manner. the aboriginal subsistence whaling ensures that the total quota of bowhead quota for bowhead whales that it has whales landed and struck in 2021 will Dated: January 12, 2021. assigned to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling not exceed the limits set by the IWC. Alexa Cole, Commission (AEWC), and of limitations Under this arrangement, the Russian Director, Office of International Affairs and on the use of the quota deriving from natives may use no more than seven Seafood Inspection, National Marine regulations of the International Whaling strikes, and the Alaska natives may use Fisheries Service. Commission (IWC). For 2021, the quota no more than 93 strikes. [FR Doc. 2021–00878 Filed 1–14–21; 8:45 am] is 93 bowhead whales struck. This quota Through its cooperative agreement BILLING CODE 3510–22–P and other applicable limitations govern with the AEWC, NOAA has assigned 93 the harvest of bowhead whales by strikes to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling members of the AEWC. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Commission. The AEWC will in turn DATES: Applicable January 15, 2021. allocate these strikes among the 11 National Oceanic and Atmospheric ADDRESSES: Office of International villages whose cultural and subsistence Administration Affairs and Seafood Inspection, National needs have been documented, and will Marine Fisheries Service, 1315 East- ensure that its hunters use no more than [RTID 0648–XY074] West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 93 strikes. Endangered and Threatened Species; 20910. At its 67th Meeting, the IWC also Initiation of a 5-Year Review for the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mi provided for automatic renewal of Arctic, Okhotsk, Baltic, and Ladoga Ae Kim, (301) 427–8365. aboriginal subsistence whaling catch Subspecies of the Ringed Seal; SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: limits under certain circumstances. Aboriginal Extension of Information Request Commencing in 2026, bowhead whale subsistence whaling in the United States Period is governed by the Whaling Convention catch limits shall be extended every six Act (WCA) (16 U.S.C. 916 et seq.). years provided: (a) The IWC Scientific AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Under the WCA, IWC regulations shall Committee advises in 2024, and every Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and generally become effective with respect six years thereafter, that such limits will Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to all persons and vessels subject to the not harm the stock; (b) the Commission Department of Commerce. jurisdiction of the United States, within does not receive a request from the ACTION: Notice; extension of information 90 days of notification from the IWC United States or the Russian Federation request period. Secretariat of an amendment to the IWC for a change in the bowhead whale Schedule (16 U.S.C. 916k). Regulations catch limits based on need; and (c) the SUMMARY: NMFS hereby extends the that implement the WCA, found at 50 Commission determines that the United information request period on the notice CFR 230.6, require the Secretary of States and the Russian Federation have of initiation of a 5-year review of the Commerce (Secretary) to publish, at complied with the IWC’s approved Arctic (Pusa hispida hispida), Okhotsk least annually, aboriginal subsistence timeline and that the information (Pusa hispida ochotensis), Baltic (Pusa whaling quotas and any other provided represents a status quo hispida botnica), and Ladoga (Pusa limitations on aboriginal subsistence continuation of the hunts. hispida ladogensis) subspecies of the whaling deriving from regulations of the ringed seal under the Endangered Other Limitations IWC. Species Act (ESA). At the 67th Meeting of the IWC, the The IWC regulations, as well as the DATES: Information must be received by Commission set catch limits for NOAA regulation at 50 CFR 230.4(c), March 26, 2021.

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