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compiles and evaluates potential
datasets and recommends which
datasets are appropriate for assessment
analyses, and describes the fisheries,
evaluates the status of the stock,
estimates biological benchmarks,
projects future population conditions,
and recommends research and
monitoring needs. Participants for
SEDAR Workshops are appointed by the
Gulf, South Atlantic, and Caribbean
Fishery Management Councils and
NMFS Southeast Regional Office, HMS
Management Division, and Southeast
Fisheries Science Center. Participants
include data collectors and database
managers; stock assessment scientists,
biologists, and researchers; constituency
representatives including fishermen,
environmentalists, and NGO’s;
International experts; and staff of
Councils, Commissions, and state and
federal agencies.
The items of discussion in the SEDAR
90 Post Data Workshop Webinar 3 are as
follows:
• Review any data issues remaining
regarding discard mortality
• Finalize any data decisions remaining
regarding discard mortality
• Continue discussion on modelling
issues and decisions.
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda may come
before this group for discussion, those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during this meeting. Action will
be restricted to those issues specifically
identified 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 intent to take final action
to address the emergency.
Special Accommodations
These meetings are physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Requests for sign language
interpretation or other auxiliary aids
should be directed to the Council office
(see ADDRESSES) at least 5 business days
prior to each workshop.

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Note: The times and sequence specified in
this agenda are subject to change.
(Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.)
Dated: July 18, 2025.
Rey Israel Marquez,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Greater Atlantic Region
Logbook Family of Forms
The Department of Commerce will
submit the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication
of this notice. We invite the general
public and other Federal agencies to
comment on proposed, and continuing
information collections, which helps us
assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. Public
comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on March 19th,
2025 during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration,
Commerce.
Title: Greater Atlantic Region Logbook
Family of Forms.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0212.
Form Number(s): 88–30.
Type of Request: Regular submission
[extension of a current information
collection].
Number of Respondents: 4,028.
Average Hours per Response: .083 (5
minutes).
Total Annual Burden Hours: 15,236
hours.
Needs and Uses: This is a request for
an extension of an approved
information collection.
The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration’s
(NOAA’s) National Marine Fisheries
Service’s (NMFS’s) Greater Atlantic
Regional Fisheries Office (GARFO),
under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
(Magnuson-Stevens Act) and the
Atlantic Coastal Fisheries Cooperative
Management Act (Atlantic Coastal Act),
the New England Fishery Management
Council (the Council), and the Atlantic
States Marine Fisheries Commission
(the Commission) are responsible for
conservation and management of marine
fishery resources off the east coast.
NMFS enacts complementary
regulations to Council and Commission
actions.
The Magnuson-Stevens Act requires
that conservation and management

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measures must prevent overfishing
while achieving, on a continuing basis,
the optimum yield from each fishery.
These measures must be based on the
best scientific information available.
The Atlantic Coastal Act oversees
coastal fishery resources that migrate, or
are widely distributed, across the
jurisdictional boundaries of two or more
of the Atlantic States and Federal
government.
The information collected using the
logbook family of forms will be used by
several offices of NMFS, the U.S. Coast
Guard, the Councils and Commission,
and state fishery agencies. The
information is used to develop,
implement, and monitor fishery
management strategies. Logbook data
serves as inputs for a variety of uses,
including biological analyses and stock
assessments, regulatory impact analyses,
quota allocation selections and
monitoring, economic profitability
profiles, trade and import tariff
decisions, allocation of grant funds
among states, and analysis of ecological
interactions among species. NMFS
would be unable to fulfill the majority
of its scientific research and fishery
management missions without these
data.
During the current review of this
collection, the program office
discovered that the changes published
in 2018 (50 CFR part 48) pursuant to
RIN 0648–BL61 were not captured in
the current list of information
collections. NOAA is therefore
requesting a revision to accurately
reflect those regulatory changes.
Regulatory changes in 2018 resulted
in the elimination of the paper-based
shellfish logbook, which integrated into
the electronic vessel trip report (VTR)
data collection program and the
elimination of Tilefish interactive voice
response (IVR) reporting. RIN 0648–
BL61 integrated the Lobster VTR into
the overall VTR information collection
for all species. Additionally, the
information collection ‘‘Herring’’ was
renamed to ‘‘Daily Catch Reports’’ (DCR)
to accurately reflect the multiple species
for which a daily catch report is
required.
Affected Public: Individuals, Business
or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: Per fishing trip.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act and the Atlantic Coastal Fisheries
Cooperative Management Act.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.

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Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0648–0212.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office
of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
Commerce Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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Administration
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Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to
Specified Activities; Taking Marine
Mammals Incidental to the City of
Whittier’s Whittier Harbor Rebuild
Phase III Project in Whittier, Alaska
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; issuance of incidental
harassment authorization.
AGENCY:

In accordance with
regulations implementing the Marine
Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as
amended, notification is hereby given
that NMFS has issued an incidental
harassment authorization (IHA) to the
City of Whittier for authorization to take
marine mammals incidental to the
Whittier Harbor Rebuild Phase III
Project in Whittier, Alaska.
DATES: This authorization is effective for
1 year from the date of effectiveness.
ADDRESSES: Electronic copies of the
application and supporting documents,
as well as a list of the references cited
in this document, may be obtained
online at: https://www.fisheries.
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SUMMARY:

protection/incidental-takeauthorizations-construction-activities.
In case of problems accessing these
documents, please call the contact listed
below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kelsey Potlock, Office of Protected
Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
MMPA Background and
Determinations
The MMPA prohibits the ‘‘take’’ of
marine mammals, with certain
exceptions. Among the exceptions is
section 101(a)(5)(D) of the MMPA (16
U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), which directs the
Secretary of Commerce (as delegated to
NMFS) to allow, upon request, the
incidental, but not intentional, taking by
harassment of small numbers of marine
mammals by U.S. citizens who engage
in a specified activity (other than
commercial fishing) within a specified
geographical region if certain findings
are made and the public has an
opportunity to comment on the
proposed IHA.
Specifically, NMFS will issue an IHA
if it finds that the taking will have a
negligible impact on the species or
stock(s) and will not have an
unmitigable adverse impact on the
availability of the species or stock(s) for
taking for subsistence uses (where
relevant). Further, NMFS must prescribe
the permissible methods of taking and
other ‘‘means of effecting the least
[practicable] adverse impact’’ on the
affected species or stocks and their
habitat, paying particular attention to
rookeries, mating grounds, and areas of
similar significance, and on the
availability of such species or stocks for
taking for certain subsistence uses
(referred to here as ‘‘mitigation’’). NMFS
must also prescribe requirements
pertaining to monitoring and reporting
of such takings. The definition of key
terms such as ‘‘take,’’ ‘‘harassment,’’ and
‘‘negligible impact’’ can be found in the
MMPA and the NMFS’ implementing
regulations (see 16 U.S.C. 1362; 50 CFR
216.103).
On June 5, 2025, a notice of NMFS’
proposal to issue an IHA to the City of
Whittier (CoW) for take of marine
mammals incidental to the Whittier
Harbor Rebuild Phase III Project in

Whittier, Alaska was published in the
Federal Register (90 FR 23891). In that
notice, NMFS indicated the estimated
numbers, type, and methods of
incidental take proposed for each
species or stock and the mitigation,
monitoring, and reporting measures that
would be required, should the IHA be
issued. The Federal Register notice also
included analysis to support NMFS’
preliminary conclusions and
determinations that the IHA, if issued,
would satisfy the requirements of
section 101(a)(5)(D) of the MMPA for
issuance of the IHA. The Federal
Register notice included web links to a
draft IHA for review and other
supporting documents.
NMFS’ consideration of public
comments, which we respond to below,
did not result in changes to the analysis
or findings in the Federal Register
notice of proposed IHA or the required
mitigation, monitoring, or reporting
measures set forth in the proposed IHA.
With the exception of the minor changes
described below, there are no changes to
the specified activities, the species
taken, the proposed numbers, type, or
methods of take, or the mitigation,
monitoring, or reporting measures in the
proposed IHA notice. Furthermore, no
new information that would change any
of the preliminary analyses,
conclusions, or determinations in the
proposed IHA notice has become
available since that notice was
published; therefore, the preliminary
analyses, conclusions, and
determinations included in the
proposed IHA are considered final.
NMFS received no public comments
on the proposed IHA. NMFS made a
single correction to a citation for the
proxy sources and source levels found
in table 5 of the Federal Register notice
(90 FR 23891, June 5, 2025) (i.e., use of
CALTRANS (2020) for the timber pile
removal, not Denes et al., (2016)), at
suggestion of the Marine Mammal
Commission. To ensure this information
is appropriately corrected and
incorporated, we include the revised
table 5 here for clarity. Given the
information used in the analysis did not
change, this correction does not change
NMFS’ analysis, findings, or
determinations.

REVISED TABLE 5—SOUND PROXY SOURCES FOR THE WHITTIER HARBOR REBUILD PHASE III PROJECT
Sound source
level at 10
meters
(dB RMS)

Method and pile type
(vibratory hammer)
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Denes et al.
(2016).