[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 103 (Friday, May 27, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 30921]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-13258]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XA459
International Whaling Commission; 63rd Annual Meeting;
Announcement of Public Meetings
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of meetings.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the dates, times, and locations of the
public meetings being held prior to the 63rd annual International
Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting.
DATES: The public meetings will be held June 14 and June 27, 2011, at
12 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The June 14 meeting will be held at Anchorage Federal
Building Conference Room B, 222 West 8th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska
99513. The June 27 meeting will be held in the NOAA Auditorium, 1301
East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ryan Wulff, 202-482-3689.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Secretary of Commerce is charged with
the responsibility of discharging the domestic obligations of the
United States under the International Convention for the Regulation of
Whaling, 1946. The U.S. Commissioner has responsibility for the
preparation and negotiation of U.S. positions on international issues
concerning whaling and for all matters involving the IWC. The U.S.
Commissioner is staffed by the Department of Commerce and assisted by
the Department of State, the Department of the Interior, the Marine
Mammal Commission, and by other agencies.
Once the draft agenda for the annual IWC meeting is completed, it
will be posted on the IWC Secretariat's Web site at http://www.iwcoffice.org.
NOAA will hold meetings prior to the annual IWC meeting to discuss
the tentative U.S. positions for the upcoming IWC meeting. Because the
meeting discusses U.S. positions, the substance of the meeting must be
kept confidential. Any U.S. citizen with an identifiable interest in
U.S. whale conservation policy may participate, but NOAA reserves the
authority to inquire about the interests of any person who appears at a
meeting and to determine the appropriateness of that person's
participation.
Persons who represent foreign interests may not attend. These
stringent measures are necessary to protect the confidentiality of U.S.
negotiating positions and are a necessary basis for the relatively open
process of preparing for IWC meetings.
The June 14 meeting will be held at Anchorage Federal Building
Conference Room B, 222 West 8th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99513, at 12
p.m. The June 27 meeting will be held in the NOAA Auditorium, 1301
East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, at 12 p.m. Photo
identification is required to enter each building.
Special Accommodations
Both meetings are physically accessible to people with
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other
auxiliary aids should be directed to Ryan Wulff, 202-482-3689, by June
10, 2011, for the Anchorage meeting, or by June 20 for the meeting in
Silver Spring.
Dated: May 24, 2011.
Rebecca J. Lent,
Director, Office of International Affairs, National Marine Fisheries
Service.
[FR Doc. 2011-13258 Filed 5-26-11; 8:45 am]
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