[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 143 (Wednesday, July 26, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38309-38310]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-18386]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 071995A]


New England Fishery Management Council; Meeting

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold 
a public meeting to review and approve a public hearing document and a 
Draft Supplemental Impact Statement (DSEIS) for Amendment #7 to the 
Council's multispecies fishery management plan.

DATES: The meeting will be held on August 2, 1995, at 9:00 a.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn, Route 1, (1 
Newbury Street), Peabody, MA 01960; telephone: (508) 535-4600.
    Council address: New England Fishery Management Council, 5 
Broadway, Saugus, MA 01906-1097.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Douglas G. Marshall, Executive 
Director, New England Fishery Management Council; telephone: (617) 231-
0422.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The public hearing document will describe 
the alternatives currently under active consideration by the Council 
for eliminating overfishing and rebuilding 

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stocks of cod, haddock and yellowtail flounder. It will also indicate 
the likely impacts of the various alternatives if they were approved 
and implemented by Amendment #7. The DSEIS will evaluate the 
environmental impacts of the proposed alternatives in greater detail.
    Following approval by the Council, the public hearing document and 
the DSEIS will be put into final form and distributed for comment by 
the public at a series of hearings, after which the Council will select 
an alternative and prepare the plan amendment and the Final 
Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement.

Special Accommodations

    These meetings are physically accessible to people with 
disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other 
auxiliary aids should be directed to Douglas G. Marshall (see 
ADDRESSES), at least 5 days prior to the meeting date.

    Dated: July 20, 1995.
Richard W. Surdi,
Acting Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and Management, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-18386 Filed 7-25-95; 8:45 am]
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