Sunsetting of Raster Nautical Charts
| Citation | 84 FR 62512 |
| Record Number | 2019-24807 |
| Published date | 15 November 2019 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Commerce Department,National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration |
62512
Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 221 / Friday, November 15, 2019 / Notices
December 11, 2019, from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m.; and, Thursday, December 12,
2019, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For agenda
details, see
SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION
.
ADDRESSES
: The meeting will be held at
the Westin Annapolis, 100 Westgate
Circle, Annapolis, MD 21401;
telephone: (410) 972–4300.
Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council, 800 N State St.,
Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; telephone:
(302) 674–2331.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D. Executive
Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council; telephone: (302)
526–5255. The Council’s website,
www.mafmc.org also has details on the
meeting location, proposed agenda,
webinar listen-in access, and briefing
materials.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
: The
following items are on the agenda,
though agenda items may be addressed
out of order (changes will be noted on
the Council’s website when possible.)
Monday, December 9, 2019
Executive Committee (Closed Session)
Ricks E Savage Award
2020–24 Strategic Plan
Review public comments and approve
2020–2024 Strategic Plan
2020–24 Research Priorities
Review and approve research
priorities document
Risk Policy Framework—Meeting #2
Review results of biological and
economic management strategy
evaluations and select preferred
alternative(s)
Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Excessive
Shares Amendment
Review public hearing comments and
Committee recommendations and select
preferred alternatives and take final
action
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Habitat Update
Update on NRHA Assessment,
presentation on CCC Habitat Workshop
and update of Projects of Interest in the
Region
EAFM Summer Flounder Conceptual
Model
Presentation of Oscar E. Sette Award
(American Fisheries Society)
SSC Membership White Paper
Review and determine future SSC
membership needs and expertise
Bluefish 2020 Recreational
Specifications
Review recent fishery performance,
Monitoring Committee, and Advisory
Panel recommendations, adopt
recommendation for 2020 federal waters
recreational management measures
Bluefish Allocation and Rebuilding
Amendment
Review and approve supplemental
scoping document for additional
scoping hearings
Summer Flounder 2020 Recreational
Specifications
Review recent fishery performance,
Monitoring Committee, and Advisory
Panel recommendations, recommend
Conservation Equivalency or coastwide
management and associated measures
for 2020
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Scup 2020 Recreational Specifications
Review recent fishery performance,
Monitoring Committee, and Advisory
Panel recommendations, adopt
recommendations for 2020 federal
waters recreational management
measures
Black Sea Bass 2020 Recreational
Specifications
Review fishery performance,
Monitoring Committee, and Advisory
Panel recommendations, adopt
recommendations for 2020 federal
waters recreational management
measures
Seized Commercial Catch and the
Quota Monitoring/Accountability
Process
Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea
Bass Commercial/Recreational
Allocation Amendment
Review and approve draft scoping
document
Black Sea Bass Commercial Allocation
Addendum/Amendment
Discuss options for addressing
potential impacts of coastwide quota
management in federal waters on states
Commercial eVTR Omnibus
Framework—Meeting #2
Select preferred alternatives and take
final action
Thursday, December 12, 2019
2020 Implementation Plan
Review and approve 2020
Implementation Plan
Business Session
Committee Reports: SSC and
Executive Committee; Executive
Director’s Report; Organization Reports;
and, Liaison Reports
Continuing and New Business
Although non-emergency issues not
contained in this agenda may come
before this group for discussion, in
accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), those
issues may not be the subject of formal
action during these meetings. Actions
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 Act, provided the
public has been notified of the Council’s
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 aid
should be directed to M. Jan Saunders,
(302) 526–5251, at least 5 days prior to
the meeting date.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: November 12, 2019.
Tracey L. Thompson,
Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable
Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2019–24790 Filed 11–14–19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–22–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Sunsetting of Raster Nautical Charts
AGENCY
: Office of Coast Survey,
National Ocean Service, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), Department of
Commerce.
ACTION
: Notice; request for comments.
SUMMARY
: NOAA is undertaking a five-
year program to end all raster and paper
nautical chart production. Ultimately,
production of all NOAA paper nautical
charts, raster navigational charts (NOAA
RNC
®
), and related products, such as
BookletCharts
TM
will cease. NOAA is
seeking feedback from chart users and
companies that provide products and
services based on NOAA raster and
electronic navigational chart (NOAA
ENC
®
) products. This information will
shape the manner and timing in which
VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:58 Nov 14, 2019 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\15NON1.SGM 15NON1
62513
Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 221 / Friday, November 15, 2019 / Notices
the product sunsetting process will
proceed. More detailed information
regarding this transition is available
from https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/
publications/docs/raster-sunset.pdf.
DATES
: Comments are due by midnight,
February 1, 2020.
ADDRESSES
: Submit comments on the
Sunsetting of Raster Nautical Charts
through NOAA’s ASSIST feedback tool
at https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/
customer-service/assist, or via mail to
National Ocean Service, NOAA (NCS2),
ATTN Sunset of Raster Charts, 1315
East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD
20910–3282.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
: The Coast
and Geodetic Survey Act of 1947 and
the Hydrographic Services Improvement
Act requires that NOAA compile and
distribute nautical charts and other
nautical publications. These statutes do
not specify a particular format for chart
products. NOAA and its predecessor
agencies have produced paper nautical
charts of the U.S. Coasts, its territorial
waters, and the Great Lakes since the
mid-1800s. NOAA has produced
electronic navigational charts (ENCs)
since 1993.
The International Maritime
Organization now mandates that all
large commercial vessels on
international voyages use ENCs. In
2016, the USCG started allowing
regulated commercial vessels on
domestic voyages to use ENCs in lieu of
paper charts. Recreational boaters are
also increasingly using electronic chart
displays.
Use of NOAA ENCs surpassed paper
nautical charts in 2011. ENC sales
increased 425% since 2008, while sales
of paper charts are now half of 2008
levels. The current NOAA nautical chart
product suites comprise 1,258 electronic
navigational charts (NOAA ENC
®
) and
1,007 NOAA raster/paper nautical
charts. NOAA has started a multi-year
program to create a standard gridded
layout and increase the scale of ENCs.
This will increase the number of
detailed NOAA ENCs to about 9,000.
NOAA is undertaking a five-year
program to end all raster and paper
nautical chart production. Ultimately,
production of all NOAA paper nautical
charts, raster navigational charts (NOAA
RNC
®
), and related products, such as
BookletCharts
TM
will cease.
NOAA is taking steps to provide a
NOAA Custom Chart web-based
application that will enable users to
download and print raster chart backup
files created from the most up-to-date
ENC data. The NOAA Custom Chart
prototype is available from https://
devgis.charttools.noaa.gov/pod. These
chart backup files will look somewhat
different than traditional paper nautical
charts, but will provide a similar
functionality.
NOAA seeks comments from the
public regarding the raster and paper
chart product sunset transition and is
particularly interested in:
•suggestions for improving the
NOAA Custom Chart web application,
and
•understanding other non-
navigational uses for paper or raster
nautical charts.
Richard Brennan,
Acting Director, Office of Coast Survey,
National Ocean Service, National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration.
[FR Doc. 2019–24807 Filed 11–14–19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510–JE–P
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
[RTID 0648–XV131]
New England Fishery Management
Council; Public Meeting
AGENCY
: National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION
: Notice of a public meeting.
SUMMARY
: The New England Fishery
Management Council (Council, NEFMC)
will hold a three-day meeting to
consider actions affecting New England
fisheries in the exclusive economic zone
(EEZ).
DATES
: The meeting will be held on
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday,
December 3, 4, and 5, 2019, beginning
at 9 a.m. on December 3 and 8:30 a.m.
on December 4 and 5.
ADDRESSES
: The meeting will be held at
the Hotel Viking, 1 Bellevue Avenue,
Newport, RI 02840; telephone (401)
847–3300; online at
www.hotelviking.com.
Council address: New England
Fishery Management Council, 50 Water
Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950;
telephone (978) 465–0492;
www.nefmc.org.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director,
New England Fishery Management
Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492, ext.
113.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
:
Agenda
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
After introductions and brief
announcements, the meeting will begin
with reports from the Council Chairman
and Executive Director, NMFS’s
Regional Administrator for the Greater
Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office
(GARFO), liaisons from the Northeast
Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) and
Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management
Council, staff from the Atlantic States
Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC),
and representatives from NOAA General
Counsel, NOAA’s Office of Law
Enforcement, and the U.S. Coast Guard.
The Council then will receive a report
on the 2019 annual meeting of the
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries
Organization (NAFO), followed by a
report on the Northeast Trawl Advisory
Panel’s most recent meeting. Next, the
Council will receive a NOAA
Enforcement overview of the Carlos
Rafael case, followed by a Coast Guard
presentation on misreporting issues and
their implications. Then, members of
the public will have the opportunity to
speak during an open comment period
on issues that relate to Council business
but are not included on the published
agenda for this meeting. The Council
asks the public to limit remarks to 3–5
minutes.
Following the lunch break, the
Council will review Draft National
Standard 1 Technical Guidance for
Carry-over and Phase-in Provisions
within Acceptable Biological Catch
(ABC) control rules and approve
Council comments on the draft. The
Skate Committee Report will be up next.
The Council will receive a progress
report on Amendment 5 to the Northeast
Skate Complex Fishery Management
Plan (FMP), which proposes to establish
a limited access program for the skate
wing and/or skate bait fisheries. Then,
the Council will receive an overview of
the Spiny Dogfish 2019 Fishery
Performance Report and the Spiny
Dogfish Monitoring Committee’s
recommendations for the 2020 fishing
year. Next, the Atlantic herring report
will cover two issues. First, the Council
will receive a presentation on the final
discussion document pertaining to
Atlantic herring spawning on Georges
Bank. Second, the Council will receive
the final debrief report on the
Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE)
process that was used to develop ABC
control rule alternatives for Amendment
8 to the Atlantic Herring FMP. The
Council then will hear from its
Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management
(EBFM) MSE Steering Committee,
which will provide recommendations
VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:58 Nov 14, 2019 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\15NON1.SGM 15NON1
