[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 115 (Tuesday, June 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25622-25623]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office []
[FR Doc No: 2025-11126]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-HQ-FAC-2025-N009; FXFR13360900000-256-FF09F14000]
Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force Meeting
AGENCY: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gives notice of a public
meeting of the Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS) Task Force in accordance
with the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The purpose of the ANS Task
Force is to develop and implement a program for U.S. waters to prevent
introduction and dispersal of aquatic invasive species; to monitor,
control, and study such species; and to disseminate related
information.
DATES: The ANS Task Force will meet Tuesday and Wednesday, July 8-9,
2025, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day (eastern time).
Registration: The meeting is open to the public, but registration
is required. The deadline for registration is July 1, 2025.
Accessibility: The deadline for accessibility accommodation
requests is July 1, 2025. Please see Accessibility Information, below.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held via teleconference and broadcast
over the internet. To register and receive the telephone number or web
address for remote participation, contact the Executive Secretary (see
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) or visit the ANS Task Force website at
/program/aquatic-nuisance-species-task-force.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Pasko, Executive Secretary, ANS
Task Force, by telephone at (571) 623-0608, or by email at
[email protected]. Individuals in the United States who are deaf,
deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability may dial 711
(TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay services.
Individuals outside the United States
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should use the relay services offered within their country to make
international calls to the point-of-contact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS) Task
Force was established by the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention
and Control Act of 1990 and is composed of Federal and ex-officio
members. The purpose of the ANS Task Force is to develop and implement
a program for U.S. waters to prevent introduction and dispersal of
aquatic invasive species; to monitor, control, and study such species;
and to disseminate related information.
This meeting is open to the public. The meeting agenda includes
reports from ANS Task Force members, reports and recommendations from
regional panels and subcommittees, discussion on priority outputs to
advance the goals identified in the ANS Task Force Strategic Plan for
2020-2025, presentations highlighting invasive species challenges and
innovative measures for ANS prevention and control, and a public
comment period. The final agenda and other related meeting information
will be posted on the ANS Task Force website, /program/aquatic-nuisance-species-task-force.
Public Input
If you wish to provide oral public comment or provide a written
comment for the ANS Task Force to consider, contact the ANS Task Force
Executive Secretary (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) no later than
July 1, 2025.
Depending on the number of people who want to comment and the time
available, the amount of time for individual oral comments may be
limited. Interested parties should contact the ANS Task Force Executive
Secretary (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) for placement on the
public speaker list for this meeting. Requests to address the ANS Task
Force during the meeting will be accommodated in the order the requests
are received. Registered speakers who wish to expand upon their oral
statements, or those who had wished to speak but could not be
accommodated on the agenda, may submit written statements to the
Executive Secretary up to 30 days following the meeting.
Accessibility Information
Please make requests in advance for sign language interpreter
services, assistive listening devices, or other reasonable
accommodations. Please contact the ANS Task Force Executive Secretary
(see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) no later than July 1, 2025, to
give the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sufficient time to process your
request. All reasonable accommodation requests are managed on a case-
by-case basis.
Public Disclosure
Before including your address, phone number, email address, or
other personal identifying information in any comment you may have
about this notice, you should be aware that your entire comment--
including your personal identifying information--may be made publicly
available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold
your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot
guarantee that we will be able to do so.
Authority: 5 U.S.C. Ch. 10.
Martha Balis-Larsen,
Acting Co-Chair, Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force.
[FR Doc. 2025-11126 Filed 6-16-25; 8:45 am]
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