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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Parts 622, 625, 628, 649, 650, 651, 652, and 655

[Docket No. 930771-4237; I.D. 071994A]

 

Northeast Region General Fisheries Permit and Reporting 
Procedures

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

ACTION: Withdrawal of proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: NMFS withdraws its proposed regulations for consolidating 
permit and reporting requirements. NMFS has determined that fishery-
specific reporting requirements are necessary.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bridgette S. Davidson, Fishery 
Management Specialist, 508-281-9347.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 14, 1993, NMFS published proposed 
regulations (58 FR 53172) to consolidate NMFS Northeast Regional 
administrative and permitting provisions in a new part 622 of title 50 
CFR. This rule proposed to amend 50 CFR parts 625, 628, 649, 650, 651, 
652, and 655 by consolidating the permitting, recordkeeping and 
reporting provisions of these parts into a new part 622. The purpose 
was to eliminate redundancy, ensure consistency, and ease revision of 
permitting requirements.
    Since the proposed rule was published, many of the regulatory 
provisions affected have been extensively revised by FMP amendments. 
The proposed rule is now obsolete because the regulations it proposed 
to change no longer exist. In addition, although the permit application 
has remained essentially the same for all the fisheries affected, the 
major provisions for each of these regulations, e.g., the requirements, 
qualifications, and restrictions, are now fishery-specific. For these 
reasons, this proposed rule is withdrawn.

    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

    Dated: August 24, 1994.
Gary Matlock,
Program Management Officer, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 94-21390 Filed 8-30-94; 8:45 am]
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