[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 94 (Thursday, May 15, 1997)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 26749]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-12532]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 679

[Docket No. 961119321-7071-02; I.D. 110796G]


Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Correction

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

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: This document contains corrections to the final regulations 
(I.D. 110796G), which were published in the Federal Register April 11, 
1997, pertaining to the groundfish fisheries of the Gulf of Alaska 
(GOA) and the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). 
This action corrects regulations by requiring groundfish weight to be 
reported to the nearest 0.001 mt and removes a redundant paragraph.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 12, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patsy A. Bearden, NMFS, 907-586-7228.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    A final rule was published in the Federal Register on April 11, 
1997 (62 FR 17753), that implemented several revisions to recordkeeping 
and reporting requirements established for the GOA and BSAI groundfish 
fisheries. This final rule becomes effective on May 12, 1997.

Need for Correction

    As published, the instructions to revise the regulations contained 
errors that resulted in the omission of several intended revisions to 
regulatory text. NMFS is correcting these errors as follows and makes 
no substantive changes.
    1. In Sec. 679.5, paragraphs (a)(10)(ii) through (v) were not 
listed in amendatory language instruction number 4 (page 17756, column 
2, line 16) of the final rule, but text implementing those changes in 
the regulations was published. This action corrects the amendatory 
language instruction by specifying that Sec. 679.5(a)(10)(ii) through 
(v) were changed by replacing ``0.01 mt'' to read ``0.001 mt.''
    2. In Sec. 679.5(i)(3)(ii), (iii), and (iv) and 
Sec. 679.5(j)(4)(ii), (iii), and (iv), this action changes ``0.01 mt'' 
to read ``0.001 mt'' and removes Sec. 679.5(a)(10)(i)(C) which 
duplicates text found at Sec. 679.5(a)(10)(i)(B).
    The corrected final rule will become effective on May 12, 1997, as 
originally announced in the Federal Register.

List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 679

    Fisheries, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements.

    Dated: May 7, 1997.
Rolland A. Schmitten,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.
    For reasons set out in the preamble, the following corrections are 
made to the final rule amending 50 CFR part 679, which was published 
beginning on page 17753 in the Federal Register for April 11, 1997, in 
FR Doc. 97-9390 as follows:

PART 679--FISHERIES OF THE EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE OFF ALASKA

    1. The authority citation for 50 CFR part 679 continues to read as 
follows:

    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 773 et seq., 1801 et seq.


Sec. 679.5  [Corrected]

    2. On page 17756, in the second column, instruction paragraph 4. 
for Sec. 679.5 is corrected by adding the following instructions in the 
last line before the words ``to read as follows:''
    4. * * * the reference to ``0.01 mt'' is corrected to read ``0.001 
mt'' in paragraphs (i)(3)(ii) through (iv) and (j)(4)(ii) through (iv); 
paragraph (a)(10)(i)(C) is removed; and paragraphs (a)(10)(ii) through 
(v) are revised * * *.
[FR Doc. 97-12532 Filed 5-14-97; 8:45 am]
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