[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 139 (Wednesday, July 19, 2000)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 44702]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-18260]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 679

[Docket No. 991228352-0182-03-03; I.D. 121099C, 011100D]
RIN 0648-AM83


Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska;Emergency 
Interim Rules to Implement Major Provisions of the American Fisheries 
Act; Extension of Expiration Dates; Correction

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

ACTION: Emergency interim rules; correction.

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SUMMARY: This document corrects Table 1 of the extension of expiration 
dates for the emergency interim rules to implement major provisions of 
the American Fisheries Act, which in part revises 2000 final harvest 
specifications.

DATES: The correction for the interim final rule published January 28, 
2000, (65 FR 4520) is effective July 20, 2000, through January 16, 
2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Smoker, 907-586-7228.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This document contains corrections to the 
interim final rule for the extension of the expiration dates of 
emergency interim rules to implement the American Fisheries Act. The 
extension of the effective date of an interim final rule provides 
inshore pollock cooperatives with allocations of pollock for the second 
half of the 2000 fishing year and maintains sideboard restrictions to 
protect participants in other Alaska fisheries from negative impacts as 
a result of fishery cooperatives formed under the AFA.

Correction

    In the interim final rule, Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone 
Off Alaska, Emergency Interim Rules to Implement the American Fisheries 
Act: Extension of Expiration Dates, published on June 23, 2000 (65 FR 
39107), FR Doc. 00-15857,corrections are made as follows:
    1. In the document, Emergency Interim Rules to Implement the 
American Fisheries Act: Extension of Expiration Dates, published on 
June 23, 2000 (65 FR 39107), FR DOC 00-15857, on page 39109, 
mathematical errors were made in Table 1. Table 1 is corrected to read 
as follows:
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 TABLE 1.--FINAL C/D SEASON BERING SEA SUBAREA POLLOCK ALLOCATIONS TO THE COOPERATIVE AND OPEN ACCESS SECTORS OF
                        THE INSHORE POLLOCK FISHERY. AMOUNTS ARE EXPRESSED IN METRIC TONS
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                                                                             C season inside    D season inside
                                                           C/D season TAC        SCA \1\              SCA
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Cooperative sector
  Vessels > 99 ft......................................                n/a                n/a             53,502
  Vessels  99 ft............................                n/a                n/a              8,192
    Total..............................................            274,200             37,016             61,695
Open access sector                                                  17,953              2,424           4,039\2\
Total inshore                                                      292,153             39,440             65,734
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\1\ Steller sea lion conservation area established at Sec.  679.22(a)(11)(iv).
\2\ SCA limitations for vessels less than or equal to 99 ft LOA that are not participating in a cooperative will
  be established on an inseason basis in accordance with Sec.  679.22(a)(11)(iv)(D)(2) which specifies that
  ``the Regional Administrator will prohibit directed fishing for pollock by vessels catching pollock for
  processing by the inshore component greater than 99 ft (30.2 m) LOA before reaching the inshore SCA harvest
  limit during the A, B and D seasons to accommodate fishing by vessels less than or equal to 99 ft (30.2 m)
  inside the SCA for the duration of the inshore seasonal opening.''

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    Dated: July 13, 2000.
Penelope D. Dalton,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.
[FR Doc. 00-18260 Filed 7-18-00; 8:45 am]
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