[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 10, 2000)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 60096-60097]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-25938]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

15 CFR Part 922

[Docket No. 970404078-0176--02; I.D. 091100G]
RIN 0638-AE41


Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve 
Regulations; Correction and Announcement of Effective Date

AGENCY: Marine Sanctuaries Division (MSD), Office of Ocean and Coastal 
Resource Management (OCRM), National Ocean Service (NOS), National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce 
(DOC).

ACTION: Correction to final regulations and announcement of effective 
date.

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SUMMARY: This document corrects the final regulations that were 
published in the Federal Register on Thursday, June 22, 2000, (65 FR 
39042), and announces an effective date for them of September 25, 2000. 
The regulations implement the designation of the Thunder Bay National 
Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve which is located in western 
Lake Huron in State of Michigan waters.

DATES: The final regulations published at 65 FR 39042 (June 22, 2000) 
and the corrections made by this document are effective September 25, 
2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Ellen Brody, (734) 741-2270.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    This document corrects the final regulations implementing the 
designation of the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater 
Preserve, which encompasses an area of the State of Michigan waters 
over and surrounding Thunder Bay, and the submerged lands thereunder 
including the Bay, in western Lake Huron. The Federal Register document 
publishing those regulations also contained the Designation Document 
and summarized the final management plan for the Sanctuary. The 
Designation Document sets forth the geographic area included within the 
Sanctuary, the characteristics of the area that give it conservation, 
recreational, ecological, historical, research, educational, or 
esthetic value, and the type of activities subject to regulation. The 
management plan details the goals and objectives, management 
responsibilities, research activities, interpretive and educational 
programs, and enforcement activities of the area. As stated in the 
preamble to the final rule, the regulations become effective after the 
close of a review period of 45 days of continuous session of Congress 
beginning on the day on which the final rule was published unless the 
Governor of the State of Michigan certifies to the Secretary of 
Commerce that the designation or any of its terms is unacceptable, in 
which case the designation or any unacceptable terms shall not take 
effect. The Congressional review period ended on September 24, 2000, 
without the Governor of the State of Michigan certifying to the 
Secretary of Commerce that the designation or any of its terms is 
unacceptable. Accordingly, the designation of the Sanctuary and the 
regulations implementing that designation became effective on September 
25, 2000. The Secretary of Commerce intends to sign the Designation 
Document for the Sanctuary on October 7, 2000. This Federal Register 
document announces the effective date of the designation and for the 
regulations implementing that designation as September 25, 2000. This 
document also corrects, effective September 25, 2000, two errors in 
those regulations.

Need For Correction

    Because of the omission of asterisks when revising the term 
``Sanctuary resource'' in Sec.  922.3 of 15 CFR part 922, 
``Definitions'', all terms were inadvertently deleted except for the 
revised term ``Sanctuary resource''. There is a need to restore the 
deleted terms. Also in Sec.  922.50 of 15 CFR part 922, the first 
paragraph following paragraph (a)(1)(iii) was inadvertently designated 
as paragraph (b) instead of as paragraph (a)(2). This needs to be 
corrected.

Correction of Publication

    Accordingly, the publication on June 22, 2000, of the final 
regulations implementing the designation of the

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Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve, which 
were the subject of FR Doc. 00-15638, (65 FR 39042), is corrected as 
follows:


Sec. 922.3  [Corrected]

    1. On page 39055, in the first column, amendatory instruction 3 is 
corrected to read as follows:
    3. Section 922.3 is amended by revising the definition for 
``Sanctuary resource'' to read as follows:

    2. On page 39055, beginning in the first column, in Sec.  922.3, 
add five asterisks before and after the definition of ``Sanctuary 
resource''.


Sec. 922.50  [Corrected]

    3. On page 39056, in the third column, in Sec.  922.50, correct the 
paragraph designation (b) to read (a)(2).

    Dated: October 4, 2000.
Margaret A. Davidson,
Acting Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone 
Management.
[FR Doc. 00-25938 Filed 10-4-00; 1:57 pm]
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