[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 11, 2000)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 60383]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-26082]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 223

[Docket No. 980113011-0267-03; I.D. 061896A]
RIN 0648-AK34


Endangered and Threatened Species; Regulations Consolidation; 
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 rule 
pertaining to the consolidation and reorganization of existing 
regulations regarding implementation of the Endangered Species Act 
which was published in the Federal Register on March 23, 1999.

DATES: Effective October 11, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Donna Wieting, Chief, Marine Mammal Division, Office of 
Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service, 1315 East-West 
Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Caroline Good, phone: (301) 713-2322.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    In the final rule, titled Endangered and Threatened Species; 
Regulations Consolidation; Final Rule, published in the Federal 
Register on March 23, 1999,(64 FR 14052), three errors were made in 
identifying the eastern population of Steller sea lions.
    NMFS is correcting these errors and is making no substantive change 
to the document in this action.

Need for Correction

    As published, the final regulations contain errors which 
misidentify the stock parameters of the eastern population of the 
Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus).

List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 223

    Endangered and threatened species, Exports, Imports, Marine 
mammals, Transportation.

    Dated: October 4, 2000.
William T. Hogarth,
Acting Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.

    Accordingly, 50 CFR part 223 is corrected by making the following 
correcting amendments:

PART 223--THREATENED MARINE AND ANADROMOUS SPECIES

    1. The authority citation continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.; 16 U.S.C. 742a et seq.; 31 
U.S.C. 9701.

    2. Revise paragraph (c) of Sec.  223.102 to read as follows:


Sec. 223.102  Enumeration of threatened marine and anadromous species.

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    (c) Marine mammals. Guadalupe fur seal (Arctocephalus townsendi); 
Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), eastern population, which 
consists of all Steller sea lions from breeding colonies located east 
of 144 deg. W. longitude.
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