[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 18 (Monday, January 30, 2017)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 8694-8695]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-01929]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 622

[Docket No. 160815740-6740-01]
RIN 0648-BG28


Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and South Atlantic; 
Shrimp Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico; Revision of Bycatch Reduction 
Device Testing Manual

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

ACTION: Stay of final rule.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with a January 20, 2017 memo from the White 
House, we the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) are staying the 
final rule we published on December 27, 2016 in order to delay its 
effective date.

DATES: Effective January 30, 2017, the final rule that published 
December 27, 2016, at 81 FR 95056, is stayed until March 21, 2017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Gerhart, NMFS Southeast Regional 
Office, telephone: 727-824-5305, email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 27, 2016, NMFS published this 
final rule making administrative revisions to the Bycatch Reduction 
Device Testing Manual. The revisions were made in accordance with the 
framework procedures for adjusting management measures of the Fishery 
Management Plan for the Shrimp Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico. These 
changes to management measures do not add to or change any existing 
Federal regulations. Therefore, no codified text is associated with 
these changes to management measures.
    On January 20, 2017, the White House issued a memo instructing 
Federal agencies to temporarily postpone the effective date for 60 days 
after January 20, 2017, of any regulations or guidance documents that 
have published in the Federal Register but not yet taken effect,

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for the purpose of ``reviewing questions of fact, law, and policy they 
raise.'' Because its effective date has already passed, we are enacting 
this stay of the rule published on December 27, 2016, at 81 FR 95056 
(see DATES above) until March 21, 2017.

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

    Dated: January 24, 2017.
Alan D. Risenhoover,
Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National 
Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2017-01929 Filed 1-27-17; 8:45 am]
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