[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 47 (Monday, March 11, 2019)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 8624-8625]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-04358]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 300

[Docket No. 180809745-8745-01]
RIN 0648-BI40


International Affairs; Antarctic Marine Living Resources 
Convention Act; Correction

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

ACTION: Final rule; technical amendment.

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SUMMARY: NMFS is hereby making a technical amendment to our regulations 
without altering the substance of the regulations. This change will 
correct a paragraph mis-numbering.

DATES: This final rule is effective March 11, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mi Ae Kim, Office of International 
Affairs and Seafood Inspection, NMFS (phone 301-427-8365, or email 
[email protected]).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    NMFS previously published a final rule to implement revisions and 
updates to NMFS' Antarctic Marine Living Resources Convention Act 
(AMRLCA) regulations under 50 CFR part 300, subpart G, to streamline 
the regulations, reflect current measures adopted by the Commission for 
the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR or 
Commission), and make other adjustments. The final rule published in 
the Federal Register on January 19, 2017 (82 FR 6221). NMFS has 
identified that 50 CFR 300.105(h) includes two paragraphs numbered as 
(h)(3). This rule solely corrects that mis-numbering by numbering the 
second paragraph as (h)(4) and does not make any substantive changes to 
the regulations.

Classification

    This final rule has been determined to be not significant for the 
purposes of Executive Order 12866.
    The Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA (AA), finds that 
the need to immediately implement this regulatory correction 
constitutes good cause to waive the requirements to provide prior 
notice and opportunity for public comment pursuant to the authority set 
forth in 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 
because prior notice and opportunity for public comment on this final 
rule is unnecessary and contrary to the public interest. Such 
procedures are unnecessary and contrary to the public interest, because 
the rules implementing revisions and updates to NMFS' Antarctic Marine 
Living Resources Convention Act (AMRLCA) regulations have already been 
subject to notice and comment and not correcting the regulatory text 
would result in confusion and uncertainty for the affected entities.
    For the aforementioned reasons, the AA also finds good cause to 
waive the 30-day delay in the effectiveness of this action under 5 
U.S.C. 553(d)(3).
    These measures are thus exempt from the procedures of the 
Regulatory Flexibility Act because prior notice and comment are not 
required under the APA.

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List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 300

    Antarctica, Antarctic marine living resources, Catch documentation 
scheme, Fisheries, Fishing, Intergovernmental relations, Reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements.

    Dated: March 5, 2019.
Samuel D. Rauch III,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
    Accordingly, 50 CFR part 300 is corrected by making the following 
correcting amendments:

PART 300--INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES REGULATIONS

Subpart G--Antarctic Marine Living Resources

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1. The authority citation for part 300, subpart G, continues to read as 
follows:

    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 2431 et seq., 31 U.S.C. 9701 et seq.


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 2. Amend Sec.  300.105 by revising paragraph (h) to read as follows:


Sec.  300.105  Preapproval for importation of frozen Dissostichus 
species.

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    (h) NMFS will not issue a preapproval certificate for any shipment 
of Dissostichus species:
    (1) Identified as originating from a high seas area designated by 
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as 
Statistical Area 51 or Statistical Area 57 in the eastern and western 
Indian Ocean outside and north of the Convention Area;
    (2) Determined to have been harvested or transshipped in 
contravention of any CCAMLR Conservation Measure in force at the time 
of harvest or transshipment;
    (3) Determined to have been harvested or transshipped by a vessel 
identified by CCAMLR as having engaged in illegal, unreported and 
unregulated (IUU) fishing; or
    (4) Accompanied by inaccurate, incomplete, invalid, or improperly 
validated CDS documentation or by a SVDCD.

[FR Doc. 2019-04358 Filed 3-8-19; 8:45 am]
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