[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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