97-4262. Sea Turtle Conservation; Restrictions to Shrimp Trawling Activities; Correction

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 35 (Friday, February 21, 1997)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 7947]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-4262]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 217

[I.D. 011696D]
RIN 0648-AH89


Sea Turtle Conservation; Restrictions to Shrimp Trawling 
Activities; 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 a correction to a final rule that was 
published on December 19, 1996. This correction specifies the correct 
longitude of the eastern boundary of the Gulf Shrimp Fishery-Sea Turtle 
Conservation Area.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 1, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charles A. Oravetz, 813-570-5312, or 
Barbara A. Schroeder, 301-713-1401.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Need for Correction

    On December 19, 1996 (61 FR 66933), NMFS published a final rule 
that modified the gear requirements for the participants in the shrimp 
trawl fishery in the southeastern United States to protected threatened 
and endangered species of sea turtle from incidental capture and 
mortality in that fishery.
    The final rule, among other things, added a definition to 50 CFR 
217.12 for the ''Gulf Shrimp Fishery-Sea Turtle Conservation Area (Gulf 
SFSTCA)''. The text of that definition, however, contained a 
typographical error in the longitude specification of a boundary.

Correction of Publication

    Accordingly, the publication on December 19, 1996, of the final 
rule (I.D. 011696D), which was the subject of FR Doc. 96-66933, is 
corrected as follows:


Sec. 217.12  [Corrected]

    On page 66944, in the second column, in Sec. 217.12 the definition 
for ``Gulf Shrimp Fishery-Sea Turtle Conservation Area (Gulf SFSTCA)'' 
is corrected to read as follows:
    Gulf Shrimp Fishery-Sea Turtle Conservation Area (Gulf SFSTCA) 
means the offshore waters extending to 10 nautical miles (18.5 km) 
offshore along the coast of the States of Texas and Louisiana from the 
South Pass of the Mississippi River (west of 89 deg.08.5' W. long.) to 
the U.S.-Mexican border.
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    Dated: February 13, 1997.
Charles Karnella
Acting Director, Office of Operations, Management and Information, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 97-4262 Filed 2-20-97; 8:45 am]
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