[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 175 (Wednesday, September 10, 1997)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 47587]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-23941]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
50 CFR Part 660
[Docket Number; 970903221-7221-01; I.D. 081297C]
RIN 0648-XX89
Fisheries off West Coast States and in the Western Pacific;
Precious Corals Fisheries; Technical Amendment
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Correcting amendment.
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SUMMARY: This document contains a correction to the regulations
implementing the Fishery Management Plan for Precious Corals Fisheries
of the Western Pacific Region (FMP) which were published in the Federal
Register on July 2, 1996. This amendment corrects the coordinates for
the location of the Makapuu bed of precious corals appearing under the
category of ``Established beds'' in the definition of ``Precious coral
permit area''.
DATES: Effective September 10, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Svein Fougner, 562-980-4034; or Alvin
Katekaru, 808-973-2985.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the original FMP the coordinates for the
center of the Makapuu bed contained a typographical error. Instead of
the longitude being listed as 157 deg. 32.5' W. it was incorrectly
listed as 157 deg. 35.5' W. longitude. This error placed the location
of the bed approximately three miles away from its actual location.
There has been almost no fishing under the FMP since its
implementation, and this error was only recently discovered. This
technical amendment corrects the regulations implementing the FMP
(August 30, 1983, 48 FR 3923; consolidated by July 2, 1996, 61 FR
34570) to list the coordinates for the center of the Makapuu bed.
Classification
The Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA (AA), under 5
U.S.C. 553(b)(B) finds that providing prior notice and an opportunity
for public comment on this rule is unnecessary, because the rule merely
corrects coordinates for the location of a resource, and such notice
and opportunity for comment would serve no useful purpose. Similarly,
the AA, under 5 U.S.C. 553 (d)(3) finds that delaying the effective
date of the correction for 30 days is unnecessary because the location
of the bed is fixed.
Because prior notice and opportunity for public comment are not
required for this rule by 5 U.S.C. 553, or by any other law, the
analytical requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601
et seq., are inapplicable. This rule is exempt from review under E.O.
12866.
List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 660
Fisheries, Fishing, Indians, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements, Administrative practice and procedure, American Samoa,
Guam, Hawaiian Natives, Northern Mariana Islands.
Dated: September 4, 1997.
David L. Evans,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Fisheries,National Marine Fisheries
Service.
For the reasons set out in the preamble, 50 CFR Part 660 is amended
as follows:
PART 660--FISHERIES OFF WEST COAST STATES AND THE WESTERN PACIFIC
1. The authority citation for part 660 continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
2. In Sec. 660.12, the category for'' Established beds ``under the
definition of ``Precious coral permit area`` is corrected by revising
the coordinates of the point specified therein to read ``21 deg. 18.0'
N. lat, 157 deg. 32.5' W. long.''
[FR Doc. 97-23941 Filed 9-9-97; 8:45 am]
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