51512 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 193 / Wednesday, October 7, 2009 / Rules and Regulations 

503.703 [Added] 

■ 7. Add section 503.703 to read as 

follows: 

503.703 Authority. 

Pursuant to FAR 3.703 and 3.705(b), 

the authority to void or rescind 

contracts resides with the Senior 

Procurement Executive. 

503.705 [Removed] 

■ 8. Remove section 503.705. 

■ 9. Add Subpart 503.10 to read as 

follows: 

Subpart 503.10—Contractor Code of 

Business Ethics and Conduct 

503.1004 Contract clauses. 

(a) The FAR threshold for the clause 

at 52.203–14, Display of Hotline 

Poster(s), is $5,000,000. However, GSA 

has exercised the authority provided at 

FAR 3.1004(b)(1)(i) to establish a lower 

threshold, $1,000,000, for inclusion of 

the clause when the contract or order is 

funded with disaster assistance funds. 

(b) The information required to be 

inserted in the clause at FAR 52.203–14, 

Display of Hotline Poster(s), is as 

follows: 

(1) Poster: GSA Office of Inspector 

General ‘‘FRAUDNET HOTLINE’’; and 

(2) Obtain from: Contracting Officer. 

PART 552—SOLICITATION 

PROVISIONS AND CONTRACT 

CLAUSES 

■ 10. The authority citation for 48 CFR 

part 552 continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 40 U.S.C. 121(c). 

552.203–5 and 552.203–70 [Removed] 

■ 11. Remove sections 552.203–5 and 

552.203–70. 

[FR Doc. E9–24158 Filed 10–6–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–61–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 648 

[Docket No. 0809251266–81485–02] 

RIN 0648–XR94 

Fisheries of the Northeastern United 

States; Scup Fishery; Commercial 

Quota Harvested for 2009 Summer 

Period 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Temporary rule; closure. 

SUMMARY: NMFS announces the closure 

of the scup commercial coastwide 

fishery from Maine through North 

Carolina for the remainder of the 

Summer Period. Regulations governing 

the scup fishery require publication of 

this notification to advise the coastal 

states from Maine through North 

Carolina that this quota has been 

harvested and to advise Federal vessel 

permit holders and Federal dealer 

permit holders that no commercial 

quota is available for landing scup in 

these states. Federally permitted 

commercial vessels may not land scup 

in these states for the remainder of the 

2009 Summer quota period (through 

October 31, 2009). 

DATES: Effective 0001 hours, Thursday, 

October 7 through October 31, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sarah Bland, Fishery Management 

Specialist, (978) 281–9257. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Regulations governing the scup fishery 

are found at 50 CFR part 648. The 

regulations at § 648.121 require the 

Regional Administrator to monitor the 

commercial scup quota for each quota 

period and, based upon dealer reports, 

state data, and other available 

information, to determine when the 

commercial quota for a period has been 

harvested. NMFS is required to publish 

a notification in the Federal Register 

advising and notifying commercial 

vessels and dealer permit holders that, 

effective upon a specific date, the scup 

commercial quota has been harvested 

and no commercial quota is available for 

landing scup for the remainder of the 

Summer Period. Based upon recent 

projections, the Regional Administrator 

has determined that the Federal 

commercial quota of 2,930,733 lb (1,329 

mt) for the 2009 Summer Period will be 

fully harvested by or before October 31, 

2009. To maintain the integrity of the 

2009 Summer Period quota by avoiding 

or minimizing quota overages, the 

commercial scup fishery will close for 

the remainder of the Summer Period 

(through October 31, 2009) in Federal 

waters, effective as of the date specified 

above (see DATES). 

Section 648.4(b) provides that Federal 

scup moratorium permit holders agree, 

as a condition of the permit, not to land 

scup in any state after NMFS has 

published a notification in the Federal 

Register stating that the commercial 

quota for the period has been harvested 

and that no commercial quota for scup 

is available. Therefore, effective 0001 

hours, Thursday, October 8, 2009, 

further landings of scup by vessels 

holding Federal scup moratorium 

permits are prohibited through October 

31, 2009. Effective 0001 hours, 

Thursday, October 8, 2009, federally 

permitted dealers are also advised that 

they may not purchase scup from 

federally permitted vessels that land in 

coastal states from Maine through North 

Carolina for the remainder of the 

Summer Period (through October 31, 

2009). The Winter II Period for 

commercial scup harvest will open on 

November 1, 2009. 

Classification 

This action is required by 50 CFR part 

648 and is exempt from review under 

Executive Order 12866. 

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

Dated: October 2, 2009. 

Emily H. Menashes, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. E9–24177 Filed 10–05–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 679 

[Docket No. 090601946–91010–01] 

RIN 0648–AX94 

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic 

Zone Off Alaska, Groundfish Observer 

Program; Correction 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Correcting amendments. 

SUMMARY: This action makes four 

corrections to regulations. It corrects a 

final rule removing the December 31, 

2007, expiration date for regulations 

governing the North Pacific Observer 

Program. NMFS intended this final rule 

to remove the expiration date from all 

paragraphs, however, due to the overlay 

of an additional and overlooked 

expiration date in a different final rule, 

NMFS inadvertently removed the 

regulations governing observer coverage 

for catcher/processors and motherships 

participating in the pollock fisheries in 

the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands 

management area. This correcting 

amendment reinstates those observer 

coverage requirements. In addition, this 

rule corrects a cross-reference error; 

removes an expiration date; and 

removes effective dates that have now 

passed from certain paragraphs. 

DATES: Effective October 7, 2009. 


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