[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 84 (Monday, May 1, 2000)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 25290-25291]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-10795]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 679

[Docket No. 9812224323-9226-02; I.D. 120198B]
RIN 0648-AL23


Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; 
Recordkeeping and Reporting; 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 the final rule for 
recordkeeping and reporting that was published in the Federal Register 
on November 15, 1999.

DATES: Effective December 15, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patsy A. Bearden, 907-586-7008.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A final rule was published in the Federal 
Register on November 15, 1999 (64 FR 61964), to revise recordkeeping 
and reporting regulations. Figures 1 and 3 to 50 CFR part 679 list 
Federal reporting areas and coordinates for the boundaries of those 
areas. Recently the coordinates of Figures 1 and 3 were plotted using a 
Geographic Information System. This highly accurate plotting procedure 
revealed several errors in the published points depicting the boundary 
between the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska. NMFS correctly revises 
the description of reporting areas 518 and 519 in Figure 1b and the 
description of reporting area 610 in Figure 3b.

Correction

    In the final rule Revisions to Recordkeeping and Reporting 
Requirements published in 64 FR 61964, November 15, 1999, FR Doc. 99-
28294, correct Figure 1b to Part 679 and Figure 3b to part 679.
    On page 61984, under Figure 1 to Part 679--BSAI Statistical and 
Reporting Areas: b. Coordinates, correctly revise the description of 
reporting areas 518 and 519 to read as follows:

       Figure 1 to Part 679--BSAI Statistical and Reporting Areas
                             b. Coordinates
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  Code                             Description
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    518 Bogoslof District: South of a straight line between 55 deg.46'
         N lat, 170 deg.00' W long and 54 deg.30' N lat, 167 deg.00' W
         long, and between 167 deg.00' W long and 170 deg.00' W long,
         and north of the Aleutian Islands and straight lines between
         the islands connecting the following coordinates in the order
         listed:
        52 deg.49.18' N, 169 deg.40.47' W
        52 deg.49.24' N, 169 deg.07.10' W
        53 deg.23.13' N, 167 deg.50.50' W
        53 deg.18.95' N, 167 deg.51.06' W
    519 South of a straight line between 54 deg.30' N lat, 167 deg.00'
         W long and 54 deg.30' N lat, 164 deg.54' W long; east of 167
         deg.00' W long; west of Unimak Island; and north of the
         Aleutian Islands and straight lines between the islands
         connecting the following coordinates in the order listed:
        53 deg.58.97' N, 166 deg.16.50' W
        54 deg.02.69' N, 166 deg.02.93' W
        54 deg.07.69' N, 165 deg.39.74' W
        54 deg.08.40' N, 165 deg.38.29' W
        54 deg.11.71' N, 165 deg.23.09' W
        54 deg.23.74' N, 164 deg.44.73' W
 
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    On page 61987, under Figure 3 to Part 679--Gulf of Alaska 
Statistical and Reporting Areas: b. Coordinates, correctly revise the 
description of reporting area 610 to read as follows:

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   Figure 3 to Part 679-Gulf of Alaska Statistical and Reporting Areas
                             b. Coordinates
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  Code                             Description
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    610 Western Regulatory Area, Shumagin District. Along the south
         side of the Aleutian Islands, including those waters south of
         Nichols Point (54 deg.51' 30" N lat) near False Pass, and
         straight lines between the islands and the Alaska Peninsula
         connecting the following coordinates in the order listed:
        I1152 deg.49.18' N, 169 deg.40.47' W;
        52 deg.49.24' N, 169 deg.07.10' W;
        53 deg.23.13' N, 167 deg.50.50' W;
        53 deg.18.95' N, 167 deg.51.06' W;
        53 deg.58.97' N, 166 deg.16.50' W;
        54 deg.02.69' N, 166 deg.02.93' W;
        54 deg.07.69' N, 165 deg.39.74' W;
        54 deg.08.40' N, 165 deg.38.29' W;
        54 deg.11.71' N, 165 deg.23.09' W;
        54 deg.23.74' N, 164 deg.44.73' W; and
        southward to the limits of the US EEZ as described in the
         current editions of NOAA chart INT 813 (Bering Sea, Southern
         Part) and NOAA chart 500 (West Coast of North America, Dixon
         Entrance to Unimak Pass), between 170 deg.00' W long and 159
         deg.00' W long.
 
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    Dated: April 25, 2000.
Penelope D. Dalton,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.
[FR Doc. 00-10795 Filed 4-28-00; 8:45 am]
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