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Maritime Center or any of the Regional 

Examination Centers. Applicants may 

contact the National Maritime Center at 

4200 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 630, 

Arlington, Virginia 22203–1804, or by 

telephone at 202–493–1002. A list of 

Regional Examination Locations is 

available through the Coast Guard Web 

site at http://www.uscg.mil. 

■ 15. Revise § 12.02–3(a) to read as 

follows: 

§ 12.02–3 Where documents are issued. 

(a) Merchant mariner’s documents 

may be issued to qualified applicants at 

the National Maritime Center or at any 

Regional Examination Center during 

usual business hours. 

* * * * * 

PART 13—CERTIFICATION OF 

TANKERMEN 

■ 16. The authority citation for part 13 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 46 U.S.C. 3703, 7317, 8105, 

8703, 9102; Department of Homeland 

Security Delegation No. 0170.1. 

■ 17. In 46 CFR 13.103, revise the 

definition of Officer in Charge, Marine 

Inspection (OCMI) to read as follows: 

§ 13.103 Definitions. 

* * * * * 

Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection 

(OCMI) for the purposes of part 13 

means the officer or individual so 

designated at one of the Regional 

Examination Centers, or any person so 

designated by the Commandant. 

* * * * * 

Dated: August 11, 2006. 

Steve Venckus, 

Chief, Office of Regulations and 

Administrative Law, Office of the Judge 

Advocate General, U.S. Coast Guard. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Parts 622 and 635 

[Docket No. 060425111–6205–02; I.D. 

041906B] 

RIN 0648–AN09 

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of 

Mexico, and South Atlantic; Reef Fish 

Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico; 

Amendment 18A; Correction 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Correction to a final rule. 

SUMMARY: This document contains a 

correction to the final regulations which 

were published Wednesday, August 9, 

2006. Those regulations established a 

number of requirements to improve 

enforceability and monitoring in the reef 

fish fishery in the Gulf of Mexico. 

DATES: The corrected effective date for 

regulations concerning §§ 622.4(h)(1) 

and 635.4(m)(1) published August 9, 

2006, at 71 FR 45428 is October 1, 2006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rod 

Dalton, telephone 727–824–5305; fax 

727–824–5308; e-mail 

Rod.Dalton@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The final regulations that are the 

subject of this correction were 

published Wednesday, August 9, 2006, 

(71 FR 45428), [Docket No. 060425111–

6205–02]. The final regulations 

established measures to improve 

enforceability and monitoring of the reef 

fish fishery in the Gulf of Mexico and 

to reduce mortality of incidentally 

caught sea turtles and smalltooth 

sawfish. 

Need for Correction 

As published, the final regulations 

contain an error in the DATES caption 

regarding the effective date for 

§§ 622.4(h)(1) and 635.4(m)(1) and 

requires correction. 

Correction 

Accordingly, the final rule, published 

on August 9, 2006, at 71 FR 45428, is 

corrected as follows: 

On page 45428, in column 2, in the 

last line of the ‘‘DATES’’ caption, 

‘‘September 1, 2006.’’ is corrected to 

read as ‘‘October 1, 2006.’’

Dated: August 15, 2006. 

Samuel D. Rauch III, 

Deputy Assistant Administrator for 

Regulatory Programs, National Marine 

Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 679 

[Docket No. 060216045–6045–01; I.D. 

081506A] 

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic 

Zone Off Alaska; Reallocation of 

Pollock in the Bering Sea and Aleutian 

Islands 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Temporary rule; reallocation. 

SUMMARY: NMFS is reallocating the 

projected unused amounts of 

Community Development Quota (CDQ) 

and non-CDQ pollock from the Aleutian 

Islands subarea to the Bering Sea 

subarea and Bering Sea subarea pollock 

from the incidental catch allowance to 

the directed fisheries. These actions are 

necessary to provide opportunity for 

harvest of the 2006 total allowable catch 

(TAC) of pollock, consistent with the 

goals and objectives of the Fishery 

Management Plan for Groundfish of the 

Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands 

Management Area (FMP). 

DATES: Effective August 16, 2006, 

through 2400 hrs, Alaska local time 

(A.l.t.), December 31, 2006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Josh 

Keaton, 907–586–7228. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS 

manages the groundfish fishery in the 

BSAI according to the FMP prepared by 

the North Pacific Fishery Management 

Council under authority of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act. 

Regulations governing fishing by U.S. 

vessels in accordance with the FMP 

appear at subpart H of 50 CFR part 600 

and 50 CFR part 679. 

In the Aleutian Islands subarea, the 

2006 TAC of non-CDQ pollock is 9,500 

metric tons (mt) and the CDQ pollock is 

1,140 mt as established by the 2006 and 

2007 final harvest specifications for 

groundfish in the BSAI (71 FR 10894, 

March 3, 2006) and the reallocation on 

March 3, 2006 (71 FR 11541, March 8, 

2006). 

As of August 10, 2006, the 

Administrator, Alaska Region, NMFS, 

(Regional Administrator) has 

determined that the following amounts 

of pollock in the Aleutian Islands 

subarea will not be harvested: 4,000 mt 

of non-CDQ pollock and 1,140 mt of 

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with § 679.20(a)(5)(iii)(B)(4), NMFS 

proportionally reallocates 4,000 mt of 

non-CDQ pollock and 1,140 mt of CDQ 

pollock from the Aleutian Islands 

subarea to the 2006 Bering Sea subarea 

B season allocations, as listed in Tables 

3 and 10 of the 2006 and 2007 final 

harvest specifications for groundfish in 

the BSAI (71 FR 11541, March 8, 2006). 

The harvest specifications for pollock 

in the Aleutian Islands subarea included 

in the harvest specifications for 

groundfish in the BSAI (71 FR 11541, 

March 8, 2006) are revised as follows: 

5,500 mt to non-CDQ pollock and 0 mt 

to CDQ pollock. 

The 2006 pollock incidental catch 

allowance in the BS was established as 

44,967 mt by the 2006 and 2007 final 

harvest specifications for groundfish in 

the BSAI (71 FR 10894, March 3, 2006), 

in accordance with 

§ 679.20(a)(5)(i)(A)(1) and the American 

Fisheries Act (AFA) (Public Law 105 

277, Division C, Title II). 

As of August 10, 2006, the 

Administrator, Alaska Region, NMFS, 

has determined that approximately 

20,072 mt of pollock remain in the 

incidental catch allowance. Based on 

projected harvest rates of other 

groundfish species and the expected 

incidental catch of pollock in those 

fisheries, the Regional Administrator 

has determined that 14,000 mt of 

pollock specified in the incidental catch 

allowance will not be necessary as 

incidental catch. Therefore, NMFS is 

apportioning the projected unused 

amount, 14,000 mt, of pollock from the 

incidental catch allowance to the 

directed fishing allowances established 

pursuant to § 679.20(a)(5)(i)(A). 

Pursuant to § 679.20(a)(5), Tables 3 

and 10 of the 2006 and 2007 final 

harvest specifications for groundfish in 

the BSAI (71 FR 11541, March 8, 2006) 

are revised for 2006 non-CDQ pollock 

and CDQ pollock allocations consistent 

with this reallocation. This reallocation 

results in proportional adjustments to 

the 2006 B season non-CDQ pollock 

directed fishery allocation (DFA) 

established at § 679.20(a)(5). 

TABLE 3—2006 AND 2007 ALLOCATIONS OF POLLOCK TACS TO THE DIRECTED POLLOCK FISHERIES AND 

TO THE CDQ DIRECTED FISHING ALLOWANCES (DFA)1

[Amounts are in metric tons] 

Area and sector 2006 Allocations 

2006 A season1 2006 B 

season1

2007 Allocations 

2007 A season1 2007 B 

season1

A season 

DFA 

SCA harvest limit2 B season 

DFA 

A season 

DFA 

SCA harvest limit2 B season 

DFA 

Bering Sea subarea 1,496,700 n/a n/a n/a 1,500,000 n/a n/a n/a 

CDQ DFA 150,400 60,160 41,793 90,240 149,670 59,868 41,908 89,802 

ICA 30,967 n/a n/a n/a 45,236 n/a n/a n/a 

AFA Inshore 657,666 261,148 181,626 396,518 652,547 261,019 182,713 391,528 

AFA Catcher/Processors3 526,133 208,918 145,301 317,215 522,038 208,815 146,171 313,223 

Catch by C/Ps 481,412 191,160 n/a 290,252 477,664 191,066 n/a 286,599 

Catch by CVs3 44,721 17,758 n/a 26,963 44,373 17,749 n/a 26,624 

Unlisted C/P Limit4 2,631 1,045 n/a 1,586 2,610 1,044 n/a 1,566 

AFA Motherships 131,533 52,230 36,325 79,304 130,509 52,204 36,543 78,306 

Excessive Harvesting Limit5 256,503 n/a n/a n/a 228,391 n/a n/a n/a 

Excessive Processing Limit6 439,720 n/a n/a n/a 391,528 n/a n/a n/a 

Total Bering Sea DFA 1,465,733 582,456 405,045 883,277 1,454,764 581,906 407,334 872,858 

Aleutian Islands subarea1 6,160 n/a n/a n/a 19,000 n/a n/a n/a 

CDQ DFA 0 n/a n/a 0 1,900 760 n/a 1,140 

ICA 1,800 1,200 n/a 600 1,800 1,200 n/a 600 

Aleut Corporation 5,500 4,000 n/a 1,500 15,300 9,800 n/a 5,500 

Bogoslof District ICA7 10 n/a n/a n/a 10 n/a n/a n/a 

1Pursuant to § 679.20(a)(5)(i)(A), the Bering Sea subarea pollock, after subtraction for the CDQ DFA - 10 percent and the ICA - 3.35 percent, 

is allocated as a DFA as follows: inshore component - 50 percent, catcher/processor component - 40 percent, and mothership component - 10 

percent. In the Bering Sea subarea, the A season, January 20 - June 10, is allocated 40 percent of the DFA and the B season, June 10 - November 1, is allocated 60 percent of the DFA. Pursuant to § 679.20(a)(5)(iii)(B)(2)(i) and (ii), the annual AI pollock TAC, after subtracting first for 

the CDQ directed fishing allowance - 10 percent and second the ICA - 1,800 mt, is allocated to the Aleut Corporation for a directed pollock fishery. In the AI subarea, the A season is allocated 40 percent of the ABC and the B season is allocated the remainder of the directed pollock fishery. 2In the Bering Sea subarea, no more than 28 percent of each sector’s annual DFA may be taken from the SCA before April 1. The remaining 

12 percent of the annual DFA allocated to the A season may be taken outside of SCA before April 1 or inside the SCA after April 1. If 28 percent 

of the annual DFA is not taken inside the SCA before April 1, the remainder is available to be taken inside the SCA after April 1. 3Pursuant to § 679.20(a)(5)(i)(A)(4), not less than 8.5 percent of the DFA allocated to listed catcher/processors shall be available for harvest 

only by eligible catcher vessels delivering to listed catcher/processors. 4Pursuant to § 679.20(a)(5)(i)(A)(4)(iii), the AFA unlisted catcher/processors are limited to harvesting not more than 0.5 percent of the catcher/ 

processors sector’s allocation of pollock. 5Pursuant to § 679.20(a)(5)(i)(A)(6) NMFS establishes an excessive harvesting share limit equal to 17.5 percent of the sum of the pollock 

DFAs. 6Pursuant to § 679.20(a)(5)(i)(A)(7) NMFS establishes an excessive processing share limit equal to 30.0 percent of the sum of the pollock 

DFAs. 7The Bogoslof District is closed by the final harvest specifications to directed fishing for pollock. The amounts specified are for ICA only, and 

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TABLE 10—2006 AND 2007 BERING SEA SUBAREA INSHORE COOPERATIVE ALLOCATIONS 

[Amounts are in metric tons] 

Cooperative name and member vessels 

Sum of member vessel’s 

official catch 

histories1 (mt) 

Percentage of 

inshore sector 

allocation 

2006 Annual 

cooperative 

allocation (mt) 

2007 Annual 

cooperative 

allocation (mt) 

Akutan Catcher Vessel Association 31.145 204830 203,186 

Arctic Enterprise Association 1.146 7,535 7,476 

Northern Victor Fleet Cooperative 8.412 55,326 54,879 

Peter Pan Fleet Cooperative 2.876 18,916 18,763 

Unalaska Cooperative 12.191 80,173 79,533 

UniSea Fleet Cooperative 25.324 166,549 165,211 

Westward Fleet Cooperative 18.906 124,336 123,340 

Open access AFA vessels 0 0 0 

Total inshore allocation 875,572 100 657,666 652,388 

1According to regulations at § 679.62(e)(1), the individual catch history for each vessel is equal to the vessel’s best 2 of 3 years inshore pollock 

landings from 1995 through 1997 and includes landings to catcher/processors for vessels that made 500 or more mt of landings to catcher/processors from 1995 through 1997.≤ 

Classification 

This action responds to the best 

available information recently obtained 

from the fishery. The Assistant 

Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA 

(AA), finds good cause to waive the 

requirement to provide prior notice and 

opportunity for public comment 

pursuant to the authority set forth at 5 

U.S.C. 553(b)(B) as such requirement is 

impracticable and contrary to the public 

interest. This requirement is 

impracticable and contrary to the public 

interest as it would prevent NMFS from 

responding to the most recent fisheries 

data in a timely fashion and would 

delay the reallocation of Bering Sea and 

Aleutian Islands pollock. Since the 

pollock fishery is currently open, it is 

important to immediately inform the 

industry as to the final Bering Sea 

subarea pollock allocations. Immediate 

notification is necessary to allow for the 

orderly conduct and efficient operation 

of this fishery; allow the industry to 

plan for the fishing season and avoid 

potential disruption to the fishing fleet 

as well as processors; and provide 

opportunity to harvest increased B 

season pollock allocations while value 

is optimum. 

The AA also finds good cause to 

waive the 30-day delay in the effective 

date of this action under 5 U.S.C. 

553(d)(3). This finding is based upon 

the reasons provided above for waiver of 

prior notice and opportunity for public 

comment. 

This action is required by § 679.20 

and is exempt from review under 

Executive Order 12866. 

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

Dated: August 15, 2006. 

Alan D. Risenhoover, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 679 

[Docket No. 060216045–6045–01; I.D. 

081406C] 

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic 

Zone Off Alaska; Atka Mackerel in the 

Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands 

Management Area 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Temporary rule; closures and 

openings. 

SUMMARY: NMFS is prohibiting directed 

fishing for Atka mackerel with gears 

other than jig gear in the Eastern 

Aleutian District and the Bering Sea 

subarea of the Bering Sea and Aleutian 

Islands management area (BSAI). This 

action is necessary to prevent exceeding 

the 2006 total allowable catch (TAC) of 

Atka mackerel in these areas. NMFS is 

also announcing the opening and 

closing dates of the first and second 

directed fisheries within the harvest 

limit area (HLA) in Statistical Areas 542 

and 543. These actions are necessary to 

prevent exceeding the HLA limits 

established for the Central (area 542) 

and Western (area 543) Aleutian 

Districts pursuant to the 2006 Atka 

mackerel TAC. 

DATES: The effective dates are provided 

in Table 1 under the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this temporary 

action. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Hogan, 907–586–7228. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS 

manages the groundfish fishery in the 

BSAI exclusive economic zone 

according to the Fishery Management 

Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea 

and Aleutian Islands Management Area 

(FMP) prepared by the North Pacific 

Fishery Management Council under 

authority of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act. Regulations governing fishing by 

U.S. vessels in accordance with the FMP 

appear at subpart H of 50 CFR part 600 

and 50 CFR part 679. 

The 2006 TAC of Atka mackerel 

specified for other gear in the Eastern 

Aleutian District and the Bering Sea 

subarea was established as 6,868 metric 

tons (mt) by the 2006 and 2007 final 

harvest specifications for groundfish in 

the BSAI (71 FR 10899, March 3, 2006). 

See § 679.20(a)(8)(ii) and (c)(3)(iii). 

In accordance with § 679.20(d)(1)(i) 

and (d)(1)(ii)(B), the Acting 

Administrator, Alaska Region, NMFS 

(Regional Administrator), has 

determined that 500 mt of the 2006 Atka 


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