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provided that any dredge on board the

vessel does not exceed 8 ft (2.44 m)

measured at the widest point in the bail

of the dredge, and the vessel does not

fish for, harvest, possess, or land any

species of fish other than mussels and

sea urchins. The area coordinates of the

Nantucket Shoals Mussel and Sea

Urchin Dredge Exemption Area are the

same coordinates as those of the

Nantucket Shoals Dogfish Fishery

Exemption Area specified under

paragraph (a)(9) of this section.

* * * * *

(b) * * *

(2) * * *

(iii) Other restrictions and

exemptions. Vessels are prohibited from

fishing in the SNE Regulated Mesh Area

except if fishing with exempted gear (as

defined under this part) or under the

exemptions specified in paragraphs

(b)(3), (b)(5) through (8), (c), (e), (h), and

(i) of this section, if fishing under a NE

multispecies DAS, if fishing under the

small vessel exemption specified in

§ 648.82(b)(3), if fishing under the

scallop state waters exemption specified

in § 648.54, or if fishing pursuant to a

NE multispecies open access Charter/

Party or Handgear permit. Any gear on

a vessel, or used by a vessel, in this area

must be authorized under one of these

exemptions or must be stowed as

specified in § 648.81(e).

* * * * *

(8) SNE Mussel and Sea Urchin

Dredge Exemption. A vessel may fish

with a dredge in the SNE Regulated

Mesh Area, provided that any dredge on

board the vessel does not exceed 8 ft

(2.44 m) measured at the widest point

in the bail of the dredge, and the vessel

does not fish for, harvest, possess, or

land any species of fish other than

mussels and sea urchins.

* * * * *

5. In § 648.82, paragraphs (g), (h),

(k)(1)(ii), and (k)(1)(iv)(A) are revised to

read as follows:

§ 648.82 Effort-control program for limited

access vessels.

* * * * *

(g) Spawning season restrictions. A

vessel issued a valid Small Vessel

permit under paragraph (b)(3) of this

section may not fish for, possess, or land

regulated species from March 1 through

March 20 of each year. Any other vessel

issued a limited access multispecies

permit must declare out and be out of

the NE multispecies DAS program, as

described in paragraph (b) of this

section, for a 20-day period between

March 1 and May 31 of each calendar

year using the notification requirements

specified in § 648.10. A vessel fishing

under a Day gillnet category designation

is prohibited from fishing with gillnet

gear capable of catching multispecies

during its declared 20-day spawning

block, unless the vessel is fishing in an

exempted fishery as described in

§ 648.80. If a vessel owner has not

declared and been out for a 20-day

period between March 1 and May 31 of

each calendar year on or before May 12

of each year, the vessel is prohibited

from fishing for, possessing or landing

any regulated species or non-exempt

species during the period May 12

through May 31, inclusive. If a vessel

has taken a spawning season 20-day

block out of the NE multispecies DAS

program during May 1996, it is not

required to take a 20-day block out of

the NE multispecies DAS program in

1997. Beginning January 1, 1998, any

such vessel must comply with the

spawning season restriction specified in

this part.

(h) Declaring DAS and blocks of time

out. A vessel’s owner or authorized

representative shall notify the Regional

Administrator of a vessel’s participation

in the DAS program, declaration of its

120 days out of the non-exempt gillnet

fishery if designated as a Day gillnet

category vessel, and declaration of its

20-day period out of the NE

multispecies DAS program, using the

notification requirements specified in

§ 648.10.

* * * * *

(k) * * *

(1) * * *

(ii) Tagging requirements. Beginning

June 1, 1997, when under a NE

multispecies DAS, all groundfish

gillnets fished, hauled, possessed, or

deployed must have two tags per net,

with one tag secured to each bridle of

every net within a string of nets and all

flatfish gillnets fished, hauled,

possessed, or deployed must have one

tag per net, with one tag secured to

every other bridle of every net within a

string of nets. Tags must be obtained as

described in § 648.4(c)(2)(iii) and

vessels must have on board written

confirmation issued by the Regional

Administrator, indicating that the vessel

is a Day gillnet vessel. The vessel

operator must produce all net tags upon

request by an authorized officer.

* * * * *

(iv) * * *

(A) During each fishing year, vessels

must declare, and take, a total of 120

days out of the non-exempt gillnet

fishery. Each period of time declared

and taken must be a minimum of 7

consecutive days. At least 21 days of

this time must be taken between June 1

and September 30 of each fishing year.

The spawning season time out period

required by § 648.82(g) will be credited

toward the 120 days time out of the nonexempt gillnet fishery. If a vessel owner

has not declared and taken, any or all

of the remaining periods of time

required by the last possible date to

meet these requirements, the vessel is

prohibited from fishing for, possessing,

or landing regulated multispecies or

non-exempt species harvested with

gillnet gear, and from having gillnet gear

on board the vessel that is not stowed

in accordance with § 648.81(e)(4), while

fishing under a multispecies DAS, from

that date through the end of the period

between June 1 and September 30, or

through the end of the fishing year, as

applicable.

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–F

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Customs Service

19 CFR Parts 7, 10, 148 and 178

[T.D. 97–75]

RIN 1515–AB14

Duty-Free Treatment of Articles

Imported From U.S. Insular

Possessions

AGENCY: U.S. Customs Service,

Department of the Treasury.

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

SUMMARY: This document makes a

correction to the document published in

the Federal Register which set forth

final amendments to the Customs

Regulations to clarify and update the

legal requirements and procedures that

apply for purposes of obtaining dutyfree treatment on articles imported from

insular possessions of the United States

other than Puerto Rico. The correction

involves the control number assigned by

the Office of Management and Budget in

connection with the approval of the

collection of information provided for in

the final regulations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This correction is

effective October 3, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Monika Rice, Office of Regulations and

Rulings (202–482–7049).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On September 3, 1997, Customs

published in the Federal Register (62

FR 46433) as T.D. 97–75 a final rule

document setting forth amendments to
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the Customs Regulations to clarify and

update the legal requirements and

procedures that apply for purposes of

obtaining duty-free treatment on articles

imported from insular possessions of

the United States other than Puerto

Rico. That final rule document provided

for an October 3, 1997, effective date for

the regulatory amendments contained

therein.

The amendments in T.D. 97–75

included an update of the list of

information collection approvals under

the Paperwork Reduction Act contained

in § 178.2 of the Customs Regulations

(19 CFR 178.2). Although the discussion

of the Paperwork Reduction Act in the

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION portion of

T.D. 97–75 correctly set forth the control

number assigned by the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) as

1515–0200, the amendment to § 178.2

incorrectly listed the OMB control

number as 1515–0055. This document

corrects this error.

Correction to the Final Regulations

On page 46443, in the table under

§ 178.2, in the column headed ‘‘OMB

control number’’, the entry ‘‘1515–

0055’’ is corrected to read ‘‘1515–0200’’.

Dated: September 11, 1997.

Harold M. Singer,

Chief, Regulations Branch.

[FR Doc. 97–24953 Filed 9–18–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4820–02–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[VA–056–5023; FRL–5895–6]

Approval and Promulgation of Air

Quality Implementation Plans;

Commonwealth of Virginia; Interim

Final Determination for the Enhanced

Motor Vehicle Inspection and

Maintenance Program

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Interim final rule.

SUMMARY: Elsewhere in today’s Federal

Register, EPA has published a proposed

rule to amend the Inspection/

Maintenance (I/M) Program

Requirements (the I/M rule). That

document proposes, in part, revisions to

the Motor Vehicle I/M requirements by

replacing the I/M rule requirement that

the tailpipe portion of the mandatory

program evaluation be performed using

only an IM240 or equivalent massemission transient test with a

requirement that states use a sound

evaluation methodology capable of

providing accurate information about

the overall effectiveness of an I/M

program. In addition, the proposal

would amend the conditions relating to

the program evaluation testing

requirements that were part of the

conditional interim approval actions

taken on the I/M State Implementation

Plans (SIPs) for the Commonwealths of

Pennsylvania and Virginia and the State

of Delaware, consistent with the

proposed rule change. Based on the

proposed rule and for the reasons

discussed below, EPA is making an

interim final determination by this

action that the commitment dates

concerning the major deficiencies in

Virginia’s I/M SIP should be extended

out to June 16, 1998. The June 16, 1998

date is one year from the effective date

of the final conditional interim approval

of the I/M program, the outside date

allowed under the Clean Air Act (CAA)

for conditional approvals. Although this

action is effective upon publication,

EPA will take comment on whether this

interim final determination should

remain in place. In addition, this action

will amend the commitment dates

pertaining to the major deficiencies

cited in the rulemaking section of the

final conditional interim approval for

the Commonwealth of Virginia’s I/M

program.

DATES: Effective Date: September 19,

1997. Comment Date: October 20, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to

David L. Arnold, Chief, Ozone/CO &

Mobile Sources Section, Mailcode

3AT21, U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, Region III, 841 Chestnut

Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

19107. Copies of the documents relevant

to this action are available for public

inspection during normal business

hours at the Air, Radiation, and Toxics

Division, U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency, Region III, 841 Chestnut

Building, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

19107.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jeffrey M. Boylan,(215) 566–2094, at the

EPA Region III office or via e-mail at

boylan.jeffrey@ epamail.epa.gov. While

information may be requested via email, comments must be submitted in

writing to the above Region III address.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

On November 6, 1996, (61 FR 57343)

EPA proposed conditional interim

approval of the Northern Virginia

Enhanced Inspection and Maintenance

program. In response to that proposal,

the DEQ submitted a letter dated

December 4, 1996, to EPA with a

commitment to correct all of the major

deficiencies cited in the proposal by

September 15, 1997. After receiving this

commitment letter, EPA proceeded with

final rulemaking on the Virginia I/M

program and published an interim final

rule on May 15, 1997 (62 FR 2674). The

three major deficiencies conditioned in

the final rulemaking tasked Virginia to

accomplish the following by September

15, 1997: (a) Perform and submit the

new modeling demonstration

illustrating how its program will meet

the enhanced performance standard; (b)

submit as a SIP amendment a final

Virginia I/M regulation which requires a

yearly mass-emission transient test

based evaluation on 0.1% of the subject

fleet; and (c) adopt and submit a final

Virginia I/M regulation which requires

and specifies detailed approvable test

procedures and equipment

specifications for all the evaporative and

exhaust tests used in the enhanced I/M

program.

EPA is proposing elsewhere in today’s

Federal Register, to further revise the

rule related to state air quality

implementation plans for Motor Vehicle

Inspection and Maintenance (I/M)

programs (40 CFR part 51, subpart S)

(hereafter referred to as the I/M rule; see

57 FR 52950) to provide greater

flexibility to states in conducting

program evaluation. That proposed

rulemaking proposes to: (1) Amend the

I/M program evaluation requirements at

40 CFR 51.353(c) to remove the current

requirement that the tailpipe portion of

the program evaluation can be

performed only by conducting mass

emission transient testing (METT), (2)

create a new evaluation requirement at

40 CFR 51.353(c) that will instead

require states to conduct program

evaluation testing using a sound

evaluation methodology capable of

providing accurate information about

I/M program effectiveness, such

evaluation to begin no later than

November 30, 1998, (3) amend the

requirement that the program evaluation

tests be conducted ‘‘at the time initial

test is due’’ to clarify that states are not

barred from using alternative sample

gathering methods like roadside

pullovers by defining ‘‘the time of initial

test’’ as any time prior to repairs during

the inspection cycle under

consideration, (4) delete the current

conditions on Pennsylvania’s and

Virginia’s conditional interim I/M

approvals and Delaware’s conditional

approval (40 CFR part 52, subpart NN,

§ 52.2026(a)(2), 40 CFR part 52, subpart

V, § 52.2450(b)(2), and 40 CFR part 52,

subpart I, § 52.424(b), respectively) that

require submission of program