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PART 1141—PROCEDURES TO

CALCULATE INTEREST RATES

29. The authority citation for part

1141 is revised to read as follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 721.

PART 1144—INTRAMODAL RAIL

COMPETITION

30. The authority citation for part

1144 is revised to read as follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 721, 10703, 10705,

and 11102.

PART 1151—FEEDER LINE

DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

31. The authority citation for part

1151 is revised to read as follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 10907.

PART 1177—RECORDATION OF

DOCUMENTS

32. The authority citation for part

1177 is revised to read as follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 721, 11301.

PART 1184—MOTOR CARRIER

POOLING OPERATIONS

33. The authority citation for part

1184 is revised to read as follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 721, 14302.

PART 1200—GENERAL ACCOUNTING

REGULATIONS UNDER THE

INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT

34. The authority citation for part

1200 is revised to read as follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 721, 11142, 11143,

11144, 11145.

PART 1220—PRESERVATION OF

RECORDS

35. The authority citation for part

1220 is revised to read as follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 721, 11144, 11145.

36. In section 1220.0, remove ‘‘Motor

carriers and brokers,’’ ‘‘Water carriers,’’

and ‘‘Household goods freight

forwarders.’’

PART 1242—SEPARATION OF

COMMON OPERATING EXPENSES

BETWEEN FREIGHT SERVICE AND

PASSENGER SERVICE FOR

RAILROADS

37. The citation for part 1242 is

revised to read as follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 721, 11142.

PART 1243—QUARTERLY OPERATING

REPORTS—RAILROADS

38. The authority citation for part

1243 is revised to read as follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 721, 11145.

PART 1244—WAYBILL ANALYSIS OF

TRANSPORTATION OF PROPERTY—

RAILROADS

39. The authority citation for part

1244 is revised to read as follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 721, 10707, 11144,

11145.

PART 1245—CLASSIFICATION OF

RAILROAD EMPLOYEES; REPORTS

OF SERVICE AND COMPENSATION

40. The authority citation for part

1245 is revised to read as follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 721, 11145.

PART 1246—NUMBER OF RAILROAD

EMPLOYEES

41. The authority citation for part

1246 is revised to read as follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 721, 11145.

PART 1248—FREIGHT COMMODITY

STATISTICS

42. The authority citation for part

1248, subpart A is revised to read as

follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 721, 11144, 11145.

43. The authority citation for part

1248, subpart B is revised to read as

follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 721, 11144, 11145.

PART 1253—RATE-MAKING

ORGANIZATION; RECORDS AND

REPORTS

44. The authority citation for part

1253 is revised to read as follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 721, 10706, 13703,

11144, and 11145.

PART 1302—EXPORT AND IMPORT

SHIPMENTS; RAILROADS

45. The authority citation for part

1302 is revised to read as follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 884.

PART 1331—APPLICATIONS UNDER

49 U.S.C. 10706 AND 13703

46. The authority citation for part

1331 is revised to read as follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 721, 10706, 13703.

47. The heading for part 1331 is

revised to read as set forth above.

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BILLING CODE 4915–00–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

50 CFR Part 648

[Docket No. 961210346–7035–02; I.D.

092297B]

Fisheries of the Northeastern United

States; Summer Flounder Fishery;

Commercial Quota Harvested for New

Jersey

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Commercial quota harvest.

SUMMARY: NMFS announces that the

summer flounder commercial quota

available to the State of New Jersey has

been harvested. Vessels issued a

commercial Federal fisheries permit for

the summer flounder fishery may not

land summer flounder in New Jersey for

the remainder of calendar year 1997,

unless additional quota becomes

available through a transfer. Regulations

governing the summer flounder fishery

require publication of this notice to

advise the State of New Jersey that the

quota has been harvested and to advise

vessel and dealer permit holders that no

commercial quota is available for

landing summer flounder in New Jersey.

DATES: Effective 0001 hours September

24, 1997, through December 31, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dana Hartley, Fishery Management

Specialist, 978–281–9226.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Regulations governing the summer

flounder fishery are found at 50 CFR

part 648. The regulations require annual

specification of a commercial quota that

is apportioned among the states from

North Carolina through Maine. The

process to set the annual commercial

quota and the percentage allocated to

each state are described in § 648.100.

The initial total commercial quota for

summer flounder for the 1997 calendar

year was set equal to 11,111,298 lb

(5,040,000 kg) (March 7, 1997, 62 FR

10473). The percentage allocated to

vessels landing summer flounder in

New Jersey is 16.72499 percent, or

1,858,363 lb (842,939 kg) for 1997.

Section 648.100(d)(2) stipulates that

any overages of commercial quota

landed in any state be deducted from

that state’s annual quota for the

following year. In the calendar year

1996, a total of 2,369,134 lb (1,074,621

kg) were landed in New Jersey. The

amount allocated for New Jersey

landings in 1996 was 1,858,363 lb
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(842,939 kg), creating a 510,771 lb

(231,682 kg) overage that was deducted

from the amount allocated for landings

in that State during 1997 (July 15, 1997,

62 FR 37741). The resulting 1997 quota

for New Jersey is 1,347,592 lb (611,257

kg).

Section 648.101(b) requires the

Administrator, Northeast Region, NMFS

(Regional Administrator), to monitor

state commercial quotas and to

determine when a state’s commercial

quota is harvested. The Regional

Administrator is further required to

publish a notice in the Federal Register

advising a state and notifying Federal

vessel and dealer permit holders that,

effective upon a specific date, the state’s

commercial quota has been harvested

and no commercial quota is available for

landing summer flounder in that state.

Because the available information

indicates that the State of New Jersey

has attained its quota for 1997, the

Regional Administrator has determined

based on dealer reports and other

available information, that the State’s

commercial quota has been harvested.

The regulations at § 648.4(b) provide

that Federal permit holders agree as a

condition of the permit not to land

summer flounder in any state that the

Regional Administrator has determined

no longer has commercial quota

available. Therefore, effective 0001

hours September 24, 1997, further

landings of summer flounder in New

Jersey by vessels holding commercial

Federal fisheries permits are prohibited

for the remainder of the 1997 calendar

year, unless additional quota becomes

available through a transfer and is

announced in the Federal Register.

Effective on September 24, 1997,

federally permitted dealers are also

advised that they may not purchase

summer flounder from federally

permitted vessels that land in New

Jersey for the remainder of the calendar

year, or until additional quota becomes

available through a transfer.

Classification

This action is required by 50 CFR part

648 and is exempt from review under

E.O. 12286.

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

Dated: September 22, 1997.

Bruce C. Morehead,

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

[FR Doc. 97–25625 Filed 9-24-97; 8:45 am]

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