67754 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 249 / Tuesday, December 30, 1997 / Rules and Regulations

text and paragraph (b)(3)(i) to read as

follows:

PART 595—RETROFIT ON-OFF

SWITCHES FOR AIR BAGS

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§ 595.5 Requirements.

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(b) * * *

(3) The on-off switch meets all of the

conditions specified in paragraphs

(b)(3)(i) and (ii) of this section.

(i) The on-off switch is operable solely

by a key or a key-like object. The on-off

switch shall be separate from the

ignition switch for the vehicle, so that

the driver must take some action other

than inserting the ignition key or

turning the ignition key in the ignition

switch to turn off the air bag. Once

turned off, the air bag shall remain off

until it is turned back on by means of

the device. If a single on-off switch is

installed for both air bags, the on-off

switch shall allow each air bag to be

turned off without turning off the other

air bag. The readiness indicator required

by S4.5.2 of § 571.208 of this chapter

shall continue to monitor the readiness

of the air bags even when one or both

air bags has been turned off. The

readiness indicator light shall not be

illuminated solely because an air bag

has been deactivated by means of an onoff switch.

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Issued on: December 18, 1997.

Ricardo Martinez,

Administrator.

[FR Doc. 97–33956 Filed 12–29–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

50 CFR Part 648

[Docket No. 961210346–7035–02; I.D.

122297F]

Fisheries of the Northeastern United

States; Summer Flounder Fishery;

Commercial Quota Harvested for

Virginia

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 Commonwealth of

Virginia has been harvested. Vessels

issued a commercial Federal fisheries

permit for the summer flounder fishery

may not land summer flounder in

Virginia 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 Commonwealth

of Virginia 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 Virginia.

DATES: Effective December 23, 1997,

through December 31, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Regina Spallone, Fishery Policy

Analyst, 978–281–9221.

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 percent 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 percent allocated to vessels

landing summer flounder in Virginia is

21.31676 percent, or 2,368,569 lb

(1,074,365 kg).

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 2,274,457 lb (1,031,676

kg) were landed in Virginia. The amount

allocated for Virginia landings in 1996

was 2,200,681 lb (998,212 kg), creating

a 73,776 lb (33,464 kg) overage that was

deducted from the amount allocated for

landings in the Commonwealth during

1997 (July 15, 1997, 62 FR 37742). The

resulting quota for Virginia is 2,294,793

lb (1,040,901 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 Commonwealth of

Virginia has attained its quota for 1997,

the Regional Administrator has

determined based on dealer reports and

other available information, that the

Commonwealth of Virginia’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 December 23, 1997, further

landings of summer flounder in Virginia

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 the date above, federally

permitted dealers are also advised that

they may not purchase summer flounder

from federally permitted vessels that

land in Virginia 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. 12886.

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

Dated: December 22, 1997.

Gary C. Matlock,

Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries,

National Marine Fisheries Service.

[FR Doc. 97–33889 Filed 12–23–97; 3:51 pm]

BILLING CODE 3210–22–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

50 CFR Part 679

[Docket No. 971208296–7296–01; I.D.

121997A]

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic

Zone Off Alaska; Closures of Specified

Groundfish Fisheries in the Bering Sea

and Aleutian Islands

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Closure.

SUMMARY: NMFS is closing specified

groundfish fisheries in the Bering Sea

and Aleutian Islands management area

(BSAI). This action is necessary to

prevent exceeding the prohibited

species bycatch allowances and directed

fishing allowances specified for the