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303(j), 303(r), 307, 309, 316, 403, 544(g), 606, 

1201, 1202, 1203, 1204, and 1206. 

■ 2. Delayed indefinitely, amend 

§ 10.210 by revising paragraph (a) 

introductory text, redesignating 

paragraph (b) as paragraph (d), adding 

new paragraph (b), revising paragraph 

(c), and revising the newly redesignated 

paragraph (d). 

The revisions and addition read as 

follows: 

§ 10.210 WEA participation election 

procedures. 

(a) A CMS provider that elects to 

transmit WEA Alert Messages must elect 

to participate in part or in whole, as 

defined by § 10.10(l) and (m), and shall 

electronically file in the Commission’s 

WEA Database attesting that the 

Provider: 

* * * * * 

(b) A CMS Provider that elects to 

participate in WEA must disclose the 

following information in their election 

filed in the Commission’s WEA 

Database: 

(1) The entities on behalf of which the 

Participating CMS Provider files its 

election, including the subsidiary 

companies (whether those subsidiaries 

are wholly owned or operated CMS 

Providers, Mobile Virtual Network 

Operators, or wireless resellers) on 

behalf of which their election is filed 

and the ‘‘doing business as’’ names 

under which a Participating CMS 

Provider offers WEA; 

(2) The geographic area in which the 

Participating CMS Provider agrees to 

offer WEA alerts, either as: 

(i) An attestation that they offer WEA 

in the entirety of their voice coverage 

area as reported to the Commission in 

the Broadband Data Collection or any 

successors; or 

(ii) Geospatial data submitted to the 

Commission through the WEA Database. 

(3) The extent to which all mobile 

devices that the Participating CMS 

Provider offers at the point of sale are 

WEA-capable, as demonstrated by the 

following: 

(i) The mobile devices, as defined in 

§ 10.10(j), that the Participating CMS 

Provider offers at their point of sale; and 

(ii) The WEA-capable mobile devices, 

as defined in § 10.10(k), that the 

Participating CMS Provider offers at 

their point of sale. 

(c) If the terms of a CMS Provider’s 

WEA participation change in any 

manner described by paragraph (b) of 

this section, it must update the 

information promptly such that the 

information in the WEA Database 

accurately reflects the terms of their 

WEA participation. Updates (if any) for 

the period from August 16 through 

February 15 must be filed by the 

following March 1, and updates for the 

period from February 16 through August 

15 must be filed by the following 

September 1 of each year. 

(d) A CMS Provider that elects not to 

transmit WEA Alert Messages shall file 

electronically in the Commission’s WEA 

Database attesting to that fact. Their 

filing shall include any subsidiary 

companies on behalf of which the 

election is filed and the CMS Provider’s 

‘‘doing business as’’ names, if 

applicable. 

■ 3. Delayed indefinitely, amend 

§ 10.350 by adding paragraph (d) to read 

as follows: 

§ 10.350 WEA testing and proficiency 

training requirements. 

* * * * * 

(d) Performance and Public 

Awareness Tests. Participating CMS 

Providers may participate in no more 

than two (2) WEA tests per county (or 

county equivalent), per calendar year 

that the public receives by default, 

provided that the entity conducting the 

test: 

(1) Conducts outreach and notifies the 

public before the test that live event 

codes will be used, but that no 

emergency is, in fact, occurring; 

(2) To the extent technically feasible, 

states in the test message that the event 

is only a test; 

(3) Coordinates the test among 

Participating CMS Providers and with 

State and local emergency authorities, 

the relevant SECC (or SECCs, if the test 

could affect multiple States), and first 

responder organizations, such as PSAPs, 

police, and fire agencies); and 

(4) Provides in widely accessible 

formats the notification to the public 

required by this paragraph that the test 

is only a test and is not a warning about 

an actual emergency. 

■ 4. Delayed indefinitely, revise 

§ 10.480 to read as follows: 

§ 10.480 Language support. 

(a) Participating CMS Providers are 

required to transmit WEA Alert 

Messages that are issued in the Spanish 

language or that contain Spanishlanguage characters. 

(b) Participating CMS Providers are 

required to support the display of a prescripted alert pre-installed and stored in 

the mobile device that corresponds to 

the default language of the mobile 

device. 

■ 5. Effective December 15, 2026, 

amend § 10.500 by adding paragraph (i) 

to read as follows: 

§ 10.500 General requirements. 

* * * * * 

(i) For Alert Messages with a target 

area specified by a circle or polygon, 

when a device has location services 

enabled and has granted location 

permissions to its native mapping 

application, Participating CMS 

Providers must support the presentation 

of a map along with an emergency alert 

message that includes at least 

(1) The shape of the target area, 

(2) The user’s location relative to the 

target area, and 

(3) A geographical representation of a 

target area in which both the targeted 

area and user are located. 

■ 6. Delayed indefinitely, further amend 

§ 10.500 by revising paragraph (e) to 

read as follows: 

§ 10.500 General requirements. 

* * * * * 

(e) Extraction of alert content in 

English and the subscriber-specified 

default language, if applicable. 

(1) Storing pre-scripted alerts in 

English, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, 

Vietnamese, Arabic, French, Korean, 

Russian, Haitian Creole, German, Hindi, 

Portuguese, and Italian. 

(2) Allowing the subscriber to choose 

to receive pre-scripted Alert Messages in 

American Sign Language (ASL) instead 

of or in addition to their mobile device’s 

subscriber-specified default language 

setting. 

* * * * * 

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BILLING CODE 6712–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 648 

[Docket No. 221223–0282; RTID 0648– 

XD584] 

Fisheries of the Northeastern United 

States; Summer Flounder Fishery; 

Quota Transfer From NC to VA 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notification of quota transfer. 

SUMMARY: NMFS announces that the 

State of North Carolina is transferring a 

portion of its 2023 commercial summer 

flounder quota to the Commonwealth of 

Virginia. This adjustment to the 2023 

fishing year quota is necessary to 

comply with the Summer Flounder, 

Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery 

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provisions. This announcement informs 

the public of the revised 2023 

commercial quotas for North Carolina 

and Virginia. 

DATES: Effective December 12, 2023, 

through December 31, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Laura Deighan, Fishery Management 

Specialist, (978) 281–9184. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Regulations governing the summer 

flounder fishery are found in 50 CFR 

648.100 through 648.111. These 

regulations require annual specification 

of a commercial quota that is 

apportioned among the coastal states 

from Maine through North Carolina. The 

process to set the annual commercial 

quota and the percent allocated to each 

state is described in § 648.102 and final 

2023 allocations were published on 

January 3, 2023 (88 FR 11). 

The final rule implementing 

Amendment 5 to the Summer Flounder 

Fishery Management Plan (FMP), as 

published in the Federal Register on 

December 17, 1993 (58 FR 65936), 

provided a mechanism for transferring 

summer flounder commercial quota 

from one state to another. Two or more 

states, under mutual agreement and 

with the concurrence of the NMFS 

Greater Atlantic Regional Administrator, 

can transfer or combine summer 

flounder commercial quota under 

§ 648.102(c)(2). The Regional 

Administrator is required to consider 

three criteria in the evaluation of 

requests for quota transfers or 

combinations: the transfer or 

combinations would not preclude the 

overall annual quota from being fully 

harvested; the transfer addresses an 

unforeseen variation or contingency in 

the fishery; and the transfer is consistent 

with the objectives of the FMP and the 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act 

(Magnuson-Stevens Act). The Regional 

Administrator has determined these 

three criteria have been met for the 

transfer approved in this notification. 

North Carolina is transferring 23,319 

pounds (lb; 10,577 kilograms (kg)) to 

Virginia through a mutual agreement 

between the states. This transfer was 

requested to repay landings made by 

out-of-state permitted vessels under safe 

harbor agreements. The revised summer 

flounder quotas for 2023 are North 

Carolina, 3,257,764 lb (1,477,697 kg), 

and Virginia, 2,788,223 lb (1,264,717 

kg). 

Classification 

NMFS issues this action pursuant to 

section 305(d) of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Act. This action is required by 50 CFR 

648.102(c)(2)(i) through (iv), which was 

issued pursuant to section 304(b), and is 

exempted from review under Executive 

Order 12866. 

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

Dated: December 12, 2023. 

Everett Wayne Baxter, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 660 

[Docket No. 231211–0299] 

RIN 0648–BM44 

Fisheries Off West Coast States; 

Coastal Pelagic Species Fisheries; 

Biennial Specifications; 2023–2024 and 

2024–2025 Specifications for Pacific 

Mackerel 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: NMFS is implementing 

allowable harvest levels and harvest 

reference points, including the 

overfishing limit, acceptable biological 

catch, and annual catch limit, for Pacific 

mackerel in the exclusive economic 

zone off the U.S. West Coast (California, 

Oregon, and Washington) for the fishing 

seasons 2023–2024 and 2024–2025. The 

allowable harvest levels include a 

harvest guideline and annual catch 

target for the 2023–2024 fishing season 

of 7,871 metric tons (mt) and 6,871 mt, 

respectively and a harvest guideline and 

annual catch target for the 2024–2025 

fishing season of 8,943 mt and 7,943 mt, 

respectively. If the fishery attains the 

annual catch target in either fishing 

season, the directed fishery will close, 

reserving the 1,000-mt difference 

between the harvest guideline and 

annual catch target as a set-aside for 

incidental landings in other Coastal 

Pelagic Species fisheries and other 

sources of mortality. This final rule is 

made pursuant to the Coastal Pelagic 

Species Fishery Management Plan and 

is intended to conserve and manage the 

Pacific mackerel stock off the U.S. West 

Coast. 

DATES: Effective December 15, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Heather Fitch, West Coast Region, 

NMFS, (360) 302–6549, Heather.Fitch@

noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act 

(Magnuson-Stevens Act), 16 U.S.C. 1801 

et seq., NMFS manages the Pacific 

mackerel fishery in the U.S. exclusive 

economic zone (EEZ) off the West Coast 

in accordance with the Coastal Pelagic 

Species (CPS) Fishery Management Plan 

(FMP). The CPS FMP and its 

implementing regulations require NMFS 

to set annual harvest specifications for 

the Pacific mackerel fishery based on 

the annual specification framework and 

control rules in the FMP. The Pacific 

mackerel fishing season runs from July 

1 to June 30. This final rule implements 

these harvest specifications, which 

include allowable harvest levels (i.e., 

annual catch target (ACT) and harvest 

guideline (HG)), an annual catch limit 

(ACL), and annual catch reference 

points (i.e., overfishing limit (OFL) and 

acceptable biological catch (ABC)). This 

final rule adopts, without changes, the 

harvest specifications that NMFS 

proposed in the rule published on 

September 29, 2023 (88 FR 67222). The 

proposed rule for this action included 

additional background on the 

specifications and details on how the 

Pacific Fishery Management Council 

(Council) derived its recommended 

specifications for Pacific mackerel. 

Those details are not repeated here. 

The uncertainty surrounding the 

current biomass estimates for Pacific 

mackerel for the 2023–2024 and 2024– 

2025 fishing seasons was taken into 

consideration in the development of 

these harvest specifications. Any Pacific 

mackerel harvested between July 1, 

2023, and the effective date of the final 

rule will count toward the 2023–2024 

ACT and HG. 

The Council recommended, and 

NMFS is implementing, Pacific 

mackerel harvest specifications for both 

the 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 fishing 

seasons. For the 2023–2024 Pacific 

mackerel fishing season these include 

an OFL of 11,693 mt, an ABC and ACL 

of 9,754 mt, a HG of 7,871 mt, and an 

ACT of 6,871 mt. For the 2024–2025 

Pacific mackerel fishing season these 

include an OFL of 12,765 mt, an ABC 

and ACL of 10,073 mt, a HG of 8,943 mt, 

and an ACT of 7,943 mt. These catch 

specifications are based on the OFL and 

ABC control rules established in the 

CPS FMP, recommendations from the 

Council’s SSC and other advisory 

bodies, and biomass estimates of 55,681 

mt (2023–2024) and 60,785 mt (2024– 

2025). The biomass estimates are the 

result of a benchmark stock assessment 


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