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devices, and indoor access points in the 

5.925–7.125 GHz band is prohibited on 

boats. 

(iv) Aircraft. Standard power access 

points, fixed client devices, very low 

power devices, and indoor access points 

in the 5.925–7.125 GHz band are 

prohibited from operating on aircraft, 

except that very low power devices and 

indoor access points are permitted to 

operate in the 5.925–6.425 GHz bands in 

large aircraft while flying above 10,000 

feet. 

(v) Unmanned aircraft systems. 

Operation of transmitters in the 5.925– 

7.125 GHz band is prohibited for control 

of or communications with unmanned 

aircraft systems. 

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(6) All U–NII transmitters, except for 

standard power access points, operating 

in the 5.925–7.125 GHz band must 

employ a contention-based protocol. 

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(8) Very low power devices may not 

employ a fixed outdoor infrastructure. 

Such devices may not be mounted on 

outdoor structures, such as buildings or 

poles. 

(9) Very low power devices must 

prioritize operations on frequencies 

above 6.105 GHz prior to operating on 

frequencies between 5.925 GHz and 

6.105 GHz. 

(10) Very low power devices 

operating in the 5.925–6.425 and 6.525– 

6.875 GHz bands shall employ a 

transmit power control (TPC) 

mechanism. A very low power device is 

required to have the capability to 

operate at least 6 dB below the 

maximum EIRP power spectral density 

(PSD) value of ¥5 dBm/MHz. 

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(l) * * * 

(2) * * * 

(ii) The AFC system must use ¥6 dB 

I/N as the interference protection 

criteria in determining the size of the 

adjacent channel exclusion zone, where 

I (interference) is the signal from the 

standard power access point or fixed 

client device’s out of channel emissions 

at the fixed microwave service receiver 

and N (noise) is background noise level 

at the fixed microwave service receiver. 

The adjacent channel exclusion zone 

must be calculated based on the 

emissions requirements of paragraph 

(b)(7) of this section. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 648 

[Docket No. 221223–0282; RTID 0648– 

XD631] 

Fisheries of the Northeastern United 

States; Summer Flounder Fishery; 

Quota Transfer From North Carolina to 

Connecticut 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Temporary rule; quota transfer. 

SUMMARY: NMFS announces that the 

State of North Carolina is transferring a 

portion of its 2023 commercial summer 

flounder quota to the State of 

Connecticut. This adjustment to the 

2023 fishing year quota is necessary to 

comply with the Summer Flounder, 

Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery 

Management Plan (FMP) quota transfer 

provisions. This announcement informs 

the public of the revised 2023 

commercial quotas for North Carolina 

and Connecticut. 

DATES: Effective January 5, 2024. 

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 

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: (1) the transfer or 

combinations would not preclude the 

overall annual quota from being fully 

harvested; (2) the transfer addresses an 

unforeseen variation or contingency in 

the fishery; and (3) 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 30,000 

pounds (lb; 13,608 kilograms (kg)) to 

Connecticut through a mutual 

agreement between the states. This 

transfer was requested to ensure 

Connecticut would not exceed its 2023 

quota. The revised summer flounder 

quotas for 2023 are North Carolina, 

3,001,074 lb (1,361,264 kg), and 

Connecticut, 953,031 lb (432,288 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: January 3, 2024. 

Everett Wayne Baxter, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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