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3. By amending § 219.201 by revising

the introductory text of paragraphs (a)(1)

and (a)(2), and by revising paragraph

(a)(4) to read as follows:

§ 219.201 Events for which testing is

required.

(a) * * *

(1) Major train accident. Any train

accident (i.e., a rail equipment accident

involving damage in excess of the

current reporting threshold, $6,300 for

calendar years 1991 through 1996,

$6,500 for calendar year 1997, $6,600

for calendar years 1998 through 2001)

that involves one or more of the

following:

* * * * *

(2) Impact accident. An impact

accident (i.e., a rail equipment accident

defined as an ‘‘impact accident’’ in

§ 219.5 of this part that involves damage

in excess of the current reporting

threshold, $6,300 for calendar years

1991 through 1996, $6,500 for calendar

year 1997, and $6,600 for calendar years

1998 through 2001) resulting in—

* * * * *

(4) Passenger train accident.

Reportable injury to any person in a

train accident (i.e., a rail equipment

accident involving damage in excess of

the current reporting threshold, $6,300

for calendar years 1991 through 1996,

$6,500 for calendar year 1997, and

$6,600 for calendar years 1998 through

2001) involving a passenger train.

* * * * *

PART 225—RAILROAD ACCIDENTS/

INCIDENTS: REPORTS

CLASSIFICATION, AND

INVESTIGATIONS [AMENDED]

1. The authority citation for part 225

is revised to read as follows:

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 20103, 20107, 20901,

20902, 21302, 21311; 49 U.S.C. 103; 49 CFR

1.49.

2. By amending § 225.19 by revising

the first sentence of paragraph (c) and

paragraph (e) to read as follows:

§ 225.19 Primary groups of accidents/

incidents.

* * * * *

(c) Rail equipment accidents/

incidents are collisions, derailments,

fires, explosions, acts of God, and other

events involving the operation of ontrack equipment (standing or moving)

that result in damages higher than the

current reporting threshold (i.e., $6,300

for calendar years 1991 through 1996,

$6,500 for calendar year 1997, and

$6,600 for calendar years 1998 through

2001) to railroad on-track equipment,

signals, tracks, track structures, or

roadbed, including labor costs and the

costs for acquiring new equipment and

material. * * *

* * * * *

(e) The reporting threshold is $6,300

for calendar years 1991 through 1996.

The reporting threshold is $6,500 for

calendar year 1997 and $6,600 for

calendar years 1998 through 2001. The

procedure for determining the reporting

threshold for calendar year 1997 and

later appears as appendix B to part 225.

* * * * *

4. Part 225 is amended by revising

paragraphs 8 and 9 of appendix B to

read as follows:

Appendix B to Part 225—Procedure for

Determining Reporting Threshold

* * * * *

8. Formula:

New Threshold = Prior Threshold 1 + 0.5

Wn En

× ( ) − +

 ( ) − 









Wp

Wp

Ep 0 5

100 .

Where:

Prior Threshold = $6,600 (for rail equipment

accidents/incidents that occur during

calendar year 2000)

Wn = New average hourly wage rate ($) =

17.763333

Wp = Prior average hourly wage rate ($) =

17.888333

En = New equipment average PPI value ($)

= 135.63333

Ep = Prior equipment average PPI value ($)

= 134.89166

9. The result of these calculations is

$6,601.4157. Since the result is rounded to

the nearest $100, the new reporting threshold

for rail equipment accidents/incidents that

occur during calendar year 2001 is $6,600,

which is the same as for calendar years 1998

through 2000.

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 9,

2000.

Jolene M. Molitoris,

Administrator, Federal Railroad

Administration.

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

50 CFR Part 648

[Docket No. 000119014-0137-02; I.D.

080700C]

Fisheries of the Northeastern United

States; Summer Flounder, Scup, and

Black Sea Bass Fisheries;

Adjustments to the 2000 Summer

Flounder, Scup and Black Sea Bass

Commercial Quotas

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Commercial quota adjustment

for 2000; correction.

SUMMARY: NMFS corrects the 2000

commercial summer flounder quota

allocated to the State of Maryland. This

action complies with the regulations

that implement the Fishery Management

Plan for the Summer Flounder, Scup,

and Black Sea Bass Fisheries (FMP),

which specify that summer flounder

landings in excess of a given state’s

individual commercial quota be

deducted from that state’s quota for the

following year. The intent of this action

is to correct for the deduction of an

overage from the Maryland allocation

that was made in error.

DATES: Effective November 20, 2000,

through December 31, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul

H. Jones, Fisheries Policy Analyst, (978)

281-9273, fax 978-281-9135, e-mail

paul.h.jones@noaa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On August 18, 2000 (65 FR 50463),

NMFS announced preliminary

adjustments to the 2000 summer

flounder commercial quotas based on

updated 1999 landings data. However,

after the publication of that adjustment,

NMFS discovered that some summer

flounder landings reported by the State

of Maryland in 1999 were doublecounted, meaning that the final 1999

landings did not exceed that state’s

quota.

Therefore, this document corrects the

entries for Maryland specified in Table

1, Summer Flounder Preliminary 1999

Landings and Overages by State; and

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Table 2, Summer Flounder Preliminary

Adjusted 2000 Quotas by State, as

published at 65 FR 50463, August 18,

2000, (FR Doc. 00-21100).

Corrections

Table 1. Summer Flounder

Preliminary 1999 Landings and

Overages by State, is corrected as

follows:

On page 50464, in the fourth column,

under the heading ‘‘Preliminary 1999

Landings’’, and under the subheading

‘‘Lb’’, in the ninth line, ‘‘234,358’’ is

corrected to read ‘‘200,997’’; in the last

line, the total ‘‘10,653,199’’ is corrected

to read ‘‘10,619,838’’, and in the fifth

column of the table, under the

subheading ‘‘Kg’’, in the ninth line,

‘‘106,303’’ is corrected to read ‘‘91,172’’;

in the last line, the total ‘‘4,832,209’’ is

corrected to read ‘‘4,817,159’’. In the

sixth column of the table, under the

heading ‘‘1999 Overage’’, and under the

subheading ‘‘Lb’’, in the ninth line,

‘‘32,004’’ is corrected to read ‘‘0’’; and

in the seventh column of the table,

under the subheading ‘‘Kg’’, in the ninth

line, ‘‘14,517’’ is corrected to read ‘‘0’’.

Table 2. Summer Flounder

Preliminary Adjusted 2000 Quotas by

State, is corrected as follows:

On page 50464, in the fourth column,

under the heading ‘‘2000 Adjusted

Quota’’, and under the subheading

‘‘Lb’’, in the ninth line, ‘‘194,564’’ is

corrected to read ‘‘226,568’’; in the last

line, the total ‘‘10,882,897’’ is corrected

to read ‘‘10,914,901’’; and in the fifth

column of the table, under the

subheading ‘‘Kg’’, in the ninth line,

‘‘88,253’’ is corrected to read ‘‘102,771’’;

in the last line, the total ‘‘4,936,398’’ is

corrected to read ‘‘4,950,999’’.

Classification

This action is required by 50 CFR part

648 and is exempt from review under

Executive Order 12866.

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

Dated: November 15, 2000.

Bruce C. Morehead,

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

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