20526 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 75 / Tuesday, April 20, 2010 / Rules and Regulations 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

Copyright Office 

37 CFR Part 201 

[Docket No. RM 2010–1] 

Section 111 and Interest Payments 

AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of 

Congress. 

ACTION: Final rule: technical 

amendment. 

SUMMARY: The Copyright Office makes a 

technical amendment to its rule on 

interest payments by cable operators. 

DATES: This technical amendment is 

effective April 20, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ben 

E. Golant, Assistant General Counsel or 

Tanya M. Sandros, Deputy General 

Counsel, Copyright GC/I&R, P.O. Box 

70400, Washington, DC 20024. 

Telephone: (202) 707–8380. Telefax: 

(202) 707–8366. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Cable 

systems submitting statutory payments 

in an untimely fashion, or who have 

underpaid the amount due, must 

include the proper interest charge along 

with their royalties. See Assessment of 

Interest Regarding the Cable 

Compulsory License, 54 FR 14217, 

14220–21 (Apr. 10, 1989). It has been 

the Office’s longstanding practice that 

interest is not due when the amount has 

been less than or equal to five dollars. 

Section 201.17(i)(2)(iii) had codified 

this practice. However, this rule was 

inadvertently removed when the Office 

updated its electronic funds transfer 

requirements four years ago. Prior to the 

adoption of these regulations, Section 

201.17(i)(2)(iii) read as follows, ‘‘Interest 

is not required to be paid on any royalty 

underpayment or late payment from a 

particular accounting period if the 

interest charge is less than or equal to 

five dollars.’’ To correct this error we are 

amending Section 201.17(i)(4) to restore 

this language on the five dollar 

threshold. 

List of Subjects in 37 CFR Part 201 

Copyright, General provisions. 

Final Rule 

■ In consideration of the foregoing, part 

201 of 37 CFR chapter II is amended as 

follows: 

PART 201—GENERAL PROVISIONS 

■ 1.The authority citation for part 201 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 17 U.S.C. 702. 

§ 201.17 [Amended] 

■ 2. Amend § 201.17(i)(4) by adding 

‘‘Interest is not required to be paid on 

any royalty underpayment or late 

payment from a particular accounting 

period if the interest charge is less than 

or equal to five dollars.’’ after ‘‘then the 

accrual period shall end on the date of 

the actual receipt by the Copyright 

Office.’’ 

Dated: April 14, 2010 

Tanya Sandros, 

Deputy General Counsel, 

U.S. Copyright Office 

[FR Doc. 2010–8970 Filed 4–19–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1410–30–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 679 

[Docket No. 0911161406–0170–03] 

RIN 0648–AY37 

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic 

Zone Off Alaska; Individual Fishing 

Quota Program; Correction 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Final rule; correction. 

SUMMARY: This action corrects a final 

rule published on December 15, 2008, 

that revised the Individual Fishing 

Quota (IFQ) Program for the sablefish 

and halibut fisheries off Alaska. The 

December 2008 final rule erroneously 

removed a paragraph requiring the IFQ 

permit holder be aboard the vessel at all 

times during a fishing trip and be 

present during the landing of harvested 

fish. This action corrects the error by 

restoring the removed paragraph, 

thereby eliminating the public’s 

possible confusion about the program’s 

owner-on-board requirements and 

restoring NMFS’ ability to enforce the 

provision. This action is intended to 

promote the goals and objectives of the 

Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982 

(Halibut Act), the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), and other 

applicable law. 

DATES: Effective April 20, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Patsy A. Bearden, 907–586–7228. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The IFQ Program, a limited access 

management system for the fixed gear 

Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus 

stenolepis) and sablefish (Anoplopoma 

fimbria) fisheries off Alaska, was 

recommended by the Council in 1992 

and approved by NMFS in January 

1993. Initial implementing rules were 

published on November 9, 1993 (58 FR 

59375). Fishing under the IFQ program 

began on March 15, 1995. The IFQ 

Program limits access to the halibut and 

sablefish fisheries to those persons 

holding quota share (QS) in specific 

management regions. The IFQ Program 

for the sablefish fishery is implemented 

by Amendment 15 to the Fishery 

Management Plan for the Groundfish 

Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian 

Islands area (BSAI), Amendment 20 to 

the FMP for Groundfish Fishery of the 

Gulf of Alaska (GOA), and implemented 

by Federal regulations at 50 CFR part 

679 under authority of the MagnusonStevens Act. The IFQ Program for the 

halibut fishery is implemented by 

Federal regulations at 50 CFR part 679 

under the authority of the Halibut Act. 

The IFQ Program’s principal 

management measures, with certain 

exceptions, were: to limit the amount of 

QS that could be used by any person; to 

limit the amount of IFQ halibut or 

sablefish that could be harvested on a 

vessel; and for catcher vessels, to 

require the IFQ permit holder to be 

onboard the vessel during fishing 

operations. An IFQ permit authorizes 

participation in fixed-gear harvests of 

Pacific halibut off Alaska, and most 

sablefish fisheries off Alaska. The 

requirement for the IFQ permit holder to 

be on board the vessel at all times 

during the fishing trip and to be present 

at the landing of fish ensures active 

participation in the fishery by IFQ 

permit holders, which has an important 

objective of the Council. The 

requirement also guaranteed the IFQ 

permit holder’s presence at landing for 

interviews by the enforcement 

personnel and to resolve any issues 

regarding QS account management, 

such as landing fish in excess of the 

permit holder’s IFQ account. Although 

the requirement was published in the 

IFQ program’s initial regulations in 

1993, the regulatory text was revised at 

paragraph 679.42(c)(1)(ii) by a final rule 

(68 FR 44473) published July 29, 2003. 

Need for Correction 

On June 29, 2007, NMFS published a 

proposed rule to implement a new 

Internet-based fisheries landings 

information system, called ‘‘eLandings,’’ 

and revise other recordkeeping and 


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