24970 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 87 /Wednesday, May 6, 1998 /Rules and Regulations

Background

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Current FEMA regulations at 44 CFR

206.206 and 206.440 provide for a threestage appellate process, with appeals

directed to the Regional Director, the

Associate Director, and to the Director.

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(b) On page 17111, in the first

column, § 206.206(e)(2) is corrected to

read as follows:

§ 206.206 Appeals

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(e) * * *

(2) Appeals pending from a decision

of an Associate Director/Executive

Associate Director before May 8, 1998

may be appealed to the Director in

accordance with 44 CFR 206.206 as it

existed before May 8, 1998 (44 CFR,

revised as of October 1, 1997).

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Dated: April 28, 1998.

James L. Witt,

Director.

[FR Doc. 98–12007 Filed 5–5–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6718–02–P

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 73

[MM Docket Nos. 94–76, 94–77, and 95–

51, RMs–8470, 8477, 8523, 8524, and 8591]

Radio Broadcasting Services; Chester,

Shasta Lake City, Alturas, McCloud,

Weaverville, and Shingletown,

California.

AGENCY: Federal Communications

Commission.

ACTION: Final rule; petition for

reconsideration.

SUMMARY: The Commission denied the

petitions for reconsideration, filed by

JAYNE sawyer d/b/a m. JAYNE

enterprises of the Report and Order in

MM Dockets No. 94–76 and 94–77, 61

FR 24242, published May 14, 1996, and

of the Report and Order in MM Docket

95–51, 61 FR 40746, published August

6, 1996. It also affirms both Report and

Orders and their respective allotting of

FM channels to six California

communities, which accommodated all

requests for FM channels made by each

of the petitioners for rule making. With

this action, the proceeding is

terminated.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 6, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: J.

Bertron Withers, Jr., Mass Media

Bureau, (202) 418–2180.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: This is a

summary of the Commission’s

Memorandum Opinion and Order, MM

Docket Nos. 94–76, 94–77, and 95–51,

adopted April 15, 1998 and released

April 24, 1998. The full text of this

Commission decision is available for

inspection and copying during normal

business hours in Commission’s

Reference Center (Room 239), 1919 M

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20554. The

complete text of this decision may also

be purchased from the Commission’s

copy contractor, International

Transcription Services, 1231 20th

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20036,

(202) 857–3800.

List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73

Radio broadcasting.

Federal Communications Commission.

Charles W. Logan,

Chief, Policy and Rules Division, Mass Media

Bureau.

[FR Doc. 98–11950 Filed 5–5–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

50 CFR Parts 600 and 660

[Docket No.971229312–7312–01; I.D.

042398C]

Fisheries off West Coast States and in

the Western Pacific; Pacific Coast

Groundfish Fishery; Trip Limit

Increases

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Fishing restrictions; request for

comments.

SUMMARY: NMFS announces changes to

the restrictions to the Pacific Coast

groundfish limited entry and open

access fisheries for widow rockfish,

yellowtail rockfish, Dover sole,

thornyheads, and sablefish (taken with

trawl or fixed gear); and in the open

access fishery for bocaccio taken with

hook-and-line or pot gear, and for

thornyheads caught in the pink shrimp

trawl fishery. These restrictions are

intended to extend the fisheries as long

as possible during the year and to keep

landings within the 1998 harvest

guidelines (HGs) and allocations for

these species. This document also

corrects an error in the annual

specifications and management

measures for the Pacific Coast fishery

published January 6, 1998.

DATES: Effective 0001 hours local time

(l.t.) May 1, 1998, except for the trip

limit for vessels operating in the ‘‘B’’

platoon, which will become effective at

0001 hours l.t. May 16, 1998. Effective

at 0001 hours l.t. May 3, 1998, for

vessels operating in the limited entry,

fixed gear sablefish fishery south of 36°

N. lat. These changes are in effect,

unless modified, superceded or

rescinded, until the effective date of the

1999 annual specifications and

management measures for the Pacific

Coast Groundfish fishery, which will be

published in the Federal Register.

Comments will be accepted through

May 21, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments to

William Stelle, Jr., Administrator,

Northwest Region (Regional

Administrator), NMFS, 7600 Sand Point

Way NE., BIN C15700, Bldg. 1, Seattle,

WA 98115–0070; or William Hogarth,

Administrator, Southwest Region,

NMFS, 501 West Ocean Blvd., Suite

4200, Long Beach, CA 90802–4213.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

William L. Robinson, Northwest Region,

NMFS, 206–526–6140; or Svein

Fougner, Southwest Region, NMFS,

562–980–4040.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

following changes to current

management measures were

recommended by the Pacific Fishery

Management Council (Council), in

consultation with the States of

Washington, Oregon, and California, at

its April 6 to 10, 1998, meeting in

Portland, OR.

Increases to Limited Entry 2-Month

Cumulative Limits

El Nino climate changes have created

unusually severe winter weather

conditions off the Pacific Coast.

Hazardous weather has led to lower

groundfish landings than the Council

had expected when it recommended the

1998 limited entry cumulative trip

limits at its November 1997 meeting.

Preliminary landing estimates for the

first quarter of 1998 indicate, that if the

fishery were to continue under current

restrictions, the groundfish fleet would

not achieve the HGs or allocations for

several of the groundfish species

managed with cumulative trip limits.

For this reason, the Council

recommended at its April 1998 meeting

to raise the 2-month cumulative trip

limits by 20 percent for some of the

major groundfish species landed by the

limited entry fishery, which also results

in increases to the 60 percent limits in

the limited entry fishery and to the 50

percent limits in the open access

fishery. (For more information, see