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(D) No Obligation for Future

Funding—If an application is selected

for funding, DOC and DOI have no

obligation to provide any additional

future funding in connection with that

award. Renewal of an award to increase

funding or extend the period of

performance is at the total discretion of

DOC and DOI.

(E) Delinquent Federal Debts—No

award of Federal funds shall be made to

an applicant who has an outstanding

delinquent Federal debt until either:

(1) The delinquent account is paid in

full,

(2) A negotiated repayment schedule

is established and at least one payment

is received, or

(3) Other arrangements satisfactory to

DOC or DOI are made.

(F) Name Check Review—All nonprofit and for-profit applicants are

subject to a name check review process.

Name checks are intended to reveal if

any key individuals associated with the

applicant have been convicted of or are

presently facing criminal charges such

as fraud, theft, perjury, or other matters

which significantly reflect on the

applicant’s management honesty or

financial integrity.

(G) False Statements—A false

statement on an application is grounds

for denial or termination of funds and

grounds for possible punishment by a

fine or imprisonment as provided in 18

U.S.C. 1001.

(H) Intergovernmental Review—

Applications for support from the

National Sea Grant College Program are

not subject to Executive Order 12372,

‘‘Intergovernmental Review of Federal

Programs. Applications for support from

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are

subject to Executive Order 12372,

‘‘Intergovernmental Review of Federal

Programs.’’

(I) Purchase of American-Made

Equipment and Products—Applicants

are hereby notified that they will be

encouraged to the greatest extent

practicable, to purchase American-made

equipment and products with funding

provided under this program.

IX. Classification

Prior notice and an opportunity for

public comments are not required by the

Administrative Procedure Act or any

other law for this notice concerning

grants, benefits, and contracts.

Therefore, a regulatory flexibility

analysis is not required for purposes of

the Regulatory Flexibility Act.

This action has been determined to be

not significant for purposes of E.O.

12866.

This notice contains collection of

information requirements subject to the

Paperwork Reduction Act. The Sea

Grant Budget Form and Standard Forms

424, 424a, and 424b have been approved

under control numbers 0648–0034,

0348–0043, 0348–0044, and 0348–0040

with average responses estimated to take

15, 45, 180, and 15 minutes,

respectively. These estimates include

the time for reviewing instructions,

searching existing data sources,

gathering and maintaining the data

needed, and completing and reviewing

the collection of information. Send

comments on these estimates or any

other aspect of these collections to

National Sea Grant College Program,

R/SG, NOAA, 1315 East-West Highway,

Silver Spring, MD 20910 (Attention:

Leon M. Cammen) and to the Office of

Information and Regulatory Affairs,

Office of Management and Budget,

Washington, DC 20503 (Attention:

NOAA Desk Officer). Notwithstanding

any other provision of the law, no

person is required to respond to, nor

shall any person be subject to a penalty

for failure to comply with, a collection

of information subject to the

requirements of the Paperwork

Reduction Act, unless that collection of

information displays a currently valid

OMB Control Number.

Dated: May 20, 1998.

Alan R. Thomas,

Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of

Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, National

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Dated: May 20, 1998.

Gary B. Edwards,

Assistant Director—Fisheries, U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service.

[FR Doc. 98–13943 Filed 5–26–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–12–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 051898D]

North Pacific Fishery Management

Council; Public Meetings

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of meetings of the North

Pacific Fishery Management Council

(Council) and its advisory bodies.

SUMMARY: The Council and its advisory

committees will meet in Dutch Harbor,

AK.

DATES: The meetings will be held during

the week of June 8, 1998.

ADDRESSES: The Council and Scientific

and Statistical Committee (SSC) will

meet at the Grand Aleutian Hotel in

Dutch Harbor, AK. The Advisory Panel

(AP) will meet at the UniSea Galley

Conference Room in the UniSea Central

Building.

Council address: North Pacific

Fishery Management Council, 605 W.

4th Ave., Suite 306, Anchorage, AK

99501–2252.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Council staff, telephone: 907–271–2809.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: All

meetings are open to the public with the

exception of Council executive sessions,

which may be held during the noon

hour during the meeting week, if

necessary, to discuss personnel,

international issues, or litigation.

The SSC will meet beginning at 8:00

a.m. on Monday, June 8, continuing

through at least Wednesday, June 10.

The AP will begin meeting at 8:00

a.m. on Monday, June 8, and continue

through a portion of Friday, June 12.

The Council’s regular plenary session

will begin at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday,

June 10, and continue through a portion

of Monday, June 15, 1998.

Other workgroup or committee

meetings may be held during the week.

Notices of these meetings will be posted

at the hotel.

The agenda for the Council’s plenary

session will include the following

issues. The Council may take

appropriate action on any of the issues

identified.

1. Reports from the NMFS and Alaska

Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G)

on the current status of the fisheries off

Alaska, and enforcement reports from

the U.S. Coast Guard and NMFS

Enforcement.

2. Final action on allocation of

pollock between inshore and offshore

fisheries.

3. Final action on an amendment to

the fishery management plans to

incorporate essential fish habitat

information as required by the

Magnuson-Stevens Act Fishery

Conservation and Management Act

(Magnuson-Stevens Act).

4. Final action on an amendment to

close a 4–mile by 4–mile area off Sitka

(Cape Edgecumbe Pinnacles) to protect

habitat important for juvenile rockfish

and lingcod.

5. Final action on an amendment to

extend the existing vessel moratorium..

6. Preliminary review of proposed

amendments to the license limitation

program for groundfish and crab.

7. Status report on NMFS guidelines

for vessel buyback programs.

8. Final action on an amendment to

roll over the current pollock community
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development (CDQ) program in the

Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (BSAI), and

a committee and status report on the

implementation of the multispecies

CDQ program.

9. Status report on the development of

the joint partnership agreement for the

Council’s observer program and final

action to extend existing program.

10. Status report on Council

compliance with the Sustainable

Fisheries Act.

11. Groundfish amendments

scheduled for action are as follows:

a. Final action on an amendment to

ban bottom trawling in the BSAI pollock

fishery.

b. Final action on amendments for

revised overfishing definitions for the

groundfish, salmon, scallop, and BSAI

king and Tanner crab fisheries.

c. Final action on an amendment to

separate Atka mackerel in the BSAI by

season and subarea.

d. Final action on request for

experimental fishing permit.

12. Committee report from the

combined Vessel Bycatch Allowance/

Halibut Mortality Avoidance Program/

Individual Vessel Checklist Program

and further direction to staff.

Although other issues not contained

in this agenda may come before this

Council for discussion, in accordance

with the Magnuson-Stevens Act, those

issues may not be the subject of formal

Council action during the meeting.

Council action will be restricted to those

issues specifically identified in the

agenda listed in this notice.

Special Accommodations

These meetings are physically

accessible to people with disabilities.

Requests for sign language

interpretation or other auxiliary aids

should be directed to Helen Allen, 907–

271–2809, at least 7 working days prior

to the meeting date.

Dated: May 19, 1998.

Gary C. Matlock,

Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries,

National Marine Fisheries Service.

[FR Doc. 98–13978 Filed 5–21–98; 4:03 pm]

BILLING CODE 3510–22–F

COMMITTEE FOR THE

IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE

AGREEMENTS

Adjustment of Import Limits for Certain

Cotton and Man-Made Fiber Textiles

and Textile Products Produced or

Manufactured in Indonesia

May 20, 1998.

AGENCY: Committee for the

Implementation of Textile Agreements

(CITA).

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the

Commissioner of Customs adjusting

limits.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 27, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Janet Heinzen, International Trade

Specialist, Office of Textiles and

Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce,

(202) 482–4212. For information on the

quota status of these limits, refer to the

Quota Status Reports posted on the

bulletin boards of each Customs port or

call (202) 927–5850. For information on

embargoes and quota re-openings, call

(202) 482–3715.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority: Section 204 of the Agricultural

Act of 1956, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1854);

Executive Order 11651 of March 3, 1972, as

amended.

The current limits for certain

categories are being adjusted for special

shift.

A description of the textile and

apparel categories in terms of HTS

numbers is available in the

CORRELATION: Textile and Apparel

Categories with the Harmonized Tariff

Schedule of the United States (see

Federal Register notice 62 FR 66057,

published on December 17, 1997). Also

see 62 FR 67625, published on

December 29, 1997.

Troy H. Cribb,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation

of Textile Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile

Agreements

May 20, 1998.

Commissioner of Customs,

Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC

20229.

Dear Commissioner: This directive

amends, but does not cancel, the directive

issued to you on December 19, 1997, by the

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation

of Textile Agreements. That directive

concerns imports of certain cotton, wool,

man–made fiber, silk blend and other

vegetable fiber textiles and textile products,

produced or manufactured in Indonesia and

exported during the twelve-month period

which began on January 1, 1998 and extends

through December 31, 1998.

Effective on May 27, 1998, you are directed

to adjust the limits for the categories listed

below, as provided for under the Uruguay

Round Agreement on Textiles and Clothing:

Category Adjusted twelve-month

limit 1

Levels in Group I

219 ........................... 9,195,380 square meters.

313–O 2 .................... 14,185,416 square

meters.

314–O 3 .................... 58,831,359 square

meters.

315–O 4 .................... 28,070,013 square

meters.

317–O/617/326–0 5 .. 25,642,902 square

meters of which not

more than 3,834,249

square meters shall

be in 326–O.

331/631 .................... 2,011,739 dozen pairs.

338/339 .................... 1,291,007 dozen.

340/640 .................... 1,479,074 dozen.

341 ........................... 912,581 dozen.

347/348 .................... 1,748,901 dozen.

350/650 .................... 118,668 dozen.

351/651 .................... 516,721 dozen.

625/626/627/628/

629–O 6.

27,198,923 square

meters.

638/639 .................... 1,345,321 dozen.

641 ........................... 2,281,265 dozen.

647/648 .................... 3,164,825 dozen.

1The limit has not been adjusted to account

for any imports exported after December 31,

1997. 2 Category 313–O: all HTS numbers except

5208.52.3035, 5208.52.4035 and

5209.51.6032. 3 Category 314–O: all HTS numbers except

5209.51.6015. 4 Category 315–O: all HTS numbers except

5208.52.4055. 5 Category 617; Category 317–O: all HTS

numbers except 5208.59.2085; Category 326–

O: all HTS numbers except 5208.59.2015,

5209.59.0015 and 5211.59.0015. 6 Categories 625/626/627/628; Category

629–O: all HTS numbers except 5408.34.9085

and 5516.24.0085.

The Committee for the Implementation of

Textile Agreements has determined that

these actions fall within the foreign affairs

exception to the rulemaking provisions of 5

U.S.C. 553(a)(1).

Sincerely,

Troy H. Cribb,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation

of Textile Agreements.

[FR Doc.98–13945 Filed 5–26–98; 8:45 am]

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