11880 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 53 / Friday, March 20, 2009 / Rules and Regulations 

Register on September 26, 2008 [73 FR 

56422]. The temporary delay in effective 

date is necessary to give Department 

officials the opportunity for further 

review of the issues of law and policy 

raised by this rule. 

DATES: The effective date of the rule 

amending 45 CFR parts 302, 303, and 

307, published in the September 26, 

2008 Federal Register [73 FR 56422] is 

delayed until May 22, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Yvette Riddick, Office of Child Support 

Enforcement, Division of Policy, (202) 

401–4885. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

On September 26, 2008, we published 

a final rule following notice and 

comment period entitled ‘‘State Parent 

Locator Service; Safeguarding Child 

Support Information’’ in the Federal 

Register to address requirements for 

State Parent Locator Service responses 

to authorized location requests, State 

IV–D program safeguarding of 

confidential information, authorized 

disclosures of this information, and 

restrictions on the use of confidential 

data and information for child support 

purposes with exceptions for certain 

disclosures permitted by statute. The 

effective date given for the final rule 

was March 23, 2009. 

In the March 3, 2009 Federal Register 

[74 FR 9171], we published a notice 

with comment period entitled, ‘‘State 

Parent Locator Service; Safeguarding 

Child Support Information: Proposed 

Delay of Effective Date.’’ That notice 

solicited public comments on a 

contemplated 60-day delay in the 

effective date of the September 26, 2008 

final rule. 

II. Provisions of This Action 

This action delays the effective date of 

the September 26, 2008 final rule. The 

effective date of the September 26, 2008 

final rule, which would have been 

March 23, 2009, is now May 22, 2009. 

The delay in the effective date is 

necessary to give Department officials 

the opportunity for further review of the 

issues of law and policy raised by the 

rule. 

III. Comments Received in Response to 

the March 3, 2009 Notice 

We received fifteen comments in 

response to the March 3, 2009 notice 

with comment period on the 

contemplated 60-day delay in effective 

date of the ‘‘State Parent Locator 

Service; Safeguarding Child Support 

Information’’ final rule. Although the 

March 3, 2009 notice invited comments 

generally on whether a delay in effective 

date was needed ‘‘to allow Department 

officials the opportunity for further 

review and consideration,’’ it also 

generated focused comments 

recommending changes to several 

particular substantive areas of the final 

rule. The commenters generally 

supported delaying the effective date, 

and as a result, we are delaying the 

effective date to May 22, 2009, to allow 

sufficient time for Department officials 

to review issues of law and policy raised 

by the rule. 

A summary of the comments received 

follows. 

Comments: Three commenters 

supported delaying the implementation 

date of the final rule. Two of the 

commenters stated that the delay was 

necessary to allow additional time to 

implement the new requirements and 

the other commenter supported a delay 

in the effective date of the rule to allow 

an additional 60 days for review. One 

State submitted a comment indicating 

that it did not need an extension of the 

effective date in order to implement the 

regulation. 

Several comments addressed the 

substance of the rule rather than the 

effective date. One commenter indicated 

that the final rule appeared to prohibit 

the State IV–D agency from disclosing 

confidential information, such as child 

support payment records, to other State 

agencies, including the State food 

assistance (Food Stamps) program and 

the State revenue (Tax) program. 

Another commenter stated that a delay 

in the effective date would give the 

Administration an opportunity to 

conduct a review of the child welfare 

data exchange provisions of the rule to 

ensure that the provisions of the rule 

conform with The Fostering 

Connections to Success and Increasing 

Adoptions Act (Pub. L. 110–351), signed 

into law on October 7, 2008, after the 

rule was finalized. 

Several commenters raised specific 

policy objections to the September 26, 

2008 final rule. Two commenters raised 

concerns about the rules for disclosure 

of confidential location information. 

Another commenter stated that the 

regulations need to be reviewed and 

revised to assure significantly greater 

protection of that information from use 

for non-child support purposes. 

Additionally, a number of 

commenters focused on the disclosure 

of information to an ‘‘agent of a child’’ 

and raised concerns that some private 

collection agencies may not actually 

serve the child’s best interests and 

raised concerns that these private 

entities are not subject to ethics and 

confidentiality rules, such as those 

governing State agencies and attorneys, 

and there may be unintended adverse 

consequences of such disclosures. 

Response: The Department believes 

that the comments received on the 

notice published in the Federal Register 

on March 3, 2009 [74 FR 9171] soliciting 

comments on the temporary delay in the 

effective date of the rule generally 

support a 60-day delay until May 22, 

2009. Thus the Department is delaying 

the effective date of the final rule 60 

days to allow sufficient time for 

Department officials to review issues of 

law and policy raised by the rule. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program No. 93.563, Child Support 

Enforcement) 

Dated: March 17, 2009. 

Charles E. Johnson, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–6165 Filed 3–19–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4194–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 660 

[Docket No. 071003556–81194–02] 

RIN 0648–AW08 

Fisheries Off West Coast States; 

Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; 

Amendment 15; Correction 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Final rule; correction. 

SUMMARY: NMFS is correcting a final 

regulation that appeared in the Federal 

Register on March 10, 2009. The 

document contained the final 

regulations for a vessel license 

limitation program for the non-tribal 

sectors of the Pacific whiting fishery. 

The document was published with some 

errors, including errors in the final date 

of the application period, the final date 

of appeals period, and the effective date 

for the Pacific whiting vessel license 

requirement. This document corrects 

those errors. 

DATES: These corrections are effective 

on April 9, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Becky Renko, phone: 206–526–6110, 

fax: 206–526–6736, or e-mail: 

becky.renko@noaa.gov, or for permitting 

information, Kevin Ford, phone: 206– 

526–6115, fax: 206–526–6736, or e-mail: 

kevin.ford@noaa.gov. 

Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 53 / Friday, March 20, 2009 / Rules and Regulations 11881 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In FR Doc. 

E9–5066, appearing on page 10189 in 

the Federal Register on March 10, 2009, 

the following corrections are made: 

Corrections to Preamble 

1. On page 10190, in the second 

column, under the response to 

Comment 4, the application deadline is 

corrected to read May 11, 2009. 

2. On page 10190, in the second 

column, under the response to 

Comment 5, the application deadline 

announced is corrected to read May 11, 

2009. 

Corrections to Regulatory Text 

§ 660.306 [Corrected] 

On page 10192, in the second column, 

in § 660.306 Prohibitions, in paragraph 

(f)(1), the date of April 9, 2009, is 

corrected to read May 11, 2009. 

§ 660.333 [Corrected] 

2. On page 10192, in the third 

column, in § 660.333 Limited entry 

fishery eligibility and registration, in 

paragraph (a) the date of April 9, 2009, 

is corrected to read May 11, 2009. 

§ 660.336 [Corrected] 

3. On page 10193, in the first column, 

in § 660.336 Pacific whiting vessel 

licenses, in paragraph (a)(1) 

introductory text, the date of April 9, 

2009, is corrected to read May 11, 2009. 

4. On page 10193, in the third 

column, in § 660.336 Pacific whiting 

vessel licenses, in paragraph (a)(3)(i), 

the date of April 9, 2009, is corrected to 

read May 11, 2009 wherever it appears. 

5. On page 10194, in the first column, 

in § 660.336 Pacific whiting vessel 

licenses, in paragraph (a)(3)(ii), the date 

of April 9, 2009, is corrected to read 

May 11, 2009. 

6. On page 10194, in the first column, 

in § 660.336 Pacific whiting vessel 

licenses, in paragraph (a)(3)(iii), the date 

of May 11, 2009, is corrected to read 

June 15, 2009. 

§ 660.373 [Corrected] 

7. On page 10194, in the third 

column, § 660.373 Pacific whiting 

(whiting) fishery management, 

paragraph (a) is revised to read as 

follows: 

(a) Sectors. In order for a vessel to 

participate in a particular whiting 

fishery sector after May 11, 2009, that 

vessel must be registered for use with a 

sector-specific Pacific whiting vessel 

license under § 660.336. 

(1) The catcher/processor sector is 

composed of catcher/processors, which 

are vessels that harvest and process 

whiting during a calendar year. 

(2) The mothership sector is 

composed of motherships and catcher 

vessels that harvest whiting for delivery 

to motherships. Motherships are vessels 

that process, but do not harvest, whiting 

during a calendar year. 

(3) The shore-based sector is 

composed of vessels that harvest 

whiting for delivery to Pacific whiting 

shoreside first receivers. 

Notwithstanding the other provisions of 

50 CFR Part 660, subpart G, a vessel that 

is 75 feet or less LOA that harvests 

whiting and, in addition to heading and 

gutting, cuts the tail off and freezes the 

whiting, is not considered to be a 

catcher/processor nor is it considered to 

be processing fish. Such a vessel is 

considered a participant in the 

shorebased whiting sector, and is 

subject to regulations and allocations for 

that sector. 

* * * * * 

Dated: March 16, 2009. 

James W. Balsiger, 

Acting Assistant Administrator For Fisheries, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. E9–6139 Filed 3–18–09; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 679 

[Docket No. 0910091344–9056–02 and 

0810141351–9087–02] 

RIN 0648–XN73 

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic 

Zone Off Alaska; Sablefish Managed 

Under the Individual Fishing Quota 

Program 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Temporary rule; opening. 

SUMMARY: NMFS is opening directed 

fishing for sablefish with fixed gear 

managed under the Individual Fishing 

Quota (IFQ) Program. The season will 

open 1200 hrs, Alaska local time (A.l.t.), 

March 21, 2009, and will close 1200 hrs, 

A.l.t., November 15, 2009. This period 

is the same as the 2009 IFQ and 

Community Development Quota season 

for Pacific halibut adopted by the 

International Pacific Halibut 

Commission (IPHC). The IFQ halibut 

season is specified by a separate 

publication in the Federal Register of 

annual management measures. 

DATES: Effective 1200 hrs, A.l.t., March 

21, 2009, until 1200 hrs, A.l.t., 

November 15, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Obren Davis, 907–586–7228. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Beginning 

in 1995, fishing for Pacific halibut and 

sablefish with fixed gear in the IFQ 

regulatory areas defined in § 679.2 has 

been managed under the IFQ Program. 

The IFQ Program is a regulatory regime 

designed to promote the conservation 

and management of these fisheries and 

to further the objectives of the 

Magnuson–Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act and 

the Northern Pacific Halibut Act. 

Persons holding quota share receive an 

annual allocation of IFQ. Persons 

receiving an annual allocation of IFQ 

are authorized to harvest IFQ species 

within specified limitations. Further 

information on the implementation of 

the IFQ Program, and the rationale 

supporting it, are contained in the 

preamble to the final rule implementing 

the IFQ Program published in the 

Federal Register, November 9, 1993 (58 

FR 59375) and subsequent amendments. 

This announcement is consistent with 

§ 679.23(g)(1), which requires that the 

directed fishing season for sablefish 

managed under the IFQ Program be 

specified by the Administrator, Alaska 

Region, and announced by publication 

in the Federal Register. This method of 

season announcement was selected to 

facilitate coordination between the 

sablefish season, chosen by the 

Administrator, Alaska Region, and the 

halibut season, chosen by the IPHC. The 

directed fishing season for sablefish 

with fixed gear managed under the IFQ 

Program will open 1200 hrs, A.l.t., 

March 21, 2009, and will close 1200 hrs, 

A.l.t., November 15, 2009. This period 

runs concurrently with the IFQ season 

for Pacific halibut announced by the 

IPHC. The IFQ halibut season will be 

specified by a separate publication in 

the Federal Register of annual 

management measures pursuant to 50 

CFR 300.62. 

Classification 

This action responds to the best 

available information recently obtained 

from the fishery. The Assistant 

Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA, 

(AA), finds good cause to waive the 

requirement to provide prior notice and 

opportunity for public comment 

pursuant to the authority set forth at 5 

U.S.C. 553(b)(B) as such requirement is 

impracticable and contrary to the public 

interest. This requirement is 

impracticable and contrary to the public 

interest as it would prevent NMFS from 

responding to the most recent fisheries 

data in a timely fashion and would 

delay the opening of the sablefish 

fishery thereby increasing bycatch and 

regulatory discards between the 

sablefish fishery and the halibut fishery,