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to discontinue, reduce, or impair service 

under section 214(a) of the Act. In July 

2016, the Commission revised certain 

section 214(a) discontinuance 

procedures. To reduce burdens on 

carriers, the Commission revised its 

rules to: (1) Allow carriers to provide 

notice via email or other alternative 

methods to offer additional options to 

customers, and (2) provide for 

streamlined treatment of applications to 

discontinue services for which the 

carrier has had no existing customers or 

reasonable requests for service during 

the previous 180 days. It also addressed 

a gap in the Commission’s rules by 

making a competitive LEC’s application 

for discontinuance deemed granted on 

the effective date of any copper 

retirement that made the discontinuance 

unavoidable. The Commission further 

concluded that applicants must provide 

notice of discontinuance applications to 

federally-recognized Tribal Nations. The 

Commission estimates that there will be 

only minimal impact on the annual 

burden hours associated with 

discontinuance applications as a result 

of these revisions. Specifically, the 

Commission estimates that carriers will 

need no more than one additional hour 

per application for purposes of 

determining which, if any, Tribal 

Nations are located in the service areas 

to be affected by the planned 

discontinuance and providing such 

notice. The estimated number of 

respondents, responses, and burden 

hours associated with this collection 

differ from those set forth in the 60-day 

notice published on October 28, 2016 

(81 FR 75054), which covered 

additional section 214(a) 

discontinuance rules adopted in 2016 

that will now be addressed separately. 

As a result, the burden hours herein are 

substantially reduced from those 

contained in the 60-day notice. 

Federal Communications Commission. 

Marlene H. Dortch, 

Secretary, Office of the Secretary. 

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50 CFR Part 679 

[Docket No. 161020985–7181–02] 

RIN 0648–XF866 

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic 

Zone Off Alaska; Inseason Adjustment 

to the 2018 Bering Sea and Aleutian 

Islands Pollock, Atka Mackerel, and 

Pacific Cod Total Allowable Catch 

Amounts; Correction 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Temporary rule; inseason 

adjustment; correction. 

SUMMARY: NMFS is correcting a 

temporary rule that published on 

December 20, 2017, adjusting the 2018 

total allowable catch (TAC) amounts for 

the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands 

(BSAI) pollock, Atka mackerel, and 

Pacific cod fisheries. One table in the 

document contained an error. 

DATES: Effective January 18, 2018, until 

the effective date of the final 2018 and 

2019 harvest specifications for BSAI 

groundfish, unless otherwise modified 

or superseded through publication of a 

notification in the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Steve Whitney, 907–586–7228. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Need for Correction 

NMFS published an inseason 

adjustment of the 2018 TAC amounts for 

the BSAI pollock, Atka mackerel, and 

Pacific cod fisheries (82 FR 60329, 

December 20, 2017). A table providing 

information about the 2018 allocations 

of pollock TACs and community 

development quota (CDQ) directed 

fishing allowances (DFA) contained an 

incorrect amount in the column titled 

‘‘2018 allocations’’ and the second row 

in the Bering Sea subarea titled ‘‘CDQ 

DFA.’’ This value was specified as 

164,434 metric tons (mt), instead of the 

correct value of 136,434 mt. 

NMFS anticipates that this correction 

will not affect the fishing operations of 

the CDQ vessels that are subject to these 

DFAs. This is because of the seasonal 

allocations for the Bering Sea subarea 

CDQ DFAs are correctly specified. 

Correction 

In FR Doc. 2017–27428, published on 

December 20, 2017 (82 FR 60329), the 

following correction is made to Table 5: 

On page 60330, in Table 5, column 2 

is corrected to incorporate the correct 

amount for the Bering Sea subarea CDQ 

pollock DFA. 

Table 5 is corrected and reprinted in 

its entirety to read as follows: 

TABLE 5—FINAL 2018 ALLOCATIONS OF POLLOCK TACS TO THE DIRECTED POLLOCK FISHERIES AND TO THE CDQ 

DIRECTED FISHING ALLOWANCES (DFA) 1

[Amounts are in metric tons] 

Area and sector 2018 

Allocations 

2018 A season 1 2018 B 

season 1

A season DFA SCA harvest 

limit 2 B season DFA 

Bering Sea subarea TAC 1 .............................................................................. 1,364,341 n/a n/a n/a 

CDQ DFA ......................................................................................................... 136,434 61,395 38,202 75,039 

ICA1 ................................................................................................................. 47,888 n/a n/a n/a 

Total Bering Sea non-CDQ ...................................................................... 1,180,019 531,008 330,405 649,010

DFA 

AFA Inshore ..................................................................................................... 590,009 265,504 165,203 324,505 

AFA Catcher/Processors 3 ............................................................................... 472,007 212,403 132,162 259,604 

Catch by C/Ps .......................................................................................... 431,887 194,349 n/a 237,538 

Catch by CVs 3 ......................................................................................... 40,121 18,054 n/a 22,066 

Unlisted C/P Limit 4 ................................................................................... 2,360 1,062 n/a 1,298 

AFA Motherships ............................................................................................. 118,002 53,101 33,041 64,901 

Excessive Harvesting Limit 5 ............................................................................ 206,503 n/a n/a n/a 

Excessive Processing Limit 6 ........................................................................... 354,006 n/a n/a n/a 

Aleutian Islands subarea ABC ......................................................................... 40,788 n/a n/a n/a 

Aleutian Islands subarea TAC 1 ....................................................................... 19,000 n/a n/a n/a 


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TABLE 5—FINAL 2018 ALLOCATIONS OF POLLOCK TACS TO THE DIRECTED POLLOCK FISHERIES AND TO THE CDQ 

DIRECTED FISHING ALLOWANCES (DFA) 1—Continued 

[Amounts are in metric tons] 

Area and sector 2018 

Allocations 

2018 A season 1 2018 B 

season 1

A season DFA SCA harvest 

limit 2 B season DFA 

CDQ DFA ......................................................................................................... 1,900 760 n/a 1,140 

ICA ................................................................................................................... 2,400 1,200 n/a 1,200 

Aleut Corporation ............................................................................................. 14,700 14,355 n/a 345 

Area harvest limit 7 ........................................................................................... n/a n/a n/a n/a 

541 ............................................................................................................ 12,236 n/a n/a n/a 

542 ............................................................................................................ 6,118 n/a n/a n/a 

543 ............................................................................................................ 2,039 n/a n/a n/a 

Bogoslof District ICA8 ...................................................................................... 450 n/a n/a n/a 

1Pursuant to § 679.20(a)(5)(i)(A), the Bering Sea subarea pollock, after subtracting the CDQ DFA (10 percent) and the ICA (3.9 percent), is allocated as a DFA as follows: Inshore sector—50 percent, catcher/processor sector (C/P)—40 percent, and mothership sector—10 percent. In the 

Bering Sea subarea, 45 percent of the DFA is allocated to the A season (January 20–June 10) and 55 percent of the DFA is allocated to the B 

season (June 10–November 1). Pursuant to § 679.20(a)(5)(iii)(B)(2)(i) through (iii), the annual Aleutian Islands pollock TAC, after subtracting first 

for the CDQ directed fishing allowance (10 percent) and second for the ICA (2,400 mt), is allocated to the Aleut Corporation for a pollock directed 

fishery. In the Aleutian Islands subarea, the A season is allocated up to 40 percent of the ABC and the B season is allocated the remainder of 

the pollock directed fishery. 2 In the Bering Sea subarea, pursuant to § 679.20(a)(5)(i)(C), no more than 28 percent of each sector’s annual DFA may be taken from the 

SCA before noon, April 1. 3Pursuant to § 679.20(a)(5)(i)(A)(4), not less than 8.5 percent of the DFA allocated to listed catcher/processors shall be available for harvest 

only by eligible catcher vessels delivering to listed catcher/processors. 4Pursuant to § 679.20(a)(5)(i)(A)(4)(iii), the AFA unlisted catcher/processors are limited to harvesting not more than 0.5 percent of the catcher/ 

processors sector’s allocation of pollock. 5Pursuant to § 679.20(a)(5)(i)(A)(6), NMFS establishes an excessive harvesting share limit equal to 17.5 percent of the sum of the non-CDQ 

pollock DFAs. 6Pursuant to § 679.20(a)(5)(i)(A)(7), NMFS establishes an excessive processing share limit equal to 30.0 percent of the sum of the non-CDQ 

pollock DFAs. 7Pursuant to § 679.20(a)(5)(iii)(B)(6), NMFS establishes harvest limits for pollock in the A season in Area 541 of no more than 30 percent, in 

Area 542 of no more than 15 percent, and in Area 543 of no more than 5 percent of the Aleutian Islands pollock ABC. 8Pursuant to § 679.22(a)(7)(i)(B), the Bogoslof District is closed to directed fishing for pollock. The amounts specified are for ICA only and are 

not apportioned by season or sector. 

Note: Seasonal or sector apportionments may not total precisely due to rounding. 

Classification 

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 

correcting amendment makes changes to 

correct the amount of Bering Sea 

subarea CDQ pollock DFA in Table 5, as 

described above, and does not change 

operating practices in the fisheries. If 

this correction is delayed to allow for 

notice and comment, it would result in 

confusion for participants in the 

fisheries. Therefore, in order to avoid 

any negative consequences that could 

result from this error, the AA finds good 

cause to waive the requirement to 

provide prior notice and opportunity for 

public comment. 

The AA also finds good cause to 

waive the 30-day delay in the effective 

date of this action under 5 U.S.C. 

553(d)(3). This correcting amendment 

makes only a minor change to correct 

the amount of Bering Sea subarea CDQ 

pollock DFA in Table 5, and does not 

change operating practices in the 

fisheries. This correction would also 

avoid any confusion for participants in 

the fisheries. For these reasons, the AA 

finds good cause to waive the 30-day 

delay in the effective date of this action. 

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

Dated: January 12, 2018. 

Emily H. Menashes, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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