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EPA-APPROVED MICHIGAN NONREGULATORY AND QUASI-REGULATORY PROVISIONS

Name of nonregulatory 

SIP provision 

Applicable 

geographic 

or nonattainment area 

State submittal 

date EPA approval date Comments 

*******

Section 110(a)(2) Infrastructure Requirements 

for the 2006 24-Hour 

PM2.5 NAAQS.

Statewide .... 8/15/2011, 

7/9/2012 

8/24/2015, [Insert page 

number where the document begins].

This action addresses the following CAA elements: 

110(a)(2)(A), (B), (C), (D)(i)(II), (D)(ii), (E), (F), (G), 

(H), (J), (K), (L), and (M). We are not taking action 

on the visibility protection requirements of (D)(i)(II) 

and the state board requirements of (E)(ii). We will 

address these requirements in a separate action. 

*******

■ 3. Section 52.2591 is amended by 

revising paragraph (c) to read as follows: 

§ 52.2591 Section 110(a)(2) Infrastructure 

Requirements. 

* * * * * 

(c) Approval and Disapproval — In a 

January 24, 2011, submittal, 

supplemented on March 28, 2011, and 

June 29, 2012, Wisconsin certified that 

the State has satisfied the infrastructure 

SIP requirements of section 110(a)(2)(A) 

through (H), and (J) through (M) for the 

2006 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS. EPA is 

approving Wisconsin’s submission 

addressing the infrastructure SIP 

requirements of section 110(a)(2)(A), 

(B), (C) with respect to enforcement and 

the GHG permitting threshold PSD 

requirement, (D)(i)(II) with respect to 

the GHG permitting threshold PSD 

requirement and visibility protection, 

(D)(ii), (E) except for state board 

requirements, (F) through (H), (J) except 

for narrow prevention of significant 

deterioration requirements, and (K) 

through (M). We are not finalizing 

action on (D)(i)(I), the state board 

requirements of (E)(ii), and the PSD 

requirement of NOX as a precursor to 

ozone in (C), (D)(i)(II), and (J). We will 

address these requirements in a separate 

action. We are disapproving narrow 

portions of Wisconsin’s infrastructure 

SIP submission addressing the relevant 

prevention of significant deterioration 

requirements of the 2008 NSR Rule 

(identifying PM2.5 precursors and the 

regulation of PM2.5 and PM10

condensables in permits) with respect to 

section 110(a)(2)(C), (D)(i)(II), and (J). 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

40 CFR Part 271 

[EPA–R04–RCRA–2015–0294; FRL–9932– 

93–Region 4] 

North Carolina: Final Authorization of 

State Hazardous Waste Management 

Program Revisions 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Direct final rule. 

SUMMARY: North Carolina has applied to 

the United States Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) for final 

authorization of changes to its 

hazardous waste program under the 

Resource Conservation and Recovery 

Act (RCRA). EPA has determined that 

these changes satisfy all requirements 

needed to qualify for final authorization, 

and is authorizing the State’s changes 

through this direct final rule. In the 

‘‘Proposed Rules’’ section of today’s 

Federal Register, EPA is also publishing 

a separate document that serves as the 

proposal to authorize these changes. 

EPA believes this action is not 

controversial and does not expect 

comments that oppose it. Unless EPA 

receives written comments that oppose 

this authorization during the comment 

period, the decision to authorize North 

Carolina’s changes to its hazardous 

waste program will take effect. If EPA 

receives comments that oppose this 

action, EPA will publish a document in 

the Federal Register withdrawing 

today’s direct final rule before it takes 

effect, and the separate document 

published in today’s ‘‘Proposed Rules’’ 

section of this Federal Register will 

serve as the proposal to authorize the 

changes. 

DATES: This final authorization will 

become effective on October 23, 2015 

unless EPA receives adverse written 

comment by September 23, 2015. If EPA 

receives such comment, EPA will 

publish a timely withdrawal of this 

direct final rule in the Federal Register 

and inform the public that this 

authorization will not take effect. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by Docket ID No. EPA–R04– 

RCRA–2015–0294, by one of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Email: gleaton.gwen@epa.gov. 

• Fax: (404) 562–9964 (prior to 

faxing, please notify the EPA contact 

listed below). 

• Mail: Send written comments to 

Gwendolyn Gleaton, RCRA Programs 

and Materials Management Section, 

Materials and Waste Management 

Branch, Resource Conservation and 

Restoration Division, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Atlanta Federal Center, 61 Forsyth 

Street SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303– 

8960. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: Deliver 

your comments to Gwendolyn Gleaton, 

RCRA Programs and Materials 

Management Section, Materials and 

Waste Management Branch, Resource 

Conservation and Restoration Division, 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Atlanta Federal Center, 61 Forsyth 

Street SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303– 

8960. Such deliveries are only accepted 

during the Regional Office’s normal 

hours of operation, and special 

arrangements should be made for 

deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions: EPA must receive your 

comments by September 23, 2015. 

Direct your comments to Docket ID No. 

EPA–R04–RCRA–2015–0294. EPA’s 

policy is that all comments received 

will be included in the public docket 

without change and may be made 

available online at www.regulations.gov, 

including any personal information 

provided, unless the comment includes 

information claimed to be Confidential 


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Business Information (CBI), or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Do not submit 

information that you consider to be CBI 

or otherwise protected through 

www.regulations.gov or email. The 

www.regulations.gov Web site is an 

‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means EPA will not know your identity 

or contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

If you send an email comment directly 

to EPA without going through 

www.regulations.gov, your email 

address will be automatically captured 

and included as part of the comment 

that is placed in the public docket and 

made publicly available on the Internet. 

If you submit an electronic comment, 

EPA recommends that you include your 

name and other contact information in 

the body of your comment and with any 

disk or CD–ROM you submit. If EPA 

cannot read your comment due to 

technical difficulties and cannot contact 

you for clarification, EPA may not be 

able to consider your comment. 

Electronic files should avoid the use of 

special characters, any form of 

encryption, and be free of any defects or 

viruses. (For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket, visit the EPA 

Docket Center homepage at 

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm). 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the www.regulations.gov 

index. Although listed in the index, 

some information is not publicly 

available, e.g., CBI or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Certain other material, such as 

copyrighted material, will be publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically in 

www.regulations.gov, or in hard copy. 

You may view and copy North 

Carolina’s application and associated 

publicly available materials from 8:00 

a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the following 

locations: EPA, Region 4, Resource 

Conservation and Restoration Division, 

Atlanta Federal Center, 61 Forsyth 

Street SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303– 

8960; telephone number: (404) 562– 

8500; and the North Carolina 

Department of Environment and Natural 

Resources, 217 West Jones Street, 

Raleigh, North Carolina 27603; 

telephone number: (919) 707–8219. 

Interested persons wanting to examine 

these documents should make an 

appointment with the office at least a 

week in advance. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gwendolyn Gleaton, RCRA Programs 

and Materials Management Section, 

Materials and Waste Management 

Branch, Resource Conservation and 

Restoration Division, U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, 

Atlanta Federal Center, 61 Forsyth 

Street SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30303– 

8960; telephone number: (404) 562– 

8500; fax number: (404) 562–9964; 

email address: gleaton.gwen@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Why are revisions to state programs 

necessary? 

States which have received final 

authorization from EPA under RCRA 

section 3006(b), 42 U.S.C. 6926(b), must 

maintain a hazardous waste program 

that is equivalent to, consistent with, 

and no less stringent than the Federal 

program. As the Federal program 

changes, States must change their 

programs and ask EPA to authorize the 

changes. Changes to State programs may 

be necessary when Federal or State 

statutory or regulatory authority is 

modified or when certain other changes 

occur. Most commonly, States must 

change their programs because of 

changes to EPA’s regulations in 40 Code 

of Federal Regulations (CFR) parts 124, 

260 through 268, 270, 273, and 279. 

New Federal requirements and 

prohibitions imposed by Federal 

regulations that EPA promulgates 

pursuant to the Hazardous and Solid 

Waste Amendments of 1984 (HSWA) 

take effect in authorized States at the 

same time that they take effect in 

unauthorized States. Thus, EPA will 

implement those requirements and 

prohibitions in North Carolina, 

including the issuance of new permits 

implementing those requirements, until 

the State is granted authorization to do 

so. 

B. What decisions has EPA made in this 

rule? 

On March 9, 2014, North Carolina 

submitted a final complete program 

revision application seeking 

authorization of changes to its 

hazardous waste program that 

correspond to certain Federal rules 

promulgated between July 1, 2008 and 

June 30, 2014 (also known as RCRA 

Clusters XIX through XXIII). EPA 

concludes that North Carolina’s 

application to revise its authorized 

program meets all of the statutory and 

regulatory requirements established by 

RCRA, as set forth in RCRA section 

3006(b), 42 U.S.C. 6926(b), and 40 CFR 

part 271. Therefore, EPA grants North 

Carolina final authorization to operate 

its hazardous waste program with the 

changes described in the authorization 

application, and as outlined below in 

Section G of this document. 

North Carolina has responsibility for 

permitting treatment, storage, and 

disposal facilities within its borders 

(except in Indian Country) and for 

carrying out the aspects of the RCRA 

program described in its revised 

program application, subject to the 

limitations of HSWA, as discussed 

above. 

C. What is the effect of this 

authorization decision? 

The effect of this decision is that the 

changes described in North Carolina’s 

authorization application will become 

part of the authorized State hazardous 

waste program, and will therefore be 

federally enforceable. North Carolina 

will continue to have primary 

enforcement authority and 

responsibility for its State hazardous 

waste program. EPA retains its 

authorities under RCRA sections 3007, 

3008, 3013, and 7003, including its 

authority to: 

• Conduct inspections, and require 

monitoring, tests, analyses, or reports; 

• Enforce RCRA requirements, 

including authorized State program 

requirements, and suspend or revoke 

permits; and 

• Take enforcement actions regardless 

of whether the State has taken its own 

actions. 

This action does not impose 

additional requirements on the 

regulated community because the 

regulations for which North Carolina is 

being authorized by today’s action are 

already effective and enforceable 

requirements under State law, and are 

not changed by today’s action. 

D. Why wasn’t there a proposed rule 

before today’s rule? 

Along with this direct final rule, EPA 

is publishing a separate document in the 

‘‘Proposed Rules’’ section of today’s 

Federal Register that serves as the 

proposal to authorize these State 

program changes. EPA did not publish 

a proposed rule before today because 

EPA views this as a routine program 

change and does not expect comments 

that oppose this approval. EPA is 

providing an opportunity for public 

comment now, as described in Section 

E of this document. 

E. What happens if EPA receives 

comments that oppose this action? 

If EPA receives comments that oppose 

this authorization, EPA will withdraw 

today’s direct final rule by publishing a 

document in the Federal Register before 

the rule becomes effective. EPA will 

base any further decision on the 

authorization of the State program 

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mentioned in the previous section, after 

considering all comments received 

during the comment period, and will 

address all such comments in a later 

final rule. You may not have another 

opportunity to comment on these State 

program changes. If you want to 

comment on this authorization, you 

must do so at this time. 

If EPA receives comments that oppose 

only the authorization of a particular 

change to the State hazardous waste 

program, EPA will withdraw that part of 

today’s direct final rule, but the 

authorization of the program changes 

that the comments do not oppose will 

become effective on the date specified 

above. The Federal Register withdrawal 

document will specify which part of the 

authorization will become effective, and 

which part is being withdrawn. 

F. What has North Carolina previously 

been authorized for? 

North Carolina initially received final 

authorization on December 14, 1984, 

effective December 31, 1984 (49 FR 

48694), to implement a hazardous waste 

management program. EPA granted 

authorization for changes to North 

Carolina’s program on the following 

dates: March 25, 1986, effective April 8, 

1986 (51 FR 10211); August 5, 1988, 

effective October 4, 1988 (53 FR 1988); 

February 9, 1989, effective April 10, 

1989 (54 FR 6290); September 22, 1989, 

effective November 21, 1989 (54 FR 

38993); January 18, 1991, effective 

March 19, 1991 (56 FR 1929); April 10, 

1991, effective June 9, 1991 (56 FR 

14474); July 19, 1991, effective 

September 17, 1991 (56 FR 33206); 

April 27, 1992, effective June 26, 1992 

(57 FR 15254); December 12, 1992, 

effective February 16, 1993 (57 FR 

59825); January 27, 1994, effective 

March 28, 1994 (59 FR 3792); April 4, 

1994, effective June 3, 1994 (59 FR 

15633); June 23, 1994, effective August 

22, 1994 (59 FR 32378); November 10, 

1994, effective January 9, 1995 (59 FR 

56000); September 27, 1995, effective 

November 27, 1995 (60 FR 49800); April 

25, 1996, effective June 24, 1996 (61 FR 

18284); October 23, 1998, effective 

December 22, 1998 (63 FR 56834); 

August 25, 1999, effective October 25, 

1999 (64 FR 46298); February 28, 2002, 

effective April 29, 2002 (67 FR 9219); 

December 14, 2004, effective February 

14, 2005 (69 FR 74444); March 23, 2005, 

effective May 23, 2005 (70 FR 14556); 

February 7, 2011, effective April 8, 2011 

(76 FR 6561); and June 14, 2013, 

effective August 13, 2013 (78 FR 35766). 

G. What changes is EPA authorizing 

with this action? 

On March 9, 2014, North Carolina 

submitted a final complete program 

revision application seeking 

authorization of its changes in 

accordance with 40 CFR 271.21. EPA 

now makes an immediate final decision, 

subject to receipt of written comments 

that oppose this action, that North 

Carolina’s hazardous waste program 

revisions are equivalent to, consistent 

with, and no less stringent than the 

Federal program, and therefore satisfy 

all of the requirements necessary to 

qualify for final authorization. 

Therefore, EPA grants North Carolina 

final authorization for the following 

program changes: 

Description of Federal requirement Federal Register 

date and page Analogous state authority 1

220—Academic Laboratories Generator Standards ........ 73 FR 72912, 12/01/2008 .... 15A NCAC 13A .0106(a); and 15A NCAC 13A 

.0107(a) & (i). 

223—Hazardous Waste Technical Corrections and 

Clarifications.

75 FR 12989, 03/18/2010 ....

75 FR 31716, 06/04/2010 ....

15A NCAC 13A .0102(b); 15A NCAC 13A .0106(a), 

(c), (d) & (f); 15A NCAC 13A .0107(a)–(d) & (f); 15A 

NCAC 13A .0108(a); 15A NCAC 13A .0109(e), (f), 

(o) & (s); 15A NCAC 13A .0110(d), (e) & (n); 15A 

NCAC 13A .0111(a)–(d); 15A NCAC 13A .0112(c); 

and 15A NCAC 13A .0113(a). 

225—Removal of Saccharin and Its Salts from the Lists 

of Hazardous Wastes.

75 FR 78918, 12/17/2010 .... 15A NCAC 13A .0106(d) & (f); and 15A NCAC 13A 

.0112(c) & (e). 

226—Academic Laboratories Generator Standards 

Technical Corrections.

75 FR 79304, 12/20/2010 .... 15A NCAC 13A .0107(i). 

227—Revision of the Land Disposal Treatment Standards for Carbamate Wastes.76 FR 34147, 06/13/2011 .... 15A NCAC 13A .0112(c). 

228—Hazardous Waste Technical Corrections and 

Clarifications Rule.

77 FR 22229, 04/13/2012 .... 15A NCAC 13A .0106(d); and 15A NCAC 13A 

.0111(a). 

229—Conditional Exclusions for Solvent Contaminated 

Wipes.

78 FR 46448, 07/31/2013 .... 15A NCAC 13A .0102(b); and 15A NCAC 13A 

.0106(a). 

1The North Carolina provisions are from the North Carolina Hazardous Waste Management Rules, 15A NCAC 13A, effective as of May 17, 

2011. 

H. Where are the revised State rules 

different from the Federal rules? 

There are no State requirements in 

this program revision considered to be 

more stringent or broader in scope than 

the Federal requirements. 

I. Who handles permits after the 

authorization takes effect? 

North Carolina will issue permits for 

all the provisions for which it is 

authorized and will administer the 

permits it issues. EPA will continue to 

administer any RCRA hazardous waste 

permits or portions of permits which 

EPA issued prior to the effective date of 

this authorization until they expire or 

are terminated. EPA will not issue any 

more permits or new portions of permits 

for the provisions listed in the Table 

above after the effective date of this 

authorization. EPA will continue to 

implement and issue permits for HSWA 

requirements for which North Carolina 

is not authorized. 

J. How does today’s action affect Indian 

Country (18 U.S.C. 1151) in North 

Carolina? 

North Carolina is not authorized to 

carry out its hazardous waste program 

in Indian Country within the State, 

which includes the Eastern Band of 

Cherokee Indians. EPA will continue to 

implement and administer the RCRA 

program in these lands. 

K. What is codification and is EPA 

codifying North Carolina’s hazardous 

waste program as authorized in this 

rule? 

Codification is the process of placing 

the State’s statutes and regulations that 

comprise the State’s authorized 

hazardous waste program into the Code 

of Federal Regulations. EPA does this by 

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40 CFR part 272. EPA is not codifying 

the authorization of North Carolina’s 

changes at this time. However, EPA 

reserves the amendment of 40 CFR part 

272, subpart II, for the authorization of 

North Carolina’s program changes at a 

later date. 

L. Administrative Requirements 

The Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) has exempted this action from 

the requirements of Executive Order 

12866 (58 FR 51735, October 4, 1993), 

and therefore this action is not subject 

to review by OMB. This action 

authorizes State requirements for the 

purpose of RCRA 3006 and imposes no 

additional requirements beyond those 

imposed by State law. Accordingly, I 

certify that this action will not have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities 

under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 

U.S.C. 601 et seq.). Because this action 

authorizes pre-existing requirements 

under State law and does not impose 

any additional enforceable duty beyond 

that required by State law, it does not 

contain any unfunded mandate or 

significantly or uniquely affect small 

governments, as described in the 

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 

(Pub. L. 104–4). For the same reason, 

this action also does not significantly or 

uniquely affect the communities of 

Tribal governments, as specified by 

Executive Order 13175 (65 FR 67249, 

November 9, 2000). This action will not 

have substantial direct effects on the 

States, on the relationship between the 

national government and the States, or 

on the distribution of power and 

responsibilities among the various 

levels of government, as specified in 

Executive Order 13132 (64 FR 43255, 

August 10, 1999), because it merely 

authorizes State requirements as part of 

the State RCRA hazardous waste 

program without altering the 

relationship or the distribution of power 

and responsibilities established by 

RCRA. This action also is not subject to 

Executive Order 13045 (62 FR 19885, 

April 23, 1997), because it is not 

economically significant and it does not 

make decisions based on environmental 

health or safety risks. This rule is not 

subject to Executive Order 13211, 

‘‘Actions Concerning Regulations That 

Significantly Affect Energy Supply, 

Distribution, or Use’’ (66 FR 28355, May 

22, 2001) because it is not a significant 

regulatory action under Executive Order 

12866. 

Under RCRA section 3006(b), EPA 

grants a State’s application for 

authorization as long as the State meets 

the criteria required by RCRA. It would 

thus be inconsistent with applicable law 

for EPA, when it reviews a State 

authorization application, to require the 

use of any particular voluntary 

consensus standard in place of another 

standard that otherwise satisfies the 

requirements of RCRA. Thus, the 

requirements of section 12(d) of the 

National Technology Transfer and 

Advancement Act of 1995 (15 U.S.C. 

272 note) do not apply. As required by 

section 3 of Executive Order 12988 (61 

FR 4729, February 7, 1996), in issuing 

this rule, EPA has taken the necessary 

steps to eliminate drafting errors and 

ambiguity, minimize potential litigation, 

and provide a clear legal standard for 

affected conduct. EPA has complied 

with Executive Order 12630 (53 FR 

8859, March 15, 1988) by examining the 

takings implications of the rule in 

accordance with the ‘‘Attorney 

General’s Supplemental Guidelines for 

the Evaluation of Risk and Avoidance of 

Unanticipated Takings’’ issued under 

the executive order. This rule does not 

impose an information collection 

burden under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq. 

The Congressional Review Act, 5 

U.S.C. 801 et seq., as added by the Small 

Business Regulatory Enforcement 

Fairness Act of 1996, generally provides 

that before a rule may take effect, the 

agency promulgating the rule must 

submit a rule report, which includes a 

copy of the rule, to each House of the 

Congress and to the Comptroller General 

of the United States. EPA will submit a 

report containing this document and 

other required information to the U.S. 

Senate, the U.S. House of 

Representatives, and the Comptroller 

General of the United States prior to 

publication in the Federal Register. A 

major rule cannot take effect until 60 

days after it is published in the Federal 

Register. This action is not a ‘‘major 

rule’’ as defined by 5 U.S.C. 804(2). This 

action will be effective October 23, 

2015, unless objections to this 

authorization are received. 

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 271 

Environmental protection, 

Administrative practice and procedure, 

Confidential business information, 

Hazardous waste, Hazardous waste 

transportation, Indian lands, 

Intergovernmental relations, Penalties, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements. 

Authority: This action is issued under the 

authority of sections 2002(a), 3006, and 

7004(b) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as 

amended, 42 U.S.C. 6912(a), 6926, and 

6974(b). 

Dated: June 26, 2015. 

Heather McTeer Toney, 

Regional Administrator, Region 4. 

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 648 

[Docket No. 120109034–2171–01] 

RIN 0648–XE120 

Fisheries of the Northeastern United 

States; Small-Mesh Multispecies 

Fishery; Adjustment to the Northern 

Red Hake Inseason Possession Limit 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Temporary rule; inseason 

adjustment. 

SUMMARY: We announce the reduction of 

the commercial possession limit for 

northern red hake for the remainder of 

the 2015 fishing year. This action is 

required to prevent the northern red 

hake total allowable landing limit from 

being exceeded. This announcement 

informs the public that the northern red 

hake possession limit is reduced. 

DATES: Effective August 24, 2015, 

through April 30, 2016. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Reid 

Lichwell, Fishery Management 

Specialist, 978–675–9112. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The smallmesh multispecies fishery is managed 

primarily through a series of exemptions 

from the Northeast Multispecies 

Fisheries Management Plan. Regulations 

governing the red hake fishery are found 

at 50 CFR part 648. The regulations 

describing the process to adjust 

inseason commercial possession limits 

of northern red hake are described in 

§ 648.86(d)(4) and (5). These regulations 

require the Regional Administrator to 

reduce the northern red hake possession 

limit from 3,000 lb (1,361 kg) to 1,500 

lb (680 kg) when landings have been 

projected to reach or exceed 45 percent 

of the total allowable landings (TAL). 

The northern red hake possession limit 

is required to be further reduced to 400 

lb (181 kg) if landings are projected to 

reach or exceed 62.5 percent of the TAL, 

unless such a reduction would be 

expected to prevent the TAL from being 

reached. The final rule implementing 

the small-mesh multispecies 


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