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S5.4.2.2 School buses with a GVWR

of 10,000 pounds or less. * * *

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S5.5.1 In buses other than school

buses, and except for windows serving

as emergency exits in accordance with

S5.2.2.3(b) and doors in buses with a

GVWR of 10,000 pounds or less, each

emergency exit door shall have the

designation ‘‘Emergency Door’’ or

‘‘Emergency Exit,’’ and every other

emergency exit shall have the

designation ‘‘Emergency Exit’’ followed

by concise operating instructions

describing each motion necessary to

unlatch and open the exit, located

within 16 centimeters of the release

mechanism.

* * * * *

S5.5.3 * * *

(c) Each opening for a required

emergency exit shall be outlined around

its outside perimeter with a

retroreflective tape with a minimum

width of 2.5 centimeters and either red,

white, or yellow in color, that when

tested under the conditions specified in

S6.1 of Standard No. 131 (49 CFR

571.131), meets the criteria specified in

Table 1 of that section.

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Issued on May 2, 1995.

Ricardo Martinez,

Administrator.

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50 CFR Part 663

[Docket No. 940254–4104; I.D. 042795B]

Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery;

Closure of Whiting At-sea Processing

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Fishing restrictions.

SUMMARY: NMFS announces the

prohibition of further processing at-sea

of Pacific whiting at 1400 hours (local

time) on May 4, 1995, based on its

projection that 60 percent (107,000

metric tons (mt)) of the 1995 harvest

guideline for Pacific whiting will have

been harvested by that time. This action

is authorized by the Pacific Coast

Groundfish Fishery Management Plan

and is necessary to provide adequate

amounts of whiting for shoreside

processors and to achieve the allocation

adopted for 1995.

EFFECTIVE DATE: 1400 hours (local time)

May 4, 1995, through 2400 hours (local

time) April 14, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Submit comments to

William Stelle, Jr., Director, Northwest

Region, National Marine Fisheries

Service, 7600 Sand Point Way NE., BINC15700, Seattle, WA 98115–0070.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

William L. Robinson at 206–526–6140.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April

13, 1994, NMFS issued regulations (59

FR 17491) to allocate annually the U.S.

Pacific whiting harvest guideline in the

years 1994 through 1996 between

fishing vessels that either catch and

process at sea or catch and deliver to atsea processors (the at-sea sector) and

fishing vessels that catch and deliver to

processors located on shore (the shorebased sector). In each of the 3 years,

after 60 percent of the annual harvest

guideline (or quota) for Pacific whiting

has been or is projected to be taken,

further at-sea processing of Pacific

whiting in the exclusive economic zone

will be prohibited. The remaining 40

percent of the harvest guideline is

reserved initially for harvest by vessels

delivering to shore-based processors.

The regulations require that the

Assistant Administrator for Fisheries,

NOAA, announce in the Federal

Register when 60 percent of the whiting

harvest guideline has been, or is about

to be, harvested, specifying a time after

which further at-sea processing of

Pacific whiting in the fishery

management area is prohibited.

The most recent catch data available

on May 2, 1995, indicate that

approximately 92,700 mt of Pacific

whiting have been harvested through

May 1, 1995, and 60 percent (107,000

mt) of the 178,400 mt harvest guideline

for Pacific whiting is projected to be

reached by 1400 hours (local time) on

May 4, 1995.

Secretarial Action

For the reasons given above, and in

accordance with 50 CFR 663.23(b)(4)(i)

and (iv), after 1400 hours (local time) on

May 4, 1995, at-sea processing of Pacific

whiting is prohibited (except for Pacific

whiting that was on board the

processing vessel prior to that time), and

the taking and retaining, or receiving

(except as cargo) of Pacific whiting by

a vessel in the fishery management area

with processed whiting on board is

prohibited. Any vessel used to fish for

whiting for processing at sea must have

its trawl doors on board and attached to

the trawl (50 CFR 663.7(o)).

Classification

The determination that 60 percent of

the harvest guideline is about to be

harvested is based on the most recent

data available. The aggregate data upon

which the determination is based are

available for public inspection at the

Office of the Director, Northwest Region

(see ADDRESSES) during business hours.

This action is taken under the authority

of 50 CFR 663.23 (b)(4)(i) (59 FR 17493–

17494, April 13, 1994), and is exempt

from review under E.O. 12866.

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

Dated: May 3, 1995.

Richard W. Surdi,

Acting Director, Office of Fisheries

Conservation and Management, National

Marine Fisheries Service.

[FR Doc. 95–11381 Filed 5–4–95; 1:35 pm]

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