Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 97 / Friday, May 18, 2001 / Rules and Regulations 27615

Species Common name Appendix First listing date

(month/day/year)

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Family Ranunculaceae: Buttercup family:

Adonis vernalis .................................................. Spring adonis ........................................................... II ....................... 7/19/00

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Family Taxaceae: Yew family:

Taxus wallichiana (=T. baccata subs.

wallichiana) (except chemical derivatives

and finished pharmaceutical products).

Himalayan yew ......................................................... II ....................... 2/16/95

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Dated: January 18, 2001.

Kenneth L. Smith,

Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and

Parks.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

50 CFR Part 648

[Docket No. 001121328–1066–03; I.D.

050801C]

Fisheries of the Northeastern United

States; Summer Flounder Fishery;

Commercial Quota Harvested for

Maine and Delaware

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Commercial quota harvest.

SUMMARY: NMFS announces that the

summer flounder commercial quotas

available to the States of Maine and

Delaware have been harvested. Vessels

issued a commercial Federal fisheries

permit for the summer flounder fishery

may not land summer flounder in Maine

and Delaware for the remainder of

calendar year 2001, unless additional

quota becomes available through a

transfer. Regulations governing the

summer flounder fishery require

publication of this notification to advise

the States of Maine and Delaware that

their quotas have been harvested and to

advise Federal vessel permit holders

and dealer permit holders that no

commercial quota is available for

landing summer flounder in Maine and

Delaware.

DATES: Effective 0001 hours, May 18,

2001, through December 31, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul

H. Jones, Fishery Policy Analyst, (978)

281–9273, e-mail:

paul.h.jones@noaa.gov

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Regulations governing the summer

flounder fishery are found at 50 CFR

part 648. The regulations require annual

specification of a commercial quota that

is apportioned among the coastal states

from North Carolina through Maine. The

process to set the annual commercial

quota and the percent allocated to each

state is described in § 648.100.

The initial total commercial quota for

summer flounder for the 2001 calendar

year was set equal to 10,747,535 lb

(4,875,000 kg)(66 FR 16151, March 23,

2001). The percent allocated to vessels

landing summer flounder in Maine is

0.04756 percent, or 5,112 lb (2,319 kg).

The allocation for Maine was adjusted

due to an overage in 2000, as provided

in § 648.100(i)(2), for a final allocation

of 2,146 lb (973 kg).

The percent allocated to vessels

landing summer flounder in Delaware is

0.01779 percent, or 1,912 lb (867 kg). In

2000, NMFS prohibited Federal permit

holders from landing summer flounder

in the State of Delaware because there

was no quota available after the

deduction from the 2000 quota of quota

overages in 1999 (65 FR 33486, May 24,

2000). As a result of those deductions

and further quota reductions published

in the Federal Register on August 18,

2000 (65 FR 50463), and December 29,

2000 (65 FR 82945), the 2000 quota

allocation to the State of Delaware was

-31,303 lb (-14,199 kg). An additional

12,317 lb (5,587 kg) of summer flounder

were landed in Delaware in 2000. The

2001 quota for Delaware is not sufficient

to offset this negative 2000 allocation

and the additional landings in 2000.

Section 648.101(b) requires the

Administrator, Northeast Region, NMFS

to monitor state commercial quotas and

to determine when a state’s commercial

quota is harvested. NMFS will then

publish a notification in the Federal

Register advising a state and notifying

Federal vessel and dealer permit holders

that, effective upon a specific date, the

state’s commercial quota has been

harvested and no commercial quota is

available for landing summer flounder

in that state. The Regional

Administrator has determined, based

upon dealer reports and other available

information, that the States of Maine

and Delaware have attained their quotas

for 2001.

The regulations at § 648.4(b) provide

that Federal permit holders agree, as a

condition of the permit, not to land

summer flounder in any state that the

Regional Administrator has determined

no longer has commercial quota

available. Therefore, effective 0001

hours, May 18, 2001, further landings of

summer flounder in Maine and

Delaware by vessels holding commercial

Federal fisheries permits are prohibited

for the remainder of the 2001 calendar

year, unless additional quota becomes

available through a transfer and is

announced in the Federal Register.

Effective 0001 hours, May 18, 2001,

federally permitted dealers are also

advised that they may not purchase

summer flounder from federally

permitted vessels that land in Maine

and Delaware for the remainder of the

calendar year, or until additional quota

becomes available through a transfer.

Classification

This action is required by 50 CFR part

648 and is exempt from review under

Executive Order 12866.

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

Dated: May 15, 2001.

Bruce C. Morehead,

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

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