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The Chief Counsel for Regulation of

the Department of Commerce certified

to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the

Small Business Administration when

this rule was proposed that it would not

have a significant economic impact on

a substantial number of small entities.

No comments were received regarding

the economic impacts of this action on

small entities. As a result, the basis for

the certification has not changed and a

regulatory flexibility analysis was not

prepared.

List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 600

Fisheries, Fishing, Foreign relations,

Intergovernmental relations.

Dated: May 16, 2001.

Clarence Pautzke,

Acting Assistant Administrator for Fisheries,

National Marine Fisheries Service.

For the reasons set out in the

preamble, 50 CFR Chapter VI is

amended as follows:

PART 600—MAGNUSON-STEVENS

ACT PROVISIONS

1. The authority citation for part 600

continues to read as follows:

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 561 and 16 U.S.C. 1801

et seq.

2. In § 600.518 (b)(1), the table is

revised to read as follows:

§ 600.518 Fee schedule for foreign fishing.

* * * * *

(b) * * *

(1) * * *

TABLE—SPECIES AND

POUNDAGE FEES

[Dollars per metric ton]

Species Poundage fees

Northwest Atlantic Ocean fisheries:

1. Butterfish ................................. 277.96

2. Herring, Atlantic ...................... 25.75

3. Herring, River .......................... 49.59

4. Mackerel, Atlantic .................... 64.76

5. Other finfish ............................ 45.48

6. Squid, Illex .............................. 97.56

7. Squid, Loligo ........................... 321.68

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

50 CFR Part 679

[Docket No. 010112013–1013–01; I.D.

051401A]

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic

Zone Off Alaska; Pacific Cod by the

Offshore Component in the Western

Regulatory Area in the Gulf of Alaska

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Modification of a closure.

SUMMARY: NMFS is opening directed

fishing for Pacific cod by vessels

catching Pacific cod for processing by

the offshore component in the Western

Regulatory Area in the Gulf of Alaska

(GOA). This action is necessary to fully

use the 2001 total allowable catch (TAC)

of Pacific cod in the Western Regulatory

Area.

DATES: Effective 1200 hrs, Alaska local

time, May 18, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Andrew Smoker, 907–586–7228.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS

manages the groundfish fishery in the

GOA exclusive economic zone

according to the Fishery Management

Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of

Alaska (FMP) prepared by the North

Pacific Fishery Management Council

under authority of the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and

Management Act. Regulations governing

fishing by U.S. vessels in accordance

with the FMP appear at subpart H of 50

CFR part 600 and 50 CFR part 679.

The 2001 A season Pacific cod TAC

apportioned to vessels catching Pacific

cod for processing by the offshore

component in the Western Regulatory

Area of the GOA is 1,098 metric tons

(mt) as established by the Final 2001

Harvest Specifications and Associated

Management Measures for the

Groundfish Fisheries Off Alaska (66 FR

7276, January 22, 2001).

NMFS closed the directed fishery for

Pacific cod to vessels catching Pacific

cod for processing by the offshore

component in the Western Regulatory

Area under § 679.20(d)(1)(i) on April 26,

2001 (66 FR 21691, May 1, 2001).

NMFS has determined that

approximately 250 mt remain in the

directed fishing allowance. Therefore,

NMFS is terminating the previous

closure and is opening directed fishing

for Pacific cod by vessels catching

Pacific cod for processing by the

offshore component in the Western

Regulatory Area of the GOA.

Classification

This action responds to the best

available information recently obtained

from the fishery. The Assistant

Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA,

finds that the need to immediately

implement this action to allow full use

of the Pacific cod TAC constitutes 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)(3)(B) and 50 CFR

679.20(b)(3)(iii)(A), as such procedures

would be unnecessary and contrary to

the public interest. Similarly, the need

to implement these measures in a timely

fashion to allow full use of the Pacific

cod TAC constitutes good cause to find

that the effective date of this action

cannot be delayed for 30 days. In

addition, this action relieves a

restriction on the harvest of Pacific cod

in the Western Regulatory Area of the

Gulf of Alaska. Accordingly, under 5

U.S.C. 553(d), a delay in the effective

date is hereby waived.

This action is required by § 679.20

and is exempt from review under

Executive Order 12866.

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

Dated: May 16, 2001.

Bruce C. Morehead,

Acting Director,Office of Sustainable

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

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