31184 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 112 / Monday, June 11, 2001 / Rules and Regulations

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newspaper where notice

was published

Chief executive officer of community Effective date of

modification

Community

No.

Texas: Denton and

Tarrant (FEMA

Docket No. 7600).

Town of Westlake December 8, 2000, December 15, 2000, Denton Record Chronicle.The Honorable Scott Bradley, Mayor,

Town of Westlake, 3 Village Circle,

Suite 207, Westlake, Texas 76262.

Mar. 16, 2001 ...... 480614

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No.

83.100, ‘‘Flood Insurance’’.

Dated: June 4, 2001.

Margaret E. Lawless,

Acting Executive Associate, Director for

Mitigation.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

50 CFR Part 648

[Docket No. 001121328–1041-02; I.D.

060501A]

Fisheries of the Northeastern United

States; Black Sea Bass Fishery;

Commercial Quota Harvested for

Quarter 2 Period

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Closure; Quarter 2 commercial

black sea bass fishery.

SUMMARY: NMFS announces that the

black sea bass commercial quota

available in the quarter 2 period to the

coastal states from Maine through North

Carolina has been harvested.

Commercial vessels may not land black

sea bass in these states north of 35°15.3′

N. lat. for the remainder of the 2001

quarter 2 quota period (through June 30,

2001). Regulations governing the black

sea bass fishery require publication of

this notification to advise the coastal

states from Maine through North

Carolina that the quota has been

harvested and to advise vessel permit

holders and dealer permit holders that

no commercial quota is available for

landing black sea bass in these states

north of 35°15.3′ N. lat.

DATES: Effective 0001 hrs local time,

June 10, 2001, through 2400 hrs local

time, June 30, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jennifer L. Anderson, Fishery

Management Specialist, at (978) 281–

9226.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Regulations governing the black sea bass

fishery are found at 50 CFR part 648.

The regulations require annual

specification of a commercial quota that

is allocated into four quota periods

based upon percentages of the annual

quota. The quarter 2 (April through

June) commercial quota is distributed to

the coastal states from Maine through

North Carolina. The process to set the

annual commercial quota is described in

§ 648.140.

The initial total commercial quota for

black sea bass for the 2001 calendar year

was 3,024,742 lb (1,372,000 kg) (66 FR

12902, March 1, 2001). The quarter 2

period quota, which is equal to 29.26

percent of the annual commercial quota,

was 885,040 lb (401,447 kg). The quota

allocation was adjusted downward to

compensate for 2000 quarter 2 landings

in excess of the 2000 quarter 2 quota,

consistent with the procedures in

§ 648.140. The final adjusted quarter 2

quota was 679,519 lb (308,225 kg).

The Regional Administrator,

Northeast Region, NMFS (Regional

Administrator) monitors the commercial

black sea bass quota for each quota

period on the basis of dealer reports,

state data, and other available

information to determine when the

commercial quota has been harvested.

NMFS is required to publish a

notification in the Federal Register

advising and notifying commercial

vessels and dealer permit holders that,

effective upon a specific date, the black

sea bass commercial quota has been

harvested and no commercial quota is

available for landing black sea bass for

the remainder of the quarter 2 period,

north of 35°15.3′ N. lat. The Regional

Administrator has determined, based

upon dealer reports and other available

information, that the black sea bass

commercial quota for the 2001 quarter 2

period has been harvested.

The regulations at § 648.4 (b) provide

that Federal black sea bass moratorium

permit holders agree as a condition of

the permit not to land black sea bass in

any state after NMFS has published a

notification in the Federal Register

stating that the commercial quota for the

period has been harvested and that no

commercial quota for the black sea bass

is available. The Regional Administrator

has determined that the quarter 2 period

for black sea bass no longer has

commercial quota available. Therefore,

effective 0001 hrs local time, June 10,

2001, further landings of black sea bass

in coastal states from Maine through

North Carolina, north of 35°15.3′ N. lat.,

by vessels holding commercial Federal

fisheries permits are prohibited through

June 30, 2001. The 2001 quarter 3

period for commercial black sea bass

harvest will open on July 1, 2001.

Effective June 10, 2001, federally

permitted dealers are also advised that

they may not purchase black sea bass

from federally permitted black sea bass

moratorium permit holders who land in

coastal states from Maine through North

Carolina, north of 35°15.3′ N. lat., for

the remainder of the quarter 2 period

(through June 30, 2001).

The regulations at § 648.4 (b) also

provide that, if the commercial black sea

bass quota for a period is harvested and

the coast is closed to the possession of

black sea bass north of 35°15.3′ N. lat.,

any vessel owners who hold valid

commercial permits for both the black

sea bass and the NMFS Southeast

Region snapper-grouper fisheries may

surrender their black sea bass

moratorium permit by certified mail

addressed to the Regional Administrator

(see table 1 at § 600.502) and fish

pursuant to their snapper-grouper

permit, as long as fishing is conducted

exclusively in waters, and landings are

made, south of 35°15.3′ N. lat. A

moratorium permit for the black sea

bass fishery that is voluntarily

relinquished or surrendered will be

reissued upon the receipt of the vessel

owner’s written request after a

minimum period of 6 months from the

date of cancellation.

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: June 5, 2001.

Bruce C. Morehead,

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

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