Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 112 / Monday, June 11, 2001 / Rules and Regulations 31183

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No.

83.100, ‘‘Flood Insurance’’)

Dated: May 30, 2001.

Margaret E. Lawless,

Acting Executive Associate Director for

Mitigation.

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FEDERAL EMERGENCY

MANAGEMENT AGENCY

44 CFR Part 65

Changes in Flood Elevation

Determinations

AGENCY: Federal Emergency

Management Agency, (FEMA).

ACTION: Final rule.

SUMMARY: Modified Base (1-percentannual-chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs)

are finalized for the communities listed

below. These modified elevations will

be used to calculate flood insurance

premium rates for new buildings and

their contents.

EFFECTIVE DATES: The effective dates for

these modified BFEs are indicated on

the table below and revise the Flood

Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) in effect

for the listed communities prior to this

date.

ADDRESSES: The modified BFEs for each

community are available for inspection

at the office of the Chief Executive

Officer of each community. The

respective addresses are listed in the

table below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Matthew B. Miller, P.E., Chief, Hazards

Study Branch, Mitigation Directorate,

FEMA, 500 C Street, SW., Washington,

DC 20472, (202) 646–3461 or (e-mail)

matt.miller@fema.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FEMA

makes the final determinations listed

below of the final determinations of

modified BFEs for each community

listed. These modified elevations have

been published in newspapers of local

circulation and ninety (90) days have

elapsed since that publication. The

Acting Executive Associate Director for

Mitigation, has resolved any appeals

resulting from this notification.

The modified BFEs are not listed for

each community in this notice.

However, this rule includes the address

of the Chief Executive Officer of the

community where the modified BFE

determinations are available for

inspection.

The modifications are made pursuant

to Section 206 of the Flood Disaster

Protection Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 4105,

and are in accordance with the National

Flood Insurance Act of 1968, 42 U.S.C.

4001 et seq., and with 44 CFR Part 65.

For rating purposes, the currently

effective community number is shown

and must be used for all new policies

and renewals.

The modified BFEs are the basis for

the floodplain management measures

that the community is required to either

adopt or to show evidence of being

already in effect in order to qualify or

to remain qualified for participation in

the National Flood Insurance Program

(NFIP).

These modified BFEs, together with

the floodplain management criteria

required by 44 CFR 60.3, are the

minimum that are required. They

should not be construed to mean that

the community must change any

existing ordinances that are more

stringent in their floodplain

management requirements. The

community may at any time enact

stricter requirements of its own, or

pursuant to policies established by other

Federal, State, or regional entities.

These modified BFEs are used to meet

the floodplain management

requirements of the NFIP and are also

used to calculate the appropriate flood

insurance premium rates for new

buildings built after these elevations are

made final, and for the contents in these

buildings.

The changes in BFEs are in

accordance with 44 CFR 65.4.

National Environmental Policy Act

This rule is categorically excluded

from the requirements of 44 CFR Part

10, Environmental Consideration. No

environmental impact assessment has

been prepared.

Regulatory Flexibility Act

The Acting Executive Associate

Director for Mitigation certifies that this

rule is exempt from the requirements of

the Regulatory Flexibility Act because

modified base flood elevations are

required by the Flood Disaster

Protection Act of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 4105,

and are required to maintain community

eligibility in the NFIP. No regulatory

flexibility analysis has been prepared.

Regulatory Classification

This final rule is not a significant

regulatory action under the criteria of

Section 3(f) of Executive Order 12866 of

September 30, 1993, Regulatory

Planning and Review, 58 FR 51735.

Executive Order 12612, Federalism

This rule involves no policies that

have federalism implications under

Executive Order 12612, Federalism,

dated October 26, 1987.

Executive Order 12778, Civil Justice

Reform

This rule meets the applicable

standards of Section 2(b)(2) of Executive

Order 12778.

List of Subjects in 44 CFR Part 65

Flood insurance, Floodplains,

Reporting and record keeping

requirements.

Accordingly, 44 CFR Part 65 is

amended to read as follows:

PART 65—[AMENDED]

1. The authority citation for Part 65

continues to read as follows:

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.;

Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978, 3 CFR,

1978 Comp., p. 329; E.O. 12127, 44 FR 19367,

3 CFR, 1979 Comp., p. 376.

§ 65.4 [Amended]

2. The tables published under the

authority of § 65.4 are amended as

follows:

State and county Location

Dates and names of

newspaper where notice

was published

Chief executive officer of community Effective date of

modification

Community

No.

Missouri: St. Louis

(FEMA Docket)

No. 7600.

Unincorporated

Areas.

November 1, 2000, November 8, 2000, St.

Louis Post Dispatch.

The Honorable Buzz Westfall, St.

Louis County Executive, 41 South

Central Avenue, Clayton, Missouri

63105.

Jan. 31, 2001 ...... 290327

Texas: Dallas and

Collin (FEMA

Docket No. 7600).

City of Garland .... October 12, 2000, October 19, 2000, Garland

News.

The Honorable Jim Spence, Mayor,

City of Garland, 200 North 5th

Street, Garland, Texas 75046–

9002.

Sept. 8, 2000 ....... 485471

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State and county Location

Dates and names of

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

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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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