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EPA-APPROVED IOWA SOURCE—SPECIFIC ORDERS/PERMITS—Continued 

Name of source Order/permit No. State effective 

date EPA approval date Explanation 

(90) Union Tank Car Company ... Permit NO. 96–A–630–S5 ........... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(91) Union Tank Car Company ... Permit NO. 96–A–631–S3 ........... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(92) Union Tank Car Company ... Permit NO. 96–A–636–S3 ........... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(93) Union Tank Car Company ... Permit NO. 00–A–529–S2 ........... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(94) Union Tank Car Company ... Permit NO. 00–A–530–S2 ........... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(95) Union Tank Car Company ... Permit NO. 00–A–531–S2 ........... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(96) Union Tank Car Company ... Permit NO. 00–A–532–S2 ........... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(97) Union Tank Car Company ... Permit NO. 00–A–533–S2 ........... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(98) Union Tank Car Company ... Permit NO. 93–A–256–S6 ........... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(99) Union Tank Car Company ... Permit NO. 96–A–632–S5 ........... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(100) Union Tank Car Company Permit NO. 96–A–633–S5 ........... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(101) Union Tank Car Company Permit NO. 96–A–634–S5 ........... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(102) Union Tank Car Company Permit NO. 96–A–635–S5 ........... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(103) Union Tank Car Company Permit NO. 00–A–1089–S2 ......... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(104) Union Tank Car Company Permit NO. 00–A–1090–S2 ......... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(105) Union Tank Car Company Permit NO. 00–A–1091–S2 ......... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(106) Union Tank Car Company Permit NO. 10–A–043–S2 ........... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(107) Union Tank Car Company Permit NO. 09–A–009–S2 ........... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(108) Union Tank Car Company Permit NO. 09–A–010–S2 ........... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

(109) Union Tank Car Company Permit NO. 94–A–434–S2 ........... 4/08/2013 12/1/2014 [Insert Federal 

Register citation].

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[FR Doc. 2014–28147 Filed 11–28–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 635 

[Docket No. 130402317–3966–02] 

RIN 0648–XD636 

Atlantic Highly Migratory Species; 

Commercial Aggregated Large Coastal 

Sharks (LCS) and Hammerhead Sharks 

in the Atlantic Region 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Temporary rule; closure. 

SUMMARY: NMFS is closing the fisheries 

for commercial aggregated LCS and 

hammerhead sharks in the Atlantic 

region. This action is necessary because 

the commercial landings of Atlantic 

aggregated LCS for the 2014 fishing 

season have reached 80 percent of the 

available commercial quota as of 

November 14, 2014, and the fisheries 

are quota-linked under current 

regulations. 

DATES: The commercial fisheries for 

Atlantic aggregated LCS and Atlantic 

hammerhead are closed effective 11:30 

p.m. local time November 30, 2014, 

until the end of the 2014 fishing season 

on December 31, 2014, or until and if 

NMFS announces via a notice in the 

Federal Register that additional quota is 

available and the season is reopened. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alexis Jackson or Karyl Brewster-Geisz 

301–427–8503; fax 301–713–1917. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Atlantic shark fisheries are managed 

under the 2006 Consolidated Highly 

Migratory Species (HMS) Fishery 

Management Plan (FMP), its 

amendments, and its implementing 

regulations (50 CFR part 635) issued 

under authority of the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and 

Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et 

seq.). 

Under § 635.5(b)(1), dealers must 

electronically submit reports on sharks 

that are first received from a vessel on 

a weekly basis through a NMFSapproved electronic reporting system. 

Reports must be received by no later 

than midnight, local time, of the first 

Tuesday following the end of the 

reporting week unless the dealer is 

otherwise notified by NMFS. Under 

§ 635.28(b)(3), the quotas of certain 

species and/or management groups are 

linked. The quotas for aggregated LCS 

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region are linked (§ 635.28(b)(3)(i)). 

Under § 635.28(b)(2), when NMFS 

calculates that the landings for any 

species and/or management group of a 

linked group have reached or are 

projected to reach 80 percent of the 

available quota, NMFS will file for 

publication with the Office of the 

Federal Register a notice of closure for 

all of the species and/or management 

groups in a linked group that will be 

effective no fewer than 5 days from date 

of filing. From the effective date and 

time of the closure until and if NMFS 

announces, via a notice in the Federal 

Register, that additional quota is 

available and the season is reopened, 

the fishery for all linked species and/or 

management groups is closed, even 

across fishing years. 

On July 3, 2013 (78 FR 40318), NMFS 

announced the final rule for 

Amendment 5a to the 2006 

Consolidated HMS FMP, which, among 

other things, established new quotas for 

aggregated LCS and hammerhead sharks 

in the Atlantic region and linked the 

Atlantic aggregated LCS and Atlantic 

hammerhead shark management groups. 

As a result of the quota linkage, when 

the quota for one management group is 

reached and is closed, the other 

management group closes at the same 

time. On November 26, 2013 (78 FR 

70500), NMFS announced that the 

commercial Atlantic aggregated LCS 

quota for 2014 was 168.9 metric tons 

(mt) dressed weight (dw) (372,552 lb 

dw), and the Atlantic hammerhead 

shark quota was 27.1 mt dw (59,736 lb 

dw). 

Dealer reports recently received 

through November 14, 2014, indicate 

that 135.0 mt dw, or 80 percent, of the 

available Atlantic aggregated LCS quota 

has been landed, and that 10.1 mt dw, 

or 37 percent, of the available Atlantic 

hammerhead shark quota has been 

landed. Based on these dealer reports, 

NMFS estimates that the 80-percent 

limit specified for a closure notice in the 

regulations has been reached as of 

November 14, 2014. Accordingly, NMFS 

is closing both the commercial 

aggregated LCS and hammerhead 

management groups in the Atlantic 

region as of 11:30 p.m. local time 

November 30, 3014. All other shark 

species or management groups that are 

currently open will remain open, 

including the blue shark, porbeagle 

shark, and pelagic sharks other than 

porbeagle or blue shark management 

groups. 

At § 635.27(b)(1), the boundary 

between the Gulf of Mexico region and 

the Atlantic region is defined as a line 

beginning on the East Coast of Florida 

at the mainland at 25°20.4′ N. lat, 

proceeding due east. Any water and 

land to the south and west of that 

boundary is considered for the purposes 

of monitoring and setting quotas, to be 

within the Gulf of Mexico region. 

During the closure, retention of 

aggregated LCS and hammerhead sharks 

in the Atlantic region is prohibited for 

persons fishing aboard vessels issued a 

commercial shark limited access permit 

(LAP) under § 635.4. However, persons 

aboard a commercially-permitted vessel 

that is also properly permitted to 

operate as a charter vessel or headboat 

for HMS and is engaged in a for-hire trip 

could fish under the recreational 

retention limits for sharks and ‘‘no sale’’ 

provisions (§ 635.22(a) and (c)). 

Similarly, persons aboard a 

commercially-permitted vessel that 

possesses a valid shark research permit 

under § 635.32 and has a NMFSapproved observer onboard may 

continue to harvest and sell aggregated 

LCS and hammerhead sharks in the 

Atlantic region pursuant to the terms 

and conditions of the shark research 

permit. 

During this closure, a shark dealer 

issued a permit pursuant to § 635.4 may 

not purchase or receive aggregated LCS 

and/or hammerhead sharks in the 

Atlantic region from a vessel issued an 

Atlantic Shark LAP, except that a 

permitted shark dealer or processor may 

possess aggregated LCS and/or 

hammerhead sharks in the Atlantic 

region that were harvested, off-loaded, 

and sold, traded, or bartered prior to the 

effective date of the closure and were 

held in storage, consistent with 

§ 635.28(b)(5). Additionally, a permitted 

shark dealer or processor may possess 

aggregated LCS and/or hammerhead 

sharks in the Atlantic region that were 

harvested by a vessel issued a valid 

shark research fishery permit per 

§ 635.32 that had a NMFS-approved 

observer onboard during the trip the 

sharks were taken on, as long as the LCS 

research fishery quota remains open. 

Similarly, a shark dealer issued a permit 

pursuant to § 635.4 may, in accordance 

with relevant state regulations, purchase 

or receive aggregated LCS and/or 

hammerhead sharks in the Atlantic 

region if the sharks were harvested, offloaded, and sold, traded, or bartered 

from a vessel that fishes only in state 

waters and that has not been issued an 

Atlantic Shark LAP, HMS Angling 

permit, or HMS Charter/Headboat 

permit pursuant to § 635.4. 

Classification 

Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B), the 

Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, 

NOAA (AA), finds that providing prior 

notice and public comment for this 

action is impracticable and contrary to 

the public interest because the fishery is 

currently underway and any delay in 

this action would result in overharvest 

of the quota and be inconsistent with 

management requirements and 

objectives. Similarly, affording prior 

notice and opportunity for public 

comment on this action is contrary to 

the public interest because if the quota 

is exceeded, the stock may be negatively 

affected and fishermen ultimately could 

experience reductions in the available 

quota and a lack of fishing opportunities 

in future seasons. For these reasons, the 

AA also finds good cause to waive the 

30-day delay in effective date pursuant 

to 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3). This action is 

required under § 635.28(b)(2) and is 

exempt from review under Executive 

Order 12866. 

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

Dated: November 25, 2014. 

Emily H. Menashes, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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