‘‘(2) Not later than 180 days after the date of establish-
ment of the Group, the Group shall transmit to the Sec-
retary a research plan of at least 3 years duration to assess
the status of the covered Pacific stocks, including the abun-
dance, location, and species, age, and gender composition
of those stocks. The plan shall provide for the use of private
vessels to conduct stock surveys.
‘‘(3) Immediately upon receiving the plan transmitted
under paragraph (2), the Secretary shall take action nec-
essary to carry out the plan, including, subject to the avail-
ability of appropriations, chartering private vessels, ar-
ranging for the deployment of scientists on those vessels (in-
cluding the payment of increased insurance costs to vessel
owners), and obtaining the assistance of shore-based fish
processors.
‘‘(4) The Secretary may offset the cost of carrying out
the plan by entering into agreements with vessel owners or
shore-based fish processors to provide vessel owners or shore-
based fish processors with a portion of the total allowable
catch reserved for research purposes under section 303(b).’’.
SEC. 11. EMERGENCY ACTIONS.
Section 305(c) (16 U.S.C. 1855(c)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (2)(A), by inserting ‘‘under
section 302(b)(1)(A) and (C)’’ after ‘‘voting mem-
bers’’;
(2) by amending paragraph (3)(B) to read as
follows:
‘‘(B) shall remain in effect for not more than
180 days after the date of such publication, except
that any such regulation may, by agreement of the
Secretary and the Council and after notice and an
opportunity for submission of comments by the pub-
lic, be effective for 1 additional period of not more
than 180 days; and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(4) The Secretary may promulgate emergency regula-
tions under this subsection to protect the public health. Not-
withstanding paragraph (3), regulations promulgated
under this paragraph shall remain in effect until with-
drawn by the Secretary. The Secretary shall promptly with-
draw regulations under this paragraph when the cir-
cumstances requiring the regulations no longer exist. The
Secretary shall provide an opportunity for submission of
comments by the public after regulations are promulgated
under this paragraph.
‘‘(5) An emergency regulation promulgated under this
subsection that closes an area to fishing shall not remain
in effect for an additional period under paragraph (3)(B)
unless before the beginning of the additional period the
Council having jurisdiction over the area, in conjunction
with the Secretary, publishes a report on the status of the
fishery in the area that includes an analysis of the costs
and benefits of the closure.’’.
SEC. 12. STATE JURISDICTION.
(a) 
REPORTS.—Section 
306(c)(1) 
(16 
U.S.C.
1856(c)(1)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of subpara-
graph (A);
(2) by striking the period at the end of subpara-
graph (B) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(C) the owner or operator of the vessel submits
to the appropriate Council and the Secretary, in a
manner prescribed by the Secretary, periodic reports
on the tonnage of fish received from vessels of the
United States and the locations from which such fish
were harvested.’’.
(b) STATE AUTHORITY.—Section 306(b) (16 U.S.C.
1856(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(3) For any fishery occurring off the coasts of Alaska
for which there is no Federal fishery management plan ap-
proved and implemented pursuant to this Act, or pursuant
to delegation to a State in a fishery management plan, a
State may enforce its laws or regulations pertaining to the
taking of fish in the exclusive economic zone off that State
or the landing of fish caught in the exclusive economic zone
providing there is a legitimate State interest in the con-
servation and management of that fishery, until a Federal
fishery management plan is implemented. Fisheries cur-
rently managed pursuant to a Federal fishery management
plan shall not be removed from Federal management and
placed under State authority without the unanimous con-
sent (except for the Regional Director of the National Ma-
rine Fisheries Service) of the Council which developed the
fishery management plan.’’.
SEC. 13. PROHIBITED ACTS.
(a) PROHIBITION
ON
DAMAGING
GEAR.—Section
307(1)(K) (16 U.S.C. 1857(1)(K)) is amended by striking
‘‘to knowingly steal, or without authorization, to’’ and in-
serting ‘‘to steal, or to negligently’’.
(b) FAILURE TO DISCLOSE FINANCIAL INFORMA-
TION.—Section 307(1) (16 U.S.C. 1857(1)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of subparagraph
(M);
(2) by striking the period at the end of subpara-
graph (N) and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(O) to knowingly and willfully fail to dis-
close or falsely disclose any financial interest as
required under section 302(k) or to knowingly
violate any rule established under section
302(k)(8).’’.
(c) PROHIBITED FISHING.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 307(2)(B) (16 U.S.C.
1857(2)(B)) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(B) in fishing, except recreational fishing
permitted under section 201(j), within the exclu-
sive economic zone or within the special areas, or
for any anadromous species or Continental Shelf
fishery resources beyond such zone or areas, or in
fishing consisting of transporting fish products
from a point within the boundaries of any State
or the exclusive economic zone or the special
areas, unless such fishing is authorized under,
and conducted in accordance with, a valid and
applicable permit issued under section 204, ex-
cept that this subparagraph shall not apply to
fishing within the special areas before the date
on which the Agreement between the United
States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Repub-
lics on the Maritime Boundary, signed June 1,
1990, enters into force for the United States; or’’.
(2) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section
301(h)(2)(A) of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide
for the designation of the Flower Garden Banks Na-
tional Marine Sanctuary’’, approved March 9, 1992
(Public Law 102–251; 106 Stat. 64), is repealed.
SEC. 14. HAROLD SPARCK BERING SEA COMMUNITY DEVEL-
OPMENT QUOTA PROGRAM.
Section 313 (16 U.S.C. 1862) is amended by adding
at the end the following new subsection:
‘‘(f) BERING SEA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT QUOTA
PROGRAM.—(1) The North Pacific Fishery Management
Council and the Secretary shall establish a western Alaska
community development quota program under which a per-
centage of the total allowable catch of any Bering Sea fish-
ery is allocated to western Alaska communities that partici-
pate in the program.
‘‘(2) To be eligible to participate in the western Alaska
community development quota program under paragraph
(1), a community must—
‘‘(A) be located within 50 nautical miles from
the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial
sea is measured along the Bering Sea coast from the
Bering Strait to the western most of the Aleutian Is-
lands, or on an island within the Bering Sea;
‘‘(B) not be located on the Gulf of Alaska coast
of the north Pacific Ocean;