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1. Sea Turtle Conservation; Restrictions Applicable to Fishing and Scientific Research Activities

RULES: Sea turtle conservation—; Sea turtle handling and resuscitation regulation; amendments,

NMFS is amending the sea turtle handling and resuscitation regulation. Recent scientific and technical information indicates that the current procedures need to be updated. This measure is necessary to improve the handling of sea turtles that are incidentally captured during scientific research or fishing activities.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

2. Atlantic Highly Migratory Species; Commercial Shark Management Measures

RULES: Atlantic highly migratory species—; Large coastal, small coastal, pelagic, blue, and porbeagle sharks,

NMFS issues an emergency rule to establish the commercial quotas for large and small coastal sharks at 1,285 metric tons (mt) dressed weight (dw) and 1,760 mt dw, respectively. These regulations are necessary to ensure that the regulations in force are consistent with a courtapproved settlement agreement and are based on the best available
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

3. Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Atlantic Bluefish Fishery; Commercial Quota Transfer

RULES: Northeastern United States fisheries—; Atlantic bluefish,

NMFS announces that the State of Maine, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the State of Connecticut, the State of Florida, and the State of Maryland have transferred a total of 434,000 lb (196,859 kg) of commercial bluefish quota to the State of North Carolina from their respective 2001 quotas. NMFS also announces that the Commonwealth of
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

4. New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

PROPOSED RULES: New England Fishery Management Council,

The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold a 3day Council meeting on January 15 through 17, 2002, to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the U.S. exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

5. Pacific Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings and Hearings

NOTICES: Pacific Fishery Management Council,

The Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold public hearings to receive public comment on the draft fishery management plan (FMP) for West Coast highly migratory species (HMS) fisheries. This notice announces the dates and locations of these public hearings. The draft FMP will be available after December 31, 2001.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

6. Permits; Foreign Fishing

NOTICES: Foreign fishing,

NMFS publishes for public review and comment a summary of applications submitted by the Government of the Russian Federation requesting authorization to conduct fishing operations in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in 2002 under provisions of the Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MagnusonStevens Act).
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

7. RIN: 0648-AP00

RULES: West Coast States and Western Pacific fisheries—; Coastal pelagic species,

NMFS announces the annual harvest guideline for Pacific sardine in the exclusive economic zone off the Pacific coast for the fishing season January 1, 2002, through December 31, 2002. This harvest guideline has been calculated according to the regulations implementing the Coastal Pelagic Species Fishery Management Plan (FMP), and establishes
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

8. Marine Mammals; File No. 1019-1657

NOTICES: Marine mammals,

Notice is hereby given that Daniel J. Cox, Natural Exposures, 16595 Brackett Creek Road, Bozeman, Montana 59715 has applied in due form for a permit to take Northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) for purposes of commercial/educational photography.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

9. Marine Mammals; File No. 779-1633-00

NOTICES: Marine mammals,

Notice is hereby given that the Southeast Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, 75 Virginia Beach Drive, Miami, FL 33149 (Principal Investigator: Dr. Keith D. Mullin) has been issued a permit to take marine mammals for purposes of scientific research.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

10. Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

NOTICES: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council,

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene public meetings of the Standing and Special Mackerel Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) and the Mackerel Advisory Panel (AP) on January 9 and January 10, 2002.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

11. Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

NOTICES: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council,

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will convene a public meeting of the Deep Water Crab Advisory Panel (AP).
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

12. Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fisheries; 2002 Specifications

RULES: Northeastern United States fisheries—; Summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass,

NMFS issues final specifications for the 2002 summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass fisheries and makes preliminary adjustments to the 2002 commercial quotas for these fisheries. This final rule specifies allowed harvest limits for both commercial and recreational fisheries, as well as other commercial management measures, including scup and
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

13. Groundfish Fisheries of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area and the Gulf of Alaska

PROPOSED RULES: Alaska; fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone—; Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska groundfish,

On November 27, 2001, NMFS announced its intent to revise the Alaska Groundfish Fisheries draft Programmatic SEIS. After reviewing more than 21,000 comment letters received on the draft Programmatic SEIS, NMFS determined that revisions to the draft Programmatic SEIS are [[Page 66391]]
appropriate and necessary. NMFS also determined that these
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

14. Atlantic Highly Migratory Species; Monitoring of Recreational Landings

PROPOSED RULES: Atlantic highly migratory species—; Recreational landings monitoring,

NMFS proposes this rule to amend regulations governing Atlantic billfish and North Atlantic swordfish recreational fisheries to implement recommendations adopted at the 2000 meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) and to enhance management programs for these species. NMFS proposes to implement a
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

15. Endangered and Threatened Species; Transfer of Permits

PROPOSED RULES: Endangered and threatened species:,

NMFS proposes a rule that would allow the transfer of certain permits issued by NMFS under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973, as amended. This proposed rule would allow the transfer of permits associated with Habitat Conservation Plans, Safe Harbor Agreements with Assurances and Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances. Currently,
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

16. Taking and Importing Marine Mammals; Taking Marine Mammals Incidental to Construction and Operation of Offshore Oil

NOTICES: Incidental taking; authorization letters, etc.—; BP Exploration (Alaska); Beaufort Sea, AK; offshore oil and gas facilities,

In accordance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), as amended, and implementing regulations, notification is hereby given that a letter of authorization (LOA) to take a small number of marine mammals incidental to the production of offshore oil and gas at the Northstar development in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska has been issued to BP
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

17. Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

NOTICES: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council,

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council will convene a public meeting of the Shrimp Advisory Panel (AP).
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

18. Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting

NOTICES: Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council,

The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) will convene public meetings of the Standing and Special Reef Fish Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) and the Reef Fish Advisory Panel (AP) from January 7 through January 11, 2002.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

19. New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meetings

NOTICES: New England Fishery Management Council,

The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is scheduling a public meeting of its Enforcement Committee and Advisory Panel, Red Crab Advisory Panel and Oversight Committee and Monkfish Oversight Committee in January, 2002 to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Recommendations from these
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

20. Sea Turtle Conservation; Shrimp Trawling Requirements

RULES: Sea turtle conservation—; Shrimp trawling requirements; Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico; turtle excluder devices,

NMFS is imposing, for a 30-day period, an additional restriction on shrimp trawlers that are required to have a turtle excluder device (TED) installed in each net rigged for fishing, and that are operating in Atlantic offshore waters out to 10 nautical miles (nm)(18.3 km) from the coast of Florida between 28 deg.N. latitude and the GeorgiaFlorida
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

21. Fisheries of the Northeastern United States; Summer Flounder Fishery; Commercial Quota Harvested for Rhode Island

RULES: Northeastern United States fisheries—; Summer flounder,

NMFS announces that the summer flounder commercial quota available to the State of Rhode Island has been harvested. Vessels issued a commercial Federal fisheries permit for the summer flounder fishery may not land summer flounder in Rhode Island for the remainder of calendar year 2001, unless additional quota becomes available through a transfer.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

22. Listing Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants and Designating Critical Habitat; 90-Day Finding for a Petition

PROPOSED RULES: Findings on petitions, etc.—; Atlantic white marlin,

NMFS announces the 90-day finding for a petition to list Atlantic white marlin (Tetrapturus albidus) as threatened or endangered throughout its known range and to designate critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). NMFS finds that the petition presents substantial scientific information indicating that the petitioned action may be
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

23. Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Alaska Region Logbook Family of Forms

NOTICES: Proposed collection; comment request,

The Department of Commerce, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. L. 10413 (44 U.S.C. 3506 (c)(2)(A)).
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

24. Northeast Multispecies Fishery; Fishing Capacity Reduction Program

RULES: Northeastern United States fisheries—; Northeast Multispecies Fishing Capacity Reduction Program,

NMFS issues this interim final rule to establish a voluntary fishing capacity reduction program (FCRP) for the Northeast multispecies fishery that permanently removes multispecies limited access fishing permits. Permit holders who would like to participate may submit bids, which will be ranked based on the amount of the bid and an estimate of the
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

25. Marine Mammals; Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Assessment for Issuing a Bowhead Whale Subsistence Quota

NOTICES: Bowhead whales; International Whaling Commission subsistence quota to Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (2003-2007),

NMFS announces its intention to prepare an EA, in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act, to assess the impacts of issuing a subsistence quota for bowhead whales to the AEWC for the years 2003 through 2007. NMFS solicits comments and information to facilitate this analysis.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE : National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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