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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

CFR Citation: 50 CFR Part 679

Docket ID: [Docket No. 9812224323-9226-02; I.D. 120198B]

RIN ID: RIN 0648-AL23

NOTICE: RULES

ACTION: Fishery conservation and management:

DOCUMENT ACTION: Final rule; correction.

SUBJECT CATEGORY: Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Recordkeeping and Reporting; Correction

DATES: Effective December 15, 1999.

DOCUMENT SUMMARY: This document contains a correction to the final rule for recordkeeping and reporting that was published in the Federal Register on November 15, 1999.

SUMMARY: Alaska; fisheries of Exclusive Economic Zone—; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; correction,

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

A final rule was published in the Federal Register on November 15, 1999 (64 FR 61964), to revise recordkeeping and reporting regulations. Figures 1 and 3 to 50 CFR part 679 list Federal reporting areas and coordinates for the boundaries of those areas. Recently the coordinates of Figures 1 and 3 were plotted using a Geographic Information System. This highly accurate plotting procedure revealed several errors in the published points depicting the boundary between the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska. NMFS correctly revises the description of reporting areas 518 and 519 in Figure 1b and the description of reporting area 610 in Figure 3b.

Correction

In the final rule Revisions to Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements published in 64 FR 61964, November 15, 1999, FR Doc. 99 28294, correct Figure 1b to Part 679 and Figure 3b to part 679.

On page 61984, under Figure 1 to Part 679BSAI Statistical and Reporting Areas: b. Coordinates, correctly revise the description of reporting areas 518 and 519 to read as follows:
Figure 1 to Part 679BSAI Statistical and Reporting Areas b. Coordinates
Code Description
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518 Bogoslof District: South of a straight line between 55 deg.46' N lat, 170 deg.00' W long and 54 deg.30' N lat, 167 deg.00' W long, and between 167 deg.00' W long and 170 deg.00' W long, and north of the Aleutian Islands and straight lines between the islands connecting the following coordinates in the order listed:
52 deg.49.18' N, 169 deg.40.47' W
52 deg.49.24' N, 169 deg.07.10' W
53 deg.23.13' N, 167 deg.50.50' W

53 deg.18.95' N, 167 deg.51.06' W

519 South of a straight line between 54 deg.30' N lat, 167 deg.00' W long and 54 deg.30' N lat, 164 deg.54' W long; east of 167 deg.00' W long; west of Unimak Island; and north of the Aleutian Islands and straight lines between the islands connecting the following coordinates in the order listed: 53 deg.58.97' N, 166 deg.16.50' W
54 deg.02.69' N, 166 deg.02.93' W
54 deg.07.69' N, 165 deg.39.74' W
54 deg.08.40' N, 165 deg.38.29' W
54 deg.11.71' N, 165 deg.23.09' W
54 deg.23.74' N, 164 deg.44.73' W
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On page 61987, under Figure 3 to Part 679Gulf of Alaska Statistical and Reporting Areas: b. Coordinates, correctly revise the description of reporting area 610 to read as follows:
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Figure 3 to Part 679Gulf of Alaska Statistical and Reporting Areas b. Coordinates

Code Description

610 Western Regulatory Area, Shumagin District. Along the south side of the Aleutian Islands, including those waters south of Nichols Point (54 deg.51' 30" N lat) near False Pass, and straight lines between the islands and the Alaska Peninsula connecting the following coordinates in the order listed: I1152 deg.49.18' N, 169 deg.40.47' W;
52 deg.49.24' N, 169 deg.07.10' W;
53 deg.23.13' N, 167 deg.50.50' W;
53 deg.18.95' N, 167 deg.51.06' W;
53 deg.58.97' N, 166 deg.16.50' W;
54 deg.02.69' N, 166 deg.02.93' W;
54 deg.07.69' N, 165 deg.39.74' W;
54 deg.08.40' N, 165 deg.38.29' W;
54 deg.11.71' N, 165 deg.23.09' W;
54 deg.23.74' N, 164 deg.44.73' W; and
southward to the limits of the US EEZ as described in the current editions of NOAA chart INT 813 (Bering Sea, Southern Part) and NOAA chart 500 (West Coast of North America, Dixon Entrance to Unimak Pass), between 170 deg.00' W long and 159 deg.00' W long.
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Dated: April 25, 2000.
Penelope D. Dalton,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 0010795 Filed 42800; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 351022F

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Patsy A. Bearden, 907-586-7008.