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US 1 ..................................... 1. A jet perforating gun, charged, oil well may be transported under the following conditions:
a. Initiation devices carried on the same motor vehicle or offshore supply vessel must be segregated; each kind
from every other kind, and from any gun, tool or other supplies, unless approved in accordance with § 173.56.
Segregated initiation devices must be carried in a container having individual pockets for each such device or
in a fully enclosed steel container lined with a non-sparking material. No more than two segregated initiation
devices per gun may be carried on the same motor vehicle.
b. Each shaped charge affixed to the gun may not contain more than 112 g (4 ounces) of explosives.
c. Each shaped charge if not completely enclosed in glass or metal, must be fully protected by a metal cover
after installation in the gun.
d. A jet perforating gun classed as 1.1D or 1.4D may be transported by highway by private or contract carriers
engaged in oil well operations.
(i) A motor vehicle transporting a gun must have specially built racks or carrying cases designed and constructed
so that the gun is securely held in place during transportation and is not subject to damage by contact, one to
the other or any other article or material carried in the vehicle; and
(ii) The assembled gun packed on the vehicle may not extend beyond the body of the motor vehicle.
e. A jet perforating gun classed as 1.4D may be transported by a private offshore supply vessel only when the
gun is carried in a motor vehicle as specified in paragraph (d) of this packing method or on offshore well tool
pallets provided that:
(i) All conditions specified in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of this packing method are met;
(ii) The total explosive contents do not exceed 90.8 kg (200 pounds) per tool pallet;
(iii) Each cargo vessel compartment may contain up to 90.8 kg (200 pounds) of explosive content if the segregation requirements in § 176.83(b) of this subchapter are met; and
(iv) When more than one vehicle or tool pallet is stowed ‘‘on deck’’ a minimum horizontal separation of 3 m (9.8
feet) must be provided.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
50 CFR Part 635
[Docket No. 120706221–2705–02]
RIN 0648–XD369
Atlantic Highly Migratory Species
(HMS); Commercial Blacknose Sharks
and Non-Blacknose Small Coastal
Sharks (SCS) in the Atlantic Region
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Temporary rule; closure.
AGENCY:
NMFS is closing the fisheries
for commercial blacknose sharks and
non-blacknose SCS in the Atlantic
region. This action is necessary because
the commercial landings of Atlantic
blacknose sharks for the 2014 fishing
season has exceeded 80 percent of the
available commercial quota as of July
22, 2014.
DATES: The commercial fisheries for
blacknose sharks and Atlantic nonblacknose SCSs in the Atlantic region
are closed effective 11:30 p.m. local
time July 28, 2014 until the end of the
2014 fishing season on December 31,
2014, or until and if NMFS announces
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via a notice in the Federal Register that
additional quota is available and the
season is reopened.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Karyl Brewster-Geisz or Alexis Jackson
301–427–8503; fax 301–713–1917.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Atlantic shark fisheries are managed
under the 2006 Consolidated 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,
received by NMFS 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(3), the quotas of certain species
and/or management groups are linked.
The quotas for blacknose sharks and the
non-blacknose SCS management group
in the Atlantic region are linked
(§ 635.28(b)(3)(iii)). Under
§ 635.28(b)(2), when NMFS calculates
that the landings for any species and/or
management group of a linked group
have exceeded 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
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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 fisheries for all linked species and/
or management groups is closed, even
across fishing years. On November 26,
2013 (78 FR 70500), NMFS announced
that the commercial Atlantic blacknose
shark quota for 2014 is 17.5 metric tons
(mt) dressed weight (dw) (38,638 lb dw),
and the Atlantic non-blacknose SCS
quota is 264.1 metric tons (mt) dressed
weight (dw) (582,333 lb dw). Dealer
reports recently received through July
22, 2014, indicate that 15.2 mt dw or 87
percent of the available Atlantic
blacknose shark quota has been landed
and 85.2 mt dw or 32 percent of the
available Atlantic non-blacknose SCS
quota has been landed. Accordingly,
NMFS is closing both the commercial
blacknose shark fishery and nonblacknose SCS management group in
the Atlantic region as of 11:30 p.m. local
time July 28, 2014. The fisheries for all
other shark species or management
groups that are currently open will
remain open, including the fisheries for
commercial Atlantic aggregated large
coastal sharks (LCS) and Atlantic
hammerhead sharks.
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,
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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
blacknose sharks and non-blacknose
SCS in the Atlantic region is prohibited
for persons fishing aboard vessels issued
a commercial shark limited access
permit 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)).
During this closure, a shark dealer
issued a permit pursuant to § 635.4 may
not purchase or receive blacknose
sharks or non-blacknose SCS in the
Atlantic region from a vessel issued an
Atlantic Shark Limited Access Permit
(LAP), except that a permitted shark
dealer or processor may possess
blacknose sharks and/or non-blacknose
SCS 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). Similarly,
a shark dealer issued a permit pursuant
to § 635.4 may, in accordance with
relevant state regulations, purchase or
receive blacknose sharks and/or nonblacknose SCS in the Atlantic region if
the sharks were harvested, off-loaded,
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 fisheries
are 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.
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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: July 22, 2014.
Alan D. Risenhoover,
Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
50 CFR Part 660
[Docket No. 031125294–4091–02]
RIN 0648–XD238
Fisheries Off West Coast States; the
Highly Migratory Species Fishery;
Closure
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Inseason action; closure.
AGENCY:
We, NMFS, are immediately
closing the Pacific loggerhead
conservation area, prohibiting fishing
with large mesh drift gillnet (DGN) gear
(>14 in mesh) off the coast of southern
California east of 120° West meridian
through August 31, 2014. This
prohibition is based on the Assistant
Administrator for Fisheries’ (AA)
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determination that El Nino conditions
are occurring off the coast of southern
California. This action protects
Endangered Species Act (ESA) listed
loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta),
specifically the endangered North
Pacific Ocean Distinct Population
Segment. Large mesh DGN fishing
vessels must cease fishing east of 120°
west on publication of this document.
DATES: Effective 12:01 a.m. Pacific
Daylight Time (PDT) July 23, 2014
through 11:59 p.m., August 31, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Craig Heberer, West Coast Region,
NMFS, (760) 431–9440, ext. 303;
craig.heberer@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The DGN
fishery is managed under the Fishery
Management Plan (FMP) for U.S. West
Coast Fisheries for Highly Migratory
Species (HMS) (50 CFR part 660,
subpart K). The fishery occurs off the
coast of California. Our regulations
provide that ‘‘No person may fish with,
set, or haul back drift gillnet gear in U.S.
waters of the Pacific Ocean east of the
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120° W. meridian from June 1 through
August 31 during a forecasted, or
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occurring, El Nino event off the coast of
southern California.’’ 50 CFR
660.713(c)(2). This area, which falls
within the southern California Bight
(SCB), is referred to in the regulations as
the Pacific loggerhead conservation
area.
Under 50 CFR 660.713(c)(2)(ii), the
AA is to make the determination that an
˜
El Nino event is forecasted or occurring
off southern California, relying on
information developed by NOAA offices
such as the Climate Prediction Center
(CPC) and the West Coast Office of the
Coast Watch program. The AA is to use
monthly sea surface temperature (SST)
charts to determine whether there are
warmer than normal SSTs off southern
California ‘‘during the months prior to
the closure months for years in which
˜
an El Nino event has been declared’’ by
the CPC. The AA is also to specifically
use SST data from the third and second
months prior to the month of closure.
We published these regulations to
protect ESA-listed loggerhead sea turtles
in response to a reasonable and prudent
alternative (RPA) included in our 2000
biological opinion on issuance of an
incidental take permit under the Marine
Mammal Protection Act. The
consultation concluded that bycatch in
the DGN fishery jeopardized the
continued existence of the turtles and
required the regulations to avoid
jeopardy. We have not closed the Pacific
loggerhead conservation area since the
regulations were first published in 2003
because the AA has not determined El
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Nino conditions were occurring off the
coast of southern California.
The CPC forecasts and declares when
˜
El Nino conditions exist based on
conditions in equatorial waters, but
does not forecast or declare when El
˜
Nino conditions exist off southern
California. This year, based on monthly
updates through July 10, 2014, the CPC
˜
has not declared an El Nino. The Coast
Watch program publishes maps of SST
off the California coast through the
Environmental Research Division’s Data
Access Program.
On May 27, 2014, a working group of
staff, including sea turtle biologists and
oceanographers, from the NMFS West
Coast Region (Region) and Southwest
Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) held
a teleconference to discuss whether El
˜
Nino conditions were likely off the
southern California coast during June,
July, or August 2014. On May 8, 2014,
˜
the CPC had issued an El Nino watch,
which means that conditions are
favorable for the development of El
˜
Nino within the next six months, and
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
50 CFR Part 635
[Docket No. 120706221-2705-02]
RIN 0648-XD369
Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS); Commercial Blacknose
Sharks and Non-Blacknose Small Coastal Sharks (SCS) in the Atlantic
Region
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Temporary rule; closure.
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SUMMARY: NMFS is closing the fisheries for commercial blacknose sharks
and non-blacknose SCS in the Atlantic region. This action is necessary
because the commercial landings of Atlantic blacknose sharks for the
2014 fishing season has exceeded 80 percent of the available commercial
quota as of July 22, 2014.
DATES: The commercial fisheries for blacknose sharks and Atlantic non-
blacknose SCSs in the Atlantic region are closed effective 11:30 p.m.
local time July 28, 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: Karyl Brewster-Geisz or Alexis Jackson
301-427-8503; fax 301-713-1917.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Atlantic shark fisheries are managed
under the 2006 Consolidated HMS Fishery Management Plan (FMP), its
amendments, and its implementing regulations (50 CFR part 635) issued
under authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.).
Under Sec. 635.5(b)(1), dealers must electronically submit reports
on sharks that are first received from a vessel on a weekly basis
through a NMFS-approved electronic reporting system, received by NMFS
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 Sec. 635.28(3), the quotas of certain species and/or
management groups are linked. The quotas for blacknose sharks and the
non-blacknose SCS management group in the Atlantic region are linked
(Sec. 635.28(b)(3)(iii)). Under Sec. 635.28(b)(2), when NMFS
calculates that the landings for any species and/or management group of
a linked group have exceeded 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 fisheries for all
linked species and/or management groups is closed, even across fishing
years. On November 26, 2013 (78 FR 70500), NMFS announced that the
commercial Atlantic blacknose shark quota for 2014 is 17.5 metric tons
(mt) dressed weight (dw) (38,638 lb dw), and the Atlantic non-blacknose
SCS quota is 264.1 metric tons (mt) dressed weight (dw) (582,333 lb
dw). Dealer reports recently received through July 22, 2014, indicate
that 15.2 mt dw or 87 percent of the available Atlantic blacknose shark
quota has been landed and 85.2 mt dw or 32 percent of the available
Atlantic non-blacknose SCS quota has been landed. Accordingly, NMFS is
closing both the commercial blacknose shark fishery and non-blacknose
SCS management group in the Atlantic region as of 11:30 p.m. local time
July 28, 2014. The fisheries for all other shark species or management
groups that are currently open will remain open, including the
fisheries for commercial Atlantic aggregated large coastal sharks (LCS)
and Atlantic hammerhead sharks.
At Sec. 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[deg]20.4' N. lat,
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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 blacknose sharks and non-blacknose
SCS in the Atlantic region is prohibited for persons fishing aboard
vessels issued a commercial shark limited access permit under Sec.
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 (Sec. 635.22(a)
and (c)).
During this closure, a shark dealer issued a permit pursuant to
Sec. 635.4 may not purchase or receive blacknose sharks or non-
blacknose SCS in the Atlantic region from a vessel issued an Atlantic
Shark Limited Access Permit (LAP), except that a permitted shark dealer
or processor may possess blacknose sharks and/or non-blacknose SCS 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 Sec. 635.28(b)(5). Similarly, a shark dealer
issued a permit pursuant to Sec. 635.4 may, in accordance with
relevant state regulations, purchase or receive blacknose sharks and/or
non-blacknose SCS in the Atlantic region if the sharks were harvested,
off-loaded, 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
Sec. 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 fisheries are 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 Sec. 635.28(b)(2)
and is exempt from review under Executive Order 12866.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: July 22, 2014.
Alan D. Risenhoover,
Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries
Service.
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