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comprehensive reform efforts, the Joint
Board issued a recommended decision
on November 20, 2007. The Universal
Service Joint Board’s recommended
decision included several
recommendations to address the growth
in high-cost support and to reform the
high-cost mechanisms. Specifically, the
Universal Service Joint Board
recommended that the Commission
should: (1) Deliver high-cost support
through a provider of last resort fund, a
mobility fund, and a broadband fund;
(2) cap the high-cost fund at $4.5
billion, the approximate level of 2007
high-cost support; (3) reduce the
existing funding mechanisms during a
transition period; (4) add broadband and
mobility to the list of services eligible
for support under section 254 of the Act;
(5) eliminate the identical support rule;
and (6) ‘‘explore the most appropriate
auction mechanisms to determine highcost universal service support.’’
36. On January 29, 2008, the
Commission released the Joint Board
Comprehensive Reform NPRM, seeking
comment on the Joint Board’s
Comprehensive Reform Recommended
Decision. Pursuant to section 254(a)(2),
the Commission ‘‘shall complete any
proceeding to implement subsequent
recommendations from any Joint Board
on universal service within one year
after receiving such recommendations.’’
37. We have carefully reviewed the
Joint Board’s Comprehensive Reform
Recommended Decision and the
comments that were filed in response to
the Commission’s Joint Board
Comprehensive Reform NPRM. We
thank the Joint Board and its staff for
their hard work in studying these
difficult issues and in developing their
recommendations. We choose not to
implement these recommendations at
this time, however.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
49 CFR Part 192
50 CFR Part 300
[Docket No. PHMSA–2005–23447]
[Docket No. 071203794–81464–02]
RIN 2137–AE25
RIN 0648–AW36
Pipeline Safety: Standards for
Increasing the Maximum Allowable
Operating Pressure for Gas
Transmission Pipelines
Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Subsistence
Fishing
Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA), Department of Transportation
(DOT)
ACTION: Stay of final rule.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This Notice stays the effective
date of a final rule published October
17, 2008 (73 FR 62148). In accordance
with the Congressional Review Act, the
final rule will be effective on December
22, 2008, 60 days after the final rule was
transmitted to Congress .
DATES: Effective December 1, 2008
§§ 192.112, 192.328, 192.611(a)(1);
192.611(a)(3)(i), (ii) and (iii); 192.619(a)
and (d); and 192.620 are stayed until
December 22, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Alan Mayberry by phone at (202) 366–
5124, or by e-mail at
alan.mayberry@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
B. Discussion
I. Supplementary Background
On October 17, 2008 PHMSA issued
a final rule under Docket No. PHMSA–
2005–23447 amending the Pipeline
Safety Regulations (PSR; 49 CFR parts
190–199) to increase the regulatory
maximum allowable operating pressure
(MAOP) for certain gas transmission
pipelines. The October 17, 2008 Federal
Resister notice announced that the final
rule would be effective November 17,
2008, thirty days after its publication.
Because the final rule is a major rule
within the meaning of the Congressional
Review Act, however, its effective date
must be delayed until 60 days after
publication in the Federal Register or
transmission to Congress, whichever is
later. The final rule was transmitted to
Congress on October 22, 2008.
Accordingly, we are staying its effective
date until December 22, 2008.
Issued in Washington, DC, on November
24, 2008 under authority delegated in 49 CFR
part 1.
Carl T. Johnson,
Administrator.
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National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: NMFS issues a final rule to
amend the subsistence fishery rules for
members of an Alaska Native tribe
eligible to harvest Pacific halibut in
waters in and off Alaska for customary
and traditional use. The action correctly
defines the location of Village of
Kanatak tribal headquarters and
International Pacific Halibut
Commission (IPHC) halibut regulatory
area (Area) in which the tribe’s members
may subsistence fish. The action would
change the tribe’s headquarters from
Egegik to Wasilla and the corresponding
Area from 4E to Area 3A. The intent of
this action is to remove restrictions on
participation of Village of Kanatak tribal
members in traditional subsistence
fisheries for Pacific halibut by correcting
the tribe’s headquarters to its actual
location in Wasilla.
DATES: Effective December 31, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Categorical
Exclusion and Regulatory Impact
Review prepared for this action, as well
as the environmental assessment
prepared for the original subsistence
halibut action are available by mail from
NMFS, Alaska Region, P.O. Box 21668,
Juneau, AK 99802–1668, Attn: Ellen
Sebastian, Records Officer; in person at
NMFS, Alaska Region, 709 West 9th
Street, Room 420A, Juneau, Alaska; and
via the Internet at the NMFS Alaska
Region website at https://
alaskafisheries.noaa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Peggy Murphy, 907–586–7843.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
United States and Canada participate in
the International Pacific Halibut
Commission (IPHC) and promulgate
regulations governing the Pacific halibut
(Hippoglossus stenolepis) fishery under
the authority of the Northern Pacific
Halibut Act of 1982 (Halibut Act).
Regulations governing the allocation
and catch of halibut in U.S. convention
waters that are in agreement with the
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
49 CFR Part 192
[Docket No. PHMSA-2005-23447]
RIN 2137-AE25
Pipeline Safety: Standards for Increasing the Maximum Allowable
Operating Pressure for Gas Transmission Pipelines
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT)
ACTION: Stay of final rule.
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SUMMARY: This Notice stays the effective date of a final rule published
October 17, 2008 (73 FR 62148). In accordance with the Congressional
Review Act, the final rule will be effective on December 22, 2008, 60
days after the final rule was transmitted to Congress .
DATES: Effective December 1, 2008 Sec. Sec. 192.112, 192.328,
192.611(a)(1); 192.611(a)(3)(i), (ii) and (iii); 192.619(a) and (d);
and 192.620 are stayed until December 22, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alan Mayberry by phone at (202) 366-
5124, or by e-mail at alan.mayberry@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Supplementary Background
On October 17, 2008 PHMSA issued a final rule under Docket No.
PHMSA-2005-23447 amending the Pipeline Safety Regulations (PSR; 49 CFR
parts 190-199) to increase the regulatory maximum allowable operating
pressure (MAOP) for certain gas transmission pipelines. The October 17,
2008 Federal Resister notice announced that the final rule would be
effective November 17, 2008, thirty days after its publication. Because
the final rule is a major rule within the meaning of the Congressional
Review Act, however, its effective date must be delayed until 60 days
after publication in the Federal Register or transmission to Congress,
whichever is later. The final rule was transmitted to Congress on
October 22, 2008. Accordingly, we are staying its effective date until
December 22, 2008.
Issued in Washington, DC, on November 24, 2008 under authority
delegated in 49 CFR part 1.
Carl T. Johnson,
Administrator.
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