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Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 53 / Friday, March 20, 2009 / Rules and Regulations
Register on September 26, 2008 [73 FR
56422]. The temporary delay in effective
date is necessary to give Department
officials the opportunity for further
review of the issues of law and policy
raised by this rule.
DATES: The effective date of the rule
amending 45 CFR parts 302, 303, and
307, published in the September 26,
2008 Federal Register [73 FR 56422] is
delayed until May 22, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Yvette Riddick, Office of Child Support
Enforcement, Division of Policy, (202)
401–4885.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
On September 26, 2008, we published
a final rule following notice and
comment period entitled ‘‘State Parent
Locator Service; Safeguarding Child
Support Information’’ in the Federal
Register to address requirements for
State Parent Locator Service responses
to authorized location requests, State
IV–D program safeguarding of
confidential information, authorized
disclosures of this information, and
restrictions on the use of confidential
data and information for child support
purposes with exceptions for certain
disclosures permitted by statute. The
effective date given for the final rule
was March 23, 2009.
In the March 3, 2009 Federal Register
[74 FR 9171], we published a notice
with comment period entitled, ‘‘State
Parent Locator Service; Safeguarding
Child Support Information: Proposed
Delay of Effective Date.’’ That notice
solicited public comments on a
contemplated 60-day delay in the
effective date of the September 26, 2008
final rule.
II. Provisions of This Action
This action delays the effective date of
the September 26, 2008 final rule. The
effective date of the September 26, 2008
final rule, which would have been
March 23, 2009, is now May 22, 2009.
The delay in the effective date is
necessary to give Department officials
the opportunity for further review of the
issues of law and policy raised by the
rule.
III. Comments Received in Response to
the March 3, 2009 Notice
We received fifteen comments in
response to the March 3, 2009 notice
with comment period on the
contemplated 60-day delay in effective
date of the ‘‘State Parent Locator
Service; Safeguarding Child Support
Information’’ final rule. Although the
March 3, 2009 notice invited comments
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generally on whether a delay in effective
date was needed ‘‘to allow Department
officials the opportunity for further
review and consideration,’’ it also
generated focused comments
recommending changes to several
particular substantive areas of the final
rule. The commenters generally
supported delaying the effective date,
and as a result, we are delaying the
effective date to May 22, 2009, to allow
sufficient time for Department officials
to review issues of law and policy raised
by the rule.
A summary of the comments received
follows.
Comments: Three commenters
supported delaying the implementation
date of the final rule. Two of the
commenters stated that the delay was
necessary to allow additional time to
implement the new requirements and
the other commenter supported a delay
in the effective date of the rule to allow
an additional 60 days for review. One
State submitted a comment indicating
that it did not need an extension of the
effective date in order to implement the
regulation.
Several comments addressed the
substance of the rule rather than the
effective date. One commenter indicated
that the final rule appeared to prohibit
the State IV–D agency from disclosing
confidential information, such as child
support payment records, to other State
agencies, including the State food
assistance (Food Stamps) program and
the State revenue (Tax) program.
Another commenter stated that a delay
in the effective date would give the
Administration an opportunity to
conduct a review of the child welfare
data exchange provisions of the rule to
ensure that the provisions of the rule
conform with The Fostering
Connections to Success and Increasing
Adoptions Act (Pub. L. 110–351), signed
into law on October 7, 2008, after the
rule was finalized.
Several commenters raised specific
policy objections to the September 26,
2008 final rule. Two commenters raised
concerns about the rules for disclosure
of confidential location information.
Another commenter stated that the
regulations need to be reviewed and
revised to assure significantly greater
protection of that information from use
for non-child support purposes.
Additionally, a number of
commenters focused on the disclosure
of information to an ‘‘agent of a child’’
and raised concerns that some private
collection agencies may not actually
serve the child’s best interests and
raised concerns that these private
entities are not subject to ethics and
confidentiality rules, such as those
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governing State agencies and attorneys,
and there may be unintended adverse
consequences of such disclosures.
Response: The Department believes
that the comments received on the
notice published in the Federal Register
on March 3, 2009 [74 FR 9171] soliciting
comments on the temporary delay in the
effective date of the rule generally
support a 60-day delay until May 22,
2009. Thus the Department is delaying
the effective date of the final rule 60
days to allow sufficient time for
Department officials to review issues of
law and policy raised by the rule.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Program No. 93.563, Child Support
Enforcement)
Dated: March 17, 2009.
Charles E. Johnson,
Acting Secretary.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
50 CFR Part 660
[Docket No. 071003556–81194–02]
RIN 0648–AW08
Fisheries Off West Coast States;
Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery;
Amendment 15; Correction
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Final rule; correction.
SUMMARY: NMFS is correcting a final
regulation that appeared in the Federal
Register on March 10, 2009. The
document contained the final
regulations for a vessel license
limitation program for the non-tribal
sectors of the Pacific whiting fishery.
The document was published with some
errors, including errors in the final date
of the application period, the final date
of appeals period, and the effective date
for the Pacific whiting vessel license
requirement. This document corrects
those errors.
DATES: These corrections are effective
on April 9, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Becky Renko, phone: 206–526–6110,
fax: 206–526–6736, or e-mail:
becky.renko@noaa.gov, or for permitting
information, Kevin Ford, phone: 206–
526–6115, fax: 206–526–6736, or e-mail:
kevin.ford@noaa.gov.
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Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 53 / Friday, March 20, 2009 / Rules and Regulations
In FR Doc.
E9–5066, appearing on page 10189 in
the Federal Register on March 10, 2009,
the following corrections are made:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Corrections to Preamble
1. On page 10190, in the second
column, under the response to
Comment 4, the application deadline is
corrected to read May 11, 2009.
2. On page 10190, in the second
column, under the response to
Comment 5, the application deadline
announced is corrected to read May 11,
2009.
Corrections to Regulatory Text
§ 660.306 [Corrected]
On page 10192, in the second column,
in § 660.306 Prohibitions, in paragraph
(f)(1), the date of April 9, 2009, is
corrected to read May 11, 2009.
§ 660.333 [Corrected]
2. On page 10192, in the third
column, in § 660.333 Limited entry
fishery eligibility and registration, in
paragraph (a) the date of April 9, 2009,
is corrected to read May 11, 2009.
§ 660.336 [Corrected]
3. On page 10193, in the first column,
in § 660.336 Pacific whiting vessel
licenses, in paragraph (a)(1)
introductory text, the date of April 9,
2009, is corrected to read May 11, 2009.
4. On page 10193, in the third
column, in § 660.336 Pacific whiting
vessel licenses, in paragraph (a)(3)(i),
the date of April 9, 2009, is corrected to
read May 11, 2009 wherever it appears.
5. On page 10194, in the first column,
in § 660.336 Pacific whiting vessel
licenses, in paragraph (a)(3)(ii), the date
of April 9, 2009, is corrected to read
May 11, 2009.
6. On page 10194, in the first column,
in § 660.336 Pacific whiting vessel
licenses, in paragraph (a)(3)(iii), the date
of May 11, 2009, is corrected to read
June 15, 2009.
§ 660.373 [Corrected]
7. On page 10194, in the third
column, § 660.373 Pacific whiting
(whiting) fishery management,
paragraph (a) is revised to read as
follows:
(a) Sectors. In order for a vessel to
participate in a particular whiting
fishery sector after May 11, 2009, that
vessel must be registered for use with a
sector-specific Pacific whiting vessel
license under § 660.336.
(1) The catcher/processor sector is
composed of catcher/processors, which
are vessels that harvest and process
whiting during a calendar year.
(2) The mothership sector is
composed of motherships and catcher
vessels that harvest whiting for delivery
to motherships. Motherships are vessels
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that process, but do not harvest, whiting
during a calendar year.
(3) The shore-based sector is
composed of vessels that harvest
whiting for delivery to Pacific whiting
shoreside first receivers.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of
50 CFR Part 660, subpart G, a vessel that
is 75 feet or less LOA that harvests
whiting and, in addition to heading and
gutting, cuts the tail off and freezes the
whiting, is not considered to be a
catcher/processor nor is it considered to
be processing fish. Such a vessel is
considered a participant in the
shorebased whiting sector, and is
subject to regulations and allocations for
that sector.
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AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Temporary rule; opening.
Beginning
in 1995, fishing for Pacific halibut and
sablefish with fixed gear in the IFQ
regulatory areas defined in § 679.2 has
been managed under the IFQ Program.
The IFQ Program is a regulatory regime
designed to promote the conservation
and management of these fisheries and
to further the objectives of the
Magnuson–Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act and
the Northern Pacific Halibut Act.
Persons holding quota share receive an
annual allocation of IFQ. Persons
receiving an annual allocation of IFQ
are authorized to harvest IFQ species
within specified limitations. Further
information on the implementation of
the IFQ Program, and the rationale
supporting it, are contained in the
preamble to the final rule implementing
the IFQ Program published in the
Federal Register, November 9, 1993 (58
FR 59375) and subsequent amendments.
This announcement is consistent with
§ 679.23(g)(1), which requires that the
directed fishing season for sablefish
managed under the IFQ Program be
specified by the Administrator, Alaska
Region, and announced by publication
in the Federal Register. This method of
season announcement was selected to
facilitate coordination between the
sablefish season, chosen by the
Administrator, Alaska Region, and the
halibut season, chosen by the IPHC. The
directed fishing season for sablefish
with fixed gear managed under the IFQ
Program will open 1200 hrs, A.l.t.,
March 21, 2009, and will close 1200 hrs,
A.l.t., November 15, 2009. This period
runs concurrently with the IFQ season
for Pacific halibut announced by the
IPHC. The IFQ halibut season will be
specified by a separate publication in
the Federal Register of annual
management measures pursuant to 50
CFR 300.62.
SUMMARY: NMFS is opening directed
fishing for sablefish with fixed gear
managed under the Individual Fishing
Quota (IFQ) Program. The season will
open 1200 hrs, Alaska local time (A.l.t.),
March 21, 2009, and will close 1200 hrs,
A.l.t., November 15, 2009. This period
is the same as the 2009 IFQ and
Community Development Quota season
for Pacific halibut adopted by the
International Pacific Halibut
Commission (IPHC). The IFQ halibut
season is specified by a separate
publication in the Federal Register of
annual management measures.
DATES: Effective 1200 hrs, A.l.t., March
21, 2009, until 1200 hrs, A.l.t.,
November 15, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Obren Davis, 907–586–7228.
Classification
This action responds to the best
available information recently obtained
from the fishery. The Assistant
Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA,
(AA), finds good cause to waive the
requirement to provide prior notice and
opportunity for public comment
pursuant to the authority set forth at 5
U.S.C. 553(b)(B) as such requirement is
impracticable and contrary to the public
interest. This requirement is
impracticable and contrary to the public
interest as it would prevent NMFS from
responding to the most recent fisheries
data in a timely fashion and would
delay the opening of the sablefish
fishery thereby increasing bycatch and
regulatory discards between the
sablefish fishery and the halibut fishery,
Dated: March 16, 2009.
James W. Balsiger,
Acting Assistant Administrator For Fisheries,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E9–6139 Filed 3–18–09; 4:15 pm]
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Administration
50 CFR Part 679
[Docket No. 0910091344–9056–02 and
0810141351–9087–02]
RIN 0648–XN73
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic
Zone Off Alaska; Sablefish Managed
Under the Individual Fishing Quota
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[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 53 (Friday, March 20, 2009)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 11880-11881]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-6139]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
50 CFR Part 660
[Docket No. 071003556-81194-02]
RIN 0648-AW08
Fisheries Off West Coast States; Pacific Coast Groundfish
Fishery; Amendment 15; Correction
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Final rule; correction.
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SUMMARY: NMFS is correcting a final regulation that appeared in the
Federal Register on March 10, 2009. The document contained the final
regulations for a vessel license limitation program for the non-tribal
sectors of the Pacific whiting fishery. The document was published with
some errors, including errors in the final date of the application
period, the final date of appeals period, and the effective date for
the Pacific whiting vessel license requirement. This document corrects
those errors.
DATES: These corrections are effective on April 9, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Becky Renko, phone: 206-526-6110, fax:
206-526-6736, or e-mail: becky.renko@noaa.gov, or for permitting
information, Kevin Ford, phone: 206-526-6115, fax: 206-526-6736, or e-
mail: kevin.ford@noaa.gov.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In FR Doc. E9-5066, appearing on page 10189
in the Federal Register on March 10, 2009, the following corrections
are made:
Corrections to Preamble
1. On page 10190, in the second column, under the response to
Comment 4, the application deadline is corrected to read May 11, 2009.
2. On page 10190, in the second column, under the response to
Comment 5, the application deadline announced is corrected to read May
11, 2009.
Corrections to Regulatory Text
Sec. 660.306 [Corrected]
On page 10192, in the second column, in Sec. 660.306 Prohibitions,
in paragraph (f)(1), the date of April 9, 2009, is corrected to read
May 11, 2009.
Sec. 660.333 [Corrected]
2. On page 10192, in the third column, in Sec. 660.333 Limited
entry fishery eligibility and registration, in paragraph (a) the date
of April 9, 2009, is corrected to read May 11, 2009.
Sec. 660.336 [Corrected]
3. On page 10193, in the first column, in Sec. 660.336 Pacific
whiting vessel licenses, in paragraph (a)(1) introductory text, the
date of April 9, 2009, is corrected to read May 11, 2009.
4. On page 10193, in the third column, in Sec. 660.336 Pacific
whiting vessel licenses, in paragraph (a)(3)(i), the date of April 9,
2009, is corrected to read May 11, 2009 wherever it appears.
5. On page 10194, in the first column, in Sec. 660.336 Pacific
whiting vessel licenses, in paragraph (a)(3)(ii), the date of April 9,
2009, is corrected to read May 11, 2009.
6. On page 10194, in the first column, in Sec. 660.336 Pacific
whiting vessel licenses, in paragraph (a)(3)(iii), the date of May 11,
2009, is corrected to read June 15, 2009.
Sec. 660.373 [Corrected]
7. On page 10194, in the third column, Sec. 660.373 Pacific
whiting (whiting) fishery management, paragraph (a) is revised to read
as follows:
(a) Sectors. In order for a vessel to participate in a particular
whiting fishery sector after May 11, 2009, that vessel must be
registered for use with a sector-specific Pacific whiting vessel
license under Sec. 660.336.
(1) The catcher/processor sector is composed of catcher/processors,
which are vessels that harvest and process whiting during a calendar
year.
(2) The mothership sector is composed of motherships and catcher
vessels that harvest whiting for delivery to motherships. Motherships
are vessels that process, but do not harvest, whiting during a calendar
year.
(3) The shore-based sector is composed of vessels that harvest
whiting for delivery to Pacific whiting shoreside first receivers.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of 50 CFR Part 660, subpart G, a
vessel that is 75 feet or less LOA that harvests whiting and, in
addition to heading and gutting, cuts the tail off and freezes the
whiting, is not considered to be a catcher/processor nor is it
considered to be processing fish. Such a vessel is considered a
participant in the shorebased whiting sector, and is subject to
regulations and allocations for that sector.
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Dated: March 16, 2009.
James W. Balsiger,
Acting Assistant Administrator For Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries
Service.
[FR Doc. E9-6139 Filed 3-18-09; 4:15 pm]
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