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(e)(2)(iii) of this section shall be subject
to the restrictions in Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2016, Public Law
114–113, Div. E, Title VI, section 631,
129 Stat. 2242, 2470 (2015), unless and
until such restrictions are no longer in
effect.
■ 3. Section 54.312 is amended by
adding paragraph (d) to read as follows:
§ 54.312 Connect America Fund for Price
Cap Territories—Phase I.
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(d) Eligibility for support after
Connect America Phase II auction. (1) A
price cap carrier that receives monthly
baseline support pursuant to this
section and is a winning bidder in the
Connect America Phase II auction shall
receive support at the same level as
described in paragraph (a) of this
section for such area until the Wireline
Competition Bureau determines
whether to authorize the carrier to
receive Connect America Phase II
auction support for the same area. Upon
the Wireline Competition Bureau’s
release of a public notice approving a
price cap carrier’s application submitted
pursuant to § 54.315(b) and authorizing
the carrier to receive Connect America
Fund Phase II auction support, the
carrier shall no longer receive support at
the level of monthly baseline support
pursuant to this section for such area.
Thereafter, the carrier shall receive
monthly support in the amount of its
Connect America Phase II winning bid.
(2) Starting the first day of the month
following the first authorization of
Connect America Phase II auction
support nationwide, no price cap carrier
that receives monthly baseline support
pursuant to this section shall receive
such monthly baseline support for areas
that are ineligible for Connect America
Phase II auction support.
(3) To the extent Connect America
Phase II auction support is not awarded
at auction for an eligible area, as
determined by the Wireline Competition
Bureau, the price cap carrier shall have
the option of continuing to receive
support at the level described in
paragraph (a) of this section until
further Commission action.
(4) Starting the first day of the month
following the authorization of Connect
America Phase II auction support to a
winning bidder other than the price cap
carrier that receives monthly baseline
support pursuant to this section for such
area, the price cap carrier shall no
longer receive monthly baseline support
pursuant to this section.
(5) Notwithstanding the foregoing
schedule, the phase-down of support
below the level described in paragraph
(a) of this section shall be subject to the
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restrictions in Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2016, Public Law
114–113, Div. E, Title VI, section 631,
129 Stat. 2242, 2470 (2015), unless and
until such restrictions are no longer in
effect.
■ 4. Section 54.313 is amended by
adding paragraph (m) to read as follows:
§ 54.313 Annual reporting requirements
for high-cost recipients.
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(m) Any price cap carrier or fixed
competitive eligible
telecommunications carrier that elects
to continue receiving support pursuant
to § 54.312(d) or § 54.307(e)(2)(iii) shall
provide certifications, starting July 1,
2020 and for each subsequent year they
receive such support, that all such
support the company received in the
previous year was used to provide voice
service throughout the high-cost and
extremely high-cost census blocks
where they continue to have the federal
high-cost eligible telecommunications
carrier obligation to provide voice
service pursuant to § 54.201(d) at rates
that are reasonably comparable to
comparable offerings in urban areas.
Any price cap carrier or fixed
competitive eligible
telecommunications carrier that solely
receives support pursuant to § 54.312(d)
or § 54.307(e)(2)(iii) in its designated
service area shall not be subject to
reporting requirements in any other
paragraphs in this section for such
support.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
50 CFR Part 300
[Docket No. 180809745–8745–01]
RIN 0648–BI40
International Affairs; Antarctic Marine
Living Resources Convention Act;
Correction
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Final rule; technical
amendment.
AGENCY:
NMFS is hereby making a
technical amendment to our regulations
without altering the substance of the
regulations. This change will correct a
paragraph mis-numbering.
SUMMARY:
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This final rule is effective March
11, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mi
Ae Kim, Office of International Affairs
and Seafood Inspection, NMFS (phone
301–427–8365, or email mi.ae.kim@
noaa.gov).
DATES:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
NMFS previously published a final
rule to implement revisions and updates
to NMFS’ Antarctic Marine Living
Resources Convention Act (AMRLCA)
regulations under 50 CFR part 300,
subpart G, to streamline the regulations,
reflect current measures adopted by the
Commission for the Conservation of
Antarctic Marine Living Resources
(CCAMLR or Commission), and make
other adjustments. The final rule
published in the Federal Register on
January 19, 2017 (82 FR 6221). NMFS
has identified that 50 CFR 300.105(h)
includes two paragraphs numbered as
(h)(3). This rule solely corrects that misnumbering by numbering the second
paragraph as (h)(4) and does not make
any substantive changes to the
regulations.
Classification
This final rule has been determined to
be not significant for the purposes of
Executive Order 12866.
The Assistant Administrator for
Fisheries, NOAA (AA), finds that the
need to immediately implement this
regulatory correction constitutes good
cause to waive the requirements to
provide prior notice and opportunity for
public comment pursuant to the
authority set forth in 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B)
of the Administrative Procedure Act
(APA), because prior notice and
opportunity for public comment on this
final rule is unnecessary and contrary to
the public interest. Such procedures are
unnecessary and contrary to the public
interest, because the rules implementing
revisions and updates to NMFS’
Antarctic Marine Living Resources
Convention Act (AMRLCA) regulations
have already been subject to notice and
comment and not correcting the
regulatory text would result in
confusion and uncertainty for the
affected entities.
For the aforementioned reasons, the
AA also finds good cause to waive the
30-day delay in the effectiveness of this
action under 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3).
These measures are thus exempt from
the procedures of the Regulatory
Flexibility Act because prior notice and
comment are not required under the
APA.
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List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 300
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Antarctica, Antarctic marine living
resources, Catch documentation
scheme, Fisheries, Fishing,
Intergovernmental relations, Reporting
and recordkeeping requirements.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Dated: March 5, 2019.
Samuel D. Rauch III,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for
Regulatory Programs, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
Fisheries of the Northeastern United
States; Atlantic Herring Fishery; 2019
Management Area 2 Sub-Annual Catch
Limit Harvested
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Temporary rule; closure.
AGENCY:
PART 300—INTERNATIONAL
FISHERIES REGULATIONS
Subpart G—Antarctic Marine Living
Resources
1. The authority citation for part 300,
subpart G, continues to read as follows:
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 2431 et seq., 31 U.S.C.
9701 et seq.
2. Amend § 300.105 by revising
paragraph (h) to read as follows:
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§ 300.105 Preapproval for importation of
frozen Dissostichus species.
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(h) NMFS will not issue a preapproval
certificate for any shipment of
Dissostichus species:
(1) Identified as originating from a
high seas area designated by the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations as Statistical Area 51 or
Statistical Area 57 in the eastern and
western Indian Ocean outside and north
of the Convention Area;
(2) Determined to have been harvested
or transshipped in contravention of any
CCAMLR Conservation Measure in force
at the time of harvest or transshipment;
(3) Determined to have been harvested
or transshipped by a vessel identified by
CCAMLR as having engaged in illegal,
unreported and unregulated (IUU)
fishing; or
(4) Accompanied by inaccurate,
incomplete, invalid, or improperly
validated CDS documentation or by a
SVDCD.
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Effective on March 9, 2019,
NMFS is closing the directed fishery for
Herring Management Area 2, based on a
projection that a threshold catch amount
for that management area has been
reached. Beginning March 9, 2019,
through December 31, 2019, no person
may, or attempt to fish for, possess,
transfer, receive, land, or sell more than
2,000 lb (907.2 kg) of Atlantic herring
per trip or calendar day in or from
Management Area 2 from a vessel issued
and holding a valid herring permit. For
the duration of this action, federally
permitted dealers may not possess or
receive, or attempt to possess or receive,
more than 2,000 lb (907.2 kg) of herring
from Management Area 2 per trip or
calendar day from vessels issued and
holding a valid herring permit. This
action is necessary to comply with the
regulations implementing the Atlantic
herring Fishery Management Plan and is
intended to prevent overharvest of
herring in Management Area 2.
DATES: Effective 00:01 hr local time,
March 9, 2019, through 24:00 local time,
December 31, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Daniel Luers, Fishery Management
Specialist, (978) 282–8457.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Regional Administrator of NMFS for the
Greater Atlantic Region monitors the
herring fishery catch in each of the
management areas based on vessel and
dealer reports, state data, and other
available information. The regulations at
50 CFR 648.201 require that when the
Regional Administrator projects that
herring catch will reach 92 percent of
the sub-ACL allocated in Management
Area 2 designated in the Atlantic
Herring Fishery Management Plan
(FMP), through notification in the
Federal Register, NMFS must prohibit
for the remainder of the fishing year,
vessels from fishing for, possessing,
SUMMARY:
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correcting amendments:
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transferring, receiving, landing, or
selling, or attempting to fish for,
possess, transfer, receive, land or sell,
more than 2,000 lb (907.2 kg) of herring
per trip or calendar day in or from the
specified management area from a
vessel issued and holding a valid
herring permit.
The Regional Administrator has
projected, based on vessel and dealer
reports, state data, and other available
information, that the herring fleet will
have caught 92 percent of the herring
sub-ACL allocated to Management Area
2 by March 9, 2019. Therefore, effective
00:01 hr local time, March 9, 2019, no
person may, or attempt to, fish for,
possess, transfer, receive, land, or sell
more than 2,000 lb (907.2 kg) of herring
per trip or calendar day, in or from
Management Area 2, through December
31, 2019, from a vessel issued or
holding a valid herring permit. Vessels
that have entered port before 00:01 hr
local time, March 9, 2019, may land and
sell more than 2,000 lb (907.2 kg) of
herring from Area 2 from that trip. A
vessel may transit through Area 2 with
more than 2,000 lb (907.2 kg) of herring
on board, provided all herring was
caught outside of Area 2 and all fishing
gear is stowed and not available for
immediate use as defined by § 648.2.
Effective 00:01 hr local time, March 9,
2019, through 24:00 hr local time,
December 31, 2019, federally permitted
dealers may not purchase, possess,
receive, sell, barter, trade or transfer, or
attempt to purchase, possess, receive,
sell, barter, trade or transfer more than
2,000 lb (907.2 kg) of herring per trip or
calendar day from Management Area 2
from a vessel issued and holding a valid
herring permit, unless it is from a trip
landed by a vessel that entered port
before 00:01 hr local time, March 9,
2019.
Classification
This action is required by 50 CFR part
648 and is exempt from review under
Executive Order 12866.
NMFS finds good cause pursuant to 5
U.S.C. 553(b)(3)(B) to waive prior notice
and the opportunity for public comment
because it would be contrary to the
public interest and impracticable.
Further, in accordance with 5 U.S.C
§ 553(d)(3), NMFS also finds good cause
to waive the 30-day delayed
effectiveness. NMFS is required by
Federal regulation to put in place a
2,000-lb (907.2-kg) herring trip limit for
Management Area 2 through December
31, 2019. The 2019 herring fishing year
opened on January 1, 2019. Data
indicating the herring fleet will have
landed at least 92 percent of the 2019
sub-ACL allocated to Management Area
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
50 CFR Part 300
[Docket No. 180809745-8745-01]
RIN 0648-BI40
International Affairs; Antarctic Marine Living Resources
Convention Act; Correction
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Final rule; technical amendment.
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SUMMARY: NMFS is hereby making a technical amendment to our regulations
without altering the substance of the regulations. This change will
correct a paragraph mis-numbering.
DATES: This final rule is effective March 11, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mi Ae Kim, Office of International
Affairs and Seafood Inspection, NMFS (phone 301-427-8365, or email
mi.ae.kim@noaa.gov).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
NMFS previously published a final rule to implement revisions and
updates to NMFS' Antarctic Marine Living Resources Convention Act
(AMRLCA) regulations under 50 CFR part 300, subpart G, to streamline
the regulations, reflect current measures adopted by the Commission for
the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR or
Commission), and make other adjustments. The final rule published in
the Federal Register on January 19, 2017 (82 FR 6221). NMFS has
identified that 50 CFR 300.105(h) includes two paragraphs numbered as
(h)(3). This rule solely corrects that mis-numbering by numbering the
second paragraph as (h)(4) and does not make any substantive changes to
the regulations.
Classification
This final rule has been determined to be not significant for the
purposes of Executive Order 12866.
The Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA (AA), finds that
the need to immediately implement this regulatory correction
constitutes good cause to waive the requirements to provide prior
notice and opportunity for public comment pursuant to the authority set
forth in 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA),
because prior notice and opportunity for public comment on this final
rule is unnecessary and contrary to the public interest. Such
procedures are unnecessary and contrary to the public interest, because
the rules implementing revisions and updates to NMFS' Antarctic Marine
Living Resources Convention Act (AMRLCA) regulations have already been
subject to notice and comment and not correcting the regulatory text
would result in confusion and uncertainty for the affected entities.
For the aforementioned reasons, the AA also finds good cause to
waive the 30-day delay in the effectiveness of this action under 5
U.S.C. 553(d)(3).
These measures are thus exempt from the procedures of the
Regulatory Flexibility Act because prior notice and comment are not
required under the APA.
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List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 300
Antarctica, Antarctic marine living resources, Catch documentation
scheme, Fisheries, Fishing, Intergovernmental relations, Reporting and
recordkeeping requirements.
Dated: March 5, 2019.
Samuel D. Rauch III,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine
Fisheries Service.
Accordingly, 50 CFR part 300 is corrected by making the following
correcting amendments:
PART 300--INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES REGULATIONS
Subpart G--Antarctic Marine Living Resources
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1. The authority citation for part 300, subpart G, continues to read as
follows:
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 2431 et seq., 31 U.S.C. 9701 et seq.
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2. Amend Sec. 300.105 by revising paragraph (h) to read as follows:
Sec. 300.105 Preapproval for importation of frozen Dissostichus
species.
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(h) NMFS will not issue a preapproval certificate for any shipment
of Dissostichus species:
(1) Identified as originating from a high seas area designated by
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as
Statistical Area 51 or Statistical Area 57 in the eastern and western
Indian Ocean outside and north of the Convention Area;
(2) Determined to have been harvested or transshipped in
contravention of any CCAMLR Conservation Measure in force at the time
of harvest or transshipment;
(3) Determined to have been harvested or transshipped by a vessel
identified by CCAMLR as having engaged in illegal, unreported and
unregulated (IUU) fishing; or
(4) Accompanied by inaccurate, incomplete, invalid, or improperly
validated CDS documentation or by a SVDCD.
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