[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 35 (Friday, February 21, 1997)] [Rules and Regulations] [Page 7947] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 97-4262] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 217 [I.D. 011696D] RIN 0648-AH89 Sea Turtle Conservation; Restrictions to Shrimp Trawling Activities; Correction
Agency
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
Action
Final rule; correction
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Summary
This document contains a correction to a final rule that was published on December 19, 1996. This correction specifies the correct longitude of the eastern boundary of the Gulf Shrimp Fishery-Sea Turtle Conservation Area.
EFFECTIVE DATE: March 1, 1997.
For Further Information Contact
Charles A. Oravetz, 813-570-5312, or Barbara A. Schroeder, 301-713-1401.
Supplementary Information
Need for Correction
On December 19, 1996 (61 FR 66933), NMFS published a final rule that modified the gear requirements for the participants in the shrimp trawl fishery in the southeastern United States to protected threatened and endangered species of sea turtle from incidental capture and mortality in that fishery. The final rule, among other things, added a definition to 50 CFR 217.12 for the ''Gulf Shrimp Fishery-Sea Turtle Conservation Area (Gulf SFSTCA)''. The text of that definition, however, contained a typographical error in the longitude specification of a boundary.
Correction of Publication
Accordingly, the publication on December 19, 1996, of the final rule (I.D. 011696D), which was the subject of FR Doc. 96-66933, is corrected as follows:
Sec. 217.12 [Corrected]
On page 66944, in the second column, in Sec. 217.12 the definition for ``Gulf Shrimp Fishery-Sea Turtle Conservation Area (Gulf SFSTCA)'' is corrected to read as follows: Gulf Shrimp Fishery-Sea Turtle Conservation Area (Gulf SFSTCA) means the offshore waters extending to 10 nautical miles (18.5 km) offshore along the coast of the States of Texas and Louisiana from the South Pass of the Mississippi River (west of 89 deg.08.5' W. long.) to the U.S.-Mexican border. * * * * *
Dated: February 13, 1997. Charles Karnella Acting Director, Office of Operations, Management and Information, National Marine Fisheries Service. [FR Doc. 97-4262 Filed 2-20-97; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-22-F