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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 47 / Friday, March 12, 2021 / Rules and Regulations Classification Pursuant to section 304b3 of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, the NMFS
Assistant Administrator has determined that this final rule is consistent with the Monkfish Fishery Management Plan, other provisions of the MagnusonStevens Act, and other applicable law.
This rule is exempt from review under Executive Order 12866.
Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553bB, we find good cause to waive prior public notice and opportunity for public comment on the catch limit and allocation adjustments because allowing time for notice and comment is unnecessary. The Framework 12
proposed rule provided the public with the opportunity to comment on the 20202022 specifications 85 FR 39157, June 30, 2020. No comments were received on the proposed rule. Thus, the proposed and final rules that contained the projected 20202022 specifications provided a full opportunity for the public to comment on the substance and process of this action. Furthermore, no circumstances or conditions have changed in the monkfish fishery that would cause new concern or necessitate reopening the comment period. Finally, the final 2021 specifications being implemented by this rule are unchanged from those projected in the Framework 12 final rule.
The Chief Counsel for Regulation, Department of Commerce, previously certified to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration SBA that the 2020
2022 monkfish specifications would not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.
Implementing status quo specifications for 2021 will not change the conclusions drawn in that previous certification to the SBA. Because advance notice and the opportunity for public comment are not required for this action under the Administrative Procedure Act, or any other law, the analytical requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C.
601 et seq., do not apply to this rule.
Therefore, no new regulatory flexibility analysis is required and none has been prepared.

This final rule contains no information collection requirements under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
Dated: March 8, 2021.
Samuel D. Rauch III, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 679
Docket No. 2102170022
RTID 0648XA821

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Reallocation of Pollock in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.
ACTION: Temporary rule.
AGENCY:

NMFS is reallocating the projected unused amounts of the Community Development Quota CDQ
pollock directed fishing allowance DFA from the Aleutian Islands subarea to the Bering Sea subarea. This action is necessary to provide opportunity for harvest of the 2021 total allowable catch of pollock, consistent with the goals and objectives of the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area BSAI.
DATES: Effective 1200 hrs, Alaska local time A.l.t., March 12, 2021, until the effective date of the final 2021 and 2022
harvest specifications for BSAI
groundfish, unless otherwise modified or superseded through publication of a notification in the Federal Register.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kurt Iverson, 9075867210.
SUMMARY:

NMFS
manages the groundfish fishery in the BSAI exclusive economic zone according to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area FMP prepared by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council Council under authority of the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Regulations governing fishing by U.S. vessels in accordance with the FMP appear at subpart H of 50
CFR part 600 and 50 CFR part 679.
In the Aleutian Islands subarea, the portion of the 2021 pollock total allowable catch TAC allocated to the CDQ DFA is 1,900 metric tons mt as established by the final 2021 and 2022
harvest specifications for groundfish in the BSAI 86 FR 11449, February 25, 2021.
As of January 19, 2021, the Administrator, Alaska Region, NMFS, Regional Administrator has determined that 1,900 mt of pollock CDQ DFA in the Aleutian Islands subarea will not be harvested.
Therefore, in accordance with 679.20a5iiiB4, NMFS
reallocates 1,900 mt of pollock CDQ
DFA from the Aleutian Islands subarea to the Bering Sea subarea. The 1,900 mt of pollock 2021 Aleutians Islands CDQ
DFA is added to the 2021 Bering Sea CDQ DFA. The 2021 Bering Sea subarea pollock incidental catch allowance remains at 49,500 mt. As a result, the 2021 harvest specifications for pollock in the Aleutian Islands subarea included in the final 2021 and 2022 harvest specifications for groundfish in the BSAI 86 FR 11449, February 25, 2021
are revised as follows: 0 mt to CDQ
DFA. Furthermore, pursuant to 679.20a5, Table 4 of the final 2021
and 2022 harvest specifications for groundfish in the BSAI 86 FR 11449, February 25, 2021 is revised to make 2021 pollock allocations consistent with this reallocation. This reallocation results in an adjustment to the 2021
CDQ pollock allocation established at 679.20a5.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

TABLE 4FINAL 2021 ALLOCATIONS OF POLLOCK TACS TO THE DIRECTED POLLOCK FISHERIES AND TO THE CDQ
DIRECTED FISHING ALLOWANCES DFA 1
Amounts are in metric tons 2021 A season 1
2021
allocations
Area and sector
Bering Sea subarea TAC 1
CDQ DFA
ICA 1

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A season DFA

SCA harvest limit 2

n/a 62,730
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2021 B season 1

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n/a 39,032
n/a
B season DFA
n/a 76,670
n/a