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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 129 / Friday, July 9, 2021 / Rules and Regulations First-tier subcontract means a subcontract awarded directly by the contractor for the purpose of acquiring services for performance of a prime contract. It does not include the contractors supplier agreements with vendors, such as long-term arrangements for materials or supplies or services that benefit multiple contracts and/
or the costs of which are normally applied to a contractors general and administrative expenses or indirect costs.
b The contractor shall report annually, by October 31, at https www.sam.gov, on services performed during the preceding Government fiscal year October 1
September 30 under this contract or agreement for each order, including any firsttier subcontract, which exceeds $3 million for services in the following service acquisition portfolio groups:
1 Logistics management services.
2 Equipment-related services.
3 Knowledge-based services.
4 Electronics and communications services.
c The Contractor shall report the following information for the order:
1 The total dollar amount invoiced for services performed during the preceding Government fiscal year under the order.
2 The number of Contractor direct labor hours, to include first-tier subcontractor direct labor hours, as applicable, expended on the services performed under the order during the previous Government fiscal year.
d The Government will review the Contractors reported information for reasonableness and consistency with available contract information. In the event the Government believes that revisions to the Contractors reported information are warranted, the Government will notify the Contractor. Upon notification, the Contractor shall revise the reported information or provide the Government with a supporting rationale for the information.

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Fisheries Off West Coast States;
Coastal Pelagic Species Fisheries;
Annual Specifications; 20212022
Annual Specifications and Management Measures for Pacific Sardine National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS, National Oceanic and
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ACTION: Final rule.
NMFS is implementing annual harvest specifications and management measures for the northern subpopulation of Pacific sardine hereafter, Pacific sardine, for the fishing year, which runs from July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022. This final rule will prohibit most directed commercial fishing for Pacific sardine off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California. Pacific sardine harvest will be allowed only in the live bait fishery, minor directed fisheries, as incidental catch in other fisheries, or as authorized under exempted fishing permits. The incidental harvest of Pacific sardine will be limited to 20
percent by weight of all fish per trip when caught with other stocks managed under the Coastal Pelagic Species Fishery Management Plan, or up to 2
metric tons per trip when caught with non-Coastal Pelagic Species stocks. The annual catch limit for the 20212022
Pacific sardine fishing year is 3,329
metric tons. This final rule is intended to conserve and manage the Pacific sardine stock off the U.S. West Coast.
DATES: Effective July 6, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Taylor Debevec, West Coast Region, NMFS, 562 6192052, Taylor.Debevec@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS
manages the Pacific sardine fishery in the U.S. exclusive economic zone EEZ
off the Pacific coast California, Oregon, and Washington in accordance with the Coastal Pelagic Species CPS Fishery Management Plan FMP. The FMP and its implementing regulations require NMFS to set annual catch levels for the Pacific sardine fishery based on the annual specification framework and control rules in the FMP. These control rules include the harvest guideline HG
control rule, which, in conjunction with the overfishing limit OFL and acceptable biological catch ABC rules in the FMP, are used to manage harvest levels for Pacific sardine, in accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act MSA, 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
This final rule implements the annual catch levels, reference points, and management measures for the 2021
2022 fishing year. The final rule adopts, without changes, the catch levels and restrictions that NMFS proposed in the SUMMARY:

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rule published on May 26, 2021. The proposed rule for this action included additional background on the specifications and details of how the Pacific Fishery Management Council Council derived its recommended specifications for Pacific sardine. Those details are not repeated here. For additional information on this action, please refer to the proposed rule 86 FR
28325.
This rule implements an OFL of 5,525
metric tons mt and an ABC/annual catch limit ACL of 3,329 mt, based on CPS FMP control rules and a biomass estimate of Pacific sardine of 28,276 mt.
This biomass estimate is from the 2020
benchmark stock assessment and was recommended for use this year by the Councils Scientific and Statistical Committee after identifying significant uncertainties in the 2021 catch-only projection. Because the estimated biomass is less than the value of the CUTOFF parameter in the CPS FMP
150,000 mt, the harvest guideline is set to 0 mt, meaning there is no primary directed fishery for Pacific sardine. This is the seventh consecutive year the primary directed fishery has been closed. Because the estimated biomass is below the minimum stock size threshold 50,000 mt the FMP requires that incidental catch of Pacific sardine in other CPS fisheries be limited to an incidental allowance of no more than 20
percent by weight. Although these management measures, triggered by the FMP, are expected to keep catch far below the ACL as they have done in recent history, this rule also implements an annual catch target ACT of 3,000 mt and implements management measures to ensure harvest opportunity throughout the year.
A summary of the 20212022 fishing year specifications can be found in Table 1, and management measures in the list below.

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