Commerce Department Final Rule

2025-20326: Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone off Alaska; Pacific Halibut Recreational Quota Entity Program Fee Collection; Correction

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Summary

NMFS corrects the final rule published on July 7, 2025, to implement the Pacific Halibut Recreational Quota Entity Program Fee Collection. The final rule inadvertently omitted an amendatory instruction to add the definition for "Charter halibut permit holder". This correction fixes that omission.

The agency’s own summary, as published.

The rule, in full

322 words as published, November 19, 2025. View the original →

Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 221 (Wednesday, November 19, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 221 (Wednesday, November 19, 2025)] [Rules and Regulations] [Page 52004] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-20326] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 300 [Docket No. 250630-0116] RIN 0648-BN18 Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone off Alaska; Pacific Halibut Recreational Quota Entity Program Fee Collection; Correction

Agency

National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

Action

Final rule; correction. -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Summary

NMFS corrects the final rule published on July 7, 2025, to implement the Pacific Halibut Recreational Quota Entity Program Fee Collection. The final rule inadvertently omitted an amendatory instruction to add the definition for ``Charter halibut permit holder''. This correction fixes that omission.

Dates

Effective on January 1, 2026.

For Further Information Contact

Doug Duncan, 907-586-7228, [email protected].

Supplementary Information

In the final rule to implement the Pacific Halibut Recreational Quota Entity Program Fee Collection final rule (90 FR 29774, July 7, 2025), NMFS modified the definitions in 50 CFR 300.61 to include a definition for ``Charter halibut permit holder.'' However, NMFS mistakenly omitted the amendatory instruction to include this definition in the CFR. This action corrects that omission and ensures the regulations are consistent with the description and intent in the Pacific Halibut Recreational Quota Entity Program Fee Collection final rule (90 FR 29774, July 7, 2025). Correction 0 In the FR Doc. 2025-12558, published July 7, 2025, at 90 FR 29774, on page 29790, in the first column, the amendatory instruction of 2.b. is corrected to read as follows: ``Adding in alphabetical order definitions for ``Charter halibut permit holder,'' ``Charter halibut stamp,'' and ``Charter halibut stamp validation''; and.'' Dated: November 17, 2025. Samuel D. Rauch III, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service. [FR Doc. 2025-20326 Filed 11-18-25; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-22-P

What this changes

Amends 1 part of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.

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