In accordance with Government Code Section 11346.4(a) of Administrative Procedure Act, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (Department) is posting notice of a 45-day continuation comment period of the proposed action to amend sections 122.1, 125, 126.1, 180.1, and 180.5, Title 14, California Code of Regulations (CCR) RE: Standardized Commercial Trap Marking Program. The proposed regulations and associated documents were published in the California Regulatory Notice Register on June 21, 2019, No. 25-Z: File Z-2019-0611-06, and were available for a 45-day public comment period through August 6, 2019 (the “Original Proposed Package”). A public hearing was held on August 6, 2019 in Monterey.
There are no proposed changes to the Original Proposed Package with this 45-day comment period continuation.
However, this 45-day comment period extension serves to correct an oversight for certain interested parties who did not receive electronic or hard copy notice of availability of the Original Proposed Package during the June 2019 mailing, consistent with Government Code Section 11346.4(a) and Section 86, Title 1, CCR. In the interest of transparency, the Department is notifying the full list of interested parties (consisting of primarily commercial fishermen of the affected trap fisheries – lobster, rock crab, tanner crab, spot prawn, coonstripe shrimp and nearshore finfish), including those who received the notice in June 2019.
The Department will also receive written and oral comments during a public hearing scheduled at the following wheelchair accessible location:
Monday, October 7, 2019
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Department Monterey Office, Large Conference Room,
20 Lower Ragsdale Drive, Suite 100, Monterey, CA, 93940
The rulemaking file consists of the following documents:
All the documents listed below with the Original Proposed Package, noticed June 21, 2019
LINK: https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Notices/Regulations/Marking