[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 50, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
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[CITE: 50CFR228.1]

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                    TITLE 50--WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES
 
  CHAPTER II--NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND 
           ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
 
PART 228_NOTICE AND HEARING ON SECTION 103(d) REGULATIONS--Table 
 
Sec. 228.1  Basis and purpose.

    (a) Sections 101(a)(2), 101(a)(3)(A), and 101(b) of the Marine 
Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1371(a)(2), 1371(a)(3)(A), and 
1371(b)) and these regulations authorize the Assistant Administrator of 
the National Marine Fisheries Service, to:
    (1) Impose regulations governing the taking of marine mammals 
incidental to commercial fishing operations;
    (2) Waive the moratorium and to adopt regulations with respect to 
the taking and importing of animals from each species of marine mammals 
under the Assistant Administrator's jurisdiction;
    (3) Prescribe regulations governing the taking of depleted marine 
mammals by any Indian, Aleut or Eskimo, respectively. In prescribing 
regulations to carry out the provisions of said sections, the Act refers 
the Assistant Administrator to section 103 (16 U.S.C. 1373). In 
accordance with section 103(d), regulations must be made on the record 
after opportunity for an agency hearing on such regulations and, in the 
case of a waiver, on the determination by the Assistant Administrator to 
waive the moratorium pursuant to section 101(a)(3)(A) of the Act (16 
U.S.C. 1371(a)(3)(A)).
    (b) The purpose of this part is to establish rules of practice and 
procedure for all hearings conducted pursuant to section 103(d) of the 
Act.