On May 11, 2001, NMFS published final regulations implementing Framework 14 to the Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery Management Plan (FMP). One of the measures implemented in the final rule was the continuation of the Hudson Canyon South and Virginia Beach Area closures originally implemented in 1998 and extended through August 8, 2001, through an interim final rule published on February 9, 2001. In the final rule implementing Framework 14, NMFS intended to extend the Mid-Atlantic closures through February 28, 2003, to scallop fishing with the exception of those vessels participating in the Sea Scallop Area Access Program. However, NMFS inadvertently only amended the regulatory text, which then expired on August 8, 2001. This document corrects those errors.