NMFS issues a Final Rule to amend the regulations governing the Western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program. This action is necessary to define how halibut CDQ fishing will be managed in 1999 and thereafter and to remove or revise regulations governing groundfish and halibut CDQ fishing to make them consistent with the combination of the management regimes for the fixed gear halibut and sablefish CDQ fisheries, the pollock CDQ fisheries, and the multispecies (MS) groundfish CDQ fisheries starting in fishing year 1999. In addition, this action makes miscellaneous technical and editorial revisions to the groundfish CDQ regulations. This action is intended to further the objectives of the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area (FMP).