Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Program; Participation by the District of Columbia and U.S. Insular Territories and Commonwealths

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), will conform our regulations for the Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Program to a recently enacted law by letting the States spend up to 15 percent (not just 10 percent as previously allowed) of their Federal Aid funds on aquatic education and outreach and communications. Because their circumstances are different, we will also let the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa spend in excess of 15 percent for these purposes, with the approval of the appropriate Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Director. We are also defining existing requirements for the collection of information required by the Paperwork Reduction Act and the Office of Management and Budget's implementing regulation.