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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 09-490

NOTICES

Elimination of Refuge Areas

[39 Pa.B. 1368]
[Saturday, March 14, 2009]

   Under 58 Pa. Code § 67.2 (relating to refuge areas), the Executive Director of the Fish and Boat Commission (Commission), with the approval of the Commission, may designate waters as refuge areas to which 30 Pa.C.S. § 2306 (relating to refuge areas), shall apply. Section 2306 provides that the Commission may set aside, in its discretion, such areas as it may judge best as refuge areas in which fishing or entry shall be prohibited for such periods of time as the Commission prescribes. According to the regulation, the designation of waters as refuge areas shall be effective upon posting of the waters after publication of a notice that the waters have been so designated in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. Refuge areas are closed to public fishing except during the period from June 15 until the last day of February of the following year. It is unlawful to disturb fish or other aquatic life in refuge areas by any means, including wading, throwing stones, rocks or other objects or otherwise agitating the waters. The regulation will not be construed to prohibit fishing in such areas during the extended trout season.

   At the next Commission meeting on April 20 and 21, 2009, the Commission will consider taking action to remove the refuge area designations from the sections of the following waters that have been so designated:

County Water Area
Cameron Hicks Run
Cameron Mix Run
Cameron Upper Jerry Run
Cameron Wykoff Run
Clearfield Chest Creek
Clearfield Jack Dent Branch
Clearfield Little Clearfield Creek
Clearfield Mosquito Creek and tributary,
   Gifford Run
Elk Bear Creek
Elk Big Mill Creek
Elk Medix Run
Elk Wilson Run
Forest Blue Jay Creek
Luzerne Bowman's Creek
Lycoming White Deer Hole Creek
McKean Chappel Fork
McKean Combs Creek
McKean Kinzua Creek
McKean Kinzua Creek, South Branch
McKean Lewis Run
McKean Skinner Creek
McKean Sugar Run
McKean Sugar Run, North Branch
McKean Tionesta Creek, East Branch
McKean Tunungwant Creek, East Branch
McKean Two Mile Run
McKean Willow Creek
McKean Wilson Run
Monroe Tobyhanna Creek
Snyder Swift Run
Schuylkill Little Schuylkill River
Warren Farnsworth Branch
Warren Tionesta Creek, West Branch
Warren Two Mile Run

   At this time, the Commission is soliciting public input concerning the previous redesignations. Persons with comments, objections or suggestions concerning the redesignations are invited to submit comments in writing to Executive Director, Fish and Boat Commission, P. O. Box 67000, Harrisburg, PA 17106-7000, within 30 days after publication of this notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin. Comments submitted by facsimile will not be accepted. Comments also may be submitted electronically by completing the form at www.fishandboat.com/regcomments. If an acknowledgment of electronic comments is not received by the sender within 2 working days, the comments should be retransmitted to ensure receipt. Electronic comments submitted in any other manner will not be accepted.

DOUGLAS J. AUSTEN, Ph.D.,   
Executive Director

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 09-490. Filed for public inspection March 13, 2009, 9:00 a.m.]



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