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50 CFR Part 600 — Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions

50 CFR Part 600 — Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions

In forceThis text since 27 Apr 2026law://us/cfr/50/600@2026-11-11

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Contents

600.10 Definitions.
600.1000 Definitions.
600.1001 Requests.
600.1002 General requirements.
600.1003 Content of a request for a financed program.
600.1004 Accepting a request for, and determinations about initiating, a financed program.
600.1005 Content of a request for a subsidized program.
600.1006 Accepting a request for, and determinations about conducting, a subsidized program.
600.1007 Reduction amendments.
600.1008 Implementation plan and implementation regulations.
600.1009 Bids.
600.1010 Referenda.
600.1011 Reduction methods and other conditions.
600.1012 Reduction loan.
600.1013 Fee payment and collection.
600.1014 Fee collection deposits, disbursements, records, and reports.
600.1015 Late charges.
600.1016 Enforcement.
600.1017 Prohibitions and penalties.
600.105 Intercouncil boundaries.
600.110 Intercouncil fisheries.
600.1100 [Reserved]
600.1101 Inshore fee system for repayment of the loan to harvesters of Pollock from the directed fishing allowance allocated to the inshore component under section 206(b)(1) of the AFA.
600.1102 Pacific Coast groundfish fee.
600.1103 Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) Crab species program.
600.1104 Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) crab species fee payment and collection system.
600.1105 Longline catcher processor subsector of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish fishery program.
600.1106 Longline catcher processor subsector Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish species fee payment and collection system.
600.1107 Southeast Alaska Purse Seine Salmon Fishery capacity reduction program, including fee payment and collection system.
600.1108 Longline catcher processor subsector of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish fishery program.
600.115 Statement of organization, practices, and procedures (SOPP).
600.117 Council coordination committee (CCC).
600.120 Employment practices.
600.1200 Purpose and scope.
600.1201 Relation to other laws.
600.1202 Definitions.
600.1203 Prohibitions.
600.125 Budgeting, funding, and accounting.
600.130 Protection of confidentiality of statistics.
600.1300-600.1309 -600.1309 [Reserved]
600.1310 New England and Gulf Individual Fishing Quota Referenda.
600.133 Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC).
600.134 Stipends.
600.135 Meeting procedures.
600.140 Procedure for proposed regulations.
600.1400 Definitions.
600.1405 Angler registration.
600.1410 Registry process.
600.1415 Procedures for designating exempted states-general provisions.
600.1416 Requirements for exempted state designation based on submission of state license holder data.
600.1417 Requirements for exempted state designation based on submission of recreational survey data.
600.15 Other acronyms.
600.150 Disposition of records.
600.1500 Definitions and acronyms.
600.1501 Vessel Monitoring System type-approval process.
600.1502 Communications functionality.
600.1503 Position report data formats and transmission.
600.1504 Latency requirement.
600.1505 Messaging.
600.1506 Electronic forms.
600.1507 Communications security.
600.1508 Field and technical services.
600.1509 General.
600.1510 Notification of type-approval.
600.1511 Changes or modifications to type-approvals.
600.1512 Type-approval revocation process.
600.1513 Type-approval revocation appeals process.
600.1514 Revocation effective date and notification to vessel owners.
600.1515 Litigation support.
600.1516 Reimbursement opportunities for revoked Vessel Monitoring System type-approval products.
600.155 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
600.1600 Purpose and scope.
600.1605 Definitions and word usage.
600.1610 Establishing and reviewing standardized bycatch reporting methodologies in fishery management plans.
600.205 Principal state officials and their designees.
600.207 Pacific Fishery Management Council Tribal Indian representative and alternate.
600.210 Terms of Council members.
600.215 Council nomination and appointment procedures.
600.220 Oath of office.
600.225 Rules of conduct.
600.227 Lobbying.
600.230 Removal.
600.235 Financial disclosure and recusal.
600.240 Security assurances.
600.245 Council member compensation.
600.250 Council member training.
600.305 General.
600.310 National Standard 1—Optimum Yield.
600.315 National Standard 2—Scientific Information.
600.320 National Standard 3—Management Units.
600.325 National Standard 4—Allocations.
600.330 National Standard 5—Efficiency.
600.335 National Standard 6—Variations and Contingencies.
600.340 National Standard 7—Costs and Benefits.
600.345 National Standard 8—Communities.
600.350 National Standard 9—Bycatch.
600.355 National Standard 10—Safety of Life at Sea.
600.405 Applicability.
600.410 Protection of confidential information.
600.415 Access to confidential information.
600.420 Release of confidential information.
600.425 Release of information in aggregate or summary form.
600.5 Purpose and scope.
600.501 Vessel permits.
600.502 Vessel reports.
600.503 Vessel and gear identification.
600.504 Facilitation of enforcement.
600.505 Prohibitions.
600.506 Observers.
600.507 Recordkeeping.
600.508 Fishing operations.
600.509 Prohibited species.
600.510 Gear avoidance and disposal.
600.511 Fishery closure procedures.
600.512 Scientific research.
600.513 Recreational fishing.
600.514 Relation to other laws.
600.515 Interpretation of 16 U.S.C. 1857(4).
600.516 Total allowable level of foreign fishing (TALFF).
600.517 Allocations.
600.518 Fee schedule for foreign fishing.
600.520 Northwest Atlantic Ocean fishery.
600.525 Applicability of subpart F to Canadian Albacore Fishing Vessels off the West Coast.
600.530 Pacific albacore fishery.
600.605 General policy.
600.610 Factual findings for Federal preemption.
600.615 Commencement of proceedings.
600.620 Rules pertaining to the hearing.
600.625 Secretary's decision.
600.630 Application for reinstatement of state authority.
600.705 Relation to other laws.
600.710 Permits.
600.715 Recordkeeping and reporting.
600.720 Vessel and gear identification.
600.725 General prohibitions.
600.730 Facilitation of enforcement.
600.735 Penalties.
600.740 Enforcement policy.
600.745 Scientific research activity, exempted fishing, and exempted educational activity.
600.746 Observers.
600.747 Guidelines and procedures for determining new fisheries and gear.
600.748 National Minimum Observer Provider Insurance Standard.
600.750 Definitions.
600.751 Determination of need for a fishery negotiation panel.
600.752 Use of conveners and facilitators.
600.753 Notice of intent to establish a fishery negotiation panel.
600.754 Decision to establish a fishery negotiation panel.
600.755 Establishment of a fishery negotiation panel.
600.756 Conduct and operation of a fishery negotiation panel.
600.757 Operational protocols.
600.758 Preparation of report.
600.759 Use of report.
600.760 Fishery Negotiation Panel lifetime.
600.805 Purpose and scope.
600.810 Definitions and word usage.
600.815 Contents of Fishery Management Plans.
600.905 Purpose, scope, and NMFS/Council cooperation.
600.910 Definitions and word usage.
600.915 Coordination for the conservation and enhancement of EFH.
600.920 Federal agency consultation with the Secretary.
600.925 NMFS EFH Conservation Recommendations to Federal and state agencies.
600.930 Council comments and recommendations to Federal and state agencies.

Contents

600.10 Definitions.
600.1000 Definitions.
600.1001 Requests.
600.1002 General requirements.
600.1003 Content of a request for a financed program.
600.1004 Accepting a request for, and determinations about initiating, a financed program.
600.1005 Content of a request for a subsidized program.
600.1006 Accepting a request for, and determinations about conducting, a subsidized program.
600.1007 Reduction amendments.
600.1008 Implementation plan and implementation regulations.
600.1009 Bids.
600.1010 Referenda.
600.1011 Reduction methods and other conditions.
600.1012 Reduction loan.
600.1013 Fee payment and collection.
600.1014 Fee collection deposits, disbursements, records, and reports.
600.1015 Late charges.
600.1016 Enforcement.
600.1017 Prohibitions and penalties.
600.105 Intercouncil boundaries.
600.110 Intercouncil fisheries.
600.1100 [Reserved]
600.1101 Inshore fee system for repayment of the loan to harvesters of Pollock from the directed fishing allowance allocated to the inshore component under section 206(b)(1) of the AFA.
600.1102 Pacific Coast groundfish fee.
600.1103 Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) Crab species program.
600.1104 Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) crab species fee payment and collection system.
600.1105 Longline catcher processor subsector of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish fishery program.
600.1106 Longline catcher processor subsector Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish species fee payment and collection system.
600.1107 Southeast Alaska Purse Seine Salmon Fishery capacity reduction program, including fee payment and collection system.
600.1108 Longline catcher processor subsector of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish fishery program.
600.115 Statement of organization, practices, and procedures (SOPP).
600.117 Council coordination committee (CCC).
600.120 Employment practices.
600.1200 Purpose and scope.
600.1201 Relation to other laws.
600.1202 Definitions.
600.1203 Prohibitions.
600.125 Budgeting, funding, and accounting.
600.130 Protection of confidentiality of statistics.
600.1300-600.1309 -600.1309 [Reserved]
600.1310 New England and Gulf Individual Fishing Quota Referenda.
600.133 Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC).
600.134 Stipends.
600.135 Meeting procedures.
600.140 Procedure for proposed regulations.
600.1400 Definitions.
600.1405 Angler registration.
600.1410 Registry process.
600.1415 Procedures for designating exempted states-general provisions.
600.1416 Requirements for exempted state designation based on submission of state license holder data.
600.1417 Requirements for exempted state designation based on submission of recreational survey data.
600.15 Other acronyms.
600.150 Disposition of records.
600.1500 Definitions and acronyms.
600.1501 Vessel Monitoring System type-approval process.
600.1502 Communications functionality.
600.1503 Position report data formats and transmission.
600.1504 Latency requirement.
600.1505 Messaging.
600.1506 Electronic forms.
600.1507 Communications security.
600.1508 Field and technical services.
600.1509 General.
600.1510 Notification of type-approval.
600.1511 Changes or modifications to type-approvals.
600.1512 Type-approval revocation process.
600.1513 Type-approval revocation appeals process.
600.1514 Revocation effective date and notification to vessel owners.
600.1515 Litigation support.
600.1516 Reimbursement opportunities for revoked Vessel Monitoring System type-approval products.
600.155 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
600.1600 Purpose and scope.
600.1605 Definitions and word usage.
600.1610 Establishing and reviewing standardized bycatch reporting methodologies in fishery management plans.
600.205 Principal state officials and their designees.
600.207 Pacific Fishery Management Council Tribal Indian representative and alternate.
600.210 Terms of Council members.
600.215 Council nomination and appointment procedures.
600.220 Oath of office.
600.225 Rules of conduct.
600.227 Lobbying.
600.230 Removal.
600.235 Financial disclosure and recusal.
600.240 Security assurances.
600.245 Council member compensation.
600.250 Council member training.
600.305 General.
600.310 National Standard 1—Optimum Yield.
600.315 National Standard 2—Scientific Information.
600.320 National Standard 3—Management Units.
600.325 National Standard 4—Allocations.
600.330 National Standard 5—Efficiency.
600.335 National Standard 6—Variations and Contingencies.
600.340 National Standard 7—Costs and Benefits.
600.345 National Standard 8—Communities.
600.350 National Standard 9—Bycatch.
600.355 National Standard 10—Safety of Life at Sea.
600.405 Applicability.
600.410 Protection of confidential information.
600.415 Access to confidential information.
600.420 Release of confidential information.
600.425 Release of information in aggregate or summary form.
600.5 Purpose and scope.
600.501 Vessel permits.
600.502 Vessel reports.
600.503 Vessel and gear identification.
600.504 Facilitation of enforcement.
600.505 Prohibitions.
600.506 Observers.
600.507 Recordkeeping.
600.508 Fishing operations.
600.509 Prohibited species.
600.510 Gear avoidance and disposal.
600.511 Fishery closure procedures.
600.512 Scientific research.
600.513 Recreational fishing.
600.514 Relation to other laws.
600.515 Interpretation of 16 U.S.C. 1857(4).
600.516 Total allowable level of foreign fishing (TALFF).
600.517 Allocations.
600.518 Fee schedule for foreign fishing.
600.520 Northwest Atlantic Ocean fishery.
600.525 Applicability of subpart F to Canadian Albacore Fishing Vessels off the West Coast.
600.530 Pacific albacore fishery.
600.605 General policy.
600.610 Factual findings for Federal preemption.
600.615 Commencement of proceedings.
600.620 Rules pertaining to the hearing.
600.625 Secretary's decision.
600.630 Application for reinstatement of state authority.
600.705 Relation to other laws.
600.710 Permits.
600.715 Recordkeeping and reporting.
600.720 Vessel and gear identification.
600.725 General prohibitions.
600.730 Facilitation of enforcement.
600.735 Penalties.
600.740 Enforcement policy.
600.745 Scientific research activity, exempted fishing, and exempted educational activity.
600.746 Observers.
600.747 Guidelines and procedures for determining new fisheries and gear.
600.748 National Minimum Observer Provider Insurance Standard.
600.750 Definitions.
600.751 Determination of need for a fishery negotiation panel.
600.752 Use of conveners and facilitators.
600.753 Notice of intent to establish a fishery negotiation panel.
600.754 Decision to establish a fishery negotiation panel.
600.755 Establishment of a fishery negotiation panel.
600.756 Conduct and operation of a fishery negotiation panel.
600.757 Operational protocols.
600.758 Preparation of report.
600.759 Use of report.
600.760 Fishery Negotiation Panel lifetime.
600.805 Purpose and scope.
600.810 Definitions and word usage.
600.815 Contents of Fishery Management Plans.
600.905 Purpose, scope, and NMFS/Council cooperation.
600.910 Definitions and word usage.
600.915 Coordination for the conservation and enhancement of EFH.
600.920 Federal agency consultation with the Secretary.
600.925 NMFS EFH Conservation Recommendations to Federal and state agencies.
600.930 Council comments and recommendations to Federal and state agencies.

Contents

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600.10 · Definitions.
600.1000 · Definitions.
600.1001 · Requests.
600.1002 · General requirements.
600.1003 · Content of a request for a financed program.
600.1004 · Accepting a request for, and determinations about initiating, a financed program.
600.1005 · Content of a request for a subsidized program.
600.1006 · Accepting a request for, and determinations about conducting, a subsidized program.
600.1007 · Reduction amendments.
600.1008 · Implementation plan and implementation regulations.
600.1009 · Bids.
600.1010 · Referenda.
600.1011 · Reduction methods and other conditions.
600.1012 · Reduction loan.
600.1013 · Fee payment and collection.
600.1014 · Fee collection deposits, disbursements, records, and reports.
600.1015 · Late charges.
600.1016 · Enforcement.
600.1017 · Prohibitions and penalties.
600.105 · Intercouncil boundaries.
600.110 · Intercouncil fisheries.
600.1100 · [Reserved]
600.1101 · Inshore fee system for repayment of the loan to harvesters of Pollock from the directed fishing allowance allocated to the inshore component under section 206(b)(1) of the AFA.
600.1102 · Pacific Coast groundfish fee.
600.1103 · Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) Crab species program.
600.1104 · Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) crab species fee payment and collection system.
600.1105 · Longline catcher processor subsector of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish fishery program.
600.1106 · Longline catcher processor subsector Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish species fee payment and collection system.
600.1107 · Southeast Alaska Purse Seine Salmon Fishery capacity reduction program, including fee payment and collection system.
600.1108 · Longline catcher processor subsector of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) non-pollock groundfish fishery program.
600.115 · Statement of organization, practices, and procedures (SOPP).
600.117 · Council coordination committee (CCC).
600.120 · Employment practices.
600.1200 · Purpose and scope.
600.1201 · Relation to other laws.
600.1202 · Definitions.
600.1203 · Prohibitions.
600.125 · Budgeting, funding, and accounting.
600.130 · Protection of confidentiality of statistics.
600.1300-600.1309 · -600.1309 [Reserved]
600.1310 · New England and Gulf Individual Fishing Quota Referenda.
600.133 · Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC).
600.134 · Stipends.
600.135 · Meeting procedures.
600.140 · Procedure for proposed regulations.
600.1400 · Definitions.
600.1405 · Angler registration.
600.1410 · Registry process.
600.1415 · Procedures for designating exempted states-general provisions.
600.1416 · Requirements for exempted state designation based on submission of state license holder data.
600.1417 · Requirements for exempted state designation based on submission of recreational survey data.
600.15 · Other acronyms.
600.150 · Disposition of records.
600.1500 · Definitions and acronyms.
600.1501 · Vessel Monitoring System type-approval process.
600.1502 · Communications functionality.
600.1503 · Position report data formats and transmission.
600.1504 · Latency requirement.
600.1505 · Messaging.
600.1506 · Electronic forms.
600.1507 · Communications security.
600.1508 · Field and technical services.
600.1509 · General.
600.1510 · Notification of type-approval.
600.1511 · Changes or modifications to type-approvals.
600.1512 · Type-approval revocation process.
600.1513 · Type-approval revocation appeals process.
600.1514 · Revocation effective date and notification to vessel owners.
600.1515 · Litigation support.
600.1516 · Reimbursement opportunities for revoked Vessel Monitoring System type-approval products.
600.155 · Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
600.1600 · Purpose and scope.
600.1605 · Definitions and word usage.
600.1610 · Establishing and reviewing standardized bycatch reporting methodologies in fishery management plans.
600.205 · Principal state officials and their designees.
600.207 · Pacific Fishery Management Council Tribal Indian representative and alternate.
600.210 · Terms of Council members.
600.215 · Council nomination and appointment procedures.
600.220 · Oath of office.
600.225 · Rules of conduct.
600.227 · Lobbying.
600.230 · Removal.
600.235 · Financial disclosure and recusal.
600.240 · Security assurances.
600.245 · Council member compensation.
600.250 · Council member training.
600.305 · General.
600.310 · National Standard 1—Optimum Yield.
600.315 · National Standard 2—Scientific Information.
600.320 · National Standard 3—Management Units.
600.325 · National Standard 4—Allocations.
600.330 · National Standard 5—Efficiency.
600.335 · National Standard 6—Variations and Contingencies.
600.340 · National Standard 7—Costs and Benefits.
600.345 · National Standard 8—Communities.
600.350 · National Standard 9—Bycatch.
600.355 · National Standard 10—Safety of Life at Sea.
600.405 · Applicability.
600.410 · Protection of confidential information.
600.415 · Access to confidential information.
600.420 · Release of confidential information.
600.425 · Release of information in aggregate or summary form.
600.5 · Purpose and scope.
600.501 · Vessel permits.
600.502 · Vessel reports.
600.503 · Vessel and gear identification.
600.504 · Facilitation of enforcement.
600.505 · Prohibitions.
600.506 · Observers.
600.507 · Recordkeeping.
600.508 · Fishing operations.
600.509 · Prohibited species.
600.510 · Gear avoidance and disposal.
600.511 · Fishery closure procedures.
600.512 · Scientific research.
600.513 · Recreational fishing.
600.514 · Relation to other laws.
600.515 · Interpretation of 16 U.S.C. 1857(4).
600.516 · Total allowable level of foreign fishing (TALFF).
600.517 · Allocations.
600.518 · Fee schedule for foreign fishing.
600.520 · Northwest Atlantic Ocean fishery.
600.525 · Applicability of subpart F to Canadian Albacore Fishing Vessels off the West Coast.
600.530 · Pacific albacore fishery.
600.605 · General policy.
600.610 · Factual findings for Federal preemption.
600.615 · Commencement of proceedings.
600.620 · Rules pertaining to the hearing.
600.625 · Secretary's decision.
600.630 · Application for reinstatement of state authority.
600.705 · Relation to other laws.
600.710 · Permits.
600.715 · Recordkeeping and reporting.
600.720 · Vessel and gear identification.
600.725 · General prohibitions.
600.730 · Facilitation of enforcement.
600.735 · Penalties.
600.740 · Enforcement policy.
600.745 · Scientific research activity, exempted fishing, and exempted educational activity.
600.746 · Observers.
600.747 · Guidelines and procedures for determining new fisheries and gear.
600.748 · National Minimum Observer Provider Insurance Standard.
600.750 · Definitions.
600.751 · Determination of need for a fishery negotiation panel.
600.752 · Use of conveners and facilitators.
600.753 · Notice of intent to establish a fishery negotiation panel.
600.754 · Decision to establish a fishery negotiation panel.
600.755 · Establishment of a fishery negotiation panel.
600.756 · Conduct and operation of a fishery negotiation panel.
600.757 · Operational protocols.
600.758 · Preparation of report.
600.759 · Use of report.
600.760 · Fishery Negotiation Panel lifetime.
600.805 · Purpose and scope.
600.810 · Definitions and word usage.
600.815 · Contents of Fishery Management Plans.
600.905 · Purpose, scope, and NMFS/Council cooperation.
600.910 · Definitions and word usage.
600.915 · Coordination for the conservation and enhancement of EFH.
600.920 · Federal agency consultation with the Secretary.
600.925 · NMFS EFH Conservation Recommendations to Federal and state agencies.
600.930 · Council comments and recommendations to Federal and state agencies.

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Key facts

Type: CFR part · 50 CFR Part 600
Made by: Chapter VI—Fishery Conservation and Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Topics

Wildlife and Fisheries

History · 12 versions

27 Apr 2026Reading
6 Apr 2026
7 Aug 2025
16 Jan 2025
19 Jan 2023
8 Sept 2022
13 Oct 2020
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Defined terms · 18

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achieving, on a continuing basis, the OY from each fishery
means: producing, from each stock, stock complex, or fishery, an amount of catch that is, on average, equal to the Council's specified OY;
bycatch
means fish that are harvested in a fishery, but that are not sold or kept for personal use.
company
includes any business, vessel, or other entity.
Current Offer
includes Selected Offers.
Current Offeror
includes Selected Offerors.
expected
means to have at least a 50 percent probability of attaining the Bmsy, where such probabilities can be calculated.
final rule
means the final rule promulgated by NMFS which sets forth the regulations implementing the Reduction Plan for the Longline Subsector) and applicable law.
fishing
includes the full range of activities defined in the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1802). 40.
fishing community
means a community that is substantially dependent on or substantially engaged in the harvest or processing of fishery resources to meet social and economic needs, and includes fishing vessel owners, operators, and crew, and fish processors that are based in such communities.
Free fishing days
means fishing promotion programs by which states allow new anglers to fish for a specified day without a license or registration.
freeboard
means the working distance between the top rail of the gunwale of a vessel and the water's surface.
management unit
means a fishery or that portion of a fishery identified in an FMP as relevant to the FMP's management objectives.
pilot ladder
means a flexible ladder constructed and approved to meet the U.S.
Reduction Fishing Interests
means all of Offeror(s) rights, title and interest to the Groundfish Reduction Permit, Reduction Permit(s), Reduction Fishing Privilege and Reduction Fishing History as defined in this Reduction Contract. 4.
referendum-eligible vessel
means a vessel, the permit holder or owner of which has been determined to be eligible to vote in the referendum on the basis of such vessel's history or other characteristics.
SQ3
(... —.-...—) means “you should stop or heave to;
sustained participation
means continued access to the fishery within the constraints of the condition of the resource.
you should stop your vessel instantly.
(Period (.) means a short flash of light;

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