Final Regulatory Impact Review Changes to Authorized Cost Recovery Fee Payment Methods

This Regulatory Impact Review analyzes proposed changes to the cost recovery programs for the Halibut and Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota Program and the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization program.  Changes to the authorized payment methods are considered. The purpose of this action is to improve security procedures for processing cost recovery fee payments and to reduce administrative costs of cost recovery payment processing.