diff --git a/app/controllers/catalog_controller.rb b/app/controllers/catalog_controller.rb
index d53e9aa02..0b3288b49 100644
--- a/app/controllers/catalog_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/catalog_controller.rb
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ class CatalogController < ApplicationController
     #config.per_page = [10,20,50,100]
     config.default_per_page = 20
 
+    # restrict available pagination options because we block deep pagination
+    config.default_pagination_options = { theme: 'blacklight', left: 3, right: 0 }
+
     ## Default parameters to send on single-document requests to Solr. These settings are the Blackligt defaults (see SolrHelper#solr_doc_params) or
     ## parameters included in the Blacklight-jetty document requestHandler.
     #
diff --git a/config/initializers/blacklight_initialize.rb b/config/initializers/blacklight_initialize.rb
index 564c49a95..27c1ff829 100644
--- a/config/initializers/blacklight_initialize.rb
+++ b/config/initializers/blacklight_initialize.rb
@@ -12,7 +12,3 @@
     }
   end
 end
-
-# Needed until https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/pull/3094 is merged and backported to 7.x,
-# then we can configure in CatalogController
-Blacklight::Engine.config.blacklight.default_pagination_options = { theme: 'blacklight', left: 3, right: 0 }