[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 120 (Wednesday, June 22, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40676-40677]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-14607]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Evaluations of National Estuarine Research Reserves and Coastal
Management Programs
AGENCY: Office for Coastal Management (OCM), National Ocean Service
(NOS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Department of Commerce (DOC).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Office for Coastal Management will hold public meetings to solicit
comments for the performance evaluations of the Grand Bay and Jacques
Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserves and Alabama Coastal Area
Management Program (Alabama Coastal Management Program).
DATES: Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve Evaluation:
The public meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 16, 2016, and
written comments must be received on or before Friday, August 19, 2016.
Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Evaluation: The
public meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 24, 2016, and written
comments must be received on or before Friday, September 2, 2016.
Alabama Coastal Management Program Evaluation: The public meeting
will be held on Wednesday, August 10,
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2016 and written comments must be received on or before Friday, August
19, 2016.
For specific dates, times, and locations of the public meetings,
see SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on the reserves and coastal program
NOAA intends to evaluate by any of the following methods:
Public Meeting and Oral Comments: A public meeting will be held in
Tuckerton, New Jersey for the Jacques Cousteau Reserve, Moss Point
Mississippi for the Grand Bay Reserve, and Spanish Fort, Alabama for
the Alabama Coastal Management Program. For specific locations, see
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
Written Comments: Please direct written comments to Carrie Hall,
Evaluator, Policy, Planning and Communications, Office for Coastal
Management, NOS/NOAA, 1305 East-West Highway, 11th Floor, N/OCM1,
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, or email comments [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carrie Hall, Evaluator, Policy,
Planning and Communications, Office for Coastal Management, NOS/NOAA,
1305 East-West Highway, 11th Floor, N/OCM1, Silver Spring, Maryland
20910, or [email protected]. Copies of the program's most recent
evaluation and performance report, as well as the evaluation
notification letter to the state may be obtained upon request by
contacting the person identified under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Copies of the most recent final evaluation findings may also be
downloaded or viewed on the Internet at http://coast.noaa.gov/czm/evaluations/evaluation_findings/index.html.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Sections 312 and 315 of the Coastal Zone
Management Act (CZMA) require NOAA to conduct periodic evaluations of
federally approved coastal management programs and national estuarine
research reserves. The process includes a public meeting, consideration
of written public comments and consultations with interested Federal,
state, and local agencies and members of the public. For the evaluation
of National Estuarine Research Reserves, NOAA will consider the extent
to which the state has met the national objectives, adhered to its
management plan approved by the Secretary of Commerce, and adhered to
the terms of financial assistance under the Coastal Zone Management
Act. The evaluation of Coastal Management Programs require findings
concerning the extent to which a state or territory has met the
national objectives, adhered to its Coastal Management Program document
approved by the Secretary of Commerce, and adhered to the terms of
financial assistance awards funded under the Coastal Zone Management
Act. When the evaluation is completed, NOAA's Office for Coastal
Management will place a notice in the Federal Register announcing the
availability of the Final Evaluation Findings.
Specific information on the periodic evaluation of reserves and
coastal management programs that are the subject of this notice are
detailed below as follows:
Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Evaluation
You may participate or submit oral comments at the public meeting
scheduled as follows:
Date: August 24, 2016.
Time: 4:30 p.m., local time.
Location: 6005 Bayou Heron Road, Room 100, Moss Point, Mississippi
36592.
Written comments must be received on or before September 2, 2016.
Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve Evaluation
You may participate or submit oral comments at the public meeting
scheduled as follows:
Date: August 16, 2016.
Time: 6:30 p.m., local time.
Location: Cousteau Center, 130 Great Bay Boulevard, Tuckerton, New
Jersey, 08087.
Written comments must be received on or before August 19, 2016.
Alabama Coastal Management Program Evaluation
You may participate or submit oral comments at the public meeting
scheduled as follows:
Date: August 10, 2016.
Time: 5:30 p.m., local time.
Location: Five Rivers Tensaw Theater, 30945 Five Rivers Boulevard,
Spanish Fort, Alabama 36527.
Written comments must be received on or before August 19, 2016.
(Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog 11.419; Coastal Zone Management
Program Administration)
Dated: June 2, 2015.
John King,
Deputy Director, Office for Coastal Management, National Ocean Service,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
[FR Doc. 2016-14607 Filed 6-21-16; 8:45 am]
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