[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 122 (Monday, June 27, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-15472]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

 

Evaluation of State Coastal Management Programs and National 
Estuarine Research Reserves

AGENCY: Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, National Ocean 
Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), DOC.

ACTION: Notice of availability of evaluation findings.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the availability of the final 
evaluation findings for Alabama, California, Connecticut, Mississippi, 
Maine, and New Hampshire Coastal Management Programs, and Narragansett 
Bay (Rhode Island), Rookery Bay (Florida), Chesapeake Bay (Maryland), 
and North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERR). Section 
312 of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (CZMA), as amended, 
requires a continuing review of the performance of coastal states with 
respect to coastal management and the operation and management of 
NERRs.

    The states of Alabama, California, Connecticut, Maine and New 
Hampshire were found to be implementing and enforcing their Federally 
approved coastal management program, addressing the national coastal 
management objective identified in CZMA section 303(2)(A)-(K), and 
adhering to the programmatic terms of their financial assistance 
awards. The State of Mississippi was found not fully adhering to its 
approved coastal management program. Implementation of several 
recommendations listed in the findings will bring Mississippi's program 
back into satisfactory adherence. North Carolina, Narragansett Bay, 
Rookery Bay, and Chesapeake Bay, MD NERRs were found to be 
satisfactorily adhering to programmatic requirement of the NERR system.
    Copies of these final evaluation findings may be obtained upon 
request from: Vickie Allin, Chief, Policy Coordination Division, Office 
of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, NOS/NOAA, 1305 East-West 
Highway, 11th Floor, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910 (301) 713-3087.

(Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog 11.419 Coastal Zone Management 
Program Administration)
W. Stanley Wilson,
Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management.
[FR Doc. 94-15472 Filed 6-24-94; 8:45 am]
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