[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 22 (Thursday, February 2, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6524-6525]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-2514]



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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 ceanic 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 American Samoa, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, 
Puerto Rico, and South Carolina Coastal Management Programs, and Great 
Bay (New Hampshire), Chesapeake Bay (Virginia) National Estuarine 
Research Reserves (NERRs). Section 312 and 315 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 Maryland, Michigan, South Carolina, and the 
Territories of the American Samoa and Puerto Rico were found to be 
implementing and enforcing their Federally approved coastal management 
program, addressing the national coastal management objectives 
identified in CZMA section 303(2)(A)-(K), and adhering to the 
programmatic terms of their financial assistance awards. The state of 
Louisiana was found not to be fully adhering to its approved coastal 
management program. Implementation of several recommendations listed in 
the findings will bring Louisiana's program back into satisfactory 
adherence. Great Bay and Chesapeake Bay, VA 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)

    Dated: January 26, 1995.
W. Stanley Wilson,
Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management.
[FR Doc. 95-2514 Filed 2-1-95; 8:45 am]
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