[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 3, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 21792]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-10794]



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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 the Hawaii, North Carolina, and Virgin Islands 
Coastal Management Programs, and the Padilla Bay (Washington) and 
Waquoit Bay (Massachusetts) 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 Hawaii and North Carolina were found to be 
implementing and enforcing their Federally approved coastal management 
programs, 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 Territory of the Virgin Islands was found to be adhering to its 
approved program. However the Department of Planning and Natural 
Resources has not fully adhered to applicable terms of its financial 
assistance awards with respect to the timely completion of a critical 
grant task (Areas for Particular Concern management plans). 
Implementation of several recommendations listed in the findings will 
bring the Virgin Islands back into satisfactory adherence. Padilla Bay 
and Waquoit Bay NERRs were found to be satisfactorily adhering to 
programmatic requirements 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 x126

    Dated: April 27, 1995.
W. Stanley Wilson,
Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management.

Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog 11.419, Coastal Zone Management 
Program Administration

[FR Doc. 95-10794 Filed 5-2-95; 8:45 am]
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