[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 145 (Friday, July 28, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38791-38793]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-18612]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Symbol

AGENCY: Sanctuaries and Reserves Division (SRD), Office of Ocean and 
Coastal Resource Management (OCRM), National Ocean Service (NOS), 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: SRD is announcing the adoption of a symbol for the Flower 
Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, of the National Marine 
Sanctuary Program. Announcement in the Federal Register is required by 
the National Marine Sanctuaries Program Amendments Act of 1992 (Act). 
The symbol is one element of a pilot project under the Act to enhance 
funding for designation and management of national marine sanctuaries. 
In accordance with the Act, SRD is publishing, in the Federal Register, 
the symbol shown in the attachment to this document. This symbol shall 
be the official symbol for the Flower Garden Banks National Marine 
Sanctuary, one of the sites included in the National Marine Sanctuary 
Program. This notice also announces the opportunity for interested 
persons to become official sponsors of the Flower Garden Banks National 
Marine Sanctuary.

DATES: The Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management will begin 
using the new symbol immediately.

ADDRESSES: Information on becoming an official sponsor may be obtained 
from:

Justin Kenney, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
Sanctuaries and Reserves Division, 1305 East-West Highway, 12th floor, 
Silver Spring, MD 20910

      or

Dr. Stephen Gittings, Manager, Flower Garden Banks National Marine 
Sanctuary, 1716 Briarcrest Drive, Suite 702, Bryan, Texas 77802.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Justin Kenney at (301) 713-3145 ext. 153, or Dr. Stephen Gittings at 
(409) 847-9296.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under Title III of the Marine Protection, 
Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972, as amended, also known as the 
National Marine Sanctuaries Act, the United States Congress authorizes 
the designation of discrete areas of the marine environment as National 
Marine Sanctuaries to protect distinctive natural and cultural 
resources whose protection and beneficial use requires comprehensive 
planning and management. The National Marine Sanctuary Program was 
established pursuant to the National Marine Sanctuaries Act, and is 
administered by the Sanctuaries and Reserves Division of the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
    The mission of the National Marine Sanctuary Program is to 
identify, designate and manage areas of marine environment of special 
national significance due to their conservation, recreational, 
ecological, historical, research, educational, or aesthetic qualities.
    The Program currently has 14 designated sites: Olympic Coast, 
Cordell Bank, Gulf of the Farallones, Monterey Bay, Channel Islands, 
Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale, Fagatele Bay, Florida Keys, Flower 
Garden Banks, Looe Key, Key Largo, Gray's Reef, the Monitor, and 
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuaries.
    In 1992, with the passage of the National Marine Sanctuaries 
Program Amendments Act (Act), Title II of Pub. L. 102-587, Congress 
directed the National Marine Sanctuary Program to enhance funding for 
the designation and management of national marine sanctuaries through 
the creation, adoption and marketing of a symbol for the national 
program or for individual National Marine Sanctuaries. The National 
Marine Sanctuary Program symbol has been adopted and published in the 
Federal Register (Vol. 60, No. 59, March 28, 1995). This notice 
displays the symbol adopted for the Flower Garden Banks National Marine 
Sanctuary; this symbol was developed by Mr. Joel Hickerson from College 
Station, Texas.
    The Act also directs the Sanctuary Program to solicit and designate 
official sponsors for the Program or the individual National Marine 
Sanctuaries. These sponsors shall be authorized to manufacture, 
reproduce, or use the symbol. The Sanctuary Program is authorized to 
sell rights to the symbols for such use and retain the funds to enhance 
and manage National Marine Sanctuaries. The symbol is the property of 
the United States and it is unlawful for any person, except a 
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sponsor, to manufacture, reproduce or use the symbol. Persons 
interested in becoming an official sponsor of the National Marine 
Sanctuary Program or of an individual sanctuary should contact Justin 
Kenney.
W. Stanley Wilson,
Assistant Administrator, Department of Administrative Orders.

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