[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 72 (Friday, April 12, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 16239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-9071]



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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 final findings.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the availability of the final 
evaluation findings for the Alaska, Commonwealth of the Northern 
Marianas, Florida, Massachusetts, and New York Coastal Management 
Programs, and the ACE Basin (South Carolina), Elkhorn Slough 
(California), South Slough (Oregon), Jobos Bay (Puerto Rico), Old Woman 
Creek (Ohio), and Wells (Maine) National Estuarine Research Reserves 
(NERRs). Sections 312 and 315 of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 
1972 (CZMA), as amended, require a continuing review of the performance 
of coastal states with respect to approved coastal management programs 
and the operation and management of NERRS.
    The states of Alaska, Florida, Massachusetts, New York and the 
Territory of the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands were found 
to be adhering to and 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.
    ACE Basin, Elkhorn Slough, Old Woman Creek, South Slough, and Wells 
NERRs were found to be adhering to programmatic requirements of the 
NERR system. Jobos Bay NERR was found to be not fully adhering to the 
NERR System goals, the Federally approved NERR management plan, and to 
the terms of its financial assistance awards.
    Copies of these final evaluation findings may be obtained upon 
written 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) 
713-3087x126.

Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog 11.419, Coastal Zone Management 
Program Administration.

    Dated: April 8, 1996.
W. Stanley Wilson,
Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management.
[FR Doc. 96-9071 Filed 4-11-96; 8:45 am]
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