[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 168 (Wednesday, August 28, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44299-44300]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21871]


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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 Guam and Wisconsin Coastal Management 
Programs, Hudson River (New York), Weeks Bay (Alabama), Tijuana River 
(California), North Inlet/Winyah Bay (South Carolina), Narragansett Bay 
(Rhode Island) and North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserves 
(NERRs). Sections 312 and 315 of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 
1972 (CZMA),

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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 State of Wisconsin and the Territory of Guam 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(a)(A)-(K), and adhering to 
the programmatic terms of their financial assistance awards.
    Hudson River, Tijuana River, North Inlet/Winyah Bay, Narragansett 
Bay and North Carolina NERRs were found to be adhering to programmatic 
requirements of the NERR system. Weeks Bay 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: August 21, 1996.
W. Stanley Wilson,
Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management.
[FR Doc. 96-21871 Filed 8-27-96; 8:45 am]
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