[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 247 (Monday, December 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67532-67533]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-32457]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The Environmental Protection Agency


Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program: Proposed Findings 
Documents, Environmental Assessments, and Findings of No Significant 
Impact

AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. 
Department of Commerce, and The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of availability of proposed findings documents, 
environmental assessments, and findings of no significant impact on 
approval of coastal nonpoint pollution control programs for 
Pennsylvania, Guam, and American Samoa.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the availability of the Proposed 
Findings Documents, Environmental Assessments (EA's), and Findings of 
No Significant Impact for Pennsylvania, Guam, and American Samoa. 
Coastal states and territories were required to submit their coastal 
nonpoint programs to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

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Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA) for approval in July 1995. The Findings documents were prepared 
by NOAA and EPA to provide the rationale for the agencies' decision to 
approve each state and territory coastal nonpoint pollution control 
program. Section 6217 of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization 
Amendments (CZARA), 16 U.S.C. section 1455b, requires states and 
territories with coastal zone management programs that have received 
approval under section 306 of the Coastal Zone Management Act to 
develop and implement coastal nonpoint pollution control programs. The 
EA's were prepared by NOAA, pursuant to the National Environmental 
Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. sections 4321 et seq., to assess the 
environmental impacts associated with the approval of the coastal 
nonpoint pollution control programs submitted to NOAA and EPA by 
Pennsylvania, Guam, and American Samoa.
    NOAA and EPA have proposed to approve, with conditions, the coastal 
nonpoint pollution control programs submitted by Pennsylvania, Guam, 
and American Samoa. The requirements of 40 CFR Parts 1500-1508 (Council 
on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations to implement the National 
Environmental Policy Act) apply to the preparation of the Environmental 
Assessments. Specifically, 40 CFR section 1506.6 requires agencies to 
provide public notice of the availability of environmental documents. 
This notice is part of NOAA's action to comply with this requirement.
    Copies of the Proposed Findings documents, Environmental 
Assessments, and Findings of No Significant Impact may be obtained upon 
request from: Joseph P. Flanagan, Coastal Programs Division (N/ORM3), 
Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, NOS, NOAA, 1305 East-
West Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20910, tel. (301) 713-3121, 
x201.

DATES: Individuals or organizations wishing to submit comments on the 
proposed Findings or Environmental Assessments should do so by January 
21, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be made to: Joseph A. Uravitch, Coastal 
Programs Division (N/ORM3), Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource 
Management, NOS, NOAA, 1305 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland, 
20910, Tel. (301) 713-3155, x195. (Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog 
11.419 Coastal Zone Management Program Administration)

    Dated: December 17, 1996.
W. Stanley Wilson,
Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management, 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Robert H. Wayland, III,
Director, Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds, Environmental 
Protection Agency.
[FR Doc. 96-32457 Filed 12-20-96; 8:45 am]
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