[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 200 (Monday, October 16, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 61146]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-26449]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


National Estuarine Research Reserve System

AGENCY: Estuarine Reserves Division, Office of Ocean and Coastal 
Resource Management, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of approval and availability of revision to the Final 
Revised Management Plan for the Old Woman Creek National Estuarine 
Research Reserve, 2000-2005.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Estuarine Reserves Division, 
Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, has approved the 
revised Management Plan for the Old Woman Creek National Estuarine 
Research Reserve (OWCNERR). The OWCNERR was designated in 1980 and has 
been operating under a Management Plan approved in 1983. Pursuant to 
section 315 of the Coastal Zone Management Act, 16 U.S.C. 1461, and 
section 921.33(c) of the implementing regulations, a state must revise 
its management plan at least every five years, or more often if 
necessary. This revision is Ohio's effort to comply with this 
requirement.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nathalie Peter, OCRM, Estuarine 
Reserves Division, 1305 East-West Highway, 11th Floor (N/ORM5), Silver 
Spring, Maryland 20910. (301) 713-3155, Extension 119.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Management Plan contains the program 
mission, goals and objectives of the OWCNERR and State Natural 
Preserve, and establishes policies that will protect the natural 
resources and ecological integrity of the reserve. It provides guidance 
for administration of the reserve's operation, management, research, 
education and public outreach for the next five years.
    The Management Plan also describes the necessary elements of site 
ecological management: (1) To identify key natural resources; (2) to 
determine the appropriate level of human use for the sites and these 
resources; and (3) to foster their long-term protection.
    The chief areas of concentration for the OWCNERR in the next five 
years are as follows:
    1. Refining the OWCNERR Program, particularly in the areas of 
research and monitoring.
    2. Encouraging community stewardship of the estuary, watershed and 
near-shore Lake Erie coast through an expanded outreach program.
    3. Protecting the core estuaries area, through buffer land 
acquisition, conservation easements or cooperative agreements.
    4. Improving the transfer of estuarine information between reserve 
programs (i.e. research, monitoring, education, and resource 
management) and external groups (e.g. local neighbors, regional 
decision-makers in the scientific, governmental and educational 
communities).
    Copies of the document can be obtained from the Old Woman Creek 
National Estuarine Research Reserve, Department of Natural Resources, 
2514 Cleveland Road, Huron, Ohio 44839. (419) 433-4601.

    Dated: October 4, 2000.
Captain Ted Lillestolen,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone 
Management.
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