[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 29 (Thursday, February 12, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6941-6942]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-3046]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Final Approval of Amendment No. 3 to the New Hampshire Coastal 
Program

AGENCY: Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, National Ocean 
Service (NOS), National Oceanic and

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Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), DOC.

ACTION: Approval of the amendment to the New Hampshire Coastal Program.

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SUMMARY: The NOAA Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management 
(OCRM) received a request from the State of New Hampshire to revise the 
New Hampshire Coastal Program (NHCP) inland coastal boundary. The 
State's request was made pursuant to section 306(d) of the Coastal Zone 
Management Act (CZMA) of 1972, as amended and OCRM's regulations (15 
CFR part 923, subpart H). The expanded NHCP inland coastal boundary 
includes the full geographic jurisdiction of the State's 17 coastal 
municipalities. The NHCP boundary revision expands the State's coastal 
management boundary from its current, narrower delineation of a two-
tier geographical system related to distance from the coastal water 
body features, to encompassing the entire jurisdiction of the 17 
coastal municipalities.
    Notice is hereby given that the Chief of the Coastal Programs 
Division (CPD) has reviewed the amendment request and has made a 
determination that the NHCP as amended will still constitute an 
approvable program and that the procedural requirements of section 
306(d) of the CZMA have been met.
    On November 7, 2002, the State published in the Portsmouth Herald a 
notice proposing to amend the NHCP inland coastal boundary and the date 
of the public hearing. Interested parties had until February 11, 2003, 
to submit comments to CPD. No comments were received. The State 
responded to all comments received at the public hearing and on March 
7, 2003, OCRM received the State's response to comments with the 
amendment.
    Notice of availability of the draft environmental assessment (EA) 
and proposed Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) was published in 
the Federal Register on Thursday, October 23, 2003 (volume 68, number 
205), and interested parties had until November 24, 2003, to submit 
comments. The draft EA and proposed FONSI was made available on the 
NOAA Web or upon request. No comments were received and final findings 
of approvability were approved by the Assistant Administrator. This 
amendment is now officially part of the federally-approved New 
Hampshire Coastal Program.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. William O'Beirne, Coastal Programs 
Division, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, NOS/NOAA, 
1305 East-West Highway, N/ORM3, 11th Floor, Silver Spring, MD 20910, 
301-713-3155, extension 160, or e-mail at bill.o'[email protected].

(Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog 11.419, Coastal Zone Management 
Program Administration.)
    Dated: February 6, 2004.
Jamison S. Hawkins,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone 
Management.
[FR Doc. 04-3046 Filed 2-11-04; 8:45 am]
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