[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 99 (Wednesday, May 23, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28955-28956]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-9940]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


 Notice of Record of Decision for Louisiana Regional Restoration 
Planning Program

AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
Commerce.
SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

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an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has prepared a Record of 
Decision (ROD) regarding the January 5, 2007, final Programmatic 
Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for the Louisiana Regional 
Restoration Planning Program (RRP Program). The ROD has been written 
pursuant to Sec.  102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act 
(NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), regulations promulgated by the 
Council on Environmental Quality (40 CFR part 1505.2), and the NOAA 
Administrative Order on implementing environmental review procedures 
(NAO 216-6). The ROD is a concise statement of the management planning 
and environmental impact analysis process completed, the alternatives 
considered, and the basis for the selection of preferred alternative. 
The notice of availability for the final PEIS was published in the 
Federal Register on January 5, 2007, with the close of the mandatory 
waiting period on February 20, 2007. No comments were received on the 
final PEIS.
    It is the decision of the NOAA, along with the Department of the 
Interior and the State of Louisiana, to implement the Louisiana RRP 
Program using the methods evaluated in the PEIS. Because the analysis 
is programmatic in nature, site and injury-specific features will 
dictate which restoration alternatives are most appropriate for 
individual injuries. All practicable means to avoid or minimize 
environmental harm from the RRP Program alternative selected have been 
adopted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Questions regarding the PEIS and ROD and 
requests for copies of these documents should be addressed to either: 
Karolien Debusschere, Deputy Coordinator, Louisiana Oil Spill 
Coordinator's Office, Office of the Governor, 150 Third Street, Suite 
405, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70801; 225/219-5800; e-mail address: 
[email protected], or Tony Penn, Southeast Branch Chief, 
NOAA, Assessment and Restoration Division, 1305 East-West Highway, SSMC 
4, 10th floor, Silver Spring, MD 20910; fax number 301/713-
4387; e-mail address: [email protected].
    The PEIS and Record of Decision are available via the Internet at 
http://www.darrp.noaa.gov/southeast/rrpp-la/ and http://www.losco.state.la.us/admin/RRP/RRPprogram_view.asp.

    Dated: May 15, 2007.
Ken Barton,
Director, Office of Response and Restoration, National Ocean Service, 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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