[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 44 (Wednesday, March 6, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8087-8088]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-03969]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Estuarine Research Reserve System
AGENCY: Office for Coastal Management, National Ocean Service, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
ACTION: Notice of Public Comment Period for the Hudson River National
Estuarine Research Reserve Management Plan revision.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Office for Coastal Management,
National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce is announcing a thirty-day
public comment period for the Hudson River National Estuarine Research
Reserve Management Plan revision. The revision of the existing
management plan is necessitated by the applicable requirements of the
National Estuarine Research Reserve System. The Hudson River Reserve
revised plan will replace the plan approved in 2009.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to15 CFR 921.33(c), a state must
periodically update its management plan for a National Estuarine
Research Reserve. The Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve
revised plan will replace the plan previously approved in 2009. NOAA
issues this notice of a public comment period for the revised plan
under 15 CFR 921.33(a).
The revised management plan outlines the administrative structure;
the research/monitoring, stewardship, education, and training programs
and priorities of the reserve; plans for including inholdings within
the existing boundary into state ownership; and facility development
priorities to support reserve operations.
The Hudson River Reserve takes an integrated approach to
management, linking research and education, coastal training, and
stewardship functions. The New York Department of Environmental
Conservation has outlined how it will administer the reserve and its
core programs by providing detailed actions that will enable it to
accomplish specific goals and objectives. Since the last management
plan, the reserve has: Provided technical expertise to coastal
communities to reduce risks to natural hazards; expanded monitoring
programs; installed a sentinel site for monitoring marsh ecosystem
response to sea level rise; conducted training workshops; implemented
K-12 and public education programs; installed a water level observation
station that is compliant with NOAA's National Water Level Observation
Network; restored hydrologic flows at Gay's Point in the Stockport
Flats component; and established itself as a regional leader in the
design and implementation of living shorelines. The total number of
acres within the reserve boundary is 5,000 acres. The revised
management plan will serve as the guiding document for the Hudson River
Reserve for the next five years.
NOAA's Office Coastal Management will be conducting an
environmental analysis in accordance with the National Environmental
Policy Act on the proposed approval of the Reserve's revised management
plan. The public is invited to provide comment or information about any
potential environmental impacts of the proposed action, and these
comments will be used to inform the decision making process.
The Hudson River Reserve Management Plan revision may be viewed at:
https://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/4915.html. Comments on the revision may be
submitted to the Reserve's Manager, Heather Gierloff
([email protected]) by April 5, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nina Garfield at (240) 533-0817, or
Kim Texeira at (240) 533-0781, of NOAA's Office for Coastal Management,
1305 East-West Highway, N/ORM5, 10th floor, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
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Dated: February 25, 2019.
Keelin Kuipers,
Deputy Director, Office for Coastal Management, National Ocean Service,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
[FR Doc. 2019-03969 Filed 3-5-19; 8:45 am]
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