[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 93 (Monday, May 13, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41392-41393]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-10321]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Approval of a Boundary Expansion for the South Slough National 
Estuarine Research Reserve

AGENCY: Office for Coastal Management, National Ocean Service, National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of approval; notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Coastal Zone Management Act and its 
implementing regulations, notice is

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hereby given that NOAA's Office for Coastal Management approves a 
boundary expansion for the South Slough National Estuarine Research 
Reserve in Charleston, Oregon to add 1,771 acres, which consist of 30 
acres added as a correction to account for changes in GIS-mapping 
technologies since the reserve was established in 1974; 1,541 acres of 
parcels currently owned by the Oregon Division of State Lands outside 
the existing boundary; and 200 acres of state-owned South Slough waters 
located adjacent to the expansion parcels, resulting in a new total 
area for the reserve of 6,542 acres. Pursuant to the National 
Environmental Policy Act, NOAA prepared a draft environmental 
assessment (draft EA) to analyze the effects of the requested expansion 
and solicited public comment on the draft EA. NOAA determined that the 
boundary expansion would not have significant environmental effects. 
Therefore, after considering the comments it received, NOAA issued a 
final environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact 
(FONSI).

ADDRESSES: The final environmental assessment and FONSI can be 
downloaded or viewed at coast.noaa.gov/czm/compliance/. The documents 
are also available by sending a written request to the point of contact 
identified below (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erica Seiden of NOAA's Office for 
Coastal Management, by email at [email protected], phone at (240) 
429-5166, or mail at 1305 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, 20910.
    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.; 15 CFR 
921.33.

Keelin S. Kuipers,
Deputy Director, Office for Coastal Management, National Ocean Service, 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
[FR Doc. 2024-10321 Filed 5-10-24; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 3510-08-P