[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 94 (Tuesday, May 14, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 41946]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-10462]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Approval of a Boundary Expansion for the Narragansett Bay 
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 hereby given that NOAA's Office for 
Coastal Management approves a 103-acre, one parcel boundary expansion 
for the Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in 
Prudence Island, Rhode Island. 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: Betsy Nicholson of NOAA's Office for 
Coastal Management, by email at [email protected], phone at 
(339) 234-6965 (Google Voice), or mail at 55 Great Republic Drive, 
Gloucester, MA 01930.
    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. 2024-10462 Filed 5-13-24; 8:45 am]
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