Notice2021-16639
Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary; Announcement of Public Meetings
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Published
August 4, 2021
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Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Abstract
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has prepared a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the proposed designation of a national marine sanctuary to manage a nationally significant collection of shipwrecks and other underwater cultural resources in New York's eastern Lake Ontario and the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River. NOAA previously announced public meetings during the comment period, and is replacing the two in-person meetings with additional virtual meetings and providing registration links for the previously announced virtual meetings.
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 147 (Wednesday, August 4, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41959-41960]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-16639]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement
for the Proposed Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary; Announcement
of Public Meetings
AGENCY: Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS), National Ocean
Service (NOS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Department of Commerce (DOC).
ACTION: Notice of virtual public meetings; correction.
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SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has
prepared a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for the proposed
designation of a national marine sanctuary to manage a nationally
significant collection of shipwrecks and other underwater cultural
resources in New York's eastern Lake Ontario and the Thousand Islands
region of the St. Lawrence River. NOAA previously announced public
meetings during the comment period, and is replacing the two in-person
meetings with additional virtual meetings and providing registration
links for the previously announced virtual meetings.
DATES: NOAA will continue to accept comments received by September 10,
2021. NOAA will conduct a total of four virtual public meetings on the
following dates:
(1) Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Location and time: Virtual Meeting, 6:30-8:30 p.m. EDT
Registration via this link: <a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8226916950939600400">https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8226916950939600400</a>
By phone: (415) 655-0060
Access Code: 439-509-724. Audio PIN: Shown after joining the webinar
(2) Date: Thursday, August 19, 2021
Location and time: Virtual Meeting, 6:30-8:30 p.m. EDT
Registration via this link: <a href="https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8864690869654406928">https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8864690869654406928</a>
By phone: (914) 614-3221
Access Code: 237-285-132. Audio PIN: Shown after joining the webinar
(3) Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Location and time: Virtual Meeting, 2:30 to 4 p.m. EDT
Registration via this link: <a href="https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5067664901003984652">https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5067664901003984652</a>
Access code: 346-751-009. Audio PIN: Shown after joining the webinar
By phone: (562) 247-8422, PIN: 346-751-009
(4) Date: Thursday, August 26, 2021
Location and time: Virtual Meeting, 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. EDT
Registration via this link: <a href="https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2978792919345892364">https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2978792919345892364</a>
By phone: (415) 655-0052, PIN: 819-641-913
ADDRESSES: Copies of the DEIS can be downloaded or viewed on the
internet at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> (search for docket NOAA-NOS-2021-0050)
or at <a href="http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/lake-ontario/">http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/lake-ontario/</a>. Copies can also be
obtained by contacting Ellen Brody (in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section of this notice).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ellen Brody, Great Lakes Regional
Coordinator, address: 4840 South State Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-9719;
phone: 734-276-6387; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c9aca5a5aca7e7abbba6adb089a7a6a8a8e7aea6bf"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7a1f16161f14541808151e033a14151b1b541d150c">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA, 42
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and the NMSA (16 U.S.C. 1434), NOAA prepared a
DEIS for a proposed national marine sanctuary in New York's eastern
Lake Ontario and the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River.
NOAA announced the availability of the DEIS in a notice issued on July
7, 2021 (86 FR 35757). In that notice, NOAA announced there would be
four public meetings, two of which were planned to be virtual meetings,
and two of which NOAA
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planned to hold in person. When the notice was issued, NOAA included a
caveat to the in-person meetings stating ``A virtual meeting platform
may substitute if public safety concerns remain to prevent the spread
of COVID-19.''
NOAA has determined that the two meetings previously scheduled for
August 18, 2021 and August 19, 2021 will now be conducted virtually.
Interested parties should register to attend a virtual meeting via the
information provided in the DATES section of this notice or at <a href="https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/lake-ontario/">https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/lake-ontario/</a>.
(Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.)
Rebecca R. Holyoke,
Acting Director, Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, National Ocean
Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
[FR Doc. 2021-16639 Filed 8-3-21; 8:45 am]
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