Notice2022-01085
Review of Nomination for Hudson Canyon National Marine Sanctuary
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Published
January 21, 2022
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Abstract
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is seeking written comments on its five-year review of the nomination for Hudson Canyon National Marine Sanctuary (NMS). Comments should focus solely on any new and relevant information relating to NOAA's 11 sanctuary nomination evaluation criteria. NOAA will pay particular attention to any additional details about the significance of the area's natural or cultural resources, changes to any threats to these resources, and evolving management efforts, or human uses in the proposed area (e.g., wind energy proposals in the area). NOAA will make a final determination on whether the Hudson Canyon NMS nomination remains relevant and responsive to the evaluation criteria after it analyzes the comments it receives and, if so, whether Hudson Canyon NMS is to remain in the nomination inventory for another five-year period. With this five-year review, NOAA is not seeking comments on whether to start the sanctuary designation process for the Hudson Canyon NMS proposal.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 14 (Friday, January 21, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3283-3284]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-01085]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Review of Nomination for Hudson Canyon National Marine Sanctuary
AGENCY: Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS), National Ocean
Service (NOS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Department of Commerce (DOC).
ACTION: Notice; request for written comments.
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SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is
seeking written comments on its five-year review of the nomination for
Hudson Canyon National Marine Sanctuary (NMS). Comments should focus
solely on any new and relevant information relating to NOAA's 11
sanctuary nomination evaluation criteria. NOAA will pay particular
attention to any additional details about the significance of the
area's natural or cultural resources, changes to any threats to these
resources, and evolving management efforts, or human uses in the
proposed area (e.g., wind energy proposals in the area). NOAA will make
a final determination on whether the Hudson Canyon NMS nomination
remains relevant and responsive to the evaluation criteria after it
analyzes the comments it receives and, if so, whether Hudson Canyon NMS
is to remain in the nomination inventory for another five-year period.
With this five-year review, NOAA is not seeking comments on whether to
start the sanctuary designation process for the Hudson Canyon NMS
proposal.
DATES: Comments are due by February 7, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted by one of the following methods:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Submit electronic comments via the Federal eRulemaking Portal and
search for Docket Number NOAA-NOS-2022-0010.
<bullet> Mail: LeAnn Hogan, Regional Operations Coordinator, NOAA
Sanctuaries Eastern Region, 1305 East West Highway, N/NMS, Silver
Spring, MD 20910.
Email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#541831153a3a7a1c3b33353a143a3b35357a333b22"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3e725b7f5050107651595f507e50515f5f10595148">[email protected]</span></a>.
Instructions: All comments received are a part of the public
record. All personally identifiable information (for example, name and
address) voluntarily submitted by the commenter may be publicly
accessible. Do not submit confidential business information or
otherwise sensitive or protected information. NOAA will accept
anonymous comments (enter N/A in the required fields to remain
anonymous).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LeAnn Hogan, Regional Operations
Coordinator, NOAA Sanctuaries Eastern Region, 1305 East-West Highway,
N/NMS, Silver Spring, MD 20910, or at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e8a48da98686c6a0878f8986a886878989c68f879e"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c488a185aaaaea8caba3a5aa84aaaba5a5eaa3abb2">[email protected]</span></a>, or 202-731-
0678.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background Information
In June 2014, NOAA issued a final rule establishing the sanctuary
nomination process (SNP), which details how communities may submit
nominations to NOAA for consideration of national marine sanctuary
designation (79 FR 33851). NOAA moves successful nominations to an
inventory of areas that could be considered for national marine
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sanctuary designation. The final rule establishing the SNP included a
five-year limit on any nomination added to the inventory that NOAA does
not advance for designation.
In November 2019, NOAA issued a Federal Register notice (84 FR
61546) to clarify procedures for evaluating and updating a nomination
as it approaches the five-year mark on the inventory of areas that
could be considered for national marine sanctuary designation. This
notice explained that if a nomination remains responsive to the
evaluation criteria for inclusion on the inventory, NOAA could keep the
nomination on the inventory for another five years. The notice also
established a process for NOAA to consider the continuing viability of
nominations nearing the five-year expiration mark. The nomination for
Hudson Canyon proposal is scheduled to expire in February 2022. The
full nomination can be found at <a href="https://nominate.noaa.gov/nominations/">https://nominate.noaa.gov/nominations/</a>.
NOAA is not proposing to designate Hudson Canyon as a national
marine sanctuary with this action. Instead, comments should identify
any new or changing information relative to NOAA's 11 sanctuary
nomination evaluation criteria (<a href="https://nominate.noaa.gov/guide.html">https://nominate.noaa.gov/guide.html</a>).
Comments that do not pertain to information supporting the evaluation
criteria, or present new information on the Hudson Canyon NMS
nomination, will not be considered in NOAA's decision on whether to
retain this nomination in the inventory.
Should NOAA conclude that the Hudson Canyon NMS nomination no
longer meets its evaluation criteria and decide to remove it from the
inventory, NOAA would notify the nominator directly via letter, and the
public via notice in the Federal Register and a web posting at
``<a href="http://nominate.noaa.gov">nominate.noaa.gov</a>.''
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.
John Armor,
Director, Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, National Ocean
Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[FR Doc. 2022-01085 Filed 1-20-22; 8:45 am]
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