Notice2022-01429
Final Management Plan for the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
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Published
January 25, 2022
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Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Abstract
Notice is hereby given that the Office for Coastal Management, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce approves the revised management plan for the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Alaska. In accordance with applicable Federal regulations, the University of Alaska--Anchorage's Alaska Center for Conservation Science revised the reserve's management plan, which replaces the plan previously approved in 2012.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 16 (Tuesday, January 25, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3778-3779]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-01429]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Final Management Plan for the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine
Research Reserve
AGENCY: Office for Coastal Management, National Ocean Service, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of approval of the revised management plan for the
Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.
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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 approves the revised
management plan for the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research
Reserve in Alaska. In accordance with applicable Federal regulations,
the University of Alaska--Anchorage's Alaska Center for Conservation
Science revised the reserve's management plan, which replaces the plan
previously approved in 2012.
ADDRESSES: The approved management plan is available at <a href="https://accs.uaa.alaska.edu/kbnerr/">https://accs.uaa.alaska.edu/kbnerr/</a>, or by sending an email to Bree Turner of
NOAA's Office for Coastal Management, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#baf8c8dfdf94eecfc8d4dfc8fad4d5dbdb94ddd5cc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="783a0a1d1d562c0d0a161d0a3816171919561f170e">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bree Turner of NOAA's Office for
Coastal Management, email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c88abaadade69cbdbaa6adba88a6a7a9a9e6afa7be"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="692b1b0c0c473d1c1b070c1b2907060808470e061f">[email protected]</span></a>, or phone at 206-526-
4641.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to 15 CFR 921.33(c), a State must
revise the management plan for a research reserve at least every five
years. Changes
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to a reserve's management plan may be made only after receiving written
approval from NOAA. NOAA approves changes to management plans via
notice in the Federal Register.
On May 27, 2021, NOAA issued a notice in the Federal Register
announcing a 30-day public comment period for the proposed revision of
the management plan for the Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research
Reserve (86 FR 28576). Responses to written and oral comments received,
and an explanation of how comments were incorporated into the final
version of the revised management plan, are available in appendix D of
the plan.
The management plan outlines the reserve's strategic goals and
objectives; administrative structure; programs for conducting research
and monitoring, education, and training; resource protection,
restoration, and manipulation plans; public access and visitor use
plans; consideration for future land acquisition; and facility
development to support reserve operations. Since 2012, the reserve has
undergone a significant State agency administration transition from the
Alaska Department of Fish and Game's Division of Sport Fish to the
University of Alaska-Anchorage's Alaska Center for Conservation
Science. With the administrative transition, the reserve staff and
programs have relocated from the Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor
Center to the reserve's field station modular office and bunkhouse. Due
to the change in facilities, some of the education and training
programs have changed, but many of the core research, monitoring,
education, and training activities have remained the same. The revised
management plan, once approved, would serve as the guiding document for
the 372,000-acre Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve for
the next five years.
NOAA reviewed the environmental impacts of the revised management
plan and determined that this action is categorically-excluded from
further analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act,
consistent with NOAA Administrative Order 216-6.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1451 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. 2022-01429 Filed 1-24-22; 8:45 am]
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