Notice2024-28208
Draft Revised Management Plan for the Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
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Published
December 2, 2024
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Abstract
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is soliciting comments from the public regarding a proposed revision of the management plan for the Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NBNERR). A management plan provides a framework to guide a reserve's programs, track progress toward meeting its goals, and identify potential opportunities or changes in direction. It is also used to guide programmatic evaluations. Management plan revisions are required at least every five years. This draft, revised management plan is intended to replace the NBNERR management plan approved in 2010.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 231 (Monday, December 2, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 95187-95188]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-28208]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Draft Revised Management Plan 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: Request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is
soliciting comments from the public regarding a proposed revision of
the management plan for the Narragansett Bay National Estuarine
Research Reserve (NBNERR). A management plan provides a framework to
guide a reserve's programs, track progress toward meeting its goals,
and identify potential opportunities or changes in direction. It is
also used to guide programmatic evaluations. Management plan revisions
are required at least every
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five years. This draft, revised management plan is intended to replace
the NBNERR management plan approved in 2010.
DATES: Comments must be received at the appropriate address (see
ADDRESSES) on or before January 2, 2025.
ADDRESSES: The draft revised management plan can be downloaded or
viewed at: <a href="http://nbnerr.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/NBNERR_ManagementPlan_DRAFT_PublicComment.pdf">http://nbnerr.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/NBNERR_ManagementPlan_DRAFT_PublicComment.pdf</a>. It is also available by
sending a written request to the point of contact identified below (see
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).
You may submit comments by email to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4a29262b3f2e232b64272b303f380a24252b2b642d253c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5e3d323f2b3a373f70333f242b2c1e30313f3f70393128">[email protected]</span></a>. Include
``Comments on draft Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research
Reserve Management Plan'' in the subject line of the message. NOAA will
accept anonymous comments; however, the written comments NOAA receives
are considered part of the public record, and the entirety of the
comment, including the name of the commenter, email address,
attachments, and other supporting materials, will be publicly
accessible. Sensitive, personally identifiable information, such as
account numbers and Social Security numbers, should not be included.
Comments that are not related to the management plan for NBNERR, or
that contain profanity, vulgarity, threats, or other inappropriate
language, will not be considered.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Claudia Mazur, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ddbeb1bca8b9b4bcf3b0bca7a8af9db3b2bcbcf3bab2ab"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="16757a7763727f77387b776c6364567879777738717960">[email protected]</span></a>,
or Betsy Nicholson, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f4969180878dda9a9d979c9b98879b9ab49a9b9595da939b82"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="35575041464c1b5b5c565d5a59465a5b755b5a54541b525a43">[email protected]</span></a>, (617-894-0197) of NOAA's
Office for Coastal Management.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to 15 CFR 921.33(c), Rhode Island
must revise the management plan for NBNERR at least every five years.
If approved by NOAA, the revised management plan will replace the plan
previously approved in 2010.
Management plans outline a 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. In particular, this draft
revised plan for NBNERR provides information on new staff positions and
new staff hired, and describes the reserve's updated position within
the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.
Since the last management plan, NBNERR has secured a land
acquisition and expanded its boundary. Additionally, the updated plan
describes strategic goals and objectives and identifies topic areas
where additional planning will be conducted to identify and develop new
goals and objectives over the next five years. The revised management
plan, once approved, would serve as the guiding document for the
reserve for the next five years.
NOAA's Office for Coastal Management analyzes the environmental
impacts of the proposed approval of this management plan in accordance
with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended,
42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., and the Council on Environmental Quality
Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of NEPA (40 CFR
1500-1508 (2022). The public is invited to comment on the draft revised
management plan. NOAA will take these comments into consideration when
deciding whether to approve the revised management plan in whole or in
part.
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. 2024-28208 Filed 11-29-24; 8:45 am]
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