Federal Register: October 1, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 189)
DOCID: fr01oc09-50 FR Doc E9-23825
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOTICE: NOTICES
DOCID: fr01oc09-50
ACTION: National Estuarine Research Reserve System:
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice of Approval and Availability for the Revised Management Plan for the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve.
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
National Estuarine Research Reserve System
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
The Estuarine Reserves Division, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce has approved the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve Management Plan Revision.
Four sites along the Hudson River comprise the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve: Piermont Marsh, Iona Island, Tivoli Bays, and Stockport Flats. The Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve was designated in 1982 pursuant to Section 315 of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 1461. The reserve has been operating in partnership with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation under a management plan approved in 1993. Pursuant to 15 CFR 921.33(c), a State must revise their management plan every five years. The submission of this plan fulfills this requirement and sets a course for successful implementation of the goals and objectives of the reserve. New facilities and updated programmatic objectives are notable revisions to the 1993 approved management plan.
The revised management plan outlines the administrative structure; the education, stewardship, and research goals of the reserve; and the plans for future land acquisition and facility development to support reserve operations. This management plan describes how the strengths of the reserve will focus on several areas relevant to the Hudson River, including sea level rise and other effects of climate change, development pressure, and invasive species.
Since 1993, the reserve has added an estuary training program that delivers sciencebased information to key decision makers in New York; has completed a site profile that characterizes the reserve; and has expanded the monitoring, stewardship and education programs. A new headquarters building, the Norrie Point Environmental Center (2007), has been built to support the growth of reserve programs.
SUMMARY:
Revised Management Plan for the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve,
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Amy Clark at (301) 563-1137 or Laurie
McGilvray at (301) 5631158 of NOAA's National Ocean Service, Estuarine
Reserves Division, 1305 EastWest Highway, N/ORM5, 10th floor, Silver [[Page 50780]]
Spring, MD 20910. For copies of the Hudson River Management Plan
revision, visit: http://hrnerr.org.
Dated: September 28, 2009.
David Kennedy,
Director, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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