Federal Register: November 4, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 212)
DOCID: fr04no09-35 FR Doc E9-26587
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOTICE: NOTICES
DOCID: fr04no09-35
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice of public comment period for the Revised Management Plan for the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve.
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
National Estuarine Research Reserve System
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
Notice is hereby given that 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 is announcing a thirtyday public comment period on the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve Management Plan Revision.
The Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve was designated in 1998 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 Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey under a management plan approved in 1997. Pursuant to 15 CFR 921.33(c), a state must revise its management plan at least 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. A previous draft of the management plan revision was made available for public comment on August 13, 2009, in the Federal Register (Vol. 74, No. 155, Pages 408145), which considered the addition of new components in Monmouth and Cumberland Counties to the Tuckertonbased reserve (pages 57 and 69 of draft management plan). References to a multicomponent reserve have been removed and a revised version of the draft management plan is available for a new thirtyday public comment period.
SUMMARY:
National Estuarine Research Reserve System
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Michael Migliori at (301) 563-1126 or Laurie McGilvray at (301) 5631158 of NOAA's National Ocean Service, Estuarine Reserves Division, 1305 EastWest Highway, N/ORM5, 10th floor, Silver Spring, MD 20910. For copies of the Jacques Cousteau Management Plan revision, visit http://www.jcnerr.org/.
Dated: October 30, 2009.
Donna Wieting,
Acting Director, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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