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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Evaluation of State Coastal
Management Programs and National
Estuarine Research Reserves
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource
Management, National Ocean Service,
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Intent to Evaluate and
Notice of Availability of Final Findings.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The NOAA Office of Ocean
and Coastal Resource Management
(OCRM) announces its intent to evaluate
the performance of the Pennsylvania
Coastal Management Program.
The Coastal Zone Management
Program evaluation will be conducted
pursuant to section 312 of the Coastal
Zone Management Act of 1972, as
amended, (CZMA) and regulations at 15
CFR Part 923, Subpart L.
The CZMA requires continuing
review of the performance of states with
respect to coastal program
implementation. Evaluation of Coastal
Zone Management Programs requires
findings concerning the extent to which
a state has met the national objectives,
adhered to its Coastal Management
Program document approved by the
Secretary of Commerce, and adhered to
the terms of financial assistance awards
funded under the CZMA.
The evaluation will include a site
visit, consideration of public comments,
and consultations with interested
Federal, state and local agencies and
members of the public. A public
meeting will be held as part of the site
visit.
Notice is hereby given of the date of
the site visit for the listed evaluation,
and the date, local time, and location of
the public meeting during the site visit.
The Pennsylvania Coastal
Management Program evaluation site
visit will be held July 11–15, 2005. One
public meeting will be held during the
week. The public meeting will be held
on Wednesday, July 13, 2005, at 7 p.m.
at the Philadelphia Water Works, 640
Water Works Drive, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
Copies of a state’s most recent
performance reports, as well as OCRM’s
notification and supplemental request
letters to the state, are available upon
request from OCRM. Written comments
from interested parties regarding this
Program are encouraged and will be
accepted until 15 days after the public
meeting. Please direct written comments
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to Ralph Cantral, Chief, National Policy
and Evaluation Division, Office of
Ocean and Coastal Resource
Management, NOS/NOAA, 1305 EastWest Highway, 10th Floor, Silver
Spring, Maryland 20910. When the
evaluation is completed, OCRM will
place a notice in the Federal Register
announcing the availability of the Final
Evaluation Findings.
Notice is hereby given of the
availability of the final evaluation
findings for the Virgin Islands Coastal
Management Program (CMP); and the
South Slough (Oregon) and GuanaTolomato-Matanzas (Florida) National
Estuarine Research Reserves (NERRs).
Sections 312 and 315 of the Coastal
Zone Management Act of 1972 (CZMA),
as amended, require a continuing
review of the performance of coastal
states with respect to approval of CMPs
and the operation and management of
NERRs.
The territory of the Virgin Islands was
found to be implementing and enforcing
its federally approved coastal
management program, addressing the
national coastal management objectives
identified in CZMA Section 303(2)(A)–
(K), and adhering to the programmatic
terms of its financial assistance awards.
South Slough (Oregon) and GuanaTolomato-Matanzas (Florida) NERRs
were found to be adhering to
programmatic requirements of the NERR
System.
Copies of these final evaluation
findings may be obtained upon written
request from: Ralph Cantral, Chief,
National Policy and Evaluation
Division, Office of Ocean and Coastal
Resource Management, NOS/NOAA,
1305 East-West Highway, 10th Floor,
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, or
Ralph.Cantral@noaa.gov, (301) 713–
3155, extension 118.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ralph Cantral, Chief, National Policy
and Evaluation Division, Office of
Ocean and Coastal Resource
Management, NOS/NOAA, 1305 EastWest Highway, 10th Floor, Silver
Spring, Maryland 20910, (301) 713–
3155, extension 118.
Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog 11.419
Coastal Zone Management Program
Administration.
Dated: May 13, 2005.
Eldon Hout,
Director, Office of Ocean and Coastal
Resource Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Damage Assessment and Restoration
Program; Indirect Cost Rates (2003 FY)
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Indirect Cost Rates for
the Damage Assessment and Restoration
Program for Fiscal Year 2003.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA)
Damage Assessment and Restoration
Program (DARP) is announcing new
indirect cost rates on the recovery of
indirect costs for its component
organizations involved in natural
resource damage assessment and
restoration activities for fiscal year (FY)
2003. The indirect cost rates for this
fiscal year and dates of implementation
are provided in this notice. More
information on these rates and the
DARP policy can be found at the DARP
Web site at: www.darp.noaa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brian Julius at 301–713–3038, ext. 199,
by fax at 301–713–4387, or e-mail at
Brian.Julius@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
mission of the DARP is to restore
natural resource injuries caused by
releases of hazardous substances or oil
under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act
(CERCLA) (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), the
Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) (33
U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), and support
restoration of physical injuries to
National Marine Sanctuary resources
under the National Marine Sanctuaries
Act (NMSA) (16 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.).
The DARP consists of three component
organizations: The Damage Assessment
Center (DAC) within the National Ocean
Service; the Restoration Center within
the National Marine Fisheries Service;
and the Office of the General Counsel
for Natural Resources (GCNR). The
DARP conducts Natural Resource
Damage Assessments (NRDAs) as a basis
for recovering damages from responsible
parties, and uses the funds recovered to
restore injured natural resources.
Consistent with Federal accounting
requirements, the DARP is required to
account for and report the full costs of
its programs and activities. Further, the
DARP is authorized by law to recover
reasonable costs of damage assessment
and restoration activities under
CERCLA, OPA, and the NMSA. Within
the constraints of these legal provisions
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and their regulatory applications, the
DARP has the discretion to develop
indirect cost rates for its component
organizations and formulate policies on
the recovery of indirect cost rates
subject to its requirements.
The DARP’s Indirect Cost Effort
In December 1998, the DARP hired
the public accounting firm Rubino &
McGeehin, Chartered (R&M), to:
Evaluate the cost accounting system and
allocation practices; recommend the
appropriate indirect cost allocation
methodology; and determine the
indirect cost rates for the three
organizations that comprise the DARP.
A Federal Register notice on R&M’s
effort, their assessment of the DARP’s
cost accounting system and practice,
and their determination regarding the
most appropriate indirect cost
methodology and rates for FYs 1993
through 1999 was published on
December 7, 2000 (65 FR 76611). The
notice and report by R&M can also be
found on the DARP Web site at:
https://www.darp.noaa.gov.
R&M continued its assessment of
DARP’s indirect cost rate system and
structure for FYs 2000 and 2001. A
second federal notice specifying the
DARP indirect rates for FYs 2000 and
2001 was published on December 2,
2002 (67 FR 71537).
In October 2002, DARP hired the
accounting firm of Cotton and Company
LLP (Cotton) to review and certify DARP
costs incurred on cases for purposes of
cost recovery and to develop indirect
rates for FY 2002 and subsequent years.
As in the prior years, Cotton concluded
that the cost accounting system and
allocation practices of the DARP
component organizations are consistent
with Federal accounting requirements.
Consistent with R&M’s previous
analyses, Cotton also determined that
the most appropriate indirect allocation
method continues to be the Direct Labor
Cost Base for all three DARP component
organizations. The Direct Labor Cost
Base is computed by allocating total
indirect cost over the sum of direct labor
dollars plus the application of NOAA’s
leave surcharge and benefits rates to
direct labor. Direct labor costs for
contractors from the Oak Ridge Institute
for Science and Education (ORISE) also
were included in the direct labor base
because Cotton determined that these
costs have the same relationship to the
indirect cost pool as NOAA direct labor
costs. ORISE provides on-site support to
the DARP in the areas of injury
assessment, natural resource economics,
restoration planning and
implementation, and policy analysis. A
third federal notice specifying the DARP
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indirect rates for FY 2002 was published
on October 6, 2003 (68 FR 57672).
Cotton’s reports on the FY 2002 DARP
indirect rates can also be found on the
DARP Web site at: https://
www.darp.noaa.gov.
Cotton reaffirmed that the Direct
Labor Cost Base is the most appropriate
indirect allocation method for the
development of the FY 2003 indirect
cost rates.
The DARP’s Indirect Cost Rates and
Policies
The DARP will apply the indirect cost
rates for FY 2003 as recommended by
Cotton for each of the DARP component
organizations as provided in the
following table:
FY 2003
indirect
rate
(percent)
DARP component organization
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Dated: May 16, 2005.
Mitchell Luxenberg,
Acting Director, Management and Budget,
National Ocean Service, National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
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Endangered and Threatened Species;
Take of Anadromous Fish
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
AtmosphericAdministration,
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of availability of decision
and analysis documents for incidental
take permit.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice advises the public
that an incidental take permit to the
Idaho Department of Fish and Game
(IDFG), pursuant to the Endangered
206.47 Species Act of 1973 (ESA), has been
issued and that the decision documents
These rates are based on the Direct
are available upon request.
Labor Cost Base allocation methodology. DATES: Permit 1481 was issued on
March 30, 2005, subject to certain
The FY 2003 rates will be applied to
conditions set forth therein. The permit
all damage assessment and restoration
expires on May 31, 2010.
case costs incurred between October 1,
ADDRESSES: Requests for copies of the
2003 and September 30, 2004. DARP
decision documents or any of the other
will use the FY 2003 indirect cost rates
associated documents should be
for future fiscal years until subsequent
directed to the Salmon Recovery
year-specific rates can be developed.
Division, National Marine Fisheries
For cases that have settled and for
Service, 10095 W. Emerald, Boise, Idaho
cost claims paid prior to the effective
83704. The documents are also available
date of the fiscal year in question, the
on the Internet at www.nwr.noaa.gov.
DARP will not re-open any resolved
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
matters for the purpose of applying the
Herb Pollard, Boise, Idaho, at phone
revised rates in this policy for these
number: (208) 378–5614, e-mail:
fiscal years. For cases not settled and
herbert.pollard@noaa.gov.
cost claims not paid prior to the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
effective date of the fiscal year in
notice is relevant to the following
question, costs will be recalculated
species and evolutionarily significant
using the revised rates in this policy for units (ESUs):
these fiscal years. Where a responsible
Spring/summer chinook salmon
party has agreed to pay costs using
(Oncorhynchus tshawytscha):
previous year’s indirect rates, but has
threatened Snake River;
not yet made the payment because the
Fall chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus
settlement documents are not finalized,
tshawytscha): threatened Snake River;
the costs will not be recalculated.
Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus
nerka): endangered Snake River; and
The DARP indirect cost rate policies
Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss):
and procedures published in the
threatened Snake River.
Federal Register on December 7, 2000
(65 FR 76611), on December 2, 2002 (67 Permits
FR 71537), and October 6, 2003 (68 FR
Permit 1481 was issued to IDFG on
57672) remain in effect except as
March 31, 2005. Permit 1481 authorizes
updated by this notice.
IDFG annual incidental take of naturally
produced and artificially propagated
Damage
Assessment
Center
(DAC) ........................................
Restoration Center (RC) ...............
General Counsel for Natural Resources (GCNR) .......................
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Damage Assessment and Restoration Program; Indirect Cost Rates
(2003 FY)
AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of Indirect Cost Rates for the Damage Assessment and
Restoration Program for Fiscal Year 2003.
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SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA)
Damage Assessment and Restoration Program (DARP) is announcing new
indirect cost rates on the recovery of indirect costs for its component
organizations involved in natural resource damage assessment and
restoration activities for fiscal year (FY) 2003. The indirect cost
rates for this fiscal year and dates of implementation are provided in
this notice. More information on these rates and the DARP policy can be
found at the DARP Web site at: www.darp.noaa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brian Julius at 301-713-3038, ext.
199, by fax at 301-713-4387, or e-mail at Brian.Julius@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The mission of the DARP is to restore
natural resource injuries caused by releases of hazardous substances or
oil under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act (CERCLA) (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), the Oil Pollution Act
of 1990 (OPA) (33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), and support restoration of
physical injuries to National Marine Sanctuary resources under the
National Marine Sanctuaries Act (NMSA) (16 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.). The
DARP consists of three component organizations: The Damage Assessment
Center (DAC) within the National Ocean Service; the Restoration Center
within the National Marine Fisheries Service; and the Office of the
General Counsel for Natural Resources (GCNR). The DARP conducts Natural
Resource Damage Assessments (NRDAs) as a basis for recovering damages
from responsible parties, and uses the funds recovered to restore
injured natural resources.
Consistent with Federal accounting requirements, the DARP is
required to account for and report the full costs of its programs and
activities. Further, the DARP is authorized by law to recover
reasonable costs of damage assessment and restoration activities under
CERCLA, OPA, and the NMSA. Within the constraints of these legal
provisions
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and their regulatory applications, the DARP has the discretion to
develop indirect cost rates for its component organizations and
formulate policies on the recovery of indirect cost rates subject to
its requirements.
The DARP's Indirect Cost Effort
In December 1998, the DARP hired the public accounting firm Rubino
& McGeehin, Chartered (R&M), to: Evaluate the cost accounting system
and allocation practices; recommend the appropriate indirect cost
allocation methodology; and determine the indirect cost rates for the
three organizations that comprise the DARP. A Federal Register notice
on R&M's effort, their assessment of the DARP's cost accounting system
and practice, and their determination regarding the most appropriate
indirect cost methodology and rates for FYs 1993 through 1999 was
published on December 7, 2000 (65 FR 76611). The notice and report by
R&M can also be found on the DARP Web site at: https://
www.darp.noaa.gov.
R&M continued its assessment of DARP's indirect cost rate system
and structure for FYs 2000 and 2001. A second federal notice specifying
the DARP indirect rates for FYs 2000 and 2001 was published on December
2, 2002 (67 FR 71537).
In October 2002, DARP hired the accounting firm of Cotton and
Company LLP (Cotton) to review and certify DARP costs incurred on cases
for purposes of cost recovery and to develop indirect rates for FY 2002
and subsequent years. As in the prior years, Cotton concluded that the
cost accounting system and allocation practices of the DARP component
organizations are consistent with Federal accounting requirements.
Consistent with R&M's previous analyses, Cotton also determined that
the most appropriate indirect allocation method continues to be the
Direct Labor Cost Base for all three DARP component organizations. The
Direct Labor Cost Base is computed by allocating total indirect cost
over the sum of direct labor dollars plus the application of NOAA's
leave surcharge and benefits rates to direct labor. Direct labor costs
for contractors from the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
(ORISE) also were included in the direct labor base because Cotton
determined that these costs have the same relationship to the indirect
cost pool as NOAA direct labor costs. ORISE provides on-site support to
the DARP in the areas of injury assessment, natural resource economics,
restoration planning and implementation, and policy analysis. A third
federal notice specifying the DARP indirect rates for FY 2002 was
published on October 6, 2003 (68 FR 57672). Cotton's reports on the FY
2002 DARP indirect rates can also be found on the DARP Web site at:
https://www.darp.noaa.gov.
Cotton reaffirmed that the Direct Labor Cost Base is the most
appropriate indirect allocation method for the development of the FY
2003 indirect cost rates.
The DARP's Indirect Cost Rates and Policies
The DARP will apply the indirect cost rates for FY 2003 as
recommended by Cotton for each of the DARP component organizations as
provided in the following table:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
FY 2003
indirect
DARP component organization rate
(percent)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Damage Assessment Center (DAC)............................... 261.96
Restoration Center (RC)...................................... 223.74
General Counsel for Natural Resources (GCNR)................. 206.47
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These rates are based on the Direct Labor Cost Base allocation
methodology.
The FY 2003 rates will be applied to all damage assessment and
restoration case costs incurred between October 1, 2003 and September
30, 2004. DARP will use the FY 2003 indirect cost rates for future
fiscal years until subsequent year-specific rates can be developed.
For cases that have settled and for cost claims paid prior to the
effective date of the fiscal year in question, the DARP will not re-
open any resolved matters for the purpose of applying the revised rates
in this policy for these fiscal years. For cases not settled and cost
claims not paid prior to the effective date of the fiscal year in
question, costs will be recalculated using the revised rates in this
policy for these fiscal years. Where a responsible party has agreed to
pay costs using previous year's indirect rates, but has not yet made
the payment because the settlement documents are not finalized, the
costs will not be recalculated.
The DARP indirect cost rate policies and procedures published in
the Federal Register on December 7, 2000 (65 FR 76611), on December 2,
2002 (67 FR 71537), and October 6, 2003 (68 FR 57672) remain in effect
except as updated by this notice.
Dated: May 16, 2005.
Mitchell Luxenberg,
Acting Director, Management and Budget, National Ocean Service,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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