Evaluation of State Coastal Management Programs, 20107-20108 [2019-09390]
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Regarding the quantification of
expected takes from acoustic and
explosive sources (by Level A
harassment and Level B harassment, as
well as mortality resulting from
exposure to explosives), the number of
takes are based directly on the level of
activities (days, hours, counts, etc., of
different activities and events) in a
given year. In the 2018 HSTT final rule,
take estimates across the five-years were
based on the Navy conducting three
years of a representative level of activity
and two years of maximum level of
activity. Consistent with the pattern set
forth in the 2017 application, the 2018
HSTT Final Environmental Impact
Statement/Overseas Environmental
Impact Statement (FEIS/OEIS,
www.hstteis.com/), and the 2018 HSTT
final rule, the Navy proposes to add one
additional representative year and one
additional maximum year to determine
the predicted take numbers in this rule.
Specifically, as in the 2018 HSTT final
rule, the Navy proposes to use the
maximum annual level to calculate
annual takes (which would remain
identical to what was determined in the
2018 HSTT final rule), and the sum of
all years (four representative and three
maximum) to calculate the seven-year
totals for this rule.
The existing 2018 HSTT regulations
authorize three serious injuries or
mortalities from vessel strike in the
HSTT Study Area over five years. Based
on a revised vessel strike analysis
encompassing seven years of activities,
the Navy requests no change in the
number of requested large whale
mortalities due to vessel strike. The
large whale stocks that are proposed to
be taken by vessel strike are the same as
those included in the 2018 HSTT final
rule.
As noted above, the proposed
extension of the rule would include
mitigation, monitoring, and reporting
measures that are identical to those
included in the 2018 HSTT final rule.
Mitigation would include procedural
mitigation measures and mitigation
areas. Procedural mitigation includes,
but is not limited to, the use of trained
Lookouts (protected species observers)
to monitor for marine mammals in
mitigation zones, requirements for
Lookouts to immediately provide
notification of sightings to the
appropriate watch station, requirements
for implementation of powerdown and
shutdown mitigation measures (based
on activity defined zones), pre- and
post-monitoring requirements for
explosive events, and measures to
reduce the likelihood of ship strikes.
Chapter 5 of the 2018 HSTT FEIS/OEIS
and the Mitigation Measures section of
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the 2018 HSTT final rule include
detailed descriptions of mitigation
measures for each specified activity in
the HSTT Study Area. The Navy will
also implement mitigation measures
within certain areas (Mitigation Areas)
and/or at times to avoid or minimize
potential impacts on marine mammals
in areas and/or times where they are
known to engage in biologically
important behaviors (i.e., for foraging,
migration, reproduction), where the
disruption of those behaviors would be
more likely to result in population-level
impact. The Mitigation Measures section
in the 2018 HSTT final rule includes
detailed descriptions of geographic
mitigation measures in the HSTT Study
Area. Maps and tables of the mitigation
areas can be found in Chapter 5 of the
2018 HSTT FEIS/OEIS.
The Navy proposes to continue
forward the implementation of the
robust Integrated Comprehensive
Monitoring Program and Strategic
Planning Process outlined in the current
regulations. The Navy’s monitoring
strategy, currently required by the 2018
HSTT regulations, is well-designed to
work across Navy ranges to help better
understand the impacts of the Navy’s
activities on marine mammals and their
habitat by focusing on learning more
about marine mammal occurrence in
different areas and exposure to Navy
stressors, marine mammal responses to
different sound sources, and the
consequences of those exposures and
responses on marine mammal
populations. Similarly, the proposed
extension of regulations would include
identical adaptive management
provisions and reporting requirements
as the existing regulations. Please refer
to Chapter 13 of the Navy’s application
for full details on the monitoring and
reporting proposed by the Navy.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Information Solicited
Carrie Hall, Evaluator, Planning and
Performance Measurement Program,
Office for Coastal Management, NOS/
NOAA, 1305 East-West Highway, 11th
Floor, N/OCM1, Silver Spring,
Maryland 20910, by phone at (240) 533–
0730 or email comments Carrie.Hall@
noaa.gov. Copies of the previous
evaluation findings and 2016–2020
Assessment and Strategy may be viewed
and downloaded on the internet at
https://coast.noaa.gov/czm/evaluations.
A copy of the evaluation notification
letter and most recent progress report
may be obtained upon request by
contacting the person identified under
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
312 of the Coastal Zone Management
Interested persons may submit
information, suggestions, and comments
concerning the Navy’s request (see
ADDRESSES). NMFS will consider all
information, suggestions, and comments
related to the request during the
development of proposed regulations
governing the incidental taking of
marine mammals by the Navy, if
appropriate.
Dated: April 30, 2019.
Donna S. Wieting,
Director, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Evaluation of State Coastal
Management Programs
Office for Coastal Management
(OCM), National Ocean Service (NOS),
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), Department of
Commerce (DOC).
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:
The National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Office for Coastal Management will hold
a public meeting to solicit comments on
the performance evaluation of the
Rhode Island Coastal Management
Program.
SUMMARY:
Rhode Island Coastal
Management Program Evaluation: The
public meeting will be held on June 18,
2019, and written comments must be
received on or before June 28, 2019.
For specific dates, times, and
locations of the public meetings, see
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on the coastal program NOAA intends
to evaluate by any of the following
methods:
Public Meeting and Oral Comments:
A public meeting will be held in
Wakefield, Rhode Island. For the
specific location, see SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
Written Comments: Please direct
written comments to Carrie Hall,
Evaluator, Planning and Performance
Measurement Program, Office for
Coastal Management, NOS/NOAA, 1305
East-West Highway, 11th Floor, N/
OCM1, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910,
or email comments Carrie.Hall@
noaa.gov.
DATES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Act (CZMA) requires NOAA to conduct
periodic evaluations of federally
approved state and territorial coastal
programs. The process includes one or
more public meetings, consideration of
written public comments, and
consultations with interested Federal,
state, and local agencies and members of
the public. During the evaluation,
NOAA will consider the extent to which
the state has met the national objectives,
adhered to the management program
approved by the Secretary of Commerce,
and adhered to the terms of financial
assistance under the CZMA. When the
evaluation is completed, NOAA’s Office
for Coastal Management will place a
notice in the Federal Register
announcing the availability of the Final
Evaluation Findings.
You may participate or submit oral
comments at the public meeting
scheduled as follows:
Date: June 18, 2019
Time: 6:00 p.m., local time
Location: Department of
Administration, Conference Room A,
One Capitol Hill, Providence, Rhode
Island 20908
Written public comments must be
received on or before June 28, 2019.
Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog
11.419.
Coastal Zone Management Program
Administration
Dated: April 30, 2019.
Keelin Kuipers,
Acting Director, Office for Coastal
Management, National Ocean Service,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
RIN 0648–XH020
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act;
General Provisions for Domestic
Fisheries; Issuance of Exempted
Fishing Permits
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; issuance of permit.
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AGENCY:
NMFS West Coast Region is
announcing exempted fishing permits
(EFP) issued to target highly migratory
SUMMARY:
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species (HMS) in Federal waters off the
U.S. West Coast for 2019. NMFS
renewed 21 standard deep-set buoy gear
(standard DSBG) EFPs for 2019 and
issued a new pelagic longline EFP valid
for 24 months from the effective date.
Ten linked deep-set buoy gear (linked
DSBG) EFPs issued in 2018 remain valid
for the 2019 calendar year. The permits
are issued as exemptions from specific
prohibitions under the Fishery
Management Plan for U.S. West Coast
Fisheries for Highly Migratory Species
(HMS FMP). The general purpose of the
EFPs is to allow novel fishing practices
and gear types that are not otherwise
authorized under a fishery management
plan. Specifically, NMFS will collect
data on the effects and efficacy of using
these gears to fish for swordfish and
other HMS off the West Coast.
DATES: See the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section for details
on the
dates that permits were issued and will
expire.
FR 40751), November 16, 2017 (82 FR
53480), and June 6, 2018 (82 FR 53481).
Standard and linked DSBG are not
currently authorized gear types under
the HMS FMP. Standard DSBG fishing
trials occurred for the past eight years
under research activity (2011 to 2015)
and EFPs (2015 to 2018) in the U.S.
West Coast EEZ off California. Linked
DSBG research fishing trials included a
total of 40 fishing days from 2015
through 2017. Data collected from these
fishing activities have demonstrated that
about 95 percent of fish species caught
with standard DSBG and 90 percent of
those caught with linked DSBG are
marketable.
Longline fishing is currently
prohibited within the U.S. West Coast
EEZ; therefore, an EFP was needed to
authorize the activity to take place in
Federal waters. The longline EFP will
provide data for fishery managers about
the performance of the gear and the
mitigation measures intended to
minimize adverse environmental
impacts in these waters.
Copies of supporting
documents are available via the Federal
eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov, docket NOAA–
Standard and Linked DSBG EFPs
NMFS–2019–0048, or by contacting the
Highly Migratory Species Branch of
NMFS considered all applicable
NMFS West Coast Region at WCR.HMS@ Federal laws when issuing the standard
noaa.gov.
and linked DSBG EFPs, including
section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Species Act (ESA) (16 U.S.C. 1531 et
Chris Fanning, NMFS West Coast
seq.), and determined that the proposed
Region, 562–980–4198, or
action is not likely to adversely affect
Chris.Fanning@noaa.gov.
any endangered or threatened species or
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
result in the destruction or adverse
modification of critical habitat.
Background
Additionally, NMFS completed the
On July 2, 2014, the Pacific Fishery
appropriate analyses under the National
Management Council (Council) solicited Environmental Policy Act, in
EFP proposals to test alternative fishing accordance with NOAA Administrative
gear as a substitute in the large mesh
Order 216–6, prior to issuing the
drift net (DGN) fishery, or test new
standard and linked DSBG EFPs. In
approaches or methods of fishing DGN
2018, NMFS issued 27 standard DSBG
gear (https://www.pcouncil.org/wpEFPs valid through December 31, 2018,
content/uploads/G3a_Att1_HMS_EFP_
and ten linked DSBG EFPs valid
Notice_Ltr_July2014_SEPT2014BB.pdf).
through December 31, 2019 (Table 1).
Applications for EFPs were submitted
Based on standard DSBG fishing activity
on February 9, 2015, for the Council’s
in 2018 and other factors (e.g., gear
consideration during the March 2015
purchase, participation in other
Council meeting. The Council
unrelated fisheries that precluded
recommended that NMFS approve EFP
fishing DSBG, appeal for renewal, etc.),
applications to use standard and linked
NMFS renewed 21 standard DSBG EFPs
DSBG and an application to use deepthrough 2019 (Table 2). As a result of
set and shallow-set longline gear in the
Federal review and a growing
exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off the
understanding of risks with the gear,
West Coast of the United States. NMFS
NMFS issued terms and conditions for
published notice of receipt of these
the EFPs that include more mitigation
applications, as well as the Council’s
measures than those proposed in the
recommendations, in the Federal
original applications. See the ADDRESSES
Register on the respective dates: May
section for more information on these
22, 2015 (80 FR 29662), October 17,
2016 (81 FR 71845), August 28, 2017 (81 supporting documents.
ADDRESSES:
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[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Evaluation of State Coastal Management Programs
AGENCY: Office for Coastal Management (OCM), National Ocean Service
(NOS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Department of Commerce (DOC).
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
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SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Office for Coastal Management will hold a public meeting to solicit
comments on the performance evaluation of the Rhode Island Coastal
Management Program.
DATES: Rhode Island Coastal Management Program Evaluation: The public
meeting will be held on June 18, 2019, and written comments must be
received on or before June 28, 2019.
For specific dates, times, and locations of the public meetings,
see SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments on the coastal program NOAA intends
to evaluate by any of the following methods:
Public Meeting and Oral Comments: A public meeting will be held in
Wakefield, Rhode Island. For the specific location, see SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
Written Comments: Please direct written comments to Carrie Hall,
Evaluator, Planning and Performance Measurement Program, Office for
Coastal Management, NOS/NOAA, 1305 East-West Highway, 11th Floor, N/
OCM1, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910, or email comments
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carrie Hall, Evaluator, Planning and
Performance Measurement Program, Office for Coastal Management, NOS/
NOAA, 1305 East-West Highway, 11th Floor, N/OCM1, Silver Spring,
Maryland 20910, by phone at (240) 533-0730 or email comments
[email protected]. Copies of the previous evaluation findings and
2016-2020 Assessment and Strategy may be viewed and downloaded on the
internet at https://coast.noaa.gov/czm/evaluations. A copy of the
evaluation notification letter and most recent progress report may be
obtained upon request by contacting the person identified under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 312 of the Coastal Zone Management
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Act (CZMA) requires NOAA to conduct periodic evaluations of federally
approved state and territorial coastal programs. The process includes
one or more public meetings, consideration of written public comments,
and consultations with interested Federal, state, and local agencies
and members of the public. During the evaluation, NOAA will consider
the extent to which the state has met the national objectives, adhered
to the management program approved by the Secretary of Commerce, and
adhered to the terms of financial assistance under the CZMA. When the
evaluation is completed, NOAA's Office for Coastal Management will
place a notice in the Federal Register announcing the availability of
the Final Evaluation Findings.
You may participate or submit oral comments at the public meeting
scheduled as follows:
Date: June 18, 2019
Time: 6:00 p.m., local time
Location: Department of Administration, Conference Room A, One Capitol
Hill, Providence, Rhode Island 20908
Written public comments must be received on or before June 28,
2019.
Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog 11.419.
Coastal Zone Management Program Administration
Dated: April 30, 2019.
Keelin Kuipers,
Acting Director, Office for Coastal Management, National Ocean Service,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
[FR Doc. 2019-09390 Filed 5-7-19; 8:45 am]
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