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Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program: Proposed Findings Documents, Environmental Assessments, and Findings of No Significant Impact

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 [Federal Register: October 31, 1997 (Volume 62, Number 211)]
[Notices]
[Page 58939-58940]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr31oc97-40]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY


Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program: Proposed Findings
Documents, Environmental Assessments, and Findings of No Significant
Impact

AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S.
Department of Commerce, and the The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency.

ACTION: Notice of availability of proposed findings documents,
environmental assessments, and findings of no significant impact on
approval of coastal nonpoint pollution control programs for
Connecticut, North Carolina and Maine.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the availability of the Proposed
Findings Documents, Environmental Assessments (EA's), and Findings of
No Significant Impact for Connecticut, North Carolina and Maine.
Coastal states and territories were required to submit their coastal
nonpoint programs to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) for approval in July 1995. The Findings

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documents were prepared by NOAA and EPA to provide the rationale for
the agencies' decision to approve each state and territory coastal
nonpoint pollution control program. Section 6217 of the Coastal Zone
Act Reauthorization Amendments (CZARA), 16 U.S.C. section 1455b,
requires states and territories with coastal zone management programs
that have received approval under section 306 of the Coastal Zone
Management Act to develop and implement coastal nonpoint pollution
control programs. The EA's were prepared by NOAA, pursuant to the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. sections 4321 et
seq., to assess the environmental impacts associated with the approval
of the coastal nonpoint pollution control programs submitted to NOAA
and EPA by Connecticut, North Carolina and Maine.
    NOAA and EPA have proposed to approve, with conditions, the coastal
nonpoint pollution control programs submitted by Connecticut, North
Carolina and Maine. The requirements of 40 CFR Parts 1500-1508 (Council
on Environmental Quality (GEQ) regulations to implement the National
Environmental Policy Act) apply to the preparation of the Environmental
Assessments. Specifically, 40 CFR section 1506.6 requires agencies to
provide public notice of the availability of environmental documents.
This notice is part of NOAA's action to comply with this requirement.
    Copies of the Proposed Findings Documents, Environmental
Assessments, and Findings of No Significant Impact may be obtained upon
request from : Joseph P. Flanagan, Coastal Programs Division (N/ORM3),
Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, NOS, NOAA, 1305 East-
West Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland, 20910, tel. (301) 713-3121,
x201.

DATES: Individuals or organizations wishing to submit comments on the
proposed Findings or Environmental Assessments should do so by December
1, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be made to: Joseph A Uravitch, Coastal
Programs Division (N/ORM3), Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource
Management, NOS, NOAA, 1305 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland,
20910, tel. (301) 713-3155, x195.

(Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog 11.419 Coastal Zone Management
Program Administration)

    Dated: October 28, 1997.
Nancy Foster,
Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Geoffrey H. Grubbs,
Director, Assessment and Watershed Protection Division, Environmental
Protection Agency.
[FR Doc. 97-28902 Filed 10-30-97; 8:45 am]
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