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Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program: Approval Decision on California Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program

 [Federal Register: May 1, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 84)]
[Notices]
[Page 25311]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY


Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program: Approval Decision on
California Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program

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

ACTION: Notice of intent to approve the California Coastal Nonpoint
Program.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the intent to fully approve the
California Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program (coastal nonpoint
program) and of the availability of the draft Approval Decisions on
conditions for the California coastal nonpoint 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 programs. 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. NOAA and EPA conditionally
approved the California coastal nonpoint program on June 30, 1998. NOAA
and EPA have drafted approval decisions describing how California has
satisfied the conditions placed on its program and therefore has a
fully approved coastal nonpoint program.
    NOAA and EPA are making the draft decisions for the California
coastal nonpoint program available for a 30-day public comment period.
If no comments are received, the California program will be approved.
If comments are received, NOAA and EPA will consider whether such
comments are significant enough to affect the decision to fully approve
the program.
    Copies of the draft Approval Decisions can be found on the NOAA
website at http://www.nos.noaa.gov/ocrm/czm/ or 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,
extension 201, e-mail joseph.flanagan@noaa.gov.

DATES: Individuals or organizations wishing to submit comments on the
draft Approval Decisions should do so by May 31, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be made to Joseph A. Uravitch, Chief,
Coastal Programs Division (N/ORM3), Office of Ocean and Coastal
Resource Management, NOS, NOAA, 1305 East-West Highway, Silver Spring,
Maryland, tel. 301-713-3155 extension 195, e-mail
joseph.uravitch@noaa.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Keelin Kuipers, 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, extension 175, e-mail keelin.kuipers@noaa.gov or Sam
Ziegler, EPA Region 9 (WTR-3), 75 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA
94105, tel. 415-744-1990, e-mail ziegler.sam@epa.gov.

    Federal Domestic Assistant Catalog 11.419 Coastal Zone
Management Program Administration.

    Dated: April 26, 2000.
Captain Ted I. Lillestolen,
Deputy Assistant, Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone
Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
J. Charles Fox,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Water, Environmental Protection
Agency.
[FR Doc. 00-10778 Filed 4-28-00; 8:45 am]
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