National Marine Sanctuaries Library

Description: Notice of Availability of the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Coral Restoration in Florida Keys and Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuaries (EIS No. 20080219).

Description: In accordance with section 304(e) of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act, as amended, (NMSA) NOAA is soliciting public comment on the draft management plan and environmental assessment for the Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen bank National Marine Sanctuary

Description: The rule would prohibit discharge of treated waste from vessels 300 gross registered tons or more within the sanctuaries.

Description: Closes the record on NOAA's decision with on state waters of the Sanctuary and responds to comments NOAA received on that issue.

Description: This proposed rule addresses treated sewage and graywater discharges from vessels 300 gross registered tons or greater in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

Description: This proposed rule addresses treated sewage discharges from vessels 300 gross registered tons or greater in the Cordell Bank, Gulf of the Farallones, and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuaries, and in the case of Monterey Bay limits graywater discharges.

Description: Provides notice of a draft supplement for Cordell Bank, Gulf of the Farallones, and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuaries.

Description: This notice constitutes the official publication of the new U.S. World Heritage Tentative List and provides a First Notice for the public to comment on proposed initial U.S. nominations from the new Tentative List to the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Description: Notice of Intent to initiate public scoping and notice that Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary is preparing a draft EIS on the concept of a research area in the sanctuary.

Description: Announcement confirms the effective date of the final rule for this conservation area, published on May 24, 2007 (72 FR 29208), took effect on July 29, 2007.

Description: Issues final regulations to establish marine reserves and a marine conservation area in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

Description: Provides notice of the availability of the final environmental impact statement for the establishment of marine reserves and marine conservation areas in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

Description: Provides notice of February 16, 2007 effective date for the revised regulations for the Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary.

Description: Renames the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument as the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.

Description: Technical correction to the joint regulations for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument.

Description: Final revised management plan and revised regulations for the Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary.

Description: Draft revised management plan, revised Designation Document and revised regulations for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

Description: Draft revised management plan and revised regulations for the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary.

Description: Draft revised management plan and revised regulations for Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary.

Description: Corrections to figures published 8/11/2006 pertaining to the current size of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

Description: Correction of an e-mail address in the 8/29/2006 final regulations for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument.

Description: Final joint regulations for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument.

Description: Provides notice of availability of a draft environmental impact statement for the establishment of no-take and limited-take marine zones in the Channel Islands NMS.

Description: Proposed a regulation to establish no-take and limited-take marine zones within the Channel Islands NMS.

Description: Provides list of approved vessel monitoring systems devices for vessel operation within the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument.

Description: Presidential proclamation 8031 establishes the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument.

Description: Notice of availability of a draft environmental impact statement for the Channel Islands NMS management plan review and regulations revision.

Description: Proposed revision to the Channel Islands NMS regulations resulting from management plan review.

Description: Amends the list of categories of activites subject to the special use permitting requirements of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act.

Description: Announces the establishment of indirect cost rates and a policy on the recovery of indirect costs for its involvement in natural resource damage assessment and restoration activities.

Description: Proposes to amend the regulations for the Gray's Reef NMS to incorporate changes resulting from a review of the management plan for Gray's Reef NMS.

Description: Amends the existing Area to be Avoided off the Washington Coast to include allvessels of 1,600 gross tons and above solely in transit in accordance with the International Maritime Organization?s adoption of MSC 75/24, para 6.7.4 on May 29, 2002.

Description: Notice is given of the availability of the subject final report, which describes the methodology by which NOAA will assess fair market value for submarine cables in national marine sanctuaries.

Description: Provides notice of the applicability of the special use permitting requirements of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act to certain categories of activities in accordance with the 2000 amendments to the National Marine Sanctuaries Act (PL 106-513).

Description: Amends the anchoring regulations for the Flower Garden Banks NMS to conform the regulations to anchoring prohibitions adopted by the International Maritime Organization, at its December 6, 2000 meeting.

Description: Extends the public comment period on the fair market value analysis for submarine cables in NMSs by 15 days until October 16, 2001.

Description: Final rule banning the use of motorized personal watercraft in the Gulf of the Farallones NMS.

Description: Reopends the comment period on the fair market value analysis for submarine cables within NMSs for an additional 45 days until October 1, 2001.

Description: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Regulations; Final Rule

Description: Announces the July 1, 2001 effective date for the final regulations expanding the boundary of the Florida Keys NMS to include the Tortugas Ecological Reserve in State waters.

Description: Proposes to amend the anchoring regulations for the Flower Garden Banks NMS to conform the regulations to anchoring prohibitions adopted by the International Maritime Organization, at its December 6, 2000 meeting.

Description: Provides public notice of NOAA?s intent to request the International Maritime Organization to extend the the existing area to be avoided off the Washington Coast to include all vessels of 1,600 gross tons and above solely in transit and to increase the size of the ATBA to reflect changes in the adjacent Strait of Juan de Fuca traffic separation scheme.

Description: Announces the March 8, 2001 effective date for the final regulations expanding the boundary of the Florida Keys NMS to include the Tortugas Ecological Reserve in Federal waters.

Description: Final rule expands the boundary of the Florida Keys NMS to include the Tortugas Ecological Reserve and issues regulations for the added area.

Description: Provides notice of availability of a fair market value anlysis done concerning the issuance of permits for submarine cables within NMSs.

Description: Modifes the boundaries for the Flower Garden Banks NMS to include Stetson Bank, which was added to the Flower Garden Banks NMS by Congress through the 1996 amendments to the National Marine Sanctuaries Act (PL 104-283).

Description: Reopends the comment period on the advanced notice of proposed rulemaking on installing fiber optic cables within NMSs (65 FR 51264) for an additional 15 days.

Description: Proposes to amend the boundaries of the Florida Keys NMS area to be avoided to increase saftey of shipping in the region of the upper Keys.

Description: Makes a technical correction to the regulations for the Thunder Bay NMS and Underwater Preserve and provides notice of the September 25, 2000 effective date for those regulations.

Description: Publishes an advanced noticed of the regulation of fiber optic cable installation, maitenance, and removal within NMS.

Description: Designates the Thunder Bay NMS and Underwater Preserve along with final implementing regulations and designation document.

Description: Amends the Paperwork Reduction Act language of the proposed rule to expand the boudnaries of the Florida Keys NMS to include the Tortugas Ecological Reserve to include information about the certification burden estimate.

Description: Withdraws the previous proposed rule that proposed to ban the use of motorized personal watercraft within 1000 yards of the shoreline (64 FR 19945) in the Gulf of the Farallones NMS. This notice proposes to ban the use of motorized personal watercraft within the entire Gulf of the Farallones NMS.

Description: Proposes to expand the boundary of the Florida Keys NMS to include the Tortugas Ecological Reserve and proposes regulations for the Tortugas Ecological Reserve.

Description: Modifies the regulations for the Hawaiian Islands NMS in response to State of Hawaii concerns and comments. This notice also provides notice of the December 29, 1999 effective date for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale NMS regulations.

Description: Initiating process to revise the management plan for Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary.

Description: Withdraws the Northwest Straits from consideration as an Active Candidate for designation asa National Marine Sanctuary. Congress directed NOAA to prepare a designation prospectus on Northwest Straits in 1988 and the site became an Active Candidate. For reasons related todesignation guidance contained in the 1996 reauthorization of the National Marine Sanctuary Act (NMSA), the findings of a Congressionally-convened Northwest Straits Citizens Advisory Commission, and limited agency resources, NOAA is discontinuing consideration of the site for possible designation as a national marine sanctuary.

Description: Further extends the comments period for the proposed regulation to ban the use of motorized personal watercraft in the Gulf of the Farallones NMS until July 21, 1999.

Description: Provide notice of intent to prepare a draft environmental impact statement to revise the regulations and management plan for the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

Description: Further extends the comments period for the proposed regulation to ban the use of motorized personal watercraft in the Gulf of the Farallones NMS until July 1, 1999.

Description: Announces the date of a public hearing and extends the public comment period for the proposed regulation to ban the use of motorized personal watercraft in the Gulf of the Farallones NMS.

Description: Proposes a regulation banning the use of motorized personal watercraft within 1,000 yards of shore within the Gulf of the Farallones NMS.

Description: Amends the regulations for the Florida Keys NMS to reinstate and make permanent the temporary prohibition on anchoring by vessels 50 meters or greater in registered length on Tortugas Bank.

Description: Provides notice of July 6, 1998 effective date for jade collection rule.

Description: Issues a final regulation allowing for limited collection of jad within the Monterey Bay NMS.

Description: Amends the notice changing the name of Point Reyes/Farallon Islands NMS to the Gulf of the Farallones NMS (62 FR 3788) to also change the acronym throughout part 922 from PRNMS to GFNMS.

Description: Modifies the regulations for the Florida Keys NMS published on January 30, 1997 to clarify changes to the general NMSP regulations on permitting.

Description: Settlement Agreement to settle claims of damage to sanctuary resources form the grounding of R/V COLUMBUS ISELIN in the Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary.

Description: Amends the regulations for the Monterey Bay NMS to allow the delegation of the authority to object to or impose terms or conditions on the exercise of any valid lease, permit, license, approval or other authorization issued after January 1, 1993 (the effective date of the MBNMS designation) from the Director of the Office of Ocean and Coastal ResourceManagement (Director) to other Federal officials below the Director's level; for example, the Sanctuary Manager.

Description: Temporarily (October 17, 1997 through February 12, 1998) prohibits anchoring of vessels greater than 50 meters in length on Tortugas Bank within the Florida Keys NMS.

Description: Invitation for general public and other Federal agencies to comment on collections of information.

Description: Removes Norfolk Canyon from the active candidates list for designation as a NMS. Also retains the site remains on the SEL.

Description: Soliciting information pertaining to the operation of motorized personal watercraft in the area of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary.

Description: Provides notice of a July 30, 1997 public hearing on the Jade collection proposed rule.

Description: Provides notice of availability of the supplemental Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis for Florida Keys NMS designation concerning treasure salvage.

Description: Small correction to previously published rule.

Description: Proposes to designate the Thunder Bay NMS along with proposed implementing regulaitons, designation document, and management plan.

Description: Proposes a regulation to allow for limited jade collection in the Monterey Bay NMS.

Description: Modifies the regulations for the Florida Keys NMS in response to State of Florida concerns and comments. This notice also provides notice of the July 1, 1997 effective date for the Florida Keys NMS regulations.

Description: Issues final regulations and management plan for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale NMS which was designated by Congress under the Hawaiian Islands National Marine Sanctuary Act in 1992.

Description: Issues final regulations and management plan for the Florida Keys NMS which was designated by Congress under the Flordia Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Protection Act in 1990. This notice also removes the regulations for Looe Key and Key Largo NMSs.

Description: Changes the official name of the Point Reyes/Farallon Islands NMS to the Gulf of the Farallones NMS.

Description: Issues new regulation to prohibit the attraction of white sharks within 3 miles of shore in the Monterey Bay NMS.

Description: Corrects the boundary coordinates for Cordell Bank NMS.

Description: Clarifies and modifies the boundary of the motorized personal watercraft (jet ski) zones and access routes in Monterey Bay NMS.

Description: Provides notice of a public hearing on the proposed rule to prohibit attracting white sharks within 3 miles of shore in the Monterey Bay NMS. The public hearing was held on Friday, March 1, 1996, at the El Grenada Elementary School, 400 Santiago Avenue, El Grenada, California.

Description: Proposes a regulation to prohibit the attraction of white sharks within three miles of shore in the Monterey Bay NMS.

Description: Notice of a correction of contact information and correct a statement that may have interpreted exclusion of larger vessels in association with the permit.

Description: Consolidates all NMSP regulations into 15 CFR part 922. Removes all other parts.

Description: NOAA seeks comment on issuing a three-year special use permit to a qualified dive concessionaire for non-intrusive dives at this site for a total of two (2) weeks (14 days) each year.

Description: Proposes implementing regulations and a management plan for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale NMS, which was designated by Congress under the Hawaiian Islands National Marine Sanctuary Act in 1992.

Description: Advanced notice on a proposal to allow limited take of jade within the Monterey Bay NMS.

Description: Proposes implementing regulations and a management plan for the Florida Keys NMS, which was designated by Congress under the Flordia Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Protection Act in 1990.

Description: Advanced notice to consider the restriction or prohibition of attracting white sharks within the Monterey Bay NMS.

Description: Adopts as final regulations without change the interim final portion of regulations implementing the designation of the Flower Garden Banks NMS, published on December 5, 1991 (56 FR 63634).

Description: Corrects the boundary coordinates published in Appendix A to the regulations for Olympic Coast NMS.

Description: Provides notice of the effective date for the regulations for the Stellwagen Bank NMS as March 20, 1994.

Description: Provides notice of the effective date for the regulations for the Olympic Coast NMS as July 22, 1994.

Description: Designates Olympic Coast NMS and issues final implementing regulations.

Description: Provides notice of the effective date for the regulations for Flower Garden Banks NMS as January 18, 1994.

Description: Final rule to modify the general NMSP regulations to implement the 1988 and 1992 amendments to the NMSA.

Description: Designates Stellwagen Bank NMS and issues final implementing regulations.

Description: Provides notice of the effective date of the regulations for Monterey Bay NMS as January 1, 1993.

Description: Designates Monterey Bay NMS and issues final implementing regulations.

Description: Designates the Flower Garden Banks NMS issues a final rule. Some of the regulatory provisions were issued on an interim-final basis to allow for additional public comment.

Description: Proposes to designate Olympic Coast NMS and proposes implementing regulations.

Description: Adds Thunder Bay to the List of Active Candidates.

Description: Proposes to designate Stellwagen Bank NMS and proposes implementing regulations.

Description: Clarifies the effective date of the regulations for Cordell Bank NMS as July 31, 1989.

Description: Proposes to designate Monterey Bay NMS and proposes implementing regulations.

Description: Notifies the public that the Coast Guard had submitted a proposal to the International Maritime Organization to establish for an Area to be Avoided off the Florida Keys. ATBA applies to vessels greater than 50 meters in length.

Description: Revises and updates the Site Evaluation List and adds sites to it.

Description: Revises the regulations for Cordell Bank NMS prohibit oil, gas, and minerals exploration/development throughout the sanctuary.

Description: Annoucnes Washington State Nearshore (Northern Puget Sounds) as an active candidate for NMS designation and NOAA's intent to prepare an EIS and management plan.

Description: Issues final designation and regulations for Corell Bank NMS.

Description: Places Stellwagen Bank on the List of Active Candidates and begins the process to designate it as a NMS.

Description: Proposes to designate Flower Garden Banks NMS along with proposed implementing regulations.

Description: By direction of Congress (P.L. 100-627), NOAA adds Monterey Bay to the List of Active Candidates and bgins the process to designate it as a NMS.

Description: Revises NMSP general regulations to reflect Marine Sanctuaries Amendments Act of 1984 (P.L. 98-498). The changes include revised criteria for eligibility of sites for NMS designation and procedures for NMS designation.

Description: Proposes to designate Cordell Bank NMS along with proposed implementing regulations.

Description: Proposes revisions to the NMSP general regulations to implement the National Marine Sanctuary Amendments of 1884 (PL 98-498). The proposed changes include revised criteria for eligibility of sites for NMS designation and procedures for NMS designation.

Description: Issues final designation of Fagatele Bay NMS along with final implementing regulations.

Description: Adds Norfolk Canyon to the List of Active Candidates and drops Ten Fathom Ledge/Big Rock due to backlog of active candidates.

Description: Announces the possible designation of Norfolk Canyon (VA) and Ten Fathom Ledge/Big Rock (NC)

Description: Proposes to designate Fagatele Bay NMS along with proposed implementing regulations.

Description: Makes minor changes to the permitting regulations for designated NMSs to include language indicating that the information collection requirements have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget under the Paperwork Reduction Act (approval number 0648-0141).

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