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otherwise sensitive information 

submitted voluntarily by the sender will 

be publicly accessible. NOAA will 

accept anonymous comments (enter ‘‘N/ 

A’’ in the required fields if you wish to 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Helene Scalliet, Policy and Planning 

Division, Office of National Marine 

Sanctuaries at 240–533–0648 or via 

email at helene.scalliet@noaa.gov. 

Copies of the draft programmatic 

environmental assessments can be 

downloaded or viewed on the internet 

at www.regulations.gov (search for 

docket #NOAA–NOS–2018–XXXX). 

Copies can also be obtained by 

contacting the person identified under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

NOAA’s Office of National Marine 

Sanctuaries (ONMS) serves as the 

trustee for a network of underwater 

parks encompassing more than 600,000 

square miles of marine and Great Lakes 

waters. The network includes a system 

of 13 national marine sanctuaries and 

Papaha ̄naumokua ̄kea and Rose Atoll 

marine national monuments. The 

National Marine Sanctuaries Act 

(NMSA; 16 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.) is the 

statute governing the National Marine 

Sanctuary System. The NMSA 

authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to 

designate as national marine sanctuaries 

areas of the marine environment or 

Great Lakes with special national 

significance due to their conservation, 

recreational, ecological, historical, 

scientific, cultural, archeological, 

educational or aesthetic qualities. The 

primary objective of the NMSA is to 

protect sanctuary resources, which span 

diverse geographic and administrative 

boundaries. Accordingly, ONMS 

subscribes to a broad and 

comprehensive management approach 

to meet the NMSA’s primary objective 

of resource protection. Comprehensive 

sanctuary and monument management, 

described in detail in each site’s 

management plan, serves as a 

framework for addressing long-term 

protection of a wide range of living and 

non-living marine resources, while 

allowing multiple uses of the site to the 

extent that they are compatible with the 

primary goal of resource protection. 

These plans are site-specific documents 

used by all national marine sanctuaries 

and the monuments for which ONMS 

has management responsibilities. The 

NMSA requires that ONMS develop and 

periodically review the management 

plans for each national marine 

sanctuary (Sec. 304(a)(2)(A) and (e)). 

Since revision of a management plan 

often constitutes a Federal action, 

ONMS typically analyzes changes to the 

management plan under NEPA. In many 

cases, this analysis does not analyze indepth consequences of routine field 

operations, such as vessel operations 

and ongoing research programs. The 

draft PEAs announced through this 

notice are designed to analyze these 

routine field operations not previously 

adequately analyzed under the National 

Environmental Policy Act during the 

management plan review process. 

Within the context of the ONMS 

management plans, field operations are 

an important component of 

implementing many of the actions 

necessary to support resource 

protection, research and education 

activities. The management plans also 

contain information relevant to these 

draft regional programmatic 

environmental assessments (PEAs) such 

as background about each sanctuary 

environment and its resources. 

II. NOAA’s Proposed Action 

NOAA has prepared four draft PEAs 

for the proposed continuation of field 

operations described in management 

plans for each site managed by the 

Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. 

There is a draft PEA for each of the 

following regions: West Coast, Pacific 

Islands, Northeast/Great Lakes, and 

Southeast/Gulf of Mexico. The purpose 

of the underlying field operations 

analyzed in the draft PEAs is to support 

resource protection, research and 

education objectives as mandated by the 

National Marine Sanctuaries Act and as 

described in site-specific management 

plans. Field operations in ONMSmanaged sites fall under 10 categories: 

vessel operations; vessel maintenance; 

aircraft operations; non-motorized craft 

operations; SCUBA or snorkel 

operations; onshore field work; 

deployment of autonomous underwater 

vehicles (AUVs)/remotely operated 

vehicles (ROVs)/gliders/drifters; 

deployment of remote sensing 

equipment; deployment of equipment 

on the seafloor; and other sampling 

activities. The four regional draft PEAs 

describe in detail the field operations 

taking place at each site in the next five 

years as well as their environmental 

impacts on the physical, biological, 

socioeconomic, maritime heritage and 

cultural environment. 

In these documents, NOAA analyzes 

the potential effects of two alternatives 

to implement the proposed action. 

NOAA also intends to use these four 

draft PEAs as the basis for compliance 

under the Marine Mammal Protection 

Act, Endangered Species Act, 

Magnuson-Stevens Act, National 

Historic Preservation Act, and Coastal 

Zone Management Act. NOAA intends 

to finalize any necessary compliance 

requirements for these statutes prior to 

finalizing this action. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1431 et seq. 

Thomas Culliton, 

Acting Director, Office of National Marine 

Sanctuaries. 

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Pacific Fishery Management Council; 

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Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting 

(webinar). 

SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery 

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Ad Hoc Ecosystem Workgroup (EWG) 

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is open to the public. 

DATES: The webinar meeting will be 

held on Tuesday, August 21, 2018, from 

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You may send an email to Mr. Kris 

Kleinschmidt at Kris.Kleinschmidt@

noaa.gov or contact him at (503) 820– 

2280, extension 411 for technical 

assistance. 

Council address: Pacific Fishery 

Management Council, 7700 NE 

Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, 

OR 97220. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Kit Dahl, Pacific Council; telephone: 

(503) 820–2422. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EWG 

is holding this webinar to help other 

Council advisory bodies and the public 

prepare comments on two topics the 

Council will take up at its September 7– 

12, 2018 meeting. First, the Council will 

be deciding on future activities as part 

of the Climate and Communities 

Initiative pursuant to its Fishery 

Ecosystem Plan (FEP). Second, the 

Council will be scoping the first 5-year 

review of the FEP. The Council may 

consider initiating revisions to FEP and 

forming any new ad hoc committees 

necessary to revise the Plan. To help 

advisory bodies and the public make 

comments on these topics the EWG 

prepared two sets of discussion 

questions, available on the Council’s 

website (https://www.pcouncil.org/): 

• Webinar Discussion Questions 

• Webinar Agenda 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in the meeting agenda may be 

discussed, those issues may not be the 

subject of formal action during this 

meeting. Action will be restricted to 

those issues specifically listed in this 

document and any issues arising after 

publication of this document that 

require emergency action under section 

305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act, 

provided the public has been notified of 

the intent to take final action to address 

the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to Mr. 

Kris Kleinschmidt, (503) 820–2411, at 

least 10 business days prior to the 

meeting date. 

Dated: August 1, 2018. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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Availability of the Final Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Northern 

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AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice; extension of public 

comment deadline. 

SUMMARY: The comment period for the 

Availability of the Final Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Northern 

Integrated Supply Project, Larimer and 

Weld Counties, Colorado published in 

the Federal Register on Friday, July 20, 

2018, and required comments be 

postmarked on or before September 4, 

2018. The Corps is extending the 

deadline for submitting public 

comments to October 4, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

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telephone 303–979–4120, fax at 303– 

979–0602, or email at nisp.eis@

usace.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: None. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Withdrawal of the Notice of Intent To 

Prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) for the City of Abilene, 

TX, Cedar Ridge Reservoir Water 

Supply Project 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Fort Worth District, 

Regulatory Division is notifying 

interested parties that it has withdrawn 

the Notice of Intent (NOI) to develop an 

EIS for the proposed Cedar Ridge 

Reservoir. The original NOI to Prepare 

an EIS was published in the Federal 

Register on Friday, April 13, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions regarding the withdrawal of 

this NOI should be addressed to Mr. 

Frederick Land, Regulatory Division 

(CESWF–DE–R), Fort Worth District, 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, P.O. Box 

17300, Fort Worth, TX 76102–0300; 

(817) 886–1729; CedarRidge@

usace.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 

20, 2018, the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) and the Council on 

Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued an 

OMB/CEQ Memorandum for Heads of 

Federal Departments and Agencies 

titled ‘‘One Federal Decision Framework 

for the Environmental Review and 

Authorization Process for Major 

Infrastructure Projects under Executive 

Order [E.O.] 13807.’’ Additionally, 

twelve federal agencies, including 

Department of the Army, signed a 

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) 

as an appendix to the OMB/CEQ 

Memorandum. The MOU is titled 

‘‘Memorandum of Understanding 

Implementing One Federal Decision 

Under Executive Order 13807’’ and was 

effective on April 10, 2018. E.O. 13807 

sets a goal for agencies of reducing the 

time for completing environmental 

reviews and authorization decisions to 

an agency average of not more than two 

years from publication of a NOI to 

prepare an EIS. The MOU set forth 

activities to be accomplished before the 

issuance of an NOI, including project 

prescoping, the development of a 

permitting timetable, and the 

development of project Purpose and 

Need. Because the Cedar Ridge 

Reservoir planning had not reached 

these milestones prior to publication of 

the NOI, the NOI is being withdrawn 

until such time that these milestones are 

complete. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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by the Department of the Navy. 

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