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the Long Island Sound, Fishers Island 

Sound, Connecticut River, and Thames 

River as the Connecticut National 

Estuarine Research Reserve 

(Connecticut Reserve). On January 11, 

2022, the Under Secretary of Commerce 

for Oceans and Atmosphere, Dr. Richard 

W. Spinrad, signed a Record of Decision 

pursuant to the National Environmental 

Policy Act and the findings of 

designation for the Connecticut Reserve 

pursuant to Section 315 of the CZMA 

and its implementing regulations. A 

copy of the Record of Decision and the 

findings of designation are available for 

public review from NOAA’s Office for 

Coastal Management at coast.noaa.gov/ 

czm/compliance. Additionally, NOAA 

hereby provides notice of the results of 

the consistency determination for the 

designation of the Connecticut Reserve. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Erica Seiden, Office for Coastal 

Management, National Ocean Service, 

NOAA, 1305 East-West Highway, N/ 

OCM, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910; 

Phone: (202) 607–5232; or Email: 

erica.seiden@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Estuarine Research Reserve 

System (reserve system) is a federalstate partnership administered by 

NOAA. The reserve system protects 

more than 1.3 million acres of estuarine 

habitat for long-term research, 

monitoring, education, and stewardship 

throughout the coastal United States. 

Established by the Coastal Zone 

Management Act of 1972, as amended 

(16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.), each reserve is 

managed by a lead state agency or 

university, with input from local 

partners. NOAA provides funding and 

national programmatic guidance to the 

reserve system. 

NOAA received the State of 

Connecticut’s nomination of the 

proposed Connecticut Reserve site on 

January 3, 2019. NOAA evaluated the 

nomination package and found that the 

proposed site met the reserve system 

requirements for designation. (See 16 

U.S.C. 1461(b).) Accordingly, NOAA 

informed the State of Connecticut on 

September 27, 2019, that it was 

accepting the nomination and that the 

next step would be to prepare a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Draft Management Plan. (See 15 CFR 

921.13.) On June 1, 2020, NOAA issued 

a notice of intent to prepare a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Draft Management Plan for the proposed 

Connecticut Reserve (85 FR 33123). On 

July 17, 2020, NOAA issued a notice of 

a public scoping meeting to solicit input 

on the Draft Environmental Impact 

statement (85 FR 43543). On September 

3, 2021, NOAA issued notice of public 

hearings and a 45-day public comment 

period for the Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement and Draft 

Management Plan for the proposed 

designation of the Connecticut Reserve 

(86 FR 49519). NOAA has included 

responses to the relevant written and 

oral comments it received on the 

adequacy of the draft environmental 

impact statement and draft management 

plan in Appendix B of the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement. The 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

and Final Management Plan for the 

proposed Connecticut Reserve were 

published on December 3, 2021 (86 FR 

68661). For more information about the 

Connecticut Reserve, including the 

reserve’s Final Management Plan, see 

the reserve’s web page: coast.noaa.gov/ 

nerrs/reserves/connecticut.html. 

The implementing regulations (40 

CFR parts 1500–1508) for the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 

amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), 

require agencies to publish a public 

Record of Decision identifying 

alternatives considered by the agencies 

in reaching their decision and 

specifying the environmentally 

preferable alternative (40 CFR 1505.2). 

Furthermore, pursuant to the CZMA’s 

implementing regulations for the reserve 

system, NOAA is required to provide 

notice in the Federal Register of the 

results of the consistency determination 

for the proposed designation of a 

National Estuarine Research Reserve in 

states with federally-approved coastal 

zone management programs (15 CFR 

921.30). 

Pursuant to these requirements, 

NOAA has published a Record of 

Decision in accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act, 

which can be found at coast.noaa.gov/ 

czm/compliance. Furthermore, NOAA 

hereby provides notice of the results of 

the consistency determination for the 

Connecticut Reserve: NOAA submitted 

the consistency determination to the 

State of Connecticut on September 8, 

2021, in accordance with the 

requirements of Section 307 of the 

Coastal Zone Management Act (16 

U.S.C. 1456), and the State of 

Connecticut concurred on October 27, 

2021. 

For more detailed information on the 

designation process, see the Connecticut 

Department of Energy and 

Environmental Protection’s Connecticut 

National Estuarine Research Reserve 

website: portal.ct.gov/DEEP/CoastalResources/NERR/NERR-Home-Page. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.; 42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq. 

Jeffrey L. Payne, 

Director, Office for Coastal Management, 

National Ocean Service, National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–JE–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XB708] 

Whaling Provisions; Aboriginal 

Subsistence Whaling Quotas 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; notification of quota for 

bowhead whales. 

SUMMARY: NMFS notifies the public of 

the aboriginal subsistence whaling 

quota for bowhead whales that it has 

assigned to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling 

Commission (AEWC), and of limitations 

on the use of the quota deriving from 

regulations of the International Whaling 

Commission (IWC). For 2022, the quota 

is 93 bowhead whales struck. This quota 

and other applicable limitations govern 

the harvest of bowhead whales by 

members of the AEWC. 

DATES: Applicable January 14, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Office of International 

Affairs and Seafood Inspection, National 

Marine Fisheries Service, 1315 EastWest Highway, Silver Spring, MD 

20910. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mi 

Ae Kim, (301) 427–8365. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Aboriginal 

subsistence whaling in the United States 

is governed by the Whaling Convention 

Act (WCA) (16 U.S.C. 916 et seq.). 

Under the WCA, IWC regulations shall 

generally become effective with respect 

to all persons and vessels subject to the 

jurisdiction of the United States, within 

90 days of notification from the IWC 

Secretariat of an amendment to the IWC 

Schedule (16 U.S.C. 916k). Regulations 

that implement the WCA, found at 50 

CFR 230.6, require the Secretary of 

Commerce (Secretary) to publish, at 

least annually, aboriginal subsistence 

whaling quotas and any other 

limitations on aboriginal subsistence 

whaling deriving from regulations of the 

IWC. 

At the 67th Meeting of the IWC, the 

Commission set catch limits for 

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whales from the Bering-ChukchiBeaufort Seas stock. The bowhead and 

other aboriginal subsistence whaling 

catch limits were based on a joint 

request by Denmark on behalf of 

Greenland, the Russian Federation, St. 

Vincent and the Grenadines, and the 

United States, accompanied by 

documentation concerning the needs of 

the Native groups. 

The IWC set a seven-year block catch 

limit of 392 bowhead whales landed. 

For each of the years 2019 through 2025, 

the number of bowhead whales struck 

may not exceed 67, with unused strikes 

from the three prior quota blocks carried 

forward and added to the annual strike 

quota of subsequent years, provided that 

no more than 50 percent of the annual 

strike limit is added to the strike quota 

for any one year. At the end of the 2021 

harvest, there were 33 unused strikes 

available for carry-forward, so the 

combined strike quota set by the IWC 

for 2022 is 100 (67 + 33). 

An arrangement between the United 

States and the Russian Federation 

ensures that the total quota of bowhead 

whales landed and struck in 2022 will 

not exceed the limits set by the IWC. 

Under this arrangement, the Russian 

natives may use no more than seven 

strikes, and the Alaska natives may use 

no more than 93 strikes. 

Through its cooperative agreement 

with the AEWC, NOAA has assigned 93 

strikes to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling 

Commission. The AEWC will in turn 

allocate these strikes among the 11 

villages whose cultural and subsistence 

needs have been documented, and will 

ensure that its hunters use no more than 

93 strikes. 

At its 67th Meeting, the IWC also 

provided for automatic renewal of 

aboriginal subsistence whaling catch 

limits under certain circumstances. 

Commencing in 2026, bowhead whale 

catch limits shall be extended every six 

years provided: (a) The IWC Scientific 

Committee advises in 2024, and every 

six years thereafter, that such limits will 

not harm the stock; (b) the Commission 

does not receive a request from the 

United States or the Russian Federation 

for a change in the bowhead whale 

catch limits based on need; and (c) the 

Commission determines that the United 

States and the Russian Federation have 

complied with the IWC’s approved 

timeline and that the information 

provided represents a status quo 

continuation of the hunts. 

Other Limitations 

The IWC regulations, as well as the 

NOAA regulation at 50 CFR 230.4(c), 

forbid the taking of calves or any whale 

accompanied by a calf. 

NOAA regulations (at 50 CFR 230.4) 

contain a number of other prohibitions 

relating to aboriginal subsistence 

whaling, some of which are summarized 

here: 

• Only licensed whaling captains or 

crew under the control of those captains 

may engage in whaling. 

• Captains and crew must follow the 

provisions of the relevant cooperative 

agreement between NOAA and a Native 

American whaling organization. 

• The aboriginal hunters must have 

adequate crew, supplies, and equipment 

to engage in an efficient operation. 

• Crew may not receive money for 

participating in the hunt. 

• No person may sell or offer for sale 

whale products from whales taken in 

the hunt, except for authentic articles of 

Native American handicrafts. 

• Captains may not continue to whale 

after the relevant quota is taken, after 

the season has been closed, or if their 

licenses have been suspended. They 

may not engage in whaling in a wasteful 

manner. 

Dated: January 10, 2022. 

Alexa Cole, 

Director, Office of International Affairs and 

Seafood Inspection, National Marine 

Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM 

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 

SEVERELY DISABLED 

Procurement List; Additions and 

Deletions 

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From 

People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled. 

ACTION: Additions to and deletions from 

the Procurement List. 

SUMMARY: This action adds service(s) to 

the Procurement List that will be 

furnished by nonprofit agencies 

employing persons who are blind or 

have other severe disabilities, and 

deletes products(s) from the 

Procurement List previously furnished 

by such agencies. 

DATES: Date added to and deleted from 

the Procurement List: February 13, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase 

From People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled, 1401 S Clark Street, Suite 715, 

Arlington, Virginia 22202–4149. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael R. Jurkowski, Telephone: (703) 

785–6404, or email CMTEFedReg@

AbilityOne.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Additions 

On 8/6/2021, the Committee for 

Purchase From People Who Are Blind 

or Severely Disabled published notice of 

proposed additions to the Procurement 

List. This notice is published pursuant 

to 41 U.S.C. 8503 (a)(2) and 41 CFR 51– 

2.3. 

After consideration of the material 

presented to it concerning capability of 

qualified nonprofit agencies to provide 

the product(s) and service(s) and impact 

of the additions on the current or most 

recent contractors, the Committee has 

determined that the product(s) and 

service(s) listed below are suitable for 

procurement by the Federal Government 

under 41 U.S.C. 8501–8506 and 41 CFR 

51–2.4. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification 

I certify that the following action will 

not have a significant impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. 

The major factors considered for this 

certification were: 

1. The action will not result in any 

additional reporting, recordkeeping or 

other compliance requirements for small 

entities other than the small 

organizations that will furnish the 

product(s) and service(s) to the 

Government. 

2. The action will result in 

authorizing small entities to furnish the 

product(s) and service(s) to the 

Government. 

3. There are no known regulatory 

alternatives which would accomplish 

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 8501–8506) in 

connection with the product(s) and 

service(s) proposed for addition to the 

Procurement List. 

End of Certification 

Accordingly, the following product(s) 

and service(s) are added to the 

Procurement List: 

Service(s) 

Service Type: Secure document destruction 

Mandatory for: Department of Health and 

Human Services, Albuquerque Indian 

Health Service, Santa Fe Service Unit, 

Santa Fe, NM 

Designated Source of Supply: Adelante 

Development Center, Inc., Albuquerque, 

NM 

Contracting Activity: INDIAN HEALTH 

SERVICE, ALBUQUERQUE AREA 

INDIAN HEALTH SVC 

Deletions 

On 9/24/2021, the Committee for 

Purchase From People Who Are Blind 

or Severely Disabled published notice of 

proposed deletions from the 

Procurement List. This notice is 


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