Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 47 / Thursday, March 10, 2022 / Notices 13709 

Notification to Interested Parties 

We are issuing and publishing these 

final results of administrative review in 

accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 

777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 

351.213(h). 

Dated: March 3, 2022. 

Lisa W. Wang, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

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Administration 

Review of Nomination for Mariana 

Trench National Marine Sanctuary 

AGENCY: Office of National Marine 

Sanctuaries (ONMS), National Ocean 

Service (NOS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Department of Commerce (DOC). 

ACTION: Notice; reopening of public 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: On January 21, 2022, NOAA 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register requesting written and oral 

comments to facilitate ONMS’ five-year 

review of the nomination for the 

Mariana Trench National Marine 

Sanctuary (NMS) at the five-year 

interval. In that notice, NOAA requested 

relevant information as it pertains to its 

11 evaluation criteria for inclusion in 

the inventory. During the public 

comment period, NOAA received 

requests for an extension to the 

comment period. This notice reopens 

the public comment period by an 

additional 45 days. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received by April 25, 2022. Comments 

submitted through the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal must be received by 

11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the closing 

date. NOAA will conduct a virtual 

meeting on Thursday, March 31, 2022, 

from 12 p.m.–3 p.m. ChST (Guam/ 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands)/Wednesday, March 30, 2022, 

from 4 p.m.–7 p.m. HST (Hawai’i). 

NOAA may end the meeting before the 

time noted above if all those 

participating have completed their oral 

comments. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted by one of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov. Submit 

electronic comments via the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal and search for 

Docket Number NOAA–NOS–2022– 

0005. 

• Mail: Kristina Kekuewa, Pacific 

Islands Regional Director, NOAA Office 

of National Marine Sanctuaries, 1845 

Wasp Blvd., Honolulu, Hawaii 96818. 

• Email: Kristina.Kekuewa@noaa.gov. 

• Public Scoping Meeting: Provide 

oral comments during a virtual public 

scoping meeting, as described under 

DATES. Webinar registration details and 

additional information about how to 

participate in the public scoping 

meeting is available at https://

nominate.noaa.gov/5-year-review.html. 

Instructions: All comments received 

are a part of the public record. All 

personal identifying information (for 

example, name and address) voluntarily 

submitted by the commenter may be 

publicly accessible. Do not submit 

confidential business information or 

otherwise sensitive or protected 

information. NOAA will accept 

anonymous comments (enter N/A in the 

required fields to remain anonymous). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kristina Kekuewa, Pacific Islands 

Regional Director, NOAA Office of 

National Marine Sanctuaries, 1845 

Wasp Blvd., Honolulu, Hawaii 96818, or 

at kristina.kekuewa@noaa.gov, or at 

808–725–5252. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background Information 

In 2014, NOAA issued a final rule reestablishing the sanctuary nomination 

process (SNP), which details how 

communities may submit nominations 

of areas of the marine and Great Lakes 

environment for NOAA to consider for 

designation as national marine 

sanctuaries (79 FR 33851). NOAA 

moves successful nominations to an 

inventory of areas that could be 

considered for national marine 

sanctuary designation. The final rule reestablishing the SNP included a fiveyear limit on any nomination added to 

the inventory that NOAA does not 

advance for designation. 

In November 2019, NOAA issued a 

Federal Register notice (84 FR 61546) to 

clarify procedures for evaluating and 

updating a successful nomination as it 

approaches the five-year mark in the 

inventory of areas that could be 

considered for national marine 

sanctuary designation. This notice 

explained that if a nomination remains 

responsive to the evaluation criteria for 

inclusion in the inventory, it may be 

appropriate to allow the nomination to 

remain in the inventory for another five 

years. The notice also established a 

process for NOAA to consider the 

continuing viability of nominations 

nearing the five-year expiration mark. 

The nomination for Mariana Trench 

NMS was accepted to the national 

inventory on March 13, 2017, and is 

therefore scheduled to expire on March 

13, 2022. This notice re-opens the 

comment period for 45 days. In 

combination with the previous 30-day 

public comment period and this 45-day 

public comment period, NOAA is 

providing 75 days for communities to 

organize comments on the nomination. 

Re-opening the comment period will not 

allow for a decision whether to keep the 

nomination in the inventory to be made 

by March 13, 2022, but NOAA believes 

it is important to give the community 

ample time to submit information on 

whether the nomination continues to 

meet the criteria to remain in the 

inventory. The Mariana Trench NMS 

will remain in the inventory until 

NOAA makes a determination, 

following the extended comment 

period, whether to retain this 

nomination in the inventory. The full 

nomination can be found at https://

nominate.noaa.gov/nominations/. 

NOAA is not proposing to designate 

the Mariana Trench NMS with this 

action. Instead, NOAA is seeking public 

comment on ONMS’ five-year review of 

the nomination for Mariana Trench 

NMS. Accordingly, written comments 

submitted as part of this request should 

not focus on whether NOAA should 

initiate the designation process for a 

Mariana Trench NMS. Rather, 

comments should address the relevance 

of the nomination towards NOAA’s 11 

evaluation criteria and any new 

information NOAA should consider 

about the nominated area (these criteria 

are detailed at https://

nominate.noaa.gov/guide.html). 

Comments that do not pertain to the 

evaluation criteria, or present new 

information on the Mariana Trench 

NMS nomination, will not be 

considered in NOAA’s decision on 

whether to retain this nomination in the 

inventory. 

Whether removing or maintaining the 

nomination for Mariana Trench NMS, 

NOAA would follow the same 

procedure for notifying the public 

NOAA followed when the nomination 

was submitted, including a letter to the 

nominator, a notice in the Federal 

Register, and posting information on 

‘‘nominate.noaa.gov’’. 

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

John Armor, 

Director, Office of National Marine 

Sanctuaries, National Ocean Service, 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration. 

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