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an additional 15 days for public 

comments when (1) up to another year 

of identical, or nearly identical, 

activities as described in the Description 

of Proposed Activity section of this 

notice is planned or (2) the activities as 

described in the Description of 

Proposed Activity section of this notice 

would not be completed by the time the 

IHA expires and a Renewal would allow 

for completion of the activities beyond 

that described in the Dates and Duration 

section of this notice, provided all of the 

following conditions are met: 

• A request for renewal is received no 

later than 60 days prior to the needed 

Renewal IHA effective date (recognizing 

that the Renewal IHA expiration date 

cannot extend beyond one year from 

expiration of the initial IHA); 

• The request for renewal must 

include the following: 

(1) An explanation that the activities 

to be conducted under the requested 

Renewal IHA are identical to the 

activities analyzed under the initial 

IHA, are a subset of the activities, or 

include changes so minor (e.g., 

reduction in pile size) that the changes 

do not affect the previous analyses, 

mitigation and monitoring 

requirements, or take estimates (with 

the exception of reducing the type or 

amount of take); and 

(2) A preliminary monitoring report 

showing the results of the required 

monitoring to date and an explanation 

showing that the monitoring results do 

not indicate impacts of a scale or nature 

not previously analyzed or authorized. 

• Upon review of the request for 

Renewal, the status of the affected 

species or stocks, and any other 

pertinent information, NMFS 

determines that there are no more than 

minor changes in the activities, the 

mitigation and monitoring measures 

will remain the same and appropriate, 

and the findings in the initial IHA 

remain valid. 

Dated: May 28, 2021. 

Catherine Marzin, 

Acting Director, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Withdrawal of Notice of Intent To 

Prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement for Monterey Bay Regional 

Water Project Desalination Facility 

AGENCY: Office of National Marine 

Sanctuaries (ONMS), National Ocean 

Service (NOS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Department of Commerce (DOC). 

ACTION: Withdrawal of notice of intent 

to prepare an environmental impact 

statement. 

SUMMARY: NOAA’s Office of National 

Marine Sanctuaries is issuing this notice 

to advise Federal, state, and local 

government agencies and the public that 

it is withdrawing its Notice of Intent to 

prepare a draft environmental impact 

statement for the proposed action to 

construct and operate a seawater reverse 

osmosis desalination facility and colocated seawater-cooled 150-megawatt 

computer data center campus project at 

Moss Landing, Monterey County, 

California. NOAA is terminating the 

review of this project under the National 

Environmental Policy Act because the 

proposed project scope has changed 

significantly. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karen Grimmer, Resource Protection 

Coordinator, Monterey Bay National 

Marine Sanctuary, at karen.grimmer@

noaa.gov, or by mail at 99 Pacific Street, 

Suite 455A, Monterey, California 93940. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NOAA 

published a Notice of Intent (NOI) in the 

Federal Register on June 1, 2015 (80 FR 

31022), to prepare a joint environmental 

impact report (EIR)/environmental 

impact statement (EIS) with the 

California State Lands Commission 

(CSLC) in accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and 

the California Environmental Quality 

Act. The joint EIR/EIS would have 

analyzed the impacts on the human 

environment resulting from DeepWater 

Desal’s construction and operation of a 

seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) 

desalination facility and co-located 

seawater-cooled 150-megawatt 

computer data center campus project 

(Project) at Moss Landing, Monterey 

County, California. 

DeepWater Desal submitted an 

application for permit approval to 

Monterey Bay National Marine 

Sanctuary to construct and operate a 

SWRO desalination facility capable of 

producing 25,000 acre-feet per year of 

potable water and a co-located seawatercooled computer data center campus on 

a 110-acre site located approximately 

1.5 miles east of Moss Landing. 

Additional details about the Project are 

included in the NOI dated June 1, 2015. 

NOAA solicited public input on the 

scope of the analysis through a public 

comment period on the NOI from June 

1, 2015, to July 1, 2015. NOAA received 

six comments in response to the notice, 

which are publicly available on http:// 

www.regulations.gov under docket 

NOAA–NOS–2015–0069. NOAA and 

CSLC held a joint public scoping 

meeting for the project on Tuesday, June 

16, 2015, and six commenters provided 

testimony. 

NOAA is terminating the NEPA 

process and closing the Project’s permit 

application because the permit 

applicant notified NOAA in May 2020 

that the primary scope of the Project 

changed from desalination to land-based 

aquaculture. NOAA finds that the scope 

of the Project has changed significantly 

since publication of the 2015 NOI and 

the scoping process completed in 2015 

is no longer relevant. Therefore, NOAA 

is withdrawing the NOI to prepare an 

EIS for this Project. Should NOAA 

receive a new permit application, 

NOAA will determine at that time what 

level of NEPA review is required for the 

project. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.; 40 CFR 

1500–1508; Companion Manual for NOAA 

Administrative Order 216–6A, 82 FR 4306. 

John Armor, 

Director, Office of National Marine 

Sanctuaries National Ocean Service, National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–NK–P 

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM 

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 

SEVERELY DISABLED 

Procurement List; Deletions 

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From 

People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled 

ACTION: Deletions from the procurement 

list. 

SUMMARY: This action deletes product(s) 

from the Procurement List previously 

furnished by nonprofit agencies 

employing persons who are blind or 

have other severe disabilities. 

DATES: Date deleted from the 

Procurement List: July 04, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase 

From People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled, 1401 S Clark Street, Suite 715, 

Arlington, Virginia 22202–4149.