81 FR 76635 - Submittal of Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan for National Ocean Council Certification
OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 213 (November 3, 2016)
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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 213 (Thursday, November 3, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 76635-76637] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-26623] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY Submittal of Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan for National Ocean Council Certification AGENCY: Office of Science and Technology Policy National Ocean Council, Council on Environmental Quality; Department of Agriculture; Department of Commerce; Department of Defense; Department of Energy; Environmental Protection Agency; Department of Homeland Security; Department of the Interior; Department of Transportation; and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The National Ocean Council notifies the public that the Mid- Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan was approved for submittal to the National Ocean Council by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Planning Body and submitted to the National Ocean Council for certification, as required by Executive Order 13547. The National Ocean Council will certify, or not certify, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan as consistent with the National Ocean Policy, Final Recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, and the Marine Planning Handbook no sooner than 30 days from the publication of this Notice. The Mid- Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan can be found on the National Ocean Council's Web site at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/MidARegionalOceanActionPlan_November2016.pdf. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deerin S. Babb-Brott, Director, National Ocean Council, 202-456-4444. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background National Ocean Policy Executive Order 13547, Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes, signed July 19, 2010, established the National Ocean Policy to protect, maintain, and restore the health and biodiversity of the ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems and resources; enhance the sustainability of the ocean and coastal economies and provide for adaptive management; increase our scientific understanding and awareness of changing environmental conditions; and support preservation of navigational rights and freedoms, in accordance with customary international law, which are essential for conservation of marine resources, sustaining the global economy and promoting national [[Page 76636]] security. The National Ocean Policy encourages a comprehensive, ecosystem-based, and transparent ocean planning process for analyzing current and anticipated uses of ocean and coastal areas and resources. This includes the voluntary development of regional marine plans by intergovernmental regional planning bodies such as the Mid-Atlantic Regional Planning Body (MidA RPB). These regional plans build on existing Federal, state, and tribal planning and decision-making processes to enable a more comprehensive and proactive approach to managing marine resources, sustaining coastal uses and improving the conservation of the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes. Mid-Atlantic Regional Planning Body The MidA RPB includes six States (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia) and two Federally recognized Indian Tribes in the region, the Shinnencock Indian Nation and the Pamunkey Indian Tribe. Eight Federal Agencies serve on the MidA RPB: Department of Agriculture represented by the Natural Resource Conservation Service; Department of Commerce represented by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Department of Defense represented by the U.S. Navy; Department of Energy; Department of Homeland Security represented by the U.S. Coast Guard; Department of the Interior represented by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, in coordination with, the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Geological Survey; Department of Transportation represented by the Maritime Administration; Environmental Protection Agency; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff represented by the U.S. Navy; and the U.S. Army Corps in an ex officio status. The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council also serves on the MidA RPB. The MidA RPB is not a regulatory body and has no independent legal authority to regulate or direct Federal, state, or tribal entities, nor does the Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan (Plan) augment or subtract from any agency's existing statutory or regulatory authorities. National Ocean Council Executive Order 13547 established the National Ocean Council (NOC) to direct implementation of the National Ocean Policy. The NOC is comprised of: The Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Interior, Labor, State, and Transportation; the Attorney General; the Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; the Directors of the Office of Management and Budget, National Intelligence, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and National Science Foundation; the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; the Chairs of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; the Assistants to the President for National Security Affairs, Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, Domestic Policy, Energy and Climate Change, and Economic Policy; and an employee of the Federal Government designated by the Vice President. The Chair of CEQ and the Director of OSTP co-chair the NOC. NOC Certification of Regional Marine Plans Executive Order 13547 adopts the Final Recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force (Final Recommendations). The Final Recommendations set forth the process for the NOC to review and certify each regional marine plan to ensure it is consistent with the National Ocean Policy and includes the essential elements described in the Final Recommendations as further characterized by the NOC's subsequent Marine Planning Handbook (Handbook; 2013). Consistent with the Final Recommendations and the Handbook, the NOC will determine whether to certify, or not certify, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan no sooner than 30 days from the publication of this Notice. Pursuant to Executive Order 13547, if the NOC certifies the Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan, Federal Agencies shall comply with the Plan in the conduct of their missions and programs to the fullest extent consistent with applicable law. II. The Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan The Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan is a comprehensive, flexible, and proactive approach to managing uses and resources in the marine environment of the Mid-Atlantic United States. The Plan is intended to strengthen interagency coordination, enhance public participation, and improve planning and policy implementation. The Plan has two main goals: (1) Healthy ocean ecosystems and (2) sustainable ocean uses. The Plan also describes best practices for coordination among Federal Agencies, Tribes, States, stakeholders, and the public. The Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan is informed by extensive stakeholder data and input. Throughout the planning process, stakeholders were involved in developing data products for human activities (such as shipping, fishing, recreation, and energy) and marine life and habitat (through review of the methods, analyses, and draft products for spatial data characterizing species and their habitats). These data products reside on the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal (Data Portal or Portal). The MidA RPB uses the Portal, developed by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARCO), in collaboration with an associated working group, to serve as a user- friendly source of maps, data, and tools that can serve as one source of information to inform ocean planning from New York to Virginia. A range of government entities, non-government organizations, and stakeholders in the Mid-Atlantic region are already using the Portal. It is available to the public online at the MidA Regional Ocean Action Plan Web site: http://midatlanticocean.org/data-portal/. As described in a Notice by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), published in the Federal Register on July 6, 2016 (81 FR 44040), the MidA RPB previously released a draft Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan for a 60-day public comment period. The MidA RPB prepared a summary and response to the comments received from the public and stakeholders on this draft that can be found at http://www.boem.gov/Ocean-Action-Plan. III. Implementation of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan The Federal members of the MidA RPB administer a wide range of statutes and programs that involve or affect the marine environment in the Mid-Atlantic regional ocean planning area. These Federal departments and agencies carry out actions under Federal laws involving a wide range of regulatory responsibilities and non-regulatory missions and management activities throughout the Nation's waterways and the ocean. Activities of Federal MidA RPB members include managing and developing marine transportation infrastructure, national security and homeland defense activities; regulating ocean discharges; siting energy facilities; permitting sand removal and beach re-nourishment; managing national parks, national wildlife refuges, and national marine sanctuaries; regulating commercial and recreational fishing; and managing activities [[Page 76637]] affecting threatened and endangered species and migratory birds. The specific manner and mechanism each Federal agency will use to implement the Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan will depend on that agency's mission, authorities, and activities. If the NOC certifies that the Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan is consistent with the National Ocean Policy, the Final Recommendations, and the Handbook, each Federal MidA RPB member will use the Mid- Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan to inform and guide its planning activities and decision-making actions, including permitting, authorizing, and leasing decisions that involve or affect the Mid- Atlantic regional ocean planning area. Specifically, consistent with applicable statutory authorities, Executive Order 13547 and the Final Recommendations, the Federal Agencies represented on the MidA RPB, and their relevant components, expressly including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in its ex officio status for responsibilities beyond those in Title 10, U.S. Code, will: (1) Identify, develop, and make publicly available implementing instructions, such as internal agency guidance, directives, or similar organizational or administrative documents, that describe the way the agency will use the Plan to inform and guide its actions and decisions in or affecting the Mid-Atlantic regional ocean planning area; (2) ensure that the agency, through such internal administrative instructions, will consider the data products available from the Data Portal in its decision making and as it carries out its actions in or affecting the Mid-Atlantic regional ocean planning area; and (3) explain its use of the Plan and Data Portal in its decisions, activities, or planning processes that involve or affect the Mid- Atlantic regional ocean planning area. IV. Conclusion The National Ocean Policy provides a path for Federal Agencies, states and tribes to work collaboratively and proactively to manage the many existing and future uses of the Nation's oceans, coasts and Great Lakes. If the NOC certifies the Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action plan, MidA RPB members intend to use the Plan to align their priorities and share data and technical information to minimize conflicts among uses, take actions to promote the productivity of marine resources, sustain healthy ecosystems, and promote the prosperity and security of the Nation's ocean and coastal communities and their economies for the benefit of present and future generations. The NOC will review the Mid- Atlantic Regional Ocean Action Plan for consistency with the National Ocean Policy, Final Recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, and the Marine Planning Handbook and make its determination no sooner than 30 days from the publication of this Notice. Authority: Executive Order 13547, ``Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts and the Great Lakes'' (July 19, 2010). Ted Wackler, Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant Director. [FR Doc. 2016-26623 Filed 11-2-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3270-F7-P
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for Docket ID NRC–2016–0225. Address B. Submitting Comments OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND
questions about NRC dockets to Carol TECHNOLOGY POLICY
Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; Please include Docket ID NRC–2016–
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For 0225 in the subject line of your Submittal of Mid-Atlantic Regional
technical questions, contact the comment submission, in order to ensure Ocean Action Plan for National Ocean
individual listed in the FOR FURTHER that the NRC is able to make your Council Certification
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this comment submission available to the
public in this docket. AGENCY: Office of Science and
document.
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Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear submission to the NRC, then you should Regional Ocean Action Plan was
Regulatory Commission, Washington DC inform those persons not to include approved for submittal to the National
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email: Marianne.Narick@nrc.gov. they do not want to be publicly Regional Planning Body and submitted
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Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, ref-mat.html. Significant changes to the Executive Order 13547, Stewardship
please contact the NRC’s Public document that are of interest to of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at stakeholders are that the flow of Lakes, signed July 19, 2010, established
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email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The for submitters, and NRC guidance is maintain, and restore the health and
ADAMS accession number for each more closely aligned with the National biodiversity of the ocean, coastal, and
document referenced (if it is available in Archives and Records Administration Great Lakes ecosystems and resources;
ADAMS) is provided the first time that requirements. enhance the sustainability of the ocean
it is mentioned in the SUPPLEMENTARY and coastal economies and provide for
INFORMATION section. Revision 8 of the Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 27th day
adaptive management; increase our
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scientific understanding and awareness
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• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and Director, IT/IM Portfolio Management and rights and freedoms, in accordance with
purchase copies of public documents at Planning Division, Office of the Chief customary international law, which are
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affecting threatened and endangered the benefit of present and future the proposed rule change and discussed
species and migratory birds. generations. The NOC will review the any comments it received on the
The specific manner and mechanism Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action proposed rule change. The text of these
each Federal agency will use to Plan for consistency with the National statements may be examined at the
implement the Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Policy, Final Recommendations places specified in Item IV below. The
Ocean Action Plan will depend on that of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Exchange has prepared summaries, set
agency’s mission, authorities, and Force, and the Marine Planning forth in sections A, B, and C below, of
activities. If the NOC certifies that the Handbook and make its determination the most significant aspects of such
Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean Action no sooner than 30 days from the statements.
Plan is consistent with the National publication of this Notice.
Ocean Policy, the Final A. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Authority: Executive Order 13547, Statement of the Purpose of, and
Recommendations, and the Handbook, ‘‘Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts and
each Federal MidA RPB member will Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule
the Great Lakes’’ (July 19, 2010). Change
use the Mid-Atlantic Regional Ocean
Action Plan to inform and guide its Ted Wackler, 1. Purpose
planning activities and decision-making Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant Director.
actions, including permitting, [FR Doc. 2016–26623 Filed 11–2–16; 8:45 am]
The Exchange is proposing to amend
authorizing, and leasing decisions that several provisions of Rule 748. The
BILLING CODE 3270–F7–P
involve or affect the Mid-Atlantic proposed rule change is intended to
regional ocean planning area. modernize, upgrade and strengthen the
Specifically, consistent with Exchange’s rules pertaining to
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE supervisory obligations of its members
applicable statutory authorities, COMMISSION
Executive Order 13547 and the Final and member organizations.
Recommendations, the Federal Agencies [Release No. 34–79185; File No. SR–Phlx–
2016–104]
Rule 748(a)
represented on the MidA RPB, and their
relevant components, expressly Rule 748(a) currently provides in the
Self-Regulatory Organizations; first paragraph that each office, location,
including the U.S. Army Corps of
NASDAQ PHLX LLC; Notice of Filing of department, or business activity of a
Engineers in its ex officio status for
responsibilities beyond those in Title Proposed Rule Change To Amend Phlx member or member organization
10, U.S. Code, will: (1) Identify, Rule 748, Supervision (including foreign incorporated branch
develop, and make publicly available October 28, 2016.
offices) shall be under the supervision
implementing instructions, such as and control of the member or member
Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the
internal agency guidance, directives, or organization establishing it and of an
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
similar organizational or administrative appropriately qualified supervisor. The
(‘‘Act’’),1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2
documents, that describe the way the Exchange is amending the first
notice is hereby given that on October
agency will use the Plan to inform and paragraph of Rule 748(a) to clarify and
14, 2016, NASDAQ PHLX LLC (‘‘Phlx’’
guide its actions and decisions in or state clearly that each trading system
or ‘‘Exchange’’) filed with the Securities
affecting the Mid-Atlantic regional and internal surveillance system of a
and Exchange Commission (‘‘SEC’’ or
ocean planning area; (2) ensure that the member or member organization
‘‘Commission’’) the proposed rule
agency, through such internal (including foreign incorporated branch
change as described in Items I, II, and
administrative instructions, will offices) shall, inasmuch as they are
III, below, which Items have been
consider the data products available aspects of their business activity, be
prepared by the Exchange. The
from the Data Portal in its decision under the supervision and control of the
Commission is publishing this notice to
making and as it carries out its actions member or member organization
solicit comments on the proposed rule
in or affecting the Mid-Atlantic regional establishing it and of an appropriately
change from interested persons.
ocean planning area; and (3) explain its qualified supervisor.
use of the Plan and Data Portal in its I. Self-Regulatory Organization’s
Rule 748(b)
decisions, activities, or planning Statement of the Terms of Substance of
processes that involve or affect the Mid- the Proposed Rule Change Rule 748(b), Designation of
Atlantic regional ocean planning area. The Exchange proposes to a proposal Supervisor by Member Organizations,
[sic] to amend Phlx Rule 748, currently provides in relevant part that
IV. Conclusion the general partners or directors of each
Supervision, as explained further below.
The National Ocean Policy provides a The text of the proposed rule change member organization shall provide for
path for Federal Agencies, states and is available on the Exchange’s Web site appropriate supervisory control and
tribes to work collaboratively and at http://nasdaqphlx.cchwallstreet.com/ shall designate a general partner or
proactively to manage the many existing , at the principal office of the Exchange, principal executive officer to assume
and future uses of the Nation’s oceans, and at the Commission’s Public overall authority and responsibility for
coasts and Great Lakes. If the NOC Reference Room. internal supervision and control of the
certifies the Mid-Atlantic Regional organization and compliance with
Ocean Action plan, MidA RPB members II. Self-Regulatory Organization’s securities’ (sic) laws and regulations,
intend to use the Plan to align their Statement of the Purpose of, and including the By-Laws and Rules of the
priorities and share data and technical Statutory Basis for, the Proposed Rule Exchange. It provides that the
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information to minimize conflicts Change designated person shall delegate to
among uses, take actions to promote the In its filing with the Commission, the qualified principals or qualified
productivity of marine resources, Exchange included statements employees responsibility and authority
sustain healthy ecosystems, and concerning the purpose of and basis for for supervision and control of each
promote the prosperity and security of office, location, department, or business
the Nation’s ocean and coastal 1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1). activity, (including foreign incorporated
communities and their economies for 2 17 CFR 240.19b–4. branch offices), and provide for
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