State of Alabama Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program: Environmental Assessment

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• Personal Author:
  Uravitch, Joseph A.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Office for Coastal Management
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) ; NOS (National Ocean Service) ; OCM (Office for Coastal Management)
• Description:
  This environmental assessment is prepared pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq. to assess the environmental impacts associated with the approval and implementation of the Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program (coastal nonpoint program) submitted to NOAA and EPA by the state of Alabama. Section 6217 of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments (CZARA), 16 U.S.C. 1455b, requires states and territories with coastal zone management programs that have received approval under section 306 of the Coastal Zone Management Act to develop and implement coastal nonpoint programs. For purposes of this environmental assessment, the proposed action is the conditional approval of the Alabama coastal nonpoint program. The Alabama program includes the implementation of management measures for agriculture, urban development, forestry, marina, and hydromodification nonpoint source categories, and for protection of wetlands, riparian areas, and vegetated treatment systems. The program will be implemented throughout the 6217 management area to be finally determined through a cooperative process among State agencies in Alabama, EPA, NOAA, and other relevant Federal agencies. For the purposes of this environmental assessment, the 6217 management area is assumed to encompass Baldwin and Mobile counties and adjacent waters. NOAA and EPA find that the Alabama program meets many of the requirements of section 6217 and will approve the program with conditions. To receive final approval of its program, Alabama will need to meet the conditions, which include developing a process to improve administrative coordination, as well as a monitoring plan and completing development of certain aspects of its programs addressing agricultural, forestry, urban sources, marinas and hydromodification sources, as well as the protection of wetlands and riparian areas. The conditional approval of the Alabama coastal nonpoint program will not result in any significant environmental impacts different from those analyzed in the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement prepared for the 6217 program and will have an overall beneficial effect on the environment.
• Keywords:
  Coastal Zone Management Environmental Impact Analysis Coastal Zone Management Environmental Impact Analysis United States. National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
• Format:
  pdf
• Publisher:
  https://ror.org/05v14bq57
• Document Type:
  Environmental Assessment
• Place as Subject:
  Alabama
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/70857/noaa_70857_DS1.pdf
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