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Vol. 2 includes copies of legislation pertinent to the proposal of the Thunder Bay Underwater Preserve and other regional sites as a National Marine Sanctuary. It also provides significant details about the history of shipwrecks, transportation and shipping on the Great Lakes.
This abstract describes the Final Environment Impact Statement and Management Plan for the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration proposes to designate water encompassing and surrounding Thunder Bay on Lake Huron as a National Marine Sanctuary, in partnership with the State of Michigan.
NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries proposes to expand the boundary of Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary from 448 square miles to 4,300 square miles and extend protection to 47 additional known historic shipwrecks of national significance. NOAA prepared this FEIS in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA; 42 USC 4321 et seq.) as implemented by the Council on Environmental Quality regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500-1508), and NOAA Administrative Order (NAO) 216-6, which describes NOAA policies, requirements, and procedures for implementing NEPA. The FEIS also fulfills the mandate of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act (NMSA; 16 U.S.C. 1434(a)(4)), which requires that "terms of designation may be modified only by the same procedures by which the original designation is made."
This “condition report” provides a summary of resources in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary (sanctuary)1, pressures on those resources, current conditions and trends, and management responses to the pressures that threaten the integrity of sanctuary resources. Specifically, the document includes information on the status and trends of water quality, habitat, living resources and maritime archaeological resources, and the human activities that affect them. It presents responses to a set of questions posed to all sanctuaries (Appendix A). Resource status of Thunder Bay is rated on a scale from good to poor, and the timelines used for comparison vary from topic to topic. Trends in the status of resources are also reported, and are generally based on observed changes in status over the past five years, unless otherwise specified.