Coral Reef Conservation Program: Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement

NOAA prepared a final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for continued implementation of its Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP), which provides for coral reef conservation and restoration consistent with its strategic plan throughout the U.S. jurisdictions of the Atlantic Ocean, which includes the Gulf of Mexico, South Atlantic and Caribbean Sea, the Pacific Ocean, which includes the Pacific Island Region, and priority international areas (i.e., the wider Caribbean, the Coral Triangle, the South Pacific, and Micronesia). NOAA proposes to continue implementing the CRCP through coral reef conservation and restoration activities such as internal, agency-funded and executed activities and by providing financial and technical assistance to Federal, State, and local agencies, private organizations, and academic institutions. The CRCP would continue to focus funding and activities on combating strategic threats to and restoring coral reefs, guided by the Coral Reef Conservation Program Strategic Plan and its future iterations.