{"id":15954,"date":"2020-11-01T17:47:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T01:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?p=15954"},"modified":"2020-11-15T14:19:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T22:19:13","slug":"seeking-public-input-on-ocean-mapping-exploration-and-characterization-efforts-in-the-u-s-eez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/expired\/seeking-public-input-on-ocean-mapping-exploration-and-characterization-efforts-in-the-u-s-eez\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeking Public Input on Ocean Mapping, Exploration, and Characterization Efforts in the U.S. EEZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Ocean Mapping, Exploration, and Characterization Council (NOMEC Council), a group of federal agencies established\u00a0to carry out the\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200611-FINAL-STRATEGY-NOMEC-Sec.-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">National Strategy for Mapping, Exploring, and Characterizing the United States Exclusive Economic Zone<\/a>, is requesting your input on developing an Implementation Plan and setting strategic priorities for the effort to map the entire U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) by 2040 and explore and characterize strategic areas. The public is invited to two <strong>Virtual Public Listening Sessions<\/strong> to discuss the NOMEC Strategy and Implementation Plan: Session #1: Ocean Exploration and Characterization [<a href=\"https:\/\/nsf.zoomgov.com\/meeting\/register\/vJItfumsqDwoGIDLdHYa_l4ASgzeK_mWmwI\">Register<\/a> for November 16, 2:00-3:30pm EST via Zoom]; Session #2: Ocean Mapping [<a href=\"https:\/\/nsf.zoomgov.com\/meeting\/register\/vJIscemqqjkuGj4ou4-EL5AZJ6f8pZJw0Sc\">Register<\/a> for November 18, 2:00-3:30pm EST via Zoom]. <strong>Request for Comments:<\/strong> The public is particularly encouraged to provide comments via email on the development of the NOMEC Implementation Plan and strategic priorities. 1) Implementing a National Strategy for Mapping, Exploring, and Characterizing the U.S. EEZ The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a notice stating that the NOMEC Council requests input from all interested parties on the development of an Implementation Plan for the National Strategy for Mapping, Exploring, and Characterizing the U.S. EEZ (\u201cNational Strategy\u201d) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2020\/10\/13\/2020-22411\/request-for-comment-implementation-plan-for-the-national-strategy-for-ocean-mapping-exploring-and\">85 Fed. Reg. 64446 (10\/13\/20)<\/a>. 2) Strategic priorities for mapping, exploring, and characterizing the U.S. EEZ NOAA issued a second notice stating that the NOMEC Council requests input from all interested parties on the strategic priorities to be included in the Implementation Plan for the National Strategy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2020\/10\/13\/2020-22413\/request-for-information-implementation-plan-for-the-national-strategy-for-mapping-exploring-and\">85 Fed. Reg. 64448 (10\/13\/20)<\/a>. Please submit comments and letters by email no later than <strong>November 12, 2020<\/strong>, to <a href=\"mailto:nomec.execsec@noaa.gov\">nomec.execsec@noaa.gov<\/a>, with subject line &#8220;Public Comment on Implementation Plan for the National Strategy&#8221; for request #1 and subject line, &#8220;Public Comment on Exploration Priorities for the Implementation Plan&#8221; for request #2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Ocean Mapping, Exploration, and Characterization Council (NOMEC Council), a group of federal agencies established\u00a0to carry out the\u00a0National Strategy for Mapping, Exploring, and Characterizing the United States Exclusive Economic Zone, is requesting your input on developing an Implementation Plan and setting strategic priorities for the effort to map the entire U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,34],"tags":[],"organization":[548],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15956,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15954\/revisions\/15956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15954"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=15954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}