EFH Rulemaking Archives

• Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking:
  Magnuson Act Provisions; Essential Fish Habitat (EFH)
  
• Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; Notice of availability of framework to describe and identify essential fish habitat; request for comments
  
• Framework for the Description, Identification, Conservation, and Enhancement of Essential Fish Habitat
  
• Proposed Rule : Magnuson Act Provisions;Essential Fish Habitat
  
• Notice of Public Meetings on Essential Fish Habitat Proposed Rule
  
• Draft Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for Magnuson Act Provisions; Essential Fish Habitat
  
• Federal Register Notice: Extension of Comment Period and Announcement of Additional Public Meeting
  
• Federal Register Notice : Notice of Extension of Comment Period to July 8, 1997
  
• Federal Register Notice : Notice of Additional Public Meeting
  
• EFH Interim Final Rule
  
• Environmental Assessments for EFH Interim Final Rule
  
• Federal Register Notice: Extension of Comment Period to March 19, 1998
  
• Federal Register Notice: Reopening of Comment Period, November 8, 1999
  
• January 17, 2002 Essential Fish Habitat Final Rule Publication
  
• Environmental Assessment for the EFH Final Rule
  
• Press Release: NOAA Publishes Final Rule for EFH
  
• NOAA Fisheries Testimony on EFH: Congressional testimony on the EFH mandate and program (March 9, 2000)
  
• Fact Sheet: Background on the EFH Regulations
  
• Slide Show: How the Final Rule Improves EFH Regulation