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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 147 / Wednesday, August 4, 2021 / Notices Endangered Species Act ESA, Coastal Zone Management Act CZMA, Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act FWCA, National Historic Preservation Act NHPA, and Executive Order 12898, Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations 59 FR 7629. The following presents a summary of impacts associated with resources protected by these laws and related requirements.

complies with the States approved coastal zone management program and that the applicant will conduct activities consistent with that program.
Middlesex County, Massachusetts, does not contain any coastal zones.
Because the UMLRR is not located within or near any managed coastal zones, the proposed action would not affect any coastal zones and CZMA
consistency certification does not apply.
Therefore, UML does not need to provide a certification under the CZMA.

Endangered Species Act The ESA was enacted to prevent further decline of endangered and threatened species and restore those species and their critical habitat.
Section 7 of the ESA requires Federal agencies to consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service FWS or National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS
regarding actions that may affect listed species or designated critical habitats.
The NRC staff conducted a search of federally listed species and critical habitats that have the potential to occur in the vicinity of the UMLRR using the FWSs Environmental Conservation Online System. Three federally listed species occur in Middlesex County, Massachusetts: The red knot Calidris canutus rufa, small whorled pogonia Isotria medeoloides, and northern long-eared bat Myotis septentrionalis.
However, none of these species are likely to occur near the UMLRR because it is located on the UML campus. The campus does not provide suitable habitat for federally listed species because it has been developed and in use for research and educational purposes for many decades.
Additionally, operation of the UMLRR
has no direct nexus to the natural environment that would otherwise affect federally listed species.
Accordingly, the proposed action would have no effect on federally listed species or critical habitats. Federal agencies are not required to consult with the FWS if they determine that an action will not affect listed species or critical habitats.
Thus, the ESA does not require consultation for the proposed UMLRR
license renewal, and the NRC considers its obligations under ESA Section 7 to be fulfilled for the proposed action.

Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act
Coastal Zone Management Act The CZMA, in part, encourages States to preserve, protect, develop, and restore coastal resources. Applicants for Federal licenses to conduct an activity that affects any land or water use or natural resource of the coastal zone of a State must provide a certification stating that the proposed activity
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The FWCA requires Federal agencies that license water resource development projects to consult with the FWS or NMFS, when applicable and the State wildlife resource agencies regarding the potential impacts of the project on fish and wildlife resources.
The proposed action does not involve any water resource development projects, including any modifications relating to impounding a body of water, damming, diverting a stream or river, deepening a channel, irrigation, or altering a body of water for navigation or drainage. Therefore, no coordination with other agencies pursuant to the FWCA is required for the proposed action.
National Historic Preservation Act The NHPA requires Federal agencies to consider the effects of their undertakings on historic properties. As stated in the Act, historic properties are any prehistoric or historic district, site, building, structure, or object included in, or eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places NRHP. The NRHP lists several historic properties in Middlesex County within 0.6 miles 1 kilometer of the UMLRR.
Operation of the UMLRR has not likely had any impact on any of these properties. The nearest historic property, which is located about 0.3
miles 0.5 kilometers from the UMLRR, is the St. Josephs Convent and School National Register Listing No.
02000789. The location of this historic property is completely surrounded by development, and the view towards the UMLRR is obstructed by commercial and industrial properties. Based on this information, the proposed action would have no adverse effect on historic properties in the vicinity of the UMLRR.
By letter dated November 26, 2018, the NRC staff contacted the Massachusetts State Historic Preservation Officer SHPO and discussed the proposed action. On January 2, 2019, the SHPO
indicated concurrence with the NRC
staffs determination that the proposed
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action would have no adverse effect on historic properties.
Executive Order 12898Environmental Justice Executive Order 12898 directs Federal agencies to identify and address the disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects of their actions on minority and lowincome populations to the greatest extent practicable and permitted by law.
The environmental justice impact analysis evaluates the potential for disproportionately high and adverse human health or environmental effects on minority and low-income populations that could result from the proposed action. Such effects may include human health, biological, cultural, economic, or social impacts.
Minority and low-income populations are subsets of the general public residing around the UMLRR, and all are exposed to the same health and environmental effects generated from activities at the UMLRR.
Minority Populations in the Vicinity of the UMLRRAccording to the U.S.
Census Bureaus 2010 Census, approximately 31 percent of the total population approximately 505,000
individuals residing within a 10-mile 16-kilometer radius of the UMLRR
identified themselves as minorities. The largest minority populations were Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin of any race approximately 90,000 or 18
percent followed by Asian approximately 43,000 or 8.5 percent.
According to the 2010 Census, 23.5
percent of the Middlesex County population identified themselves as minorities, with persons of Asian and Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin of any race comprising the largest minority populations 9.3 percent and 6.5
percent, respectively. According to the U.S. Census Bureaus 2019 American Community Survey 1-year Estimates, the minority population of Middlesex County, as a percent of the total population, had increased to about 30
percent.
Low-Income Populations in the Vicinity of the UMLRRAccording to the U.S. Census Bureaus 20152019
American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, approximately 54,000
persons and 10,000 families approximately 10 and 7 percent, respectively residing within a 10-mile 16-kilometer radius of the UMLRR
were identified as living below the Federal poverty threshold. The 2019
Federal poverty threshold was $26,172
for a family of four.
According to the U.S. Census Bureaus 2019 American Community
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