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Story Archive Efforts to Save USS Monitor
USS MONITOR TO UNDERGO RESTORATION IN ORDER TO PREVENT COLLAPSE
If all goes well over the next four weeks, the wreck of the USS Monitor will have protection from a predicted catastrophic collapse. On June 15, NOAA's National Ocean Service and the U.S. Navy began a joint expedition to the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary.

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FEDERAL AGENCY UNVEILS INNOVATIVE E.S.A. SALMON RULES
NOAA's Fisheries Service unveiled its 4(d) rules to protect 14 populations on salmon and steelhead form California's Central Valley to Washington's Puget Sound. This new rule institutes the most significant innovation in how the Endangered Species Act is implemented since it began listing West Coast salmon in 1991.

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AGREEMENT REACHED ON THUNDER BAY NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY AND UNDERWATER PRESERVE
A nationally significant collection of shipwrecks in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve in Alpena, Mich., will be protected by an agreement reached by NOAA's Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management and Michigan Governor John Engler.

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