Mariana Arc of Fire National Wildlife Refuge and Mariana Trench Marine National Monument; Corrections

Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announce corrections to the spelling of the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument and to the coordinates of geographic features (hydrothermal vent fields) within the Mariana Arc of Fire National Refuge. This notice corrects the spelling “Marianas Trench Marine National Monument” to “Mariana Trench Marine National Monument” for consistency in official documents and other publications. It also makes corrections to coordinates of hydrothermal vent fields. This will ensure proper mapping and data management and facilitate enforcement of protections within the Refuge boundaries. These corrections are nonsubstantive.

These corrections are effective April 4, 2025.

Background documents, including the 2009 Presidential proclamation establishing the Monument, the 2011 Federal Register notice announcing the Service's and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) intent to prepare a draft monument management plan (MMP), and the 2020 draft MMP, which was announced for public comment in 2021, are available at https://www.regulations.gov in Docket ( print page 14851) No. NOAA-NMFS-2021-0003. However, the agencies are no longer taking comments on these documents. The final environmental assessment (EA) is available at https://www.fws.gov/​national-monument/​mariana-trench-marine.