NOAA NEPA Document Database (beta)
This beta version of the NOAA NEPA Document Database catalogs environmental assessments (EAs) and environmental impact statements (EISs) that NOAA is currently developing. The Database also includes some of the EAs or EISs NOAA has completed in the past, although information may be limited and contain errors. The Database does not track proposed actions that rely on categorical exclusions. The Database also does not capture information on proposed actions for which another Federal agency is the lead agency for NEPA or when NOAA adopts another Federal agency’s EA or EIS. Please send any questions or corrections to noaa.nepa@noaa.gov with the Subject line: “NOAA NEPA Document Database comment.“
2020-2021 Atlantic Herring Specifications
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The Final RP/EA evaluates restoration alternatives that address natural resources injured by the Tug Powhatan oil spill. To restore lost resources and services, the Trustees evaluated five restoration alternatives, including a no action alternative, and identified two preferred restoration alternatives. To restore lost Pacific herring, the Trustees identified as a preferred alternative, a marine debris removal project that would benefit Pacific herring. To restore lost shellfish harvesting days, the Trustees identified as a preferred alternative, an increased effort to monitor paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP
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Red Crab supplemental EA for 2020 - 2023 Specifications
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Framework 8 to the Northeast Skate complex FMP
This framework contains specifications for the 2020 and 2021 fishing years.
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2020-2021 black sea bass and scup specifications
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Clam dredge exemption framework
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The proposed action is to change NMFS' management of the area of overlap between the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) so that IATTC regulations would apply in the overlap area and only a few WCPFC regulations would continue to apply in the overlap area.
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The proposed action is to develop and approve management measures for the 2020 ocean salmon fisheries.
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Amendment 21 to the Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish Fishery Management Plan
This action would formally integrate Atlantic chub mackerel into the Atlantic Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish Fishery Management Plan. Proposed measures include status determination criteria, annual catch limit, accountability measures, permit requirements and administrative measures.
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Bluefish 2020-2021 Specifications and Recreational measures
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The Trustees have selected five restoration projects as preferred alternative to restore, rehabilitate, replace, or acquire the equivalent of natural resources and services injured by the release of hazardous substances at the Sheboygan River and Harbor Site. These projects fit within the parameters of and are consistent with the preferred alternative from the Final Sheboygan
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The Western Pacific Fishery Management Council is proposing to amend its Fishery Ecosystem Plan for Pelagic Fisheries of the Western Pacific (Pelagics FEP). Amendment 10 would revise existing measures that manage interactions between the Hawaii shallow-set longline fishery and leatherback and loggerhead sea turtles for consistency with the reasonable and prudent measures and terms and conditions of a 2019 biological opinion (2019 BiOp). Amendment 10 would reduce the annual limit for the leatherback turtle from 26 to 16, and remove the annual limit for the North Pacific loggerhead turtle. The amendment would also establish individual fishing trip limits on interactions with both leatherback and North Pacific loggerhead turtles. If a vessel reaches either limit on any shallow-set longline trip, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) would require the vessel to stop fishing, return to port, and prohibit it from shallow-set fishing for five days. If a vessel were to reach an interaction limit twice in a calendar year, NMFS would prohibit that vessel from shallow-set longline fishing for the remainder of that calendar year. In the following calendar year, that vessel would have an annual cumulative limit equivalent to a single trip limit (5 loggerhead or 2 leatherback turtles) for the year. If Amendment 10 is approved, NMFS would implement the revised measures at 50 CFR Part 665. These measures are intended to reduce the overall incidental capture and mortality of leatherback and loggerhead sea turtles, consistent with the 2019 BiOp, while facilitating the continued operation of the shallow-set fishery to meet U.S. market demands for sustainably-caught swordfish.
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Same as previously reported: NMFS proposes to specify a 2020 catch limit of 2,000 metric tons (t) of longline-caught bigeye tuna for each of the pelagic longline fisheries of American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. NMFS also proposes to authorize each U.S. territory to allocate up to 1,500 t of bigeye tuna of its catch limit to a U.S. longline fishing vessel or vessels holding a valid permit and identified in a valid specified fishing agreement with a U.S. territory.NMFS proposes to specify a 2020 catch limit of 2,000 metric tons (t) of longline-caught bigeye tuna for each of the pelagic longline fisheries of American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. NMFS also proposes to authorize each U.S. territory to allocate up to 1,500 t of bigeye tuna of its catch limit to a U.S. longline fishing vessel or vessels holding a valid permit issued under Title 50, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 665.801 (50 CFR 665.801) and identified in a valid specified fishing agreement with a U.S. territory. The proposed specifications were recommended by the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and would continue management of the pelagic longline fisheries of the western Pacific region in accordance with the procedures set forth in 50 CFR 665.819. This is the same catch and allocation management program that has been in place since 2014. The proposed 2020 territorial bigeye tuna catch limits are the same as in previous years; while the proposed allocation limits are an increase in the amount a territory may allocate, the fishery outcome is the same as has been authorized in previous years. NMFS has new information about status of sea turtles to be considered in the supplemental analysis.
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The proposed action is to restore natural resources and natural resource services that were injured as a result of hazardous substance releases from the Industri-Plex Superfund Site located in Woburn, Massachusetts. The Trustees’ preferred restoration alternative includes a suite of habitat restoration and public outreach/education components as either tier 1 or tier 2 projects. There are no significant impacts to resources anticipated.
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4(d) Limit 5 approval of Yankee Fork and Panther Creek HGMPs
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When relocating the KLIX WSR-88D, NWS proposes to reduce the minimum scan angle from the current minimum of +0.5 deg to +0.3 deg (i.e. 0.2 deg lower than existing) to provide enhanced coverage of the lower portions of the atmosphere
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The purpose of the action is to adjust the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council’s (Council) Mid-Atlantic Council’s current risk policy by accepting a higher level of risk (i.e., the probability of overfishing) for stocks that are healthy and either at or above biomass targets. This action is in response to the Council’s review of the risk policy to determine if any modifications were necessary to meet the goals and objectives for its managed fisheries. This action would also remove the typical/atypical species designation in respect to over-exploitation vulnerability when applied to the current risk policy to better utilize advancements in stock assessment and modeling approaches that can more appropriately account for and address such vulnerability. This action is administrative in nature and the proposed adjustments would be applied to future specifications actions.
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The proposed action is to accept "Project One" discounted service acre year (DSAY) restoration credits as appropriate restoration for the natural resource injuries and services lost due to the release of hazardous substances and discharges of oil into the Lower Duwamish River