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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.“
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Pursuant to the CRCA, the CRCP Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) evaluated the continued implementation of the CRCP’s activities in order “to preserve, sustain, and restore the condition of coral reef ecosystems; to promote the wise management and sustainable use of coral reef ecosystems to benefit local communities and the Nation; . . . and to develop sound scientific information
on the condition of coral reef ecosystems and the threats to these ecosystems”
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Pelagic FEP Amd 9 Modify Pelagic Catch & Allocation Framework
This EA analyses the potential environmental impacts of allowing the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) to recommend multi-year catch and U.S. territorial allocation limits for big eye tuna. Currently, the Council can only set annual catch and allocation limits, and must first establish a catch limit for U.S. territories before specifying an allocation limit. The proposed action would allow the Council to set multi-year catch and U.S. territorial allocation limits instead of annual catch and allocation limits. The action would also allow the Council to modify the territorial catch and allocation limit measure to set allocation limits without recommending a total catch or effort limit. The proposed action is needed to provide flexibility to the Council for managing big eye tuna catch limits while continuing to ensure harvests are sustainable.
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Amendment 8 to the Fishery Ecosystem Plan for Pelagic Fisheries of the Western Pacific Region
The proposed action is an annual catch limit and accountability measures for stipped marlin and administrative changes to the Fisheries Ecosystem Plan for Pelagic Species of the Western Pacific Region.
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Proposed Regulatory Amendment to Adjust License Limitation Program License Endorsements for Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Pacific Cod Pot Gear Catcher/Processors
Vessels fishing for groundfish in the Bering Sea (BS) and Aleutian Islands (AI) fishery management plan (FMP) areas are required to have a License Limitation Program (LLP) license that is endorsed for fishing in that area. Vessels fishing for Pacific cod with fixed gear (hook-and-line or pot gear) must have additional Pacific cod endorsement for specific areas, gear-types, and operational-types (operational-type includes catcher/processors (CP) that process catch at sea and catch vessels that deliver to inshore facilities). This action considers alternatives that would eliminate the LLP license endorsement for CP vessels to fish for Pacific cod with pot gear in the BS and AI FMP subareas if the license was not credited with a minimum amount of directed Pacific cod landings during a specified period. The purpose of this action is to increase stability for pot CPs that are dependent upon Pacific cod while maintaining low rates of halibut and crab bycatch and ensuring that condensed fishing seasons do not result in safety-at-sea concerns. NMFS Alaska Region Office has made the preliminary determination that the proposed action would be a change to regulations that does not result in substantial modification of fishing location, timing, effort, authorized gear types, or harvest levels relative to the status quo and relative to what has been analyzed in previous approved actions. If the Council recommendation on the scope of this action remains the same, this action would qualify for a Categorical Exclusion from further review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). However, if the scope is expanded, an EA would be prepared.
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The National Marine Fisheries Service proposes to issue an Incidental Take Permit through ESA Section 10 B - Habitat Conservation Planning, to the Stockton East Water District and the Calaveras County Water District for their continuing water storage and delivery operations in the Calaveras River watershed. Central Valley steelhead reside in the lower Calaveras River and are affected by the Districts\' operations. The lower Calaveras River is also designated as Critical Habitat for Central Valley steelhead and Essential Fish Habitat for Central Valley fall/late-fall run Chinook salmon.
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Large year classes of sablefish result in significant catches of small sablefish in the IFQ fixed gear fisheries. Small sablefish have low commercial value and current regulations require IFQ holders to retain all sablefish. Available data suggest that survival rates for carefully released sablefish are high. Operational flexibility to carefully release sablefish may increase the value of the commercial harvest and allow small fish to contribute to the overall biomass.
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Draft PEIS which would provide management alternatives for a potential aquaculture management program in the PIR. Currently no such management program exists.