NOAA NEPA Document Database

The Trustees are proposing separate oyster reef and salt marsh habitat creation projects to compensate for the natural resource injury. The oyster reef project, to be carried out by South Carolina DNR, proposes to create 3.2 acres of oyster reef habitat at two sites in the Harbor River, approximately 3 miles south of the Port Royal VCC site. The salt marsh creation project, to be carried out by NOAA, proposes to restore 17 acres of salt marsh on Edisto Island, SC through hydrologic restoration.

NMFS received a Section 10(a)(1)(A) permit application from the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) for the Russian River Coho Salmon Captive Broodstock Program (Broodstock Program). The permit application is supplemented by a Hatchery Genetic Management Plan (HGMP) that details current and future hatchery operations, and related fish monitoring. Activities covered by the HGMP include capture of endangered coho salmon broodstock by CDFW from various streams within Sonoma, Marin, and Mendocino counties; and fish hatchery operations by the Corps at the Don Clausen Fish Hatchery (DCFH) for rearing, and release of endangered coho salmon broodstock and post-spawn individuals into various streams within Sonoma, Marin, and Mendocino counties. The hatchery is located on Dry Creek at the base of Warm Springs Dam (WSD), within the Sonoma County portion of the Russian River basin in northern California.

The purpose of the action is to establish a rebuilding plan for the southern red hake stock. Framework 62 would establish a ten-year maximum rebuilding schedule for southern red hake, reducing the acceptable biological catch to 75-percent of the fishing mortality rate at maximum sustainable yield. In addition, it would decrease the year-round possession limit from 5,000 lb to a dual 1,000-lb/600-lb possession limit based on gear selectivity. There are no forseeable significant impacts or any known problems or issues.

The Draft RP/EA evaluates restoration alternatives that address natural resources injured by the 2015 Refugio Bay Oil Spill (RBOS). To restore lost resources and services, the Trustees evaluated restoration alternatives, including a no action alternative, and identified preferred restoration alternatives that will make the public whole for injuries

The proposed action is to construct a 5-acre waterfront park along the Passaic River in East Newark, New Jersey to compensate the public for natural resources injured and ecological services lost due to releases of hazardous substances at or from the Diamond Alkali Superfund Site in northeast New Jersey. The park will contain both habitat restoration and recreational use features.

The Restoration Plan includes a suite of approx. 20 habitat restoration and recreational use projects in the Raritan River Watershed that will make the public whole for injuries to natural resources and services resulting from the release of PCBs and metals from the CDE site. NEPA approach is an EA-level analysis, but the NOAA RC PEIS will be heavily incorporated by reference, as appropriate, for some restoration alternatives.

The VE Project focuses on a small, demonstration, pilot-scale (two net pen array; one pen stocked with fish and one pen without fish) aquaculture system where up to 40,000 almaco jack (kampachi; Seriola rivoliana) fingerlings would be reared in Federal waters approximately 40 to 45 miles west southwest of Sarasota, Florida. These fish will be landed in Florida, marketed and sold to state- and Federally-licensed dealers, in accordance with state and federal law.

This action will include scallop allocations for the 2021 fishing year and default allocations for the 2022 fishing year.

This amendment proposes to revise the catch allocation between the commercial and recreational fisheries, and the commercial quota allocation to the states. The amendment also includes possible rebuilding plans for the bluefish stock that was recently determined to be overfished. Initially, a notice of intent (NOI) to develop an environmental impact statement (EIS) was published for this action; however, throughout its development it became apparent that this action is not expected to have significant impacts and a "Finding of No Significant Impacts" (FONSI) could be signed. Therefore, a withdrawal of the NOI is being issued and an Environmental Assessment is being developed instead.

The proposed action will acquire, restore, and manage the 650-acre Woodland Property to compensate the public for the natural resource damages resulting from the 2008 DM932 barge oil spill.

This is for the 2021-2023 small mesh multispecies specifications. Initial development and preparation for this action/EA has been in progress since early to mid-2020

The Trustees are proposing to carry out intertidal marsh creation activities within the Lower Galveston Bay watershed, in addition to the previously selected restoration activities proposed for Pierce Marsh, Campbell Bayou, and Virginia Point Peninsula Point Preserve, also located in Texas City,

The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) and Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (Commission) are developing a joint amendment to reevaluate and potentially revise the commercial and recreational sector allocations in the Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Fishery Management Plan. This action was initiated in part to address the allocation-related impacts of the revised recreational catch and landings data provided by the Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP).

This action includes 2021-2023 fishing year specifications and adjustments to herring measures that may inhibit the Atlantic mackerel fishery from achieving its optimum yield.

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

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.

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

4(d) Limit 5 approval of Yankee Fork and Panther Creek HGMPs

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.