Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Surveying and Mapping Projects in U.S. Waters for Coastal and Marine Data Acquisition

2 organizations filed 2 public comments on Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Surveying and Mapping Projects in U.S. Waters for Coastal and Marine Data Acquisition, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The comment window closed 1709d ago.

Abstract

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS) has prepared a draft programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), to analyze the potential environmental impacts associated with NOS’s recurring data collection projects to characterize submerged features (e.g., habitat, bathymetry, marine debris). The “action area” for these projects encompasses United States (U.S.) rivers, states’ offshore waters, the U.S. territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (U.S. EEZ), and coastal and riparian lands. As a part of the proposed action, NOS projects may use active acoustic equipment such as sub-bottom profilers, single beam and multibeam echo sounders, side-scan sonars, and Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers. The Draft PEIS analyzes NOS data collection projects for a time period of 6 years.

Commenters (2)

• Calista Corporationunverified attribution

  1 filing · confidence 70%
• Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)trade assoc.

  1 filing · confidence 97%