Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed 1 comment on this docket between Nov 23, 2021 and Nov 23, 2021. 1 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 1709d ago.
I am pleased to submit comments on the Draft PEIS on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council and Ocean Conservation Research. Please don't hesitate to reach out to us if you have any questions. Sincerely, Francine Kershaw, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, NRDC.
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.
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