Summer 2015
Status
ACTIVE
Public Comment Period
closed
Issued Date
05/07/15
Effective Dates
06/01/2015 - 08/31/2015
SUMMARY: We have issued an IHA to Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation, and Rutgers University to take, by Level B harassment only, marine mammals, incidental to conducting a marine seismic survey in the northwest Atlantic Ocean off the New Jersey coast in summer 2015.
Incidental Take Authorization Documents:
· IHA Application [pdf]
· Federal Register notice of Proposed IHA
· References [pdf]
· Public Comments [pdf]
· Issued IHA[pdf]
· Federal Register notice of Issued IHA
Environmental Analyses:
· National Science Foundation's 2014 Draft Amended EA [pdf]
· NSF's 2014 Final EA [pdf]
· NMFS' 2015 EA [pdf]
· NMFS' FONSI [pdf]
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/incidental/research.htm#nj2015
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