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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 14 / Monday, January 25, 2021 / Notices
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Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; Taking Marine Mammals Incidental to Oil and Gas Activities in Cook Inlet, Alaska National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.
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Pursuant to the Marine Mammal Protection Act MMPA, as amended, and implementing regulations, NMFS issued a Letter of Authorization LOA to Hilcorp Alaska LLC Hilcorp to take marine mammals incidental to oil and gas activities in Cook Inlet, Alaska.
DATES: Applicable until April 21, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sara Young, Office of Protected Resources, NMFS, 301 4278401.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

Background Sections 101a5A and D of the MMPA 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq. direct the Secretary of Commerce as delegated to NMFS to allow, upon request, the incidental, but not intentional, taking of small numbers of marine mammals by U.S. citizens who engage in a specified activity other than commercial fishing within a specified geographical region if certain findings are made and either regulations are issued or, if the taking is limited to harassment, a notice of a proposed authorization is provided to the public for review.
An incidental take authorization shall be granted if NMFS finds that the taking will have a negligible impact on the species or stocks, will not have an unmitigable adverse impact on the availability of the species or stocks for subsistence uses where relevant, and if the permissible methods of taking and requirements pertaining to the mitigation, monitoring and reporting of such takings are set forth.
NMFS has defined negligible impact in 50 CFR 216.103 as an impact resulting from the specified activity that cannot be reasonably expected to, and is not reasonably likely to, adversely affect the species or stock through effects on annual rates of recruitment or survival.
The MMPA states that the term take means to harass, hunt, capture, kill or attempt to harass, hunt, capture, or kill any marine mammal.
Except with respect to certain activities not pertinent here, the MMPA
defines harassment as: Any act of pursuit, torment, or annoyance, which i has the potential to injure a marine mammal or marine mammal stock in the wild Level A harassment; or ii has the potential to disturb a marine mammal or marine mammal stock in the wild by causing disruption of behavioral patterns, including, but not limited to, migration, breathing, nursing, breeding, feeding, or sheltering Level B
harassment.
Summary NMFS issued regulations governing the take of 11 species of marine
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mammal, by Level A and Level B
harassment, incidental to Hilcorps oil and gas activities on July 31, 2019 84
FR 37442. These regulations include mitigation, monitoring, and reporting requirements for the incidental take of marine mammals during the specified activities. As further detailed in the regulations 50 CFR 217.167, adaptive management measures allow NMFS to modify or renew LOAs as necessary if doing so creates a reasonable likelihood of more effective mitigation and monitoring. NMFS issued the first LOA
to Hilcorp under these regulations on July 31, 2019. NMFS published a Federal Register notice seeking public comment on its proposal to modify the Year 1 LOA issued to Hilcorp on August 16, 2019 84 FR 41957 and published a notice of modification on October 4, 2019 84 FR 53119. The Year 1 LOA
expired on July 30, 2020. To better align with the open water season, Hilcorp applied for their Year 2 LOA with a start date of April 1, 2020, rather than waiting until the expiration of their Year 1 LOA in July 2020. NMFS reviewed the application and issued the Year 2 LOA
on April 22, 2020. In error, NMFS did not publish a Federal Register notice upon issuance, but the signed LOA and Hilcorps application were published on NMFS website immediately upon issuance.
Authorization NMFS has issued a LOA available at https www.fisheries.noaa.gov/action/
incidental-take-authorization-hilcorpalaska-llc-oil-and-gas-activities-cookinlet-alaska to Hilcorp Alaska LLC for the potential harassment of small numbers of four marine mammal species incidental to oil and gas activities in Cook Inlet, Alaska, provided the mitigation, monitoring and reporting requirements of the rulemaking are incorporated.
Dated: January 15, 2021.
Donna S. Wieting, Director, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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