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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 116 / Monday, June 21, 2021 / Notices
D ReportingA technical report will be submitted to the NMFS Office of Protected Resources within 90 days from the date the IHA expires. This report will provide full documentation of methods, results, and interpretation pertaining to all monitoring tasks for launches activities at SNI that are covered under this IHA.

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Determinations The Navy planned target and missile launch activities identical to those covered in the previous IHAs. The methods of taking and effects of the action resulting in Level B harassment only remains the same as what was previously analyzed. When issuing the previous IHAs, NMFS found the Navys target and missile launch activities would have a negligible impact to species or stocks rates of recruitment and survival. This IHA also carries over identical mitigation, monitoring, and reporting measures as required under the previous IHAs. NMFS has concluded that there is no new information suggesting that our analysis or findings should change from those reached for the previous IHAs. Based on the analysis in the previous IHAs, the likely effects of the specified activity on marine mammals and their habitat, as well as the previous monitoring results at SNI, NMFS likewise finds that the total marine mammal take from this planned activity will have a negligible impact on all affected marine mammal species or stocks.

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Based on the information contained here and in the referenced documents, NMFS has determined the following: 1
The required mitigation measures will effect the least practicable impact on marine mammal species or stocks and their habitat; 2 the authorized takes will have a negligible impact on the affected marine mammal species or stocks; and 3 the Navys activities will not have an unmitigable adverse impact on taking for subsistence purposes as no relevant subsistence uses of marine mammals are implicated by this action, and 4 appropriate monitoring and reporting requirements are included.
National Environmental Policy Act To comply with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
NEPA; 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq. and NOAA Administrative Order NAO
2166A, NMFS must review our action i.e., the issuance of an incidental harassment authorization with respect to potential impacts on the human environment. This action is consistent with categories of activities identified in Categorical Exclusion B4 incidental harassment authorizations with no anticipated serious injury or mortality of the Companion Manual for NOAA
Administrative Order 2166A, which do not individually or cumulatively have the potential for significant impacts on the quality of the human environment and for which we have not identified any extraordinary circumstances that would preclude this categorical
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exclusion. Accordingly, NMFS has determined that the issuance of the IHA
qualifies to be categorically excluded from further NEPA review.
Endangered Species Act ESA
Section 7a2 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ESA: 16 U.S.C.
1531 et seq. requires that each Federal agency insure that any action it authorizes, funds, or carries out is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any endangered or threatened species or result in the destruction or adverse modification of designated critical habitat. No incidental take of ESA-listed species is authorized or expected to result from this activity. Therefore, formal consultation under section 7 of the ESA
was not required for this action.
Authorization As a result of these determinations, NMFS authorizes an IHA to the Navy for conducting target and missile launches on SNI, effective from June 12, 2021
through June 11, 2022, with the previously mentioned mitigation, monitoring, and reporting requirements incorporated.
Dated: June 16, 2021.
Catherine Marzin, Acting Director, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
FR Doc. 202113075 Filed 61721; 4:15 am BILLING CODE 351022P

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