Incidental Take Authorization: Interstate Bridge Replacement Program's Interstate Bridge Replacement Project on Interstate 5 between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington

Interstate Bridge Replacement Program applied for authorization to take small numbers of marine mammals incidental to the Interstate Bridge Replacement Project on Interstate 5 between Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington over the course of 5 years from the date of issuance. NOAA Fisheries is proposing regulations setting forth permissible methods of taking, other means of effecting the least practicable adverse impact on such marine mammal stocks (i.e., mitigation measures), and requirements pertaining to monitoring and reporting such takes and requests comments on the proposed regulations.