Incidental Take Authorization: U.S. Navy Hawaii Southern California Training and Testing (HSTT) (2013-2018)
Summary
NOAA Fisheries issued regulations under the MMPA to govern the unintentional taking of marine mammals incidental to training and testing activities conducted in the Hawaii-Southern California Training and Testing (HSTT) Study Area from December 2013 through December 2018.
Reports related to strandings can be found on the HSTT Notifications page.
Federal Register
Supporting Materials
- Issued LOA - Testing
- Issued LOA - Training
- LOA Application [pdf, 290 pages]
- HSTT Monitoring Projects
- Navy Integrated Comprehensive Monitoring Program [pdf, 73 pages]
- Navy Strategic Planning Process for Monitoring
- Hawaii Stranding Response Plan [pdf, 12 pages]
- California Stranding Response Plan [pdf, 12 pages]
- Annual Testing Report Dec 2015 to Dec 2016 [pdf, 6 pages]
- Record of Decision (ROD) [pdf, 11 pages]
- Press Release [pdf, 2 pages]
- Biological Opinion (pdf, 457 pages)
- Notifications and Reports