All Protected Resources Regulations & Actions
Incidental Take Authorization: South Fork Wind, LLC Construction of the South Fork Offshore Wind Project off of Rhode Island and Massachusetts
NOAA Fisheries has issued an incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to South Fork Wind, LLC to take, by Level A harassment and Level B harassment, marine mammals during construction of a commercial wind energy project offshore New York, Rhode Island,…
- Issued IHA (pdf, 33 pages)
- Application (pdf, 166 pages)
- Environmental Impact Statement (pdf, 1,317 pages)
- Record of Decision (pdf, 130 pages)
- Animal Exposure Modeling Report (pdf, 154 pages)
- Underwater Acoustic Modeling of Construction Noise (pdf, 129 pages)
- Public Comments (pdf, 65 pages)
- Biological Opinion (pdf, 523 pages)
- References (pdf, 14 pages)
Effective
11/15/2022
Incidental Take Authorization: NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center Fisheries and Ecosystem Research, Atlantic Ocean
NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources, upon request from NOAA Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Science Center, hereby issues regulations to govern the unintentional taking of marine mammals incidental to fisheries research conducted in multiple…
Effective
10/21/2021
Incidental Take Authorization: Kitty Hawk Wind, LLC Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of North Carolina and Virginia
NOAA Fisheries has issued an Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA) to Kitty Hawk Wind, LLC to incidentally harass, by Level B harassment, marine mammals during marine site characterization surveys offshore Virginia and North Carolina.
Issued
07/21/2021
Incidental Take Authorization: Garden State Offshore Energy, LLC Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of Delaware and New Jersey
NOAA Fisheries has issued an IHA to Garden State Offshore Energy, LLC to incidentally harass, by Level B harassment, marine mammals incidental to marine site characterization surveys offshore of Delaware and New Jersey in the area of the Commercial…
Effective
06/11/2021
Incidental Take Authorization: Mayflower Wind Energy LLC Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of Massachusetts
NOAA Fisheries has issued to Mayflower Wind Energy LLC (Mayflower) an authorization to take marine mammals incidental to site characterization surveys off the coast of Massachusetts in the area of the Commercial Lease of Submerged Lands for Renewable…
Published
05/20/2021
Incidental Take Authorization: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Marine Geophysical Survey in the Northeast Pacific Ocean (2021)
NOAA Fisheries has issued an incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University to incidentally harass, by Level A and Level B harassment, marine mammals during a marine geophysical survey in the…
Effective
05/19/2021
Incidental Take Authorization: Ocean Wind, LLC Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of New Jersey
NOAA Fisheries has issued an incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to Ocean Wind, LLC to incidentally harass, by Level B harassment only, marine mammals during marine site characterization surveys off of New Jersey in the area of Commercial Lease of…
Published
05/14/2021
Incidental Take Authorization: Dominion Energy Virginia Marine Site Characterization Surveys off of Coastal Virginia
NOAA Fisheries has issued a modified incidental harassment authorization (IHA) to Dominion Energy Virginia to incidentally harass marine mammals incidental to marine site characterization surveys conducted in the areas of the Commercial Lease of…
- Notice of Issued Modified IHA (2021)
- Notice of Proposed Modified IHA (2021)
- Notice of Issued Modified IHA (2020)
- Notice of Proposed Modified IHA (2020)
- Notice of Issued IHA
- Notice of Proposed IHA
- Issued Modified IHA, 2021 (pdf, 13 pages)
- Issued Modified IHA, 2020 (pdf, 13 pages)
- Issued Initial IHA, 2020 (pdf, 14 pages)
- Application (pdf, 196 pages)
- Public Comments on Initial IHA, 2020 (pdf, 33 pages)
- Public Comments on Modified IHA, 2020 (pdf, 5 pages)
- Public Comments on Modified IHA, 2021 (pdf, 48 pages)
- References (pdf, 14 pages)
Published
04/22/2021
Incidental Take Authorization: Oil and Gas Industry Geophysical Survey Activity in the Gulf of Mexico
NOAA Fisheries, upon request from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), has issued regulations to govern the unintentional taking of marine mammals incidental to geophysical survey activities conducted by oil and gas industry operators, and…
- Final Rule
- Correction- Final Rule
- Paperwork Reduction Act Information Collection Request
- Proposed Rule
- Notice of Receipt of Application for Incidental Take Regulations
- Issued Letters of Authorization
- Application for Incidental Take Regulations (pdf, 192 pages)
- Application Addendum- BOEM Notice to NMFS of Revised Scope of Action (pdf, 4 pa…
- Application Addendum- BOEM Revised Acoustic Exposure Estimates (pdf, 17 pages)
- Application Addendum- BOEM Revised Action Area Map (pdf, 1 page)
- Acoustic Modelling Report (pdf, 385 pages)
- Acoustic Modeling Report Addendum (pdf, 6 pages)
- Cumulative and Chronic Effects Report (pdf, 50 pages)
- Cumulative and Chronic Effects Report Addendum (pdf, 12 pages)
- Gulf of Mexico Acoustic Exposure Model Variable Analysis (pdf, 171 pages)
- Expert Working Group Report (Southall et al., 2017) (pdf, 26 pages)
- Public Comments Received on Notice of Receipt (pdf, 195 pages)
- Public Comments Received on Proposed Rule
- Regulatory Impact Analysis- Proposed Rule (pdf, 209 pages)
- Regulatory Impact Analysis- Final Rule (pdf, 117 pages)
- Regulatory Impact Analysis Appendices- Final Rule (pdf, 70 pages)
- References Cited (pdf, 45 pages)
- Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
- Record of Decision (pdf, 11 pages)
- Biological Opinion
- Final Rule (pdf, 462 pages) Initially posted 12/8/2020.
Effective
04/19/2021
Incidental Take Authorization: Skipjack Offshore Energy, LLC Marine Site Characterization Surveys Offshore of Delaware
NOAA Fisheries has issued an incidental harassment authorization to Skipjack Offshore Energy, LLC to incidentally harass, by Level B harassment only, marine mammals during marine site characterization surveys offshore of Delaware in the area of the…
Effective
04/05/2021