Supervisory Fish and Wildlife Biologist, Marine Mammals Management

1018-BF13 202004 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 1018 United States Fish and Wildlife Service FWS 1000 Department of the Interior DOI Marine Mammals; Incidental Take During Specified Activities; Polar Bears and Pacific Walruses in the Southern Beaufort Sea and Adjacent Alaskan Coast

The Marine Mammal Protection Act authorizes issuance of regulations to allow the incidental, unintentional take of small number of marine mammals in activities (other than commercial fishing) in specific geographical areas. Industry may request such regulations, which shall be allowed as long as certain findings are made. The Alaska Oil and Gas Association has requested these regulations, which would authorize incidental take of polar bears and Pacific walrus in the Southern Beaufort Sea and adjacent northern coast of Alaska during oil and gas industry activities for a 5-year period.

]]> Substantive, Nonsignificant First Time Published in The Unified Agenda Proposed Rule Stage No No Not subject to, not significant 50 CFR 18 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq. No NPRM 12/00/2020 No None No No No Christopher Putnam Supervisory Fish and Wildlife Biologist, Marine Mammals Management 1018 United States Fish and Wildlife Service FWS 907 786-3844 907 786-3816 christopher_putnam@fws.gov 1011 East Tudor Road, MS 341, Anchorage AK 99503