National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
This collection contains Environmental Assessments, Environmental Impact Statements, and related documents that pertain to NOAA’s implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). NOAA’s NEPA compliance is overseen by the designated NOAA NEPA Coordinator and the Environmental Review and Coordination Section in the Office of the General Counsel. For more information on NEPA at NOAA, please visit https://www.nepa.noaa.gov/, or contact the NOAA NEPA Coordinator at noaa.nepa@noaa.gov.
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- OSF (Office of Sustainable Fisheries) 19
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- SEFSC (Southeast Fisheries Science Center) 2
- SER (Southeast Region) 65
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- Atlantic sturgeon 14
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- BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 24
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- California sea lion 22
- Catch effort 205
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- Control 11
- Coral reef restoration 11
- Design and construction 44
- Ecology 22
- Economic zones (Law of the sea) 24
- Effect of environment on 22
- Effect of fishing on 20
- Effect of human beings on 148
- Effect of noise on 76
- Effect of oil spills on 14
- Endangered species 172
- Environmental aspects 221
- Environmental conditions 27
- Environmental impact analysis 922
- Environmental impact statements 670
- Environmental policy 628
- Equipment and supplies 27
- Estuarine restoration 11
- Fisheries 207
- Fishery closures 28
- Fishery law and legislation 22
- Fishery management 425
- Fishery policy 215
- Fishes 14
- Fish hatcheries 18
- Fishing 60
- Fish populations 16
- Fish stock assessment 14
- Fish tagging 12
- Flatfish fisheries 13
- Geographical distribution 23
- Geophysical surveys 33
- Government policy 775
- Gray whale 11
- Green turtle 18
- Groundfishes 51
- Groundfish fisheries 73
- Grouper fisheries 18
- Habitat 53
- Habitat conservation 16
- Halibut 11
- Halibut fisheries 14
- Harbor porpoise 17
- Harbor seal 26
- Harvesting 17
- Hawksbill turtle 13
- Humpback whale 22
- Individual fishing quotas 73
- Law and legislation 25
- Licenses 12
- Loggerhead turtle 15
- Longlining (Fisheries) 24
- Lutjanus campechanus 20
- Maintenance and repair 12
- Management 127
- Marine engineering 13
- Marine geophysics 30
- Marine mammals 155
- Marine parks and reserves 14
- Marine resources conservation 79
- Migration 29
- Military research 12
- Monitoring 104
- Oil spills 29
- Overfishing 120
- Pacific cod 12
- Piling (Civil engineering) 16
- Pinnipedia 38
- Pollock 13
- Pollock fisheries 20
- Reef fisheries 22
- Research 161
- Restoration ecology 26
- Salmon 17
- Salmon fisheries 24
- Sea turtles 57
- Seismic tomography 24
- Shortnose sturgeon 20
- Squid fisheries 13
- Steelhead (Fish) 15
- Steller's sea lion 26
- Stromateidae 13
- Sustainable fisheries 221
- Trawls and trawling 34
- Tuna fisheries 17
- Wetland restoration 17
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- Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (U.S.) 1
- National Science Foundation (U.S.). Division of Ocean Sciences 1
- United States. 11
- United States. National Marine Fisheries Service 2
- United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Alaska Regional Office 1
- United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Office of Protected Resources 1
- United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations 1
- United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Office of Program Planning and Integration 9
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- Alaska 69
- Alaska, Gulf of 75
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- Aleutian Islands 14
- Aleutian Islands (Alaska) 50
- Altamaha River 3
- American Samoa 18
- Antarctica 3
- Antarctic Ocean 4
- Arctic Ocean 7
- Atlantic Coast 11
- Atlantic Coast (Fla.) 5
- Atlantic Coast (Ga.) 2
- Atlantic Coast (Mass.) 2
- Atlantic Coast (Middle Atlantic States) 10
- Atlantic Coast (New England) 49
- Atlantic Coast (South Atlantic States) 42
- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) 93
- Atlantic Ocean 43
- Azores 2
- Bainbridge Island 2
- Beaufort Sea 10
- Beaufort Sea Coast 3
- Beaufort Sea Coast (Alaska) 3
- Bering Sea 75
- Bonneville Dam (Or. and Wash.) 4
- Bremerton 3
- California 59
- Caribbean Area 6
- Caribbean Sea 18
- Charleston Harbor (S.C.) 4
- Chukchi Sea 12
- Cobscook Bay 3
- Columbia River 7
- Cook Inlet 6
- Delaware 4
- Eglin Air Force Base 3
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- Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary 4
- Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (Fla.) 4
- Galveston Bay 3
- Georges Bank 5
- Georgia 6
- Grays Harbor County 3
- Guam 11
- Gulf Coast 6
- Gulf Coast (Fla.) 6
- Gulf Coast (U.S.) 18
- Hawaii 39
- Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) 4
- Idaho 5
- Illinois 3
- Indian Ocean 4
- Islands of the Pacific 18
- Kitsap County 3
- Klamath River (Or. and Calif.) 3
- Leeward Islands 3
- Line Islands 3
- Louisiana 9
- Maine 9
- Maine, Gulf of 15
- Massachusetts 10
- Mexico, Gulf of 99
- Michigan 4
- Mississippi 3
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- North Atlantic Ocean 32
- North Carolina 13
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- Oregon 26
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- Pacific Coast (U.S.) 58
- Pacific Coast (Wash.) 3
- Pacific Islands (Trust Territory) 5
- Pacific Ocean 62
- Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument 6
- Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (Hawaii) 4
- Penobscot River 3
- Plaquemines Parish 5
- Puerto Rico 18
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Crabtree, Roy E.
2011
Description:
"Results from the red snapper update assessment in 2009 project that the red snapper stock is no longer undergoing overfishing and that total allowabl...
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James J. Howard Laboratory Seawater Intake system repair : final environmental assessment
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Personal Author:
Morehouse, Richard C. ;
Horton, Edward C.
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2014
Description:
"An Environmental Assessment (EA) has been prepared for the NOAA/NMFS James J. Howard Laboratory seawater intake system repair, Sandy Hook, New Jersey...
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Environmental assessment and regulatory impact review : Pacific mackerel harvest specifications, 2011/12 fishing season
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McInnis, Rodney R.
2012
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"NMFS implements the annual catch limit (ACL), harvest guideline (HG), annual catch target and associated annual reference points for Pacific mackerel...
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Rockaway delivery lateral project, northeast connector project, final environmental impact statement
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Personal Author:
Harris, Kara ;
Wieting, Donna
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2014
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"We [Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Energy Projects] prepared this final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to assess the environm...
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Personal Author:
Blankinship, Randy ;
Risenhoover, Alan Dean, 1962-
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2014
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NMFS is amending the 2006 Consolidated HMS FMP to address bluefin tuna management due to recent trends and characteristics of the bluefin tuna fishery...
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Personal Author:
Crabtree, Roy E.
2010
Description:
"Amendment 17B contains actions to establish annual catch limits (ACLs) and accountability measures (AMs) for nine snapper-grouper species (speckled h...
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Personal Author:
Crabtree, Roy E.
2011
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"The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) submitted the subject amendment for review and implementation by the Secretary of Commerce on...
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Thom, Barry A.
2012
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"This final EA describes our evaluation of effects of our proposed issuance of two ESA section 10(a)(1)(A) permits for programs artificially propagati...
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Menashes, Emily H.
2013
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This EA analyzes the potential environmental impacts of the commercial swordfish management measures in Amendment 8 to the 2006 Consolidated Atlantic ...
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Environmental assessment for annual catch limit specifications and accountability measures for Pacific Islands bottomfish fisheries in 2012 and 2013 : including a regulatory impact review
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Tosatto, Michael D.
2011
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"NMFS proposes to specify an annual catch limit (ACL) and accountability measures (AM) for bottomfish stocks and stock complexes in American Samoa, Gu...
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Environmental assessment on the issuance of two scientific research permits for aerial and vessel surveys of North Atlantic right whales
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Lecky, James H.
2010
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"NMFS proposed to issue two scientific research permits, Nos. 14233 and 14603 to authorize photo-identification, observation, and biopsy sampling of N...
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Environmental assessment of the marine sanitation device discharge regulations for Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
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Personal Author:
Basta, Daniel J. ;
Kennedy, David M. (David Michael), 1947-
2010
Description:
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is amending regulations for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS or sanctuary...
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Personal Author:
Guan, Shane ;
Wieting, Donna
2013
Description:
The National Marine Fisheries Service proposes to issue Incidental Harassment Authorizations (IHAs) to Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc. (Shell), TGS-NOPEC G...
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