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Environmental assessment for the issuance of incidental take authorizations to the Sonoma County Water Agency for Russian River estuary management activities
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2010
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Alternative Title:Issuance of incidental take authorizations to the Sonoma County Water Agency for Russian River estuary management activities
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Description:"The National Marine Fisheries Service proposes to issue a one-year incidental harassment authorization and subsequent incidental take authorizations upon expiration of that IHA to the Sonoma County Water Agency for the incidental taking of small numbers of marine mammals in the wild, pursuant to the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as amended (MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.). These authorizations would allow the taking, by Level B harassment only, of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardii), California sea lions (Zalophus californianus), and northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) incidental to the Agency's Russian River Estuary Management Activities, specifically artificial breaching of a sandbar which forms at the mouth of the Russian River. The purposes of the Agency's activities are to comply with Reasonable and Prudent Measures contained within NMFS' 2008 Biological Opinion on the impacts of the Agency's estuary management program on federally-listed salmon and steelhead and to prevent flooding of low-lying communities within the Russian River Estuary"--Abstract (p. [1]).
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