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Final Environmental Assessment for Authorization for Incidental Take and Implementation of Port Blakely’s Habitat Conservation Plan for the John Franklin Eddy Forestlands
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2023
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Description:The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS; collectively the “Services”) each received an application for an Incidental Take Permit (ITP), pursuant to the provisions of Section 10(a)(1)(B) and 10(a)(2)(A) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA; 16 United States Code [USC] 1531–1544 [1973]) for Port Blakely’s (or the Applicant’s) John Franklin Eddy Forestlands (Project) in Clackamas County, Oregon (Figure 1-1). Under Section 10 of the ESA, through issuance of ITPs, Applicants may be authorized to conduct otherwise lawful activities that may result in incidental take of listed species. Take is defined as “to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect or attempt to engage in any such conduct” (16 USC 1532 [1973]). If the Services finds that Port Blakely’s application and related conservation plan meets the ITP issuance criteria under Section 10(a)(2)(B) of the ESA, the Services would issue ITPs. The ITPs would authorize incidental take associated with Port Blakely’s forest management activities (i.e., timber harvest, silviculture, and road management), i.e., Covered Activities, within 30,859 acres (ac) of Clackamas County and other potentially acquired commercial forestlands in Multnomah, Marion, and/or Linn counties in northwestern Oregon. Port Blakely is requesting ITPs for eight federally listed endangered or threatened species as well as 14 proposed or non-listed species potentially affected by its forest management activities. (collectively, all these species are referred to as the Covered Species; Table 1-1). As indicated on Table 1-1, the NMFS is responsible for management of salmon and steelhead and their designated critical habitat (50 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] Part 222 [1999]) and the USFWS is responsible for management of bull trout, Pacific lamprey, and terrestrial species; and their designated critical habitat (50 CFR Part 17 [2019]). Port Blakely’s objectives are to meet the conservation needs of Covered Species, provide a stable and predictable operating and regulatory environment, and to pursue forest management activities with assurances from the Services that authorizes incidental take of Covered Species.
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