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Notice of Intent to Prepare a Joint
Environmental Impact Statement for a
Programmatic Review of Harvest
Actions for Salmon and Steelhead in
the Columbia River Basin Related to
U.S. v. Oregon
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce; and United States Fish and
Wildlife Service (USFWS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
AGENCY:
Pursuant to the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), this
notice announces that NMFS and
USFWS (together, the Services) intend
SUMMARY:
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to prepare a joint Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) conducting a
programmatic review of harvest actions
for salmon and steelhead in the action
area, which is the Columbia River Basin
(the Proposed Action), to inform the
Services’ proposed signing of the post2017 U.S. v. Oregon Management
Agreement and the Endangered Species
Act (ESA) Section 7 consultation
process. The Services provide this
notice to advise other agencies and the
public of their plans to analyze effects
related to the action and to obtain
suggestions and information that may be
useful to the scope of issues and
alternatives to include in the EIS.
DATES: Written or electronic scoping
comments must be received at the
appropriate address or email mailbox
(see ADDRESSES) on or before August 1,
2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by one of the following methods:
• Email: USvORNEPA@noaa.gov and/
or USvORNEPA@fws.gov.
• Mail: William W. Stelle, Jr.,
Regional Administrator, West Coast
Region, NMFS, 7600 Sand Point Way
NE., Seattle, WA 98115–6349; and/or
Theresa Rabot, Deputy Regional
Director, Pacific Region, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, 911 NE. 11th Avenue,
Portland, OR 97232.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Peggy Mundy, NMFS West Coast
Region, telephone: 206–526–4323,
email: peggy.mundy@noaa.gov; or Mark
Bagdovitz, USFWS, Pacific Region,
telephone: 503–736–4711, email:
mark_bagdovitz@fws.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The States of Oregon, Washington,
and Idaho; the Nez Perce Tribe, the
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation, the Confederated
Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation
of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes and
Bands of the Yakama Nation
(collectively, the Columbia River Treaty
Tribes); the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes;
and the United States (as represented by
the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the
Services) (hereafter ‘‘Parties’’), are
parties to U.S. v. Oregon, Civ. No. 68–
513–KI, (D. Or.). A management
agreement for managing and regulating
fisheries in the Columbia River Basin,
entered as a court order in 2008, expires
December 31, 2017. The Parties are
negotiating a new agreement that would
take effect when the existing agreement
expires. The new agreement would
include a list of hatchery programs with
stipulated production levels, and a list
of Tribal and non-Tribal salmonid
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fisheries in the Columbia River Basin,
including designated off-channel sites,
which are intended to: (1) Ensure fair
sharing of harvestable fish between
tribal and non-tribal fisheries in
accordance with Treaty fishing rights
standards and U.S. v. Oregon, and (2) be
responsive to the needs of ESA-listed
species. While the agreement includes a
hatchery production component, the
NEPA analysis of hatchery production
within the action area has been
completed, or will be supplemented, in
a separate EIS that will be incorporated
by reference in this EIS. Consequently,
the Proposed Action in this EIS analysis
focuses on harvest. Construction of new
hatchery facilities to mitigate impacts to
fisheries from The Dalles Dam and John
Day Dam hydropower operations is
being analyzed by the U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers in a separate analysis,
which will also be incorporated by
reference into this analysis.
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Environmental Impact Statement
NEPA (42 U.S.C. § 4321 et seq.)
requires that Federal agencies conduct
an environmental analysis of their
Proposed Actions to determine if the
actions may significantly affect the
human environment. The Services have
determined that an EIS should be
prepared under NEPA for the purpose of
informing the Services’ proposed
signing of the new agreement. The
information and analysis in the EIS will
help to inform the subsequent ESA
Section 7 consultation on the new
agreement. The Services will prepare
the EIS as joint lead agencies (40 CFR
§§ 1501.5, 1508.16) in consultation with
the Treaty Tribes pursuant to the
Federal trust responsibility, Secretarial
Order 3206, and Executive Order 13175.
We will prepare an EIS in accordance
with NEPA requirements, as amended
(40 U.S. C. § 4321 et seq.); NEPA
implementing regulations (40 CFR
§§ 1500–1508); and other Federal laws,
regulations, and policies.
The Services’ purpose and need for
the Proposed Action is three-fold: (1) To
meet the Federal government’s tribal
treaty rights and trust and fiduciary
responsibilities; (2) to support fishing
opportunities to the states of Oregon,
Washington, and Idaho, and the tribes;
and (3) to work collaboratively with comanagers to protect and conserve ESAlisted and non-listed species.
Development of Initial Alternatives
The Services have preliminarily
identified the following six alternatives
for the public to consider. The preferred
alternative will be developed to reflect
a policy direction that would be
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compatible with the Purpose and Need
indicated above.
No-action Alternative (status quo):
Under this alternative, the Services
would not sign a new agreement, and
the parties would continue to manage
salmonid fisheries in the Columbia
River consistent with the terms of the
2008–2017 agreement. A No-action
Alternative is required in the full range
of analyzed alternatives.
Abundance-based Management
Alternative: Under this alternative, the
Services would sign a new agreement
with the other parties, and salmonid
fisheries in the Columbia River would
be managed under an abundance-based
management framework.
Fixed Exploitation Rate Management
Alternative: Under this alternative, the
Services would sign a new agreement
with the other parties, and salmonid
fisheries in the Columbia River would
be managed under a fixed exploitation
rate management framework.
Escapement-based Management
Alternative: Under this alternative, the
Services would sign a new agreement
with the other parties, and salmonid
fisheries in the Columbia River would
be managed under an escapement-based
management framework.
Fixed Effort-based Management
Alternative: Under this alternative, the
Services would sign a new agreement
with the other parties, and salmonid
fisheries in the Columbia River would
be managed under a fixed effort
management framework.
No Fisheries Alternative: Under this
alternative, the Services would sign a
new agreement with the other parties;
however, the parties would decide that
salmonid fisheries would not be
allowed in the Columbia River.
Although this alternative does not meet
the purpose and need for the Proposed
Action, it is included to provide a full
range of alternatives for analysis.
Request for Comments
The Services request data, comments,
pertinent information, or suggestions
from the public, other concerned
governmental agencies, the scientific
community, tribes, the business
community, or any other interested
party regarding the Proposed Action
discussed in this notice. We will
consider all comments we receive in
complying with the requirements of
NEPA. We particularly seek specific
comments concerning:
(1) The direct, indirect, and
cumulative effects that implementation
of any reasonable alternative could have
on endangered and threatened species,
and other non-ESA-listed species and
their habitats;
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(2) Other reasonable alternatives (in
addition to the initial alternatives
presented in this notice), and their
associated effects;
(3) Measures that would minimize
and mitigate potentially adverse effects
of the proposed actions;
(4) Other plans or projects that might
be relevant to this project.
The EIS will analyze the effects that
the various alternatives would have on
salmon and steelhead and other fish
species in the Columbia River Basin as
well as the other aspects of the human
environment, including but not limited
to, water quality, habitat, wildlife (ESAlisted and non-ESA-listed), vegetation,
socioeconomics (including fishery
dependent communities and culture
and economic impacts), environmental
justice, cultural resources,
transportation, and the cumulative
impacts of the alternatives.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.
Dated: June 27, 2016.
Angela Somma,
Chief, Endangered Species Division, National
Marine Fisheries Service, Protected
Resources.
Dated: June 22, 2016.
Robyn Thorson,
Regional Director, Pacific Region, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, Portland, Oregon.
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National Marine Fisheries
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Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of final determination
and discussion of underlying biological
analysis.
AGENCY:
NMFS has evaluated three
Resource Management Plans (RMPs)
submitted to NMFS pursuant to the
limitation on take prohibitions for
actions conducted under Limit 6 of the
4(d) Rule for salmon and steelhead
promulgated under the Endangered
Species Act (ESA). The RMPs specify
the propagation of three species of
salmon in the Dungeness River
watershed of Washington State. This
document serves to notify the public
that NMFS, by delegated authority from
the Secretary of Commerce, has
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
RIN 0648-XE317
Notice of Intent to Prepare a Joint Environmental Impact
Statement for a Programmatic Review of Harvest Actions for Salmon and
Steelhead in the Columbia River Basin Related to U.S. v. Oregon
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce; and United States Fish and
Wildlife Service (USFWS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), this
notice announces that NMFS and USFWS (together, the Services) intend to
prepare a joint Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) conducting a
programmatic review of harvest actions for salmon and steelhead in the
action area, which is the Columbia River Basin (the Proposed Action),
to inform the Services' proposed signing of the post-2017 U.S. v.
Oregon Management Agreement and the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
Section 7 consultation process. The Services provide this notice to
advise other agencies and the public of their plans to analyze effects
related to the action and to obtain suggestions and information that
may be useful to the scope of issues and alternatives to include in the
EIS.
DATES: Written or electronic scoping comments must be received at the
appropriate address or email mailbox (see ADDRESSES) on or before
August 1, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by one of the following methods:
Email: USvORNEPA@noaa.gov and/or USvORNEPA@fws.gov.
Mail: William W. Stelle, Jr., Regional Administrator, West
Coast Region, NMFS, 7600 Sand Point Way NE., Seattle, WA 98115-6349;
and/or Theresa Rabot, Deputy Regional Director, Pacific Region, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, 911 NE. 11th Avenue, Portland, OR 97232.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Peggy Mundy, NMFS West Coast Region,
telephone: 206-526-4323, email: peggy.mundy@noaa.gov; or Mark
Bagdovitz, USFWS, Pacific Region, telephone: 503-736-4711, email:
mark_bagdovitz@fws.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The States of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; the Nez Perce Tribe,
the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, the
Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation (collectively, the
Columbia River Treaty Tribes); the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes; and the
United States (as represented by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the
Services) (hereafter ``Parties''), are parties to U.S. v. Oregon, Civ.
No. 68-513-KI, (D. Or.). A management agreement for managing and
regulating fisheries in the Columbia River Basin, entered as a court
order in 2008, expires December 31, 2017. The Parties are negotiating a
new agreement that would take effect when the existing agreement
expires. The new agreement would include a list of hatchery programs
with stipulated production levels, and a list of Tribal and non-Tribal
salmonid
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fisheries in the Columbia River Basin, including designated off-channel
sites, which are intended to: (1) Ensure fair sharing of harvestable
fish between tribal and non-tribal fisheries in accordance with Treaty
fishing rights standards and U.S. v. Oregon, and (2) be responsive to
the needs of ESA-listed species. While the agreement includes a
hatchery production component, the NEPA analysis of hatchery production
within the action area has been completed, or will be supplemented, in
a separate EIS that will be incorporated by reference in this EIS.
Consequently, the Proposed Action in this EIS analysis focuses on
harvest. Construction of new hatchery facilities to mitigate impacts to
fisheries from The Dalles Dam and John Day Dam hydropower operations is
being analyzed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a separate
analysis, which will also be incorporated by reference into this
analysis.
Environmental Impact Statement
NEPA (42 U.S.C. Sec. 4321 et seq.) requires that Federal agencies
conduct an environmental analysis of their Proposed Actions to
determine if the actions may significantly affect the human
environment. The Services have determined that an EIS should be
prepared under NEPA for the purpose of informing the Services' proposed
signing of the new agreement. The information and analysis in the EIS
will help to inform the subsequent ESA Section 7 consultation on the
new agreement. The Services will prepare the EIS as joint lead agencies
(40 CFR Sec. Sec. 1501.5, 1508.16) in consultation with the Treaty
Tribes pursuant to the Federal trust responsibility, Secretarial Order
3206, and Executive Order 13175. We will prepare an EIS in accordance
with NEPA requirements, as amended (40 U.S. C. Sec. 4321 et seq.);
NEPA implementing regulations (40 CFR Sec. Sec. 1500-1508); and other
Federal laws, regulations, and policies.
The Services' purpose and need for the Proposed Action is three-
fold: (1) To meet the Federal government's tribal treaty rights and
trust and fiduciary responsibilities; (2) to support fishing
opportunities to the states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and the
tribes; and (3) to work collaboratively with co-managers to protect and
conserve ESA-listed and non-listed species.
Development of Initial Alternatives
The Services have preliminarily identified the following six
alternatives for the public to consider. The preferred alternative will
be developed to reflect a policy direction that would be compatible
with the Purpose and Need indicated above.
No-action Alternative (status quo): Under this alternative, the
Services would not sign a new agreement, and the parties would continue
to manage salmonid fisheries in the Columbia River consistent with the
terms of the 2008-2017 agreement. A No-action Alternative is required
in the full range of analyzed alternatives.
Abundance-based Management Alternative: Under this alternative, the
Services would sign a new agreement with the other parties, and
salmonid fisheries in the Columbia River would be managed under an
abundance-based management framework.
Fixed Exploitation Rate Management Alternative: Under this
alternative, the Services would sign a new agreement with the other
parties, and salmonid fisheries in the Columbia River would be managed
under a fixed exploitation rate management framework.
Escapement-based Management Alternative: Under this alternative,
the Services would sign a new agreement with the other parties, and
salmonid fisheries in the Columbia River would be managed under an
escapement-based management framework.
Fixed Effort-based Management Alternative: Under this alternative,
the Services would sign a new agreement with the other parties, and
salmonid fisheries in the Columbia River would be managed under a fixed
effort management framework.
No Fisheries Alternative: Under this alternative, the Services
would sign a new agreement with the other parties; however, the parties
would decide that salmonid fisheries would not be allowed in the
Columbia River. Although this alternative does not meet the purpose and
need for the Proposed Action, it is included to provide a full range of
alternatives for analysis.
Request for Comments
The Services request data, comments, pertinent information, or
suggestions from the public, other concerned governmental agencies, the
scientific community, tribes, the business community, or any other
interested party regarding the Proposed Action discussed in this
notice. We will consider all comments we receive in complying with the
requirements of NEPA. We particularly seek specific comments
concerning:
(1) The direct, indirect, and cumulative effects that
implementation of any reasonable alternative could have on endangered
and threatened species, and other non-ESA-listed species and their
habitats;
(2) Other reasonable alternatives (in addition to the initial
alternatives presented in this notice), and their associated effects;
(3) Measures that would minimize and mitigate potentially adverse
effects of the proposed actions;
(4) Other plans or projects that might be relevant to this project.
The EIS will analyze the effects that the various alternatives
would have on salmon and steelhead and other fish species in the
Columbia River Basin as well as the other aspects of the human
environment, including but not limited to, water quality, habitat,
wildlife (ESA-listed and non-ESA-listed), vegetation, socioeconomics
(including fishery dependent communities and culture and economic
impacts), environmental justice, cultural resources, transportation,
and the cumulative impacts of the alternatives.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.
Dated: June 27, 2016.
Angela Somma,
Chief, Endangered Species Division, National Marine Fisheries Service,
Protected Resources.
Dated: June 22, 2016.
Robyn Thorson,
Regional Director, Pacific Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Portland, Oregon.
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