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Integrated Comprehensive Monitoring
Report
The 2010 LOA required that the Navy
update the ICMP Plan to reflect
development in three areas, specifically:
(1) Identifying more specific monitoring
sub-goals under the major goals that
have been identified; (2) Characterizing
Navy Range Complexes and study areas
within the context of the prioritization
guidelines described in the ICMP Plan;
and (3) Continuing to develop data
management, organization, and access
procedures. The Navy has updated the
ICMP Plan as required. Because the
ICMP is an evolving Program, we have
posted the ICMP on NMFS Web site:
https://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/
incidental.htm and are specifically
requesting input, which the Navy and
NMFS will consider and apply as
appropriate.
Further, the Navy convened a
monitoring meeting in October, 2010 to
solicit input from NMFS and marine
mammal and acoustic scientists
regarding the comprehensive
development and improvement of the
more specific monitoring that should
occur across the Navy’s training areas.
Subsequent to those discussions, the
Navy has developed a scientific
advisory group composed of individuals
from the research community and
academia that will develop a proposed
Strategic Plan for Navy monitoring that
better considers the biological,
logistical, and resource-specific factors
that are applicable in each training area
(and which are summarized in the
updated ICMP) to maximize the
effectiveness of Navy monitoring within
the context of the information that is
most needed. Subsequently, NMFS and
MMC representatives will review this
proposed Strategic Plan for marine
species monitoring, which may reflect
monitoring differences in some Navy
training areas from what is required in
the 2010 LOA.
This Navy-wide Strategic Monitoring
Plan will then be available for review
and discussion at the required 2011
Navy Monitoring Meeting, which will
take place in mid-2011. The Navy and
NMFS will then modify the Navy-wide
Strategic Plan for monitoring based on
applicable input from the 2011
Monitoring Meeting and propose
appropriate changes to the monitoring
measures in specific LOAs for the
different Range Complexes and training
areas. For training areas with
substantive monitoring modifications,
NMFS will subsequently publish
proposed LOAs, with the modifications,
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in the Federal Register and solicit
public input. After addressing public
comments and making any necessary
changes, NMFS would, as appropriate,
issue new LOAs for the different
training areas that reflect the updated
ICMP and associated new Strategic Plan
for Navy monitoring.
NOAA Workshops
In a January 19, 2010 letter to the
Council on Environmental Quality,
NOAA identified the need for two
interrelated workshops on marine
mammals and sound in the ocean. To
address this commitment, NOAA is
convening two parallel, focused,
relatively small, and product-driven
working groups. One will identify and
map cetacean ‘‘hot spots,’’ defined as
areas of known, or reasonably
predictable, biological importance (i.e.,
for reproduction, feeding, migration)
and/or high densities. The second
working group will be directed toward
developing a comprehensive data
collection and analysis plan for
describing and predicting underwater
sound fields in different areas. The
outcomes of these working groups will
be integrated and analyzed in a broader
symposium to include a larger audience
of scientists, industries, Federal
agencies, conservation managers, and
environmental NGOs. The final
products and analyses will provide a
more robust, comprehensive, and
context-specific biological and acoustic
basis by which to inform subsequent
management decisions regarding human
noise in our oceans. The steering
committee has been convened and met
for the first time in October, 2010. The
working group efforts should take about
a year to complete, and we expect the
final symposium to be held in early
2012. The results of these working
groups will be analyzed by NMFS in an
adaptive management context, as related
to the January 5, 2009 (74 FR 1484,
January 12, 2009) HRC final rule, and
mitigation or monitoring measures may
be modified, as appropriate.
Authorization
The Navy complied with the
requirements of the 2010 LOA. Based on
our review of the record, NMFS has
determined that the marine mammal
takes resulting from the 2010 military
readiness training and research
activities falls within the levels
previously anticipated, analyzed, and
authorized. Further, the level of taking
authorized in 2011 for the Navy’s HRC
training and research activities is
consistent with our previous findings
made for the total taking allowed under
the HRC regulations. Finally, the record
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supports NMFS’ conclusion that the
total number of marine mammals taken
by the 2011 HRC activities will have no
more than a negligible impact on the
affected species or stock of marine
mammals and will not have an
unmitigable adverse impact on the
availability of these species or stocks for
taking for subsistence uses.
Accordingly, NMFS has issued a oneyear LOA for Navy training exercises
conducted in the HRC from January 15,
2011, through January 14, 2012.
Dated: January 13, 2011.
Helen M. Golde,
Deputy Director, Office of Protected
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces Code Committee Meeting
AGENCY: DoD.
ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the forthcoming public meeting of the
Code Committee established by Article 146(a), Uniform Code of Military
Justice, 10 U.S.C. 946(a), to be held at the Courthouse of the United
States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, 450 E Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20442-0001, at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, March 1, 2011. The
agenda for this meeting will include consideration of proposed changes
to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Manual for Courts-
Martial, United States, and other matters relating to the operation of
the Uniform Code of Military Justice throughout the Armed Forces.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: William A. DeCicco, Clerk of Court,
United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, 450 E Street,
Northwest, Washington, DC 20442-0001, telephone (202) 761-1448.
Dated: January 11, 2011.
Morgan F. Park,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
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