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Hawaiian waters rather than the more
current information that shows five
stocks of common bottlenose dolphins
in Hawaiian waters. Accordingly, DoN
prepared a narrowly-tailored FSEIS/
SOEIS to remedy this deficiency. The
National Marine Fisheries Service was a
cooperating agency in accordance with
40 CFR 1501.6 for the development of
the narrowly-tailored FSEIS/FSOEIS.
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text of the Record of Decision (ROD) is
available for public viewing and
download at https://www.surtass-lfaeis.com. Single copies of the ROD are
available upon request from SURTASS
LFA Sonar SEIS/SOEIS Program
Manager, 4350 Fairfax Drive, Suite 600,
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eisteam@surtass-lfa-com.
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Department of the Navy
Supplemental Record of Decision for
Surveillance Towed Array Sensor
System Low Frequency Active
(SURTASS LFA) Sonar
Department of the Navy, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of supplemental decision
and availability.
AGENCY:
The Department of the Navy
(DoN) reaffirms its August 15, 2012,
Record of Decision to employ up to four
Surveillance Towed Array Sensor
System Low Frequency Active
(SURTASS LFA) sonar systems with
certain geographical restrictions and
mitigation monitoring designed to
reduce potential adverse effects on the
marine environment, including
operating LFA sonar systems in the
waters in which the Hawaiian Islands
Stock Complex of common bottlenose
dolphins could occur. The August 15,
2012, Record of Decision implemented
the preferred alternative, Alternative 2,
identified in the 2012 Final
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement (FSEIS)/Supplemental
Overseas Environmental Impact
Statement (SOEIS) for SURTASS LFA
sonar.
Following litigation challenging the
adequacy of the 2012 FSEIS/FSOEIS,
the District Court for the Northern
District of California determined that
the DoN failed to use the best available
data when it determined potential
impacts from the employment of
SURTASS LFA sonar systems on one
stock of common bottlenose dolphins in
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy
Supplemental Record of Decision for Surveillance Towed Array
Sensor System Low Frequency Active (SURTASS LFA) Sonar
AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of supplemental decision and availability.
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SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy (DoN) reaffirms its August 15,
2012, Record of Decision to employ up to four Surveillance Towed Array
Sensor System Low Frequency Active (SURTASS LFA) sonar systems with
certain geographical restrictions and mitigation monitoring designed to
reduce potential adverse effects on the marine environment, including
operating LFA sonar systems in the waters in which the Hawaiian Islands
Stock Complex of common bottlenose dolphins could occur. The August 15,
2012, Record of Decision implemented the preferred alternative,
Alternative 2, identified in the 2012 Final Supplemental Environmental
Impact Statement (FSEIS)/Supplemental Overseas Environmental Impact
Statement (SOEIS) for SURTASS LFA sonar.
Following litigation challenging the adequacy of the 2012 FSEIS/
FSOEIS, the District Court for the Northern District of California
determined that the DoN failed to use the best available data when it
determined potential impacts from the employment of SURTASS LFA sonar
systems on one stock of common bottlenose dolphins in Hawaiian waters
rather than the more current information that shows five stocks of
common bottlenose dolphins in Hawaiian waters. Accordingly, DoN
prepared a narrowly-tailored FSEIS/SOEIS to remedy this deficiency. The
National Marine Fisheries Service was a cooperating agency in
accordance with 40 CFR 1501.6 for the development of the narrowly-
tailored FSEIS/FSOEIS.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The full text of the Record of Decision
(ROD) is available for public viewing and download at https://www.surtass-lfa-eis.com. Single copies of the ROD are available upon
request from SURTASS LFA Sonar SEIS/SOEIS Program Manager, 4350 Fairfax
Drive, Suite 600, Arlington, VA 22203, or email: eisteam@surtass-lfa-
com.
Dated: March 26, 2015.
P.A. Richelmi,
Lieutenant, Office of the Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy, Alternate
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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