Notice2022-23112
Reopening of Comment Period on a Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement Regarding the Makah Tribe's Request To Hunt Eastern North Pacific Gray Whales
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Published
October 25, 2022
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Abstract
NMFS announces the reopening of the public comment period for seven days on the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the Makah Tribe Request to Hunt Gray Whales. We announced a 45-day comment period to end on August 15, 2022, and on August 16, 2022, we announced an extension of the public comment period by 60 days to October 14, 2022. Comments previously submitted need not be resubmitted.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 205 (Tuesday, October 25, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64454-64455]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-23112]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-BI58
Reopening of Comment Period on a Supplemental Draft Environmental
Impact Statement Regarding the Makah Tribe's Request To Hunt Eastern
North Pacific Gray Whales
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; reopening of public comment period.
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SUMMARY: NMFS announces the reopening of the public comment period for
seven days on the Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement on
the Makah Tribe Request to Hunt Gray Whales. We announced a 45-day
comment period to end on August 15, 2022, and on August 16, 2022, we
announced an extension of the public comment period by 60 days to
October 14, 2022. Comments previously submitted need not be
resubmitted.
DATES: The comment period for the notice published at 87 FR 39804 on
July 5, 2022, which was extended at 87 FR 50319 on August 16, 2022, is
reopened. Comments must be received during the reopened public comment
period from October 28, 2022 until November 3, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by NOAA-NMFS-2012-0104-
0456, by any of the following methods:
Electronic Submissions: Submit all electronic public comments via
the Federal eRulemaking Portal <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Email: Submit electronic public comments via the following NMFS
email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#b2dfd3d9d3da80828080c1d6d7dbc19cc5d1c0f2dcddd3d39cd5ddc4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6805090309005a585a5a1b0c0d011b461f0b1a2806070909460f071e">[email protected]</span></a>.
Mail: Submit written comments to: Grace Ferrara, NMFS West Coast
Region, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115.
Instructions: All comments received are a part of the public record
and will generally be posted to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> without
change. All Personal Identifying Information (for example, name,
address, etc.) voluntarily submitted by the commenter may be publicly
accessible. Do not submit Confidential Business Information or
otherwise sensitive or protected information.
NMFS will accept anonymous comments (enter N/A in the required
fields, if you wish to remain anonymous). You may submit attachments to
electronic comments in Microsoft Word, Excel, WordPerfect, or Adobe PDF
file formats only.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Grace Ferrara, NMFS Northwest Region,
(206) 526-6172, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#deb3bfb5bfb6eceeececadbabbb7adf0a9bdac9eb0b1bfbff0b9b1a8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4924282228217b797b7b3a2d2c203a673e2a3b0927262828672e263f">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 1, 2022, NMFS issued a Supplemental
Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) regarding the Makah
Tribe's request to resume ceremonial and subsistence harvest of eastern
North Pacific gray whales and announced a 45-day comment period on the
SDEIS. During the comment period, we received a request to extend the
public comment period and agreed to extend the public comment period by
60 days, to close on October 14, 2022. On October 6, 2022, we received
a second request to extend the public comment period. While that
request was received too late to allow for an extension notice, we are
now reopening the comment period for an additional 7 days, from
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October 28, 2022 through November 3, 2022.
The SDEIS is available in electronic form on the internet at the
following address: <a href="https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/marine-mammal-protection/makah-tribal-whale-hunt">https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/marine-mammal-protection/makah-tribal-whale-hunt</a>. In addition, copies of the
SDEIS are available on CD by contacting Grace Ferrara (see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT).
Dated: October 19, 2022.
Kimberly Damon-Randall,
Director, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries
Service.
[FR Doc. 2022-23112 Filed 10-24-22; 8:45 am]
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