Proposed Diapir Field Lease Offering, June 1984: Final Environmental Impact Statement, Nide 1The Service, 1984 |
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activities Alaska Alaska OCS Region analysis Anchorage Arctic associated barrels or greater barrier islands Beaufort Sea benthic bowhead whales caribou Chukchi Sea cleanup coast coastal birds Coastal Management construction Continental Shelf Diapir Field lease discharges disturbance dredging drilling Eastern Deletion Alternative exploration facilities Fairbanks federal feeding Field lease offering fish gravel gray whales habitat hunting hydrocarbons impacts increase Inupiat Kaktovik kilometers land lease area lease offering area Lessees located major marine and coastal marine mammals meters MINOR mitigating measures MODERATE nearshore noise North Slope Borough Nuiqsut occur offshore oil and gas oilspill oilspill risk onshore operations Outer Continental Shelf percent Petroleum pipeline planktonic planning area platforms Point Barrow polar bears policies population potential probably production projects proposed lease offering Prudhoe Bay reduced RESPONSE result ringed seals River Delta sea ice Section sediments seismic SOURCE species spills tankers transportation U.S. Dept Wildlife winter zone
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Sivu 44 - endangered species' means any species which is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range...
Sivu 39 - ... marine mammals have proven themselves to be resources of great international significance, esthetic and recreational as well as economic, and it is the sense of the Congress that they should be protected and encouraged to develop to the greatest extent feasible commensurate with sound policies of resource management and that the primary objective of their management should be to maintain the health and stability of the marine ecosystem.
Sivu i - Other measures, which are beyond the authority of this agency to apply, have also been identified. In spite of mitigating measures, some impacts are considered unavoidable. For instance...
Sivu 23 - Table 5, developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the Department of Commerce summarizes the impact of weather on heating fuel demand.
Sivu 14 - If any area of biological significance should be discovered during the conduct of any operations on the...
Sivu 21 - take" means to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct.
Sivu 6 - The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) share responsibilities for administering the Act.
Sivu 3 - OCS resources is an integral part of the National Energy Plan (Executive Office of the President, Energy Policy and Planning, 1977).
Sivu 3 - US has three overriding energy objectives : — as an immediate objective that will become even more important in the future, to reduce dependence on foreign oil and vulnerability to supply interruptions ; — in the medium term, to keep US imports sufficiently low to weather the period when world oil production approaches its capacity limitation ; and — in the long term, to have renewable and essentially inexhaustible sources of energy for sustained economic growth.
Sivu 3 - ... exploration and development of oil and gas resources on the outer continental shelf (OCS) . To help meet the energy needs of the nation, these resources must be developed as rapidly and yet as carefully as possible.