Notes
NMFS No. WSB-00-318. Letter dated August 9, 2001 from NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Acting Regional Administrator Donna Darm to Lowell H. Johnson, Manager Airport Division, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), regarding Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) consultation under Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) Section 305(b)(2) and 50 CFR 600 for Master Plan Update Improvements at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Action area includes habitats designated as EFH for chinook, coho, and Puget Sound pink salmon. NMFS concludes effects are transient, local, and of low intensity, not likely to adversely affect EFH long-term. Conservation measures proposed by FAA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) are adequate; NMFS has no additional conservation recommendations. Reinitiation required if action is substantially revised. CC to Colonel Ralph H. Graves and Muffy Walker, ACOE.