Interactive Public Docket: Marine Mammals

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	•	Mitigation

	•	Extrapolation From Terrestrial Mammal Acoustic Effects to Marine Mammals

	•	Cumulative and Synergistic Effects

	•	Indirect Effects

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	•	MMS

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	•	NAS

	•	US Navy

	•	Sperm Whale Seismic Study

	•	ICES

	•	Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Institute

	•	NRDC

	•	ACCOBAMS

	•	The Acoustic Ecology Institute

	•	ASCOBANS

	•	Fisheries and Oceans Canada

	•	Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Limited

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Soundings Archive

MMS Seeks Comment on Environmental Reviews for Two GOM Lease Sales
The U.S. Minerals Management Service seeks public comment on the Service's Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Lease Sale 224 in the Eastern Planning Area for the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf. Comments on this SEIS are due to MMS by December 3, 2007.

The MMS also seeks public comment on the Services' Environmental Assessment for the Central Planning Area for the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Self. Comments on this EA are due to MMS by November 29, 2007.

Click here for general information on both environmental reviews

Click here for Lease Sale 224 SEIS

Click here for Lease Sale 206 EA