[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 205 (Tuesday, October 25, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64454-64455]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[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 http://www.regulations.gov.
    Email: Submit electronic public comments via the following NMFS 
email address: [email protected].
    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 http://www.regulations.gov 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, [email protected].

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: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/marine-mammal-protection/makah-tribal-whale-hunt. 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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