National Marine Fisheries Service Comments on the Draft Application for the Cook Inlet Tidal Energy Project

• Main Authors: I. Pilot, License Criteria
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Cairn; Beluga; Beluga whale; Beluga*; Delphinapterus leucas
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.222.7654; http://209.112.168.2/protectedresources/whales/beluga/development/orpc/fireisland/nmfscomments_orpc_licapp0509.pdf

This project must meet FERC’s criteria for Pilot projects to proceed under this licensing procedure. NMFS questions whether ORPC’s Cook Inlet project has 1) sufficiently met the criteria to avoid “sensitive ” locations and, 2) whether the draft license application is sufficient to support environmen...