50 CFR 221.72 - What will NMFS do with a proposed alternative?

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Title 50: Wildlife and Fisheries

CHAPTER II: NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

SUBCHAPTER C: MARINE MAMMALS

PART 221: PRESCRIPTIONS IN FERC HYDROPOWER LICENSES

Subpart C: Alternatives Process

221.72 - What will NMFS do with a proposed alternative

If any license party proposes an alternative to a preliminary prescription under ? 221.71(a)(1), NMFS must do the following within 60 days after the deadline for filing comments to FERC's NEPA document under 18 CFR 5.25(c):

(a) Analyze the alternative under ? 221.73; and

(b) File with FERC:

(1) Any prescription that NMFS adopts as its modified prescription; and

(2) Its analysis of the modified prescription and any proposed alternatives under ? 221.73(c).

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