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  sbullet.gif (920 bytes) Biological Opinion for Beaufort and Chukchi Sea Program Area Lease Sales and associated Seismic Surveys and Exploratory Drilling, September 3, 2009
     
Biological Evaluation: An Assessment of the Potential Effects of Oil and Gas Leasing Activities in the Beaufort Sea and Chukchi Sea Planning Areas on Steller's Eider (Polysticta stelleri), Spectacled Eider (Somateria fischeri), Kittlitz's Murrelet (Brachyramphus brevirostris), Yellow-billed Loon (Gavia adamsii), and Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus)
  sbullet.gif (920 bytes) Amended Biological Opinion for Northstar and Liberty Projects, September 1, 2009
  sbullet.gif (920 bytes) Biological Opinion for Oil and Gas Leasing and Exploration Activities in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, Alaska; and Authorization of Small Takes Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, July 2008 (8.9 MB, 143 pages)
      Supplemental to the 2006 Biological Evaluation of the Potential Effects of Oil & Gas Leasing and Exploration in the Alaska OCS Beaufort Sea and Chukchi Sea Planning Areas on Endangered Bowhead Whales (Balaena mysticetus), Fin Whales (Balaenoptera physalus), and Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)
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Biological Opinion for Chukchi Sea Planning Area, Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193 and Associated Seismic Surveys and Exploratory Drilling, March 2007  Biological Opinion Sections 1 thru 5 (4.4 MB, 55 pages); Sections 6 - Appendices (4.5 MB, 87 pages);  Complete Biological Opinion (8.8 MB, 120 pages)
   
Biological Evaluation of Spectacled Eider (Somateria fischeri), Steller's Eider (Polysticta stelleri), and Kittlitz's Murrelet (Brachyramphus brevirostris) for Chukchi Sea Lease Sale 193
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Biological Opinion for Oil & Gas Leasing & Exploration Activities in the U.S. Beaufort & Chukchi Seas, Alaska, Arctic Regional Biological Opinion (ARBO), 2006
   
Biological Evaluation of Steller's Eider (Polysticta steleri), Spectacled Eider (Somateria fisheri), & Kittlitz's Murrelet (Brachyramphus brevirostris) for Seismic Surveys in the northeast Chukchi Sea and western Beaufort Sea Planning Areas, March 2006
   
Biological Evaluation of the Potential Effects of Oil & Gas Leasing & Exploration in the Alaska OCS Beaufort Sea & Chukchi Sea Planning Areas on Endangered Bowhead Whales (Balaena mysticetus), Fin Whales (Balaenoptera physalus), and Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), March 2006
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Biological Opinion - Section 7 Consultation for Proposed Beaufort Sea Natural Gas and Oil Lease Sale 186, October 22, 2002 
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Biological Opinion - Section 7 Consultation, for Oil & Gas Lease Sale 149, Cook Inlet, Alaska, 1995

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