ML050760463

Letter from WE Energies to Fws Revising Piping Plover Monitoring Framework

ML050760463
Person / Time
Site:	Point Beach
Issue date:	03/15/2005
From:	Cutright N We Energies
To:	James Smith Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, US Dept of Interior, Fish & Wildlife Service
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we energies 231 W. Michigan Street Milwaukee, WI 53203 www.we-energies.com March 15, 2005 Ms. Janet Smith U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 2661 Scott Tower Drive New Franken, WI 54229

Dear Ms. Smith:

Based on your letter of March 7, 2005, we agree to update the piping plover monitoring framework described in our letter of February 17, 2005, to incorporate your suggested changes to point 6:

1. No measures will be taken to enhance habitat suitability along the stretch of beach owned by We Energies near the Point Beach Nuclear Plant (PBNP);

2. An annual Piping Plover breeding census will be conducted at this location between June l and June 15, with atarget date of June 10 overthe term of the new license;

3. The International Piping Plover Breeding Census (JPPBC) guidelines will be followed, and an IPPBC individual census report will be completed each year;

4. The Green Bay office of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Bureau of Endangered Resources will be contacted on the same day that Piping Plovers are found nesting at this location;

5. Contacts with the natural resource agency staffs described in 4. will be used to discuss beach access on the property, measures to protect the nest, and additional monitoring requirements of the nest site;

6. If Piping Plovers are observed on the PBNP property, follow up surveys will be conducted in the same year; earlier and repeated surveys will be conducted the next year, continuing for as long as Piping Plovers are observed at the PBNP property.

Thank you for your response.

Noel J. Culiht, PhD V

Senior Terrestrial Ecologist*

We Energies cc:

Stacey Imboden - NRC Jim Knorr - NMC Kris McKinney - We Energies