ML20076M989
| ML20076M989 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Hope Creek  |
| Issue date: | 07/18/1983 |
| From: | Chezik M INTERIOR, DEPT. OF, FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE |
| To: | Schwencer A Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8307210172 | |
| Download: ML20076M989 (2) | |
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UNITED STATES
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 5
J FISH AND WggF SERVICE 315 South Allen Street State College, Pennsylvania 16801
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f July 18, 1983 Albert Schwencer, Chief 1
Licensing Branch No. 2 Division of Licensing Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20555
Dear Mr. Schwencer:
2 Thank you for your June 29, 1983 invitation to participate in a site inspection for the Hope Creek Generating Station, Lower Alloways Township, Salem County, New Jerey, during the week of July 25, 1983.
Regretfully, a representative of the Service's a
Division of Ecological Services is unable to attend.
- However, Mr. Joseph Miller, Leader of the Service's Delaware River Basin Anadromous Fishery Project, P.O. Box 95, Rosemont, New Jersey 08556 (609-397-0115) may be interested in attending.
Regarding endangered species, except for occasional transient species, no federally listed or proposed endangered or threatened 3
species under our jurisdiction are known to exist in the project
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area.
Therefore, no Biological Assessment or further Section 7 consultation under the Endagered Species Act (87 Stat. 884, as amended; 16 U.S.C.
1531 et seq.) is required with the Service.
Should project plans change, or if additional information becomes available, this determination may be reconsidered.
A list of
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federally designated endangered and threatened species New Jersey is enclosed for your information.
Sincerely, r
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Michael T. Chezik Acting Field Supervisor Enclosure i.
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, FEDERALLY LISTED ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES
. e IN NEW JERSEY Common Name Scientific Name Status Distribution FISHES:-
Sturgeon, shortnose*
Acipenser brevirost'.um E
Hudson and Delaware Rivers plus other Atlantic' coastal rivers o
REPTILES:
Turtle, green
- Chelonia mydas T
Oceanic summer visitor coastal waters Turtle, hawksbill*
Eretmochelys imbricata.
E Oceanic summer visitor coastal waters e
Turtle, leatherback*
Dermochelys coriacea E
Oceanic summer visitor coastal waters Turtle, loggerhead
- Caretta caretta T
Oceanic summer resident coastal waters rarely nests:
Cape Iby and Atlantic Counties Turtle, Atlantic Lepidochelys kempii E
Oceanic summer resident
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coastal waters ridley
- BIRDS:
Eagle, bald Haliaeetus leucocephalus E
Entire state Falcon, American Falco peregrinus anatum E
Entire state -
re-establishment to peregrine former br'eeding range in progress Falcon, Arctic Falco peregrinus tundrius_
E Entire state migratory -
f no nesting s.
MAMMALS _:
Felis concolor cougar.
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Entire state - probably Cougar, eastern-extinct Whale, blue
- Balaenoptera musculus E-Oceanic Whale, finback*
.Balaenoptera physalus E.
Oceanic Whale, humpback
- Megaptera novaeangliae E
Oceanic Whale, right*
Eubalaena spp. (all species)
E Oceanic Whale, sei*
Balaenoptera borealis F
Oceanic a-Whale, sperm
- Physeter catodon E:
Oceanic MOLLUSKS:
None PLANTS:
Small whorled pogonia 'Isotria medeoloides E
Bergen (Franklin Lakes,.
Closter), Mercer- (Trenton),
and Sussex (Montague, Sparta,Hainesville)
Counties
- Except for sea turtle nesting habitat, principal responsibility for these species I
is vested with the National Marine Fisheries Service.
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