ML20076M989

Notifies That Representative of Div of Ecological Svcs Unable to Attend Site Insp During Wk of 830725.No Federally Listed or Threatened Species Under Doi Jurisdiction Known to Exist in Project Area

ML20076M989
Person / Time
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
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NUDOCS 8307210172
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 5 J '

FISH AND WggF SERVICE

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July 18, 1983 f

Albert Schwencer, Chief 1 Licensing Branch No. 2 -

Division of Licensing Nuclear Regulatory Commission _

Washington, D.C. 20555 _

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Dear Mr. Schwencer:

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 ]

federally designated endangered and threatened species New Jersey is enclosed for your information.

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Michael T. Chezik Acting Field Supervisor Enclosure -

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.e .. - , FEDERALLY LISTED ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES IN NEW JERSEY Scientific Name Status Distribution Common Name FISHES:- E Hudson and Delaware Sturgeon, shortnose* Acipenser brevirost'.um

. Rivers plus other Atlantic' coastal rivers ,

o REPTILES: T Oceanic summer visitor Turtle, green

• Chelonia mydas coastal waters ,

Eretmochelys imbricata. E Oceanic summer visitor Turtle, hawksbill* coastal waters e

Dermochelys coriacea E Oceanic summer visitor Turtle, leatherback* coastal waters -

T Oceanic summer resident Turtle, loggerhead

• Caretta caretta coastal waters rarely nests:

Cape Iby and Atlantic Counties

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Lepidochelys kempii E Oceanic summer resident Turtle, Atlantic coastal waters ridley

• BIRDS:

Eagle, bald Haliaeetus leucocephalus E Entire state Falco peregrinus anatum E Entire state - ,

Falcon, American re-establishment to peregrine former br'eeding ,

range in progress Falco peregrinus tundrius_ E Entire state migratory -

Falcon, Arctic no nesting f

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MAMMALS _: Entire state - probably Felis concolor cougar. E:

• Cougar, eastern- ,

extinct Balaenoptera musculus E- Oceanic Whale, blue

• Oceanic

.Balaenoptera physalus E.

Whale, finback* E Oceanic

- Whale, humpback

• Megaptera novaeangliae Eubalaena spp. (all species) E Oceanic Whale, right*

Balaenoptera borealis F Oceanic Whale, sei*

a-Physeter catodon E: Oceanic Whale, sperm * ,

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. l

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