From: Emily Lindow

To: Talbott, Joseph C

Cc: Ryan Wulff

Subject: Re: 1001-03b and 1101-02a(2) Camden Bay EP - Draft EA Review

Date: Thursday, July 28, 2011 7:28:45 AM

Attachments: Consolidated Draft Shell 2012 Camden Bay EP EA NOAA Comments 7_28_11.pdf

Consolidated Draft Shell 2012 Camden Bay EP EA NOAA Comments 7_28_11 summary.pdf

Supplemental Figures to AFSC Comments_BeaufortSeaPlanningArea_EA20110727 (3).docx

Hi Joe - I am attaching three documents. The first is the full EA with NOAA

comments inserted. The second is a pdf summary of the comments. The third is a

supplement to one of the comments with maps (it could not be incorporated into the

pdf review). A significant amount of staff work went into producing these

comments, including multiple reviewers from the NMFS AK Science Center, NMFS AK

Regional Office, NMFS Office of Protected Resources, and NOS Office of Response

and Restoration. That being said, the short amount of time provided for our review

did not allow us to conduct as thorough and in-depth of a review as we would have

preferred. We would appreciate receiving a document that outlines any comments

or edits that are not accepted in the final EA, along with the associated reasoning.

This will be helpful in working out issues in advance for future NEPA reviews.

Thank you for the opportunity to participate,

Emily

On 7/21/2011 6:03 PM, Talbott, Joseph C wrote:

1001-03b and 1101-02a(2) Shell Camden Bay EP EA

Emily,

I have (finally) attached a .pdf of the 2012 Shell Camden Bay Exploration Plan EA for

your review. Please use Adobe Acrobat’s commenting and markup tools to add your

comments and return them to BOEMRE by close of business on Wednesday, July 27,

2011. Also, please ensure that all comments from NOAA are included in one document.

Off-line reviews are a little more time consuming to process and we don’t have the luxury

of a lot of time on the other end to respond to the comments and finalize the document.

Regarding the deadline, if you get your comments to me by 11:00 AM on Thursday, July

28th that would be fine too (allowing for the time difference).

Please ask your reviewers to focus on content (instead of format, grammar, etc.) as the

EA will be going through some fine-tuning by our editor staff during the next few days to

ensure consistency of writing style and document structure / format. Also, comments that

indicate that specific portions of text should be changed should also include the

suggested replacement text to ensure that they can be processed quickly and fully

understood on this end.

Comments don’t need to be made on the table of contents, headers and footers, table

formats, citation lists, etc. as they are automatically prepared or are in the process of

being finalized over the next few days.

I hope the review process will go well for you and I am looking forward to receiving your

comments.

I will be out of the office tomorrow but, if you have any problems at all, feel free to call

me on my cell phone at: (907) 242-1556.
Thanks,

Joe

Joseph C. Talbott

NEPA Coordinator

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,

Regulation and Enforcement

3801 Centerpoint Drive, Suite 500

Anchorage, AK 99503

(907) 334-5236

http://alaska.boemre.gov
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Author: NMFS Alaska Regional Office Subject: HighlightDate: 7/26/2011 2:08:23 PM 

It appears the WCD does not consider the timing of the discharge. We believe any WCD analysis for Arctic waters should include 

this important concept; the WCD being a spill just prior to ice formation.

Author: NMFS Alaska Regional Office Subject: HighlightDate: 7/26/2011 2:08:01 PM 

Are these zones known with high certainty?

Author: NMFS Alaska Regional Office Subject: HighlightDate: 7/26/2011 2:07:48 PM 

Please describe what is meant by the initial operational period here.

Author: NMFS Alaska Regional Office Subject: HighlightDate: 7/26/2011 2:07:31 PM 

Please describe the vessel of opportunity skimming system.

Author: NMFS Alaska Regional Office Subject: HighlightDate: 7/26/2011 2:07:07 PM 

An OST is not identified in Table 3. Where would this vessel be located?
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Author: NMFS Alaska Regional Office Subject: HighlightDate: 7/26/2011 2:37:49 PM 

We do not believe a WCD can be presented for the Arctic without consideration of the timing of the event, as this is a critical factor

for the spill containment and recovery.