Final environmental assessment for the issuance of incidental harassment authorizations for the take of marine mammals by harassment incidental to conducting open-water seismic and geohazard surveys in the U.S. Beaufort Sea Environmental Assessment (EA) on the issuance of a marine mammal incidental take authorization to SAExploration, Inc. to take marine mammals by harassment incidental to 3D seismic survey in the Beaufort Sea, Alaska

National Marine Fisheries Service proposes to issue Incidental Harassment Authorizations (IHAs) to SA Exploration, Inc. (SAE) and Hilcorp Alaska, LLC (Hilcorp) for the take of marine mammals incidental to conducting open-water seismic and geohazard surveys in the U.S. Beaufort Sea in 2015.