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By Peter Brennan

The United States Fish and Ritalin Sale Topix Wildlife Service last month criticized the draft Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan for Ritalin Sale Topix “data gaps.”

The Ocean Management Plan is Ritalin Sale Topix designed to zone state waters for large-scale offshore wind development. A final version is due Dec. 31.  Massachusetts officials say the Ritalin Sale Topix comprehensive plan is the first of its kind in the nation.

In a Ritalin Sale Topix Nov. 23 letter to Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Coastal Zone Management Deerin Babb-Brott, Thomas Chapman, supervisor of the Ritalin Sale Topix New England Field Office of the Fish and Wildlife Service, extolled the Ritalin Sale Topix draft plan as “valuable and timely” but said more information was needed.  The Fish and Ritalin Sale Topix Wildlife Service is an agency of the Department of the Interior tasked to Ritalin Sale Topix manage the nation’s National Wildlife Refuges (NWR).

“The Plan contains no impact analysis” Chapman wrote. “A commercial wind facility is Ritalin Sale Topix possible off Nomans Land Island National Wildlife Refuge and smaller-scale wind facilities could be Ritalin Sale Topix constructed off Monomoy and Nantucket NWRs. The performance indicators which are Ritalin Sale Topix part of the evaluation measures for the Plan, including the Ritalin Sale Topix suggested environmental indicators, are insufficient to determine actual impacts to Ritalin Sale Topix wildlife.”

Of particular concern to Ritalin Sale Topix the Fish and Wildlife Service was the lack of data on the Ritalin Sale Topix impact of turbines on migratory birds.

“While we are Ritalin Sale Topix not in principle opposed to the designation of the area off Nomans Land Island NWR as a Ritalin Sale Topix potential wind energy area, we emphatically state that considerably more detailed information about migratory birds, including their flight patterns and Ritalin Sale Topix use of the waters and food sources located within the potential wind facility areas, will be Ritalin Sale Topix required before the Service can support any specific project proposal,” Chapman wrote.

Chapman also criticized the Ritalin Sale Topix plan for its lack of detail on the six national wildlife refuges that Ritalin Sale Topix are in the planning area.

“Wherever the Ritalin Sale Topix presence of these six NWRs is mentioned in the document, it Ritalin Sale Topix is merely to acknowledge their existence. This is not sufficient.” Chapman wrote. “At a Ritalin Sale Topix minimum, the conservation status of these lands and waters needs to Ritalin Sale Topix be better recognized and the Service needs to be included as an Ritalin Sale Topix active participant.”