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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Committee Meeting Agenda and Participant List." National Research Council. 2012. Scientific Review of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Drakes Bay Oyster Company Special Use Permit. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13461.
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APPENDIX D

Committee Meeting Agenda and Participant List

July 9-12, 2012

The National Academies’ Beckman Center

Monday, July 9, 2012

CLOSED SESSION (8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.)

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

CLOSED SESSION (8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)

OPEN SESSION (Room: Huntington)

1:00 p.m. Welcome and Introduction Warren Muir, Exec. Director, Division on Earth and Life Studies, NAS/NRC
     
1:15 p.m. Discussion of the process and science used to prepare the following documents:  

image    Draft Environmental Impact Statement Drakes Bay Oyster Company Special Use Permit (NPS, 2011)

image    Final Report on Peer Review of the Science Used in the National Park Service’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement Drakes Bay Oyster Company Special Use Permit (Atkins, 2011)

image    Comments on Drakes Bay Oyster Company Special Use Permit Environmental Impact Statement Point Reyes National Seashore (Environ, 2011)

image    Mariculture and Harbor Seals in Drakes Estero, California (MMC, 2011)

 

3:00 p.m. Break
     
3:30 p.m. Public Comments and Discussion
     
5:30 p.m. Open Session Adjourns

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

CLOSED SESSION (8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.)

Thursday, July 12, 2012

CLOSED SESSION (8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.)

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Committee Meeting Agenda and Participant List." National Research Council. 2012. Scientific Review of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Drakes Bay Oyster Company Special Use Permit. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13461.
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Participant List

(Limited to those who participated in person)

Gordon Bennett, SOS

Julie Cart, LA Times

Jeffrey Creque, Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture

Melanie Gunn, National Park Service

Brannon Ketcham, National Park Service

Kevin Lunny, Drakes Bay Oyster Company

Cicely Muldoon, National Park Service

Dominique Richard

Amy Trainer, EAC

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Committee Meeting Agenda and Participant List." National Research Council. 2012. Scientific Review of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Drakes Bay Oyster Company Special Use Permit. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13461.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Committee Meeting Agenda and Participant List." National Research Council. 2012. Scientific Review of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Drakes Bay Oyster Company Special Use Permit. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13461.
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In May 2012, the National Park Service (NPS) asked the National Research Council to conduct a scientific review of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) to evaluate the effects of issuing a Special Use Permit for the commercial shellfish operation in Drakes Estero for a ten year time span. Drakes Bay Oyster Company (DBOC) currently operates the shellfish farm in Drakes Estero, part of Point Reyes National Seashore, under a reservation of use and occupancy that will expire on November 30, 2012 if a new Special Use Permit is not issued. Congress granted the Secretary of the Interior the discretionary authority to issue a new ten year Special Use Permit in 2009; hence, the Secretary now has the option to proceed with or delay the conversion of Drakes Estero to wilderness. To inform this decision, the NPS drafted an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the DBOC Special Use Permit. Under the National Environmental policy Act (NEPA), as EIS is prepared to inform the public and agency decision-makers regarding the potential environmental impacts of a proposed federal action and reasonable alternatives. The Department of the Interior commissioned a peer review of the DEIS that was released in March 2012.

Scientific Review of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Drakes Bay Oyster Company Special Use Permit reviews the scientific information presented in the DEIS that is used to determine the potential environmental impacts of a ten year extension of DBOC operations. In particular, this report responds to the following tasks given to the committee: assess the scientific information, analysis, and conclusions presented in the DEIS for Drakes Bay Oyster Company Special Use Permit, and evaluate whether the peer review of the DEIS is fundamentally sound and materially sufficient. Scientific Review of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Drakes Bay Oyster Company Special Use Permit focuses on eight of twelve resource categories considered in the DEIS: wetlands, eelgrass, wildlife and wildlife habitat, special-status species, coastal flood zones, soundscapes, water quality, and socioeconomic resources.
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