Incidental Take Authorization: Port of Alaska's Construction Activities for the Port of Alaska Modernization Program Phase 2B: Cargo Terminal Replacement Project in Anchorage, Alaska

NOAA Fisheries received a request from the Don Young Port of Alaska for authorization to take marine mammals incidental to the Cargo Terminals Replacement Project at the existing port facility in Anchorage, Alaska over the course of 5 construction seasons (2026 - 2030). NOAA Fisheries is proposing regulations setting forth permissible methods of taking, other means of effecting the least practicable adverse impact on such marine mammal stocks (i.e., mitigation measures), and requirements pertaining to monitoring and reporting such takes and requests comments on the proposed regulations.