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USFWS is preparing this EA to analyze the environmental impact of allowing current and future marine cable installations within the Mariana Trench National Wildlife Refuge (Trench NWR) and Mariana Trench Marine National Monument (MTMNM) in order to support more efficient environmental reviews.
USFWS is proposing to provide detailed analysis to support NEPA responsibilities for its decisions on current and future marine cable ROW applications. As part of that evaluation, USFWS proposes to grant RTI Solutions, Inc. dba HMB (HMB) two new right-of-way (ROW) permits, one to allow for installation, operation, and emergency access to a new BIFROST telecommunications cable within the Trench NWR and MTMNM, the other to bring HMB into compliance with operation and emergency access rights for the existing SEA-US (Southeast Asia-US) telecommunications cable that was installed in 2017.
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