# Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Termination of the Southern Sea Otter Translocation Program; Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Translocation of Southern Sea Otters
> **US Department of the Interior** · Notice of availability. · Published 2012-11-09 · 77 FR 67302
## Document
- **Document number:** 2012-27310
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of the Interior
- **Federal Register citation:** 77 FR 67302
- **CFR reference:** 50 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 2012-11-09
- **Interior docket:** FWS-R8-FHC-2011-0046
## Abstract

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the availability of our final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on the Translocation of Southern Sea Otters (final SEIS). The final SEIS evaluates options for continuing, revising, or terminating the southern sea otter translocation program, which was initiated in 1987. The purpose of the program was to achieve a primary recovery action for the southern sea otter: to create an established population at San Nicolas Island sufficient to repopulate other areas of the range should a catastrophic event affect the mainland population. The document describes the proposed action and alternatives under consideration and discloses the direct, indirect, and cumulative environmental effects of each of the alternatives.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2012/11/09/2012-27310/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-termination-of-the-southern-sea-otter-translocation)
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