How does the FEIS approach the issue of wetland loss?
The potential impacts of the proposed program on wetlands and other coastal habitats are analyzed in the FEIS. Several activities associated with OCS development have the potential to affect wetlands including oil spills, pipeline landfalls, vessel traffic, and navigation channel dredging and maintenance. The cumulative analyses consider these effects along with other factors that impact wetlands not associated with OCS activity including coastal land development, onshore and coastal oil and gas development, land subsidence, sea level rise, diversion of sediment as a result of river stabilization projects and upstream dam construction, and others.
