A single Federal Register notice quietly defines how a public marine infrastructure program measures and limits its acoustic footprint on marine mammals. The document of interest was published on 11 Aug 2026 and frames the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission's marine facilities replacement program in North Puget Sound, Washington as the action under review. The notice is administered by the National Marine Fisheries Service under the Marine Mammal Protection Act incidental take framework. For specifiers, the value of the document is the test methodology, the geographic envelope, and the monitoring vocabulary it locks in for any contractor doing pile driving, removal, or construction noise work in that area. [S1]
If you are specifying measurement, hydroacoustic monitoring, or protected species observer protocols for a marine construction contract in the Pacific Northwest, this notice sets the baseline that any state or federal review will reference. The Federal Register entry is the place where the activity, the geographic extent, and the regulatory approach are first bound together. Specifiers can treat it as a controlling reference for what counts as a qualified take estimate, what monitoring methods are recognized, and what regional stock delineation is being used for the affected marine mammal populations in North Puget Sound. Anything that departs from the framing established here invites comments during the public comment period and scrutiny during the final rule stage. [S1]
Why this notice matters
This is a buying event, not a thought piece. If you specify, bid, or qualify measurement & test, the notice is the thing to read before anyone updates a vendor list. The ledger accepted it as a Federal Register record for United States. [S1]
Buyers and makers who already quote measurement & test should treat this as a live Federal Register event in United States, not as a market essay. If the URL is a listing hub rather than a single notice, stop at the source and do not infer a lot value that the excerpt does not state. [S1]
What the ledger recorded
The English filing title is: Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; Taking Marine Mammals Incidental to the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission's Marine Facilities Replacement Program in North Puget Sound, Washington. Product term on the ledger: measurement & test. Geography: United States. Notice date: 11 Aug 2026. [S1]
The ledger kept the Federal Register URL as the only primary source for this event. Open that page for quantities, lots, and dates. [S1]
Source and next check
Open the primary notice and confirm scope, dates, quantities, and whether your specification is actually inside it. [S1]
Primary URL kept on the ledger: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/11/2026-16329/takes-of-marine-mammals-incidental-to-specified-activities-taking-marine-mammals-incidental-to-the. [S1]
Primary notice: Federal Register.