Comment from Earthjustice
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Summary: The provided text is not a public comment but rather a collection of unrelated documents, including a USGS report on platinum deposits, a research article from the journal *Marine Policy* regarding the spatial intersection of high-seas fisheries and deep-sea mining, and a notice regarding a submission by Earthjustice. No specific stance on the proposed action is expressed in the provided text.
Please see enclosed additional attachments from Earthjustice on behalf of the Association of Village Council Presidents, Native Village of Eek, and Alaska Community Action on Toxics regarding the Commercial Leasing for Outer Continental Shelf Minerals Offshore Alaska—Request for Information and Interest
Attachments
- USGS Platinum deposits of Alaska _ U.S. Geological Survey (PDF)
- van der Grient (2021) Potential spatial intersection between high-seas fisherie (PDF)
- Vescovo (2025) The Economics of Deep-Sea Mining Dont Add Up (PDF)
- Wedding (2013) From principles to practice a spatial approach to systematic conservation planning in the deep sea (PDF)
- Wedding (2015) Managing mining of the deep seabed (PDF)
- Wernham (2007) Inupiat Health and Proposed Alaskan OIl Development (PDF)
- White House Fact Sheet (2016) (PDF)
- Williams (2022) Noise from deep-sea mining may span vast ocean areas (PDF)
- World Bank Group (2017) Precautionary Management of Deep sea minerals (PDF)
- Yao (2025) Development of deep-sea mining and its environmental impacts (PDF)
- Young (2023) Alaska Marine Mammal Stock Assessment_compressed (PDF)
- Young (2025) Threatened cetaceans in a potential deep seabed mining region (PDF)
- Zador (2017) Ecosystem Considerations 2017 Status of the GOA marine Ecosystem (PDF)
- Von Duyke (2020) Ringed seal Pusa hispida seasonal (PDF)