[15.1] Backport-366617-Owners alone can use group protected environments API

What does this MR do and why?

Backport related issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/release/tasks/-/issues/4213

We are combining both the below MR's here as discussed in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/release/tasks/-/issues/4213#note_1075436291:

!92801 (merged)

!94857 (merged)

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Related to #366617 (closed)