80 FR 49265 - Outer Continental Shelf, Gulf of Mexico, Oil and Gas Lease Sale, Central Planning Area Lease Sale 247
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 158 (August 17, 2015)
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 158 (August 17, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-20262 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 158 (Monday, August 17, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 49265-49266] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-20262] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Ocean Energy Management [Docket No. BOEM-2015-0093; MMAA104000] Outer Continental Shelf, Gulf of Mexico, Oil and Gas Lease Sale, Central Planning Area Lease Sale 247 AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Interior. ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and an Announcement of Scoping Meetings and Comment Period for Proposed Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Central Planning Area Lease Sale 247. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: Consistent with the regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), BOEM is announcing its intent to prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for proposed Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Central Planning Area (CPA) Oil and Gas Lease Sale 247 (CPA 247 Supplemental EIS). The CPA 247 Supplemental EIS will expand or update the environmental and socioeconomic analyses in: Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales: 2012-2017; Western Planning Area Lease Sales 229, 233, 238, 246, and 248; Central Planning Area Lease Sales 227, 231, 235, 241, and 247, Final Environmental Impact Statement (2012-2017 WPA/CPA Multisale EIS); Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales: 2013-2014; Western Planning Area Lease Sale 233; Central Planning Area Lease Sale 231, Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (WPA 233/CPA 231 Supplemental EIS); Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales: 2015-2017; Central Planning Area Lease Sales 235, 241, and 247, Final Supplemental EIS (CPA 235/241/247 Supplemental EIS); and Central Planning Area Lease Sales 241 and 247 and Eastern Planning Area Lease Sale 226, Final Supplemental EIS (CPA 241/247 and EPA 226 Supplemental EIS). The CPA 247 Supplemental EIS will supplement the NEPA documents cited above in order to consider new circumstances and information arising from, among other things, the Deepwater Horizon explosion, oil spill, and response. It will focus on updating the baseline conditions and any new information on the potential environmental effects of oil and natural gas leasing, exploration, development, and production in the CPA identified through the Area Identification procedure as the proposed lease sale area. In addition to the no action alternative (i.e., canceling a proposed lease sale), other alternatives may be considered for the proposed CPA lease sales, such as deferring certain areas from the proposed lease sale area. DATES: Comments on the scope of the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS should be submitted by September 16, 2015. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information on the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS or the submission of comments, please contact Mr. Gary D. Goeke, Chief, Environmental Assessment Section, Office of Environment (GM 623E), BOEM, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood [[Page 49266]] Park Boulevard, New Orleans, LA 70123-2394, telephone 504-736-3233. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 27, 2012, the Secretary of the Interior approved the OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program: 2012-2017 (2012- 2017 Five Year Program). This Supplemental EIS will consider the last CPA sale for this 2012-2017 Five Year Program. Proposed CPA Lease Sale 247 is tentatively scheduled to be held in 2017. Scoping Process: This Notice of Intent (NOI) serves to announce the scoping process for identifying issues for the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS. Throughout the scoping process, Federal, State, Tribal, and local governments and the general public have the opportunity to help BOEM determine significant resources and issues, impacting factors, reasonable alternatives, and potential mitigating measures to be analyzed in the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS, and to provide additional information. BOEM will also use the scoping process to inform the Section 106 consultation process of the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470f), as provided for in 36 CFR 800.2(d)(3). Pursuant to the regulations implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA, the BOEM will hold public scoping meetings in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi on the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS. The purpose of these meetings is to solicit comments on the scope of the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS. BOEM's scoping meetings will be held at the following places and times:Mobile, Alabama: Tuesday, September 1, 2015, Hilton Garden Inn Mobile West, 828 West I-65 Service Road South, Mobile, Alabama 36609, one meeting beginning at 4:00 p.m. CDT; Gulfport, Mississippi: Wednesday, September 2, 2015, Courtyard by Marriott, Gulfport Beachfront MS Hotel, 1600 East Beach Boulevard, Gulfport, Mississippi 39501, one meeting beginning at 6:00 p.m. CDT; and New Orleans, Louisiana: Thursday, September 3, 2015, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70123, one meeting beginning at 1:00 p.m. CDT. Cooperating Agency: BOEM invites other Federal, State, Tribal, and local governments to consider becoming cooperating agencies in the preparation of the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS. We invite qualified government entities to inquire about cooperating agency status for the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS. Following the guidelines from the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), qualified agencies and governments are those with ``jurisdiction by law or special expertise.'' Potential cooperating agencies should consider their authority and capacity to assume the responsibilities of a cooperating agency and should remember that an agency's role in the environmental analysis neither enlarges nor diminishes the final decision making authority of any other agency involved in the NEPA process. Upon request, BOEM will provide potential cooperating agencies with a written summary of ground rules for cooperating agencies, including time schedules and critical action dates, milestones, responsibilities, scope and detail of cooperating agencies' contributions, and availability of predecisional information. BOEM anticipates this summary will form the basis for a Memorandum of Agreement between BOEM and any cooperating agency pursuant to 43 CFR 46.225. Agencies should also consider DOI's implementing regulation at 43 CFR part 46 and the ``Factors for Determining Cooperating Agency Status'' in Attachment 1 to CEQ's January 30, 2002, Memorandum for the Heads of Federal Agencies: Cooperating Agencies in Implementing the Procedural Requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. The CEQ documents are available at the following location on the Internet: http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/nepapub/nepa_documents/RedDont/G-CEQCoopAgenciesImplem.pdf. BOEM, as the lead agency, will not provide financial assistance to cooperating agencies. Even if an organization is not a cooperating agency, opportunities will exist to provide information and comments to BOEM during the normal public input stages of the EIS process. For further information about cooperating agencies, please contact Mr. Gary D. Goeke at (504) 736-3233. Comments: All interested parties, including Federal, State, Tribal, and local governments, and other organizations and members of the public, may submit written comments on the scope of the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS, significant issues that should be addressed, alternatives that should be considered, potential mitigating measures, and the types of oil and gas activities of interest in the proposed CPA lease sale area. BOEM is also seeking public comment and input regarding the identification of historic properties or potential effects, as defined by the National Historic Preservation Act, to historic properties from the proposed action. Written comments may be submitted in one of the following ways: 1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. In the field entitled ``Search'' enter ``BOEM'' and then click ``search.'' Under ``Comment Period'' select ``Open'' and under ``Document Type'' select ``Notice''. Choose the ``Notice'' for ``Oil and Gas Lease Sales: Gulf of Mexico, Outer Continental Shelf; Central Planning Area Lease Sale 247.'' Follow the instructions to submit public comments and view supporting and related materials available for this notice; 2. U.S. mail in an envelope labeled ``Scoping Comments for the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS'' and mailed (or hand delivered) to Mr. Gary D. Goeke, Chief, Environmental Assessment Section, Office of Environment (GM 623E), BOEM, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70123-2394. Comments must be postmarked by the last day of the comment period to be considered. As noted in the ``Dates'' section above, the comment period ends on September 16, 2015. 3. Via electronic mail to email address: [email protected]. Petitions, although accepted, do not generally provide useful information to assist in the development of alternatives, resources, and issues to be analyzed, or impacting factors. BOEM does not consider anonymous comments; please include your name and address as part of your submittal. BOEM makes all comments, including the names and addresses of respondents, available for public review during regular business hours. Before including your address, phone number, email address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--including your personal identifying information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. Authority: This NOI to prepare a Supplemental EIS is published pursuant to the regulations (40 CFR 1501.7 and 43 CFR 46.435) implementing the provisions of NEPA. Dated: August 11, 2015. Walter D. Cruickshank, Deputy Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. [FR Doc. 2015-20262 Filed 8-13-15; 11:15 am] BILLING CODE 4310-MR-P
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: jurisdiction over child custody SUMMARY: Consistent with the
Evangeline Campbell, (202) 513–7621. proceedings. The collection of regulations implementing the National
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: information provides data that will be Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as
used in considering the petition and amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), BOEM
I. Abstract feasibility of the plan of the Tribe for is announcing its intent to prepare a
The BIA is seeking to renew the reassumption of jurisdiction over Indian Supplemental Environmental Impact
information collection conducted under child custody proceedings. We collect Statement (EIS) for proposed Gulf of
25 CFR 13, which prescribed procedures the following information: Full name, Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)
by which an Indian tribe that occupies address, and telephone; number of Central Planning Area (CPA) Oil and
a reservation over which a state asserts petitioning Tribe or Tribes; a Tribal Gas Lease Sale 247 (CPA 247
any jurisdiction pursuant to federal law resolution; estimated total number of Supplemental EIS). The CPA 247
may reassume jurisdiction over Indian members in the petitioning Tribe of Supplemental EIS will expand or
child proceedings as authorized by the Tribes with an explanation of how the update the environmental and
Indian Child Welfare Act, Public Law number was estimated; current criteria socioeconomic analyses in: Gulf of
95–608, 92 Stat. 3069, 25 U.S.C. 1918. for Tribal membership; citation to Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales:
II. Request for Comments provision in Tribal constitution 2012–2017; Western Planning Area
authorizing the Tribal governing body to Lease Sales 229, 233, 238, 246, and 248;
The BIA requests your comments on exercise jurisdiction over Indian child Central Planning Area Lease Sales 227,
this collection concerning: (a) The custody matters; description of Tribal 231, 235, 241, and 247, Final
necessity of this information collection court; copy of any Tribal ordinances or Environmental Impact Statement (2012–
for the proper performance of the Tribal court rules establishing 2017 WPA/CPA Multisale EIS); Gulf of
functions of the agency, including procedures or rules for exercise of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales:
whether the information will have jurisdiction over child custody matters; 2013–2014; Western Planning Area
practical utility; (b) The accuracy of the and all other information required by 25 Lease Sale 233; Central Planning Area
agency’s estimate of the burden (hours CFR 13.11. Response is required to Lease Sale 231, Final Supplemental
and cost) of the collection of obtain or retain a benefit. Environmental Impact Statement (WPA
information, including the validity of Type of Review: Extension without 233/CPA 231 Supplemental EIS); Gulf of
the methodology and assumptions used; change of currently approved collection. Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales:
(c) Ways we could enhance the quality, Respondents: Federally recognized 2015–2017; Central Planning Area Lease
utility, and clarity of the information to Tribes who submit Tribal reassumption Sales 235, 241, and 247, Final
be collected; and (d) Ways we could petitions for review and approval by the Supplemental EIS (CPA 235/241/247
minimize the burden of the collection of Secretary of the Interior. Supplemental EIS); and Central
the information on the respondents. Number of Respondents: 1, on Planning Area Lease Sales 241 and 247
Please note that an agency may not average. and Eastern Planning Area Lease Sale
conduct or sponsor, and an individual Frequency of Response: Annually. 226, Final Supplemental EIS (CPA 241/
need not respond to, a collection of Estimated Time per Response: 8 247 and EPA 226 Supplemental EIS).
information unless it has a valid OMB hours.
Control Number. The CPA 247 Supplemental EIS will
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden: supplement the NEPA documents cited
It is our policy to make all comments 8 hours.
available to the public for review at the above in order to consider new
Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour circumstances and information arising
location listed in the ADDRESSES section. Dollar Cost: $0.
Before including your address, phone from, among other things, the
number, email address or other personal Elizabeth K. Appel, Deepwater Horizon explosion, oil spill,
identifying information in your Director, Office of Regulatory Affairs and and response. It will focus on updating
comment, you should be aware that Collaborative Action—Indian Affairs. the baseline conditions and any new
your entire comment—including your [FR Doc. 2015–20139 Filed 8–14–15; 8:45 am] information on the potential
personal identifying information—may BILLING CODE 4337–15–P
environmental effects of oil and natural
be made publicly available at any time. gas leasing, exploration, development,
While you can ask us in your comment and production in the CPA identified
to withhold your personal identifying DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR through the Area Identification
information from public review, we procedure as the proposed lease sale
cannot guarantee that we will be able to Bureau of Ocean Energy Management area. In addition to the no action
do so. alternative (i.e., canceling a proposed
[Docket No. BOEM–2015–0093; lease sale), other alternatives may be
III. Data MMAA104000] considered for the proposed CPA lease
OMB Control Number: 1076–0112. sales, such as deferring certain areas
Title: Tribal Reassumption of Outer Continental Shelf, Gulf of from the proposed lease sale area.
Jurisdiction Over Child Custody Mexico, Oil and Gas Lease Sale,
Central Planning Area Lease Sale 247 DATES:Comments on the scope of the
Proceedings, 25 CFR 13.
CPA 247 Supplemental EIS should be
Brief Description of Collection: The AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy submitted by September 16, 2015.
collection of information will ensure Management (BOEM), Interior.
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that the provisions of Public Law 95– FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare a
608 are met. Any Indian Tribe that information on the CPA 247
Supplemental Environmental Impact
became subject to State jurisdiction Supplemental EIS or the submission of
Statement and an Announcement of
pursuant to the provisions of the Act of comments, please contact Mr. Gary D.
Scoping Meetings and Comment Period
August 15, 1953 (67 Stat. 588), as Goeke, Chief, Environmental
for Proposed Gulf of Mexico Outer
amended by title IV of the Act of April Assessment Section, Office of
Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Central
11, 1968 (82 Stat. 73,78), or pursuant to Environment (GM 623E), BOEM, Gulf of
Planning Area Lease Sale 247.
any other Federal law, may reassume Mexico OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood
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Park Boulevard, New Orleans, LA (CEQ), qualified agencies and comments may be submitted in one of
70123–2394, telephone 504–736–3233. governments are those with the following ways:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August ‘‘jurisdiction by law or special 1. Federal eRulemaking Portal:
27, 2012, the Secretary of the Interior expertise.’’ Potential cooperating http://www.regulations.gov. In the field
approved the OCS Oil and Gas Leasing agencies should consider their authority entitled ‘‘Search’’ enter ‘‘BOEM’’ and
Program: 2012–2017 (2012–2017 Five and capacity to assume the then click ‘‘search.’’ Under ‘‘Comment
Year Program). This Supplemental EIS responsibilities of a cooperating agency Period’’ select ‘‘Open’’ and under
will consider the last CPA sale for this and should remember that an agency’s ‘‘Document Type’’ select ‘‘Notice’’.
2012–2017 Five Year Program. Proposed role in the environmental analysis Choose the ‘‘Notice’’ for ‘‘Oil and Gas
CPA Lease Sale 247 is tentatively neither enlarges nor diminishes the final Lease Sales: Gulf of Mexico, Outer
scheduled to be held in 2017. decision making authority of any other Continental Shelf; Central Planning
Scoping Process: This Notice of Intent agency involved in the NEPA process. Area Lease Sale 247.’’ Follow the
(NOI) serves to announce the scoping Upon request, BOEM will provide instructions to submit public comments
process for identifying issues for the potential cooperating agencies with a and view supporting and related
CPA 247 Supplemental EIS. Throughout written summary of ground rules for
materials available for this notice;
the scoping process, Federal, State, cooperating agencies, including time
schedules and critical action dates, 2. U.S. mail in an envelope labeled
Tribal, and local governments and the ‘‘Scoping Comments for the CPA 247
general public have the opportunity to milestones, responsibilities, scope and
detail of cooperating agencies’ Supplemental EIS’’ and mailed (or hand
help BOEM determine significant delivered) to Mr. Gary D. Goeke, Chief,
resources and issues, impacting factors, contributions, and availability of
predecisional information. BOEM Environmental Assessment Section,
reasonable alternatives, and potential Office of Environment (GM 623E),
mitigating measures to be analyzed in anticipates this summary will form the
basis for a Memorandum of Agreement BOEM, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region,
the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS, and to 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New
provide additional information. BOEM between BOEM and any cooperating
agency pursuant to 43 CFR 46.225. Orleans, Louisiana 70123–2394.
will also use the scoping process to Comments must be postmarked by the
Agencies should also consider DOI’s
inform the Section 106 consultation last day of the comment period to be
implementing regulation at 43 CFR part
process of the National Historic considered. As noted in the ‘‘Dates’’
46 and the ‘‘Factors for Determining
Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470f), as section above, the comment period ends
Cooperating Agency Status’’ in
provided for in 36 CFR 800.2(d)(3). on September 16, 2015.
Attachment 1 to CEQ’s January 30, 2002,
Pursuant to the regulations
Memorandum for the Heads of Federal 3. Via electronic mail to email
implementing the procedural provisions
Agencies: Cooperating Agencies in address: cpa247@boem.gov.
of NEPA, the BOEM will hold public
Implementing the Procedural
scoping meetings in Alabama, Louisiana Petitions, although accepted, do not
Requirements of the National
and Mississippi on the CPA 247 generally provide useful information to
Environmental Policy Act. The CEQ
Supplemental EIS. The purpose of these documents are available at the following assist in the development of
meetings is to solicit comments on the location on the Internet: http:// alternatives, resources, and issues to be
scope of the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS. energy.gov/sites/prod/files/nepapub/ analyzed, or impacting factors. BOEM
BOEM’s scoping meetings will be held nepa_documents/RedDont/G- does not consider anonymous
at the following places and times: CEQCoopAgenciesImplem.pdf. comments; please include your name
• Mobile, Alabama: Tuesday, BOEM, as the lead agency, will not and address as part of your submittal.
September 1, 2015, Hilton Garden Inn provide financial assistance to BOEM makes all comments, including
Mobile West, 828 West I–65 Service cooperating agencies. Even if an the names and addresses of
Road South, Mobile, Alabama 36609, organization is not a cooperating respondents, available for public review
one meeting beginning at 4:00 p.m. agency, opportunities will exist to during regular business hours. Before
CDT; provide information and comments to including your address, phone number,
• Gulfport, Mississippi: Wednesday, BOEM during the normal public input email address, or other personal
September 2, 2015, Courtyard by stages of the EIS process. For further identifying information in your
Marriott, Gulfport Beachfront MS Hotel, information about cooperating agencies, comment, you should be aware that
1600 East Beach Boulevard, Gulfport, please contact Mr. Gary D. Goeke at your entire comment—including your
Mississippi 39501, one meeting (504) 736–3233. personal identifying information—may
beginning at 6:00 p.m. CDT; and Comments: All interested parties, be made publicly available at any time.
• New Orleans, Louisiana: Thursday, including Federal, State, Tribal, and While you can ask us in your comment
September 3, 2015, Bureau of Ocean local governments, and other to withhold your personal identifying
Energy Management, Gulf of Mexico organizations and members of the information from public review, we
OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood Park public, may submit written comments cannot guarantee that we will be able to
Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana on the scope of the CPA 247 do so.
70123, one meeting beginning at 1:00 Supplemental EIS, significant issues Authority: This NOI to prepare a
p.m. CDT. that should be addressed, alternatives Supplemental EIS is published pursuant to
Cooperating Agency: BOEM invites that should be considered, potential the regulations (40 CFR 1501.7 and 43 CFR
other Federal, State, Tribal, and local mitigating measures, and the types of oil 46.435) implementing the provisions of
mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
governments to consider becoming and gas activities of interest in the NEPA.
cooperating agencies in the preparation proposed CPA lease sale area. BOEM is
Dated: August 11, 2015.
of the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS. We also seeking public comment and input
invite qualified government entities to regarding the identification of historic Walter D. Cruickshank,
inquire about cooperating agency status properties or potential effects, as Deputy Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy
for the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS. defined by the National Historic Management.
Following the guidelines from the Preservation Act, to historic properties [FR Doc. 2015–20262 Filed 8–13–15; 11:15 am]
Council on Environmental Quality from the proposed action. Written BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P
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| Action | Notice of Intent to Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and an Announcement of Scoping Meetings and Comment Period for Proposed Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Central Planning Area Lease Sale 247. | |
| Dates | Comments on the scope of the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS should be submitted by September 16, 2015. | |
| Contact | For information on the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS or the submission of comments, please contact Mr. Gary D. Goeke, Chief, Environmental Assessment Section, Office of Environment (GM 623E), BOEM, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, LA 70123-2394, telephone 504-736-3233. | |
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