81_FR_63983 81 FR 63803 - Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Central Planning Area (CPA) Oil and Gas Lease Sale 247; MMAA104000

81 FR 63803 - Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Central Planning Area (CPA) Oil and Gas Lease Sale 247; MMAA104000

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 180 (September 16, 2016)

Page Range63803-63804
FR Document2016-22212

BOEM is announcing the availability of a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Central Planning Area (CPA) Oil and Gas Lease Sale 247. The Final SEIS provides a discussion of potential significant impacts of the proposed action, provides an analysis of reasonable alternatives to the proposed action, and identifies the Bureau's preferred alternative. The Final SEIS is available on the agency Web site at http:// www.boem.gov/nepaprocess/. BOEM will primarily distribute digital copies of the Final SEIS on compact discs. You may request a paper copy or the location of a library with a digital copy of the Final SEIS from BOEM, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, Public Information Office (GM 250C), 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, Room 250, New Orleans, Louisiana 70123-2394 (1 800 200-GULF).

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 180 (Friday, September 16, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 180 (Friday, September 16, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63803-63804]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-22212]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

[Docket No. BOEM-2016-0054]


Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Central 
Planning Area (CPA) Oil and Gas Lease Sale 247; MMAA104000

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability of a final supplemental environmental 
impact statement.

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SUMMARY: BOEM is announcing the availability of a Final Supplemental 
Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Outer 
Continental Shelf (OCS) Central Planning Area (CPA) Oil and Gas Lease 
Sale 247. The Final SEIS provides a discussion of potential significant 
impacts of the proposed action, provides an analysis of reasonable 
alternatives to the proposed action, and identifies the Bureau's 
preferred alternative.
    The Final SEIS is available on the agency Web site at http://www.boem.gov/nepaprocess/. BOEM will primarily distribute digital 
copies of the Final SEIS on compact discs. You may request a paper copy 
or the location of a library with a digital copy of the

[[Page 63804]]

Final SEIS from BOEM, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, Public Information 
Office (GM 250C), 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, Room 250, New Orleans, 
Louisiana 70123-2394 (1 800 200-GULF).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For more information on the CPA 247 
Final SEIS, you may contact Mr. Gary D. Goeke, Bureau of Ocean Energy 
Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, Office of Environment (GM 623E), 
1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70123-2394 or by 
email at [email protected]. You may also contact Mr. Goeke by telephone 
at 504-736-3233.

    Authority:  This Notice of Availability of a Final Supplemental 
Environmental Impact Statement is in compliance with the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4231 et 
seq.), and is published pursuant to 40 CFR 1502.19.

Abigail Ross Hopper,
Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
[FR Doc. 2016-22212 Filed 9-15-16; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4310-MR-P

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 180 / Friday, September 16, 2016 / Notices 63803 Average number Citation 30 CFR 550 subpart K Annual burden Well surveys and classifying reservoirs Hour burden of annual and related forms hours responses 1154; 1167 ................................... Submit request and supporting information to reclassify 1 15 requests ...... 15 reservoir. 1155; 1165(b); 1166; 1167 .......... Submit Form BOEM–0127 (Sensitive Reservoir Infor- 3 2,012 forms ...... 6,036 mation Report) and supporting information/revisions (within 45 days after certain events or at least annu- ally). AK Region: submit BOEM–0127 and request MER. 1153–1167 ................................... Request general departure or alternative compliance 1 2 ....................... 2 requests not specifically covered elsewhere in regu- latory requirements. 1165 ............................................. Submit proposed plan for enhanced recovery oper- Burden covered under BSEE 30 0 ations to BSEE. CFR 250 (1014–0019). Subtotal ................................. ......................................................................................... ........................ 3,390 responses 22,507 Total Burden .................. ......................................................................................... ........................ 7,567 responses 30,635 $165,492 non-hour cost burdens. Estimated Reporting and capital and startup costs and annual Dated: September 12, 2016. Recordkeeping Non-Hour Cost Burden: operation, maintenance, and purchase Deanna Meyer-Pietruszka, We have identified two non-hour cost of service costs. You should describe the Chief, Office of Policy, Regulations, and burdens. Section 550.143 requires a fee methods you use to estimate major cost Analysis. for a change in designation of operator factors, including system and [FR Doc. 2016–22355 Filed 9–15–16; 8:45 am] ($175). Section 550.165 requires a State technology acquisition, expected useful BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P lessee applying for a right-of use and life of capital equipment, discount easement in the OCS to pay a cost rate(s), and the period over which you recovery application fee ($2,742). These incur costs. Capital and startup costs DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR fees reflect the recent adjustment for include, among other items, computers inflation that became effective February Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and software you purchase to prepare 2, 2013 (78 FR 5836, 1/28/13). for collecting information, monitoring, [Docket No. BOEM–2016–0054] Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an and record storage facilities. You should not include estimates for equipment or Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Outer agency may not conduct or sponsor a Continental Shelf (OCS) Central collection of information unless it services purchased: (a) Before October 1, 1995; (b) to comply with requirements Planning Area (CPA) Oil and Gas displays a currently valid OMB control Lease Sale 247; MMAA104000 number. Until OMB approves a not associated with the information collection of information, you are not collection; (c) for reasons other than to AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy obligated to respond. provide information or keep records for Management (BOEM), Interior. Comments: Before submitting an ICR the Government; or (d) as part of ACTION: Notice of availability of a final to OMB, PRA section 3506(c)(2)(A) customary and usual business or private supplemental environmental impact requires each agency ‘‘. . . to provide practices. statement. notice . . . and otherwise consult with We will summarize written responses members of the public and affected to this notice and address them in our SUMMARY: BOEM is announcing the agencies concerning each proposed availability of a Final Supplemental submission for OMB approval. As a collection of information . . .’’. Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) result of your comments, we will make Agencies must specifically solicit for Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Outer any necessary adjustments to the burden comments on: (a) Whether or not the Continental Shelf (OCS) Central in our submission to OMB. Planning Area (CPA) Oil and Gas Lease collection of information is necessary, including whether or not the Public Availability of Comments: Sale 247. The Final SEIS provides a information will have practical utility; Before including your address, phone discussion of potential significant (b) the accuracy of our burden estimates; number, email address, or other impacts of the proposed action, (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, personal identifying information in your provides an analysis of reasonable and clarity of the information to be comment, you should be aware that alternatives to the proposed action, and collected; and (d) ways to minimize the your entire comment—including your identifies the Bureau’s preferred burden on respondents. alternative. mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES personal identifying information—may Agencies must also estimate the non- be made publicly available at any time. The Final SEIS is available on the hour cost burdens to respondents or While you can ask us in your comment agency Web site at http:// recordkeepers resulting from the to withhold your personal identifying www.boem.gov/nepaprocess/. BOEM collection of information. Therefore, if information from public review, we will primarily distribute digital copies you have costs to generate, maintain, cannot guarantee that we will be able to of the Final SEIS on compact discs. You and disclose this information, you do so. may request a paper copy or the location should comment and provide your total of a library with a digital copy of the VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:55 Sep 15, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00069 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\16SEN1.SGM 16SEN1

63804 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 180 / Friday, September 16, 2016 / Notices Final SEIS from BOEM, Gulf of Mexico Federal Register at least 30 days prior Environment, 1201 Elmwood Park OCS Region, Public Information Office to the date of the bid opening. Bid Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70123, (504) (GM 250C), 1201 Elmwood Park opening is currently scheduled for 736–2963, terri.thomas@boem.gov. Boulevard, Room 250, New Orleans, March 22, 2017. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 2009, Louisiana 70123–2394 (1 800 200– FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: the USACE Mobile District developed GULF). David Diamond, Chief, Leasing the MsCIP Comprehensive Plan (Plan) FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For Division, david.diamond@boem.gov. and Integrated Programmatic more information on the CPA 247 Final SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Environmental Impact Statement (2009 SEIS, you may contact Mr. Gary D. Proposed NOS for CPA 247 and PEIS) to support the long-term recovery Goeke, Bureau of Ocean Energy Proposed NOS package containing of Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS information essential to potential Counties, Mississippi from the severe Region, Office of Environment (GM bidders may be obtained from the Public erosion and storm damage caused by 623E), 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, Information Unit, Gulf of Mexico Hurricane Katrina and other storm New Orleans, Louisiana 70123–2394 or Region, Bureau of Ocean Energy events. The Plan includes a long-term by email at cpa247@boem.gov. You may Management, 1201 Elmwood Park strategy to make the Mississippi coast also contact Mr. Goeke by telephone at Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana more resilient to damage from future 504–736–3233. 70123–2394. Telephone: (504) 736– storms and to compensate for historical Authority: This Notice of Availability of 2519. The Proposed NOS and Proposed navigational dredging and disposal a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact NOS package are also available on activities that altered sediment Statement is in compliance with the National BOEM’s Web site at http:// availability and sediment transport Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as www.boem.gov/Sale-247/. along the barrier islands. The amended (42 U.S.C. 4231 et seq.), and is environmental impacts associated with published pursuant to 40 CFR 1502.19. Dated: September 8, 2016. the dredging of offshore sand resources Abigail Ross Hopper, Abigail Ross Hopper, and the placement of sand along East Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy and West Ship Islands, and Cat Island Management. Management. located in Hancock, Harrison, and [FR Doc. 2016–22211 Filed 9–15–16; 8:45 am] [FR Doc. 2016–22212 Filed 9–15–16; 8:45 am] Jackson Counties, Mississippi, were BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P evaluated in the MsCIP Comprehensive Barrier Island Restoration, Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson Counties, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Mississippi, Final Supplemental Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Environmental Impact Statement (2016 Bureau of Ocean Energy Management SEIS), which tiers directly from the [MMAA104000] 2009 PEIS. The USACE’s Mobile District Notice of Availability of the Proposed served as the lead agency during the Notice of Sale for the Central Gulf of Use of Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) preparation of the 2009 PEIS and 2016 Mexico Planning Area Outer Sand Resources for the Mississippi SEIS. BOEM served as a cooperating Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Coastal Improvements Program agency given its jurisdiction over OCS Sale 247; MMAA104000 (MsCIP) Comprehensive Barrier Island sand resources that were being Restoration in Hancock, Harrison, and AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy considered for use in the Project. The Jackson Counties, Mississippi Management (BOEM), Interior. borrow option selected by USACE and ACTION: Notice of availability of the AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy evaluated in the 2016 SEIS to Proposed Notice of Sale for Central Management (BOEM), Interior. implement the Plan includes 10 OCS Planning Area Lease Sale 247. ACTION: Notice of availability of the locations with a total volume of 19.6 Record of Decision (ROD). million cubic yards (MCY) of OCS sand. SUMMARY: BOEM announces the The USACE signed its own ROD in June availability of the Proposed Notice of SUMMARY: BOEM is announcing the 2016 and requested BOEM to authorize Sale (NOS) for the proposed Central availability of the ROD that documents use of OCS sand. Planning Area (CPA) Outer Continental BOEM’s decision to authorize the use of BOEM and the USACE will enter into Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Lease Sale 247 OCS sand resources by the U.S. Army an MOA authorizing the use of up to (CPA Sale 247). This Notice is Corps of Engineers (USACE) Mobile 19.6 MCY of OCS sand from the published pursuant to 30 CFR District in the MsCIP Comprehensive identified OCS borrow areas. Under the 556.304(c) as a matter of information to Barrier Island Restoration Project OCS Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1337(k)(2)), the public. With regard to oil and gas (Project) in Hancock, Harrison, and BOEM can convey, on a noncompetitive leasing on the OCS, the Secretary of the Jackson Counties, Mississippi. The ROD basis, the rights to use OCS sand, gravel, Interior, pursuant to section 19 of the is available at BOEM’s Web site at or shell resources for use in a program OCS Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331–1356a), http://www.boem.gov/Non-Energy- for shore protection, beach restoration, provides affected states with the Minerals/Marine-Minerals- or coastal wetland restoration opportunity to review the Proposed Program.aspx. BOEM will enter into a undertaken by a Federal, state, or local NOS. The Proposed NOS sets forth the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) government agency (43 U.S.C. proposed terms and conditions of the with the USACE and make available 1337(k)(2)). mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES sale, including minimum bids, royalty OCS sand for use in the MsCIP As a cooperating agency, BOEM has rates, and rental rates. Comprehensive Barrier Island independently reviewed and adopted DATES: Affected states may comment on Restoration Project. the comprehensive analysis presented the size, timing, and location of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: in the USACE’s 2009 PEIS and 2016 proposed CPA Sale 247 within 60 days Terri L. Thomas, Bureau of Ocean SEIS (43 CFR 46.120). The 2009 PEIS following receipt of the Proposed NOS. Energy Management, Gulf of Mexico and 2016 SEIS assessed the physical, The Final NOS will be published in the Region, Regional Supervisor, Office of biological, and social/human impacts of VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:55 Sep 15, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00070 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\16SEN1.SGM 16SEN1


Document Created: 2016-09-16 00:25:27
Document Modified: 2016-09-16 00:25:27
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of availability of a final supplemental environmental impact statement.
ContactFor more information on the CPA 247 Final SEIS, you may contact Mr. Gary D. Goeke, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, Office of Environment (GM 623E), 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70123-2394 or by email at [email protected] You may also contact Mr. Goeke by telephone at 504-736-3233.
FR Citation81 FR 63803 
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