83_FR_11838 83 FR 11786 - Notice of Proposed Reinstatement of Terminated Oil and Gas Lease WYW184371, Wyoming

83 FR 11786 - Notice of Proposed Reinstatement of Terminated Oil and Gas Lease WYW184371, Wyoming

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 52 (March 16, 2018)

Page Range11786-11787
FR Document2018-05383

As provided for under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) received a petition from Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC for reinstatement of competitive oil and gas lease WYW184371 for land in Converse County, Wyoming. The lessee filed the petition on time, along with all rentals due since the lease terminated under the law. No leases affecting this land were issued before the petition was filed. The BLM proposes to reinstate the lease.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 52 (Friday, March 16, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 52 (Friday, March 16, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11786-11787]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-05383]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLWY920000. L51040000.FI0000. 18XL5017AR]


Notice of Proposed Reinstatement of Terminated Oil and Gas Lease 
WYW184371, Wyoming

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of proposed reinstatement.

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SUMMARY: As provided for under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as 
amended, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) received a petition from 
Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC for reinstatement of competitive oil and gas 
lease WYW184371 for land in Converse County, Wyoming. The lessee filed 
the petition on time, along with all rentals due since the lease 
terminated under the law. No leases affecting this land were issued 
before the petition was filed. The BLM proposes to reinstate the lease.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chris Hite, Branch Chief for Fluid 
Minerals Adjudication, Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office, 
5353 Yellowstone Road, P.O. Box 1828, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003; phone: 
307-775-6176; email: [email protected].
    Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf may call 
the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to contact Mr. Hite 
during normal business hours. The FRS

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is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or 
question with the above individual. A reply will be sent during normal 
business hours.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The lessee agreed to the amended lease terms 
for rentals and royalties at rates of $10 per acre, or fraction 
thereof, per year and 16 \2/3\ percent, respectively. The lessee has 
paid the required $500 administrative fee and the $159 cost of 
publishing this notice. The lessee met the requirements for 
reinstatement of the lease per Sec. 31(d) and (e) of the Mineral 
Leasing Act of 1920 (30 U.S.C. 188). The BLM proposes to reinstate the 
lease effective October 1, 2016, under the original terms and 
conditions of the lease and the increased rental and royalty rates 
cited above.

    Authority: 30 U.S.C. 188 and 43 CFR 3108.2-3.

Chris Hite,
Chief, Branch of Fluid Minerals Adjudication.
[FR Doc. 2018-05383 Filed 3-15-18; 8:45 am]
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11786 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 52 / Friday, March 16, 2018 / Notices (DRECP). The DRECP is a landscape- The draft plan amendments address Please note that public comments and scale plan that considered renewable specific CDCA Plan inconsistencies information submitted, including energy development and conservation with regulation and policies in the names, street addresses, and email in the CDCA. The DRECP LUPA was WEMO Planning Area, including addresses of persons who submit completed in September 2016, and amending language that limits the route comments, will be available for public included changes to land use allocations network to routes that existed in 1980 review and disclosure at the above and management of those allocations. and travel management guidance for address during regular business hours (8 Based on public comment associated route designations. Changes are a.m. to 4 p.m.), Monday through Friday, with the DRECP, the BLM decided to proposed to the land-use plan except holidays. issue a new DS EIS for the West Mojave guidelines for stopping, parking, and Before including your address, phone Route Network Project. The new DSEIS camping adjacent to routes in Limited number, email address, or other considers the DRECP LUPA’s changes in Access Areas within the WEMO personal identifying information in your the CDCA Plan. Planning Area, and to establish a comment, you should be aware that During previous project scoping, the regional minimization strategy for the your entire comment—including your public raised the following route network. Through Alternative 2, personal identifying information—may transportation and management changes are also considered to the be made publicly available at any time. concerns: livestock grazing program that would While you can request to withhold your • Need for a good inventory and reallocate forage from livestock use to personal identifying information from accurate information related to the wildlife use and ecosystem function in public review, BLM cannot guarantee existing environment; desert tortoise critical habitat for active that we will be able to do so. • Documentation and use of the allotments or allotments that become Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR regulatory criteria (43 CFR 8342.1) for vacant. In addition, the Draft considers 1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2. route minimization; plan-level decisions modifying • Mitigation for loss of access; motorized use on four specific lakebeds, Jerome E. Perez, • Sensitive resource protection; including Cuddeback Dry Lake, and California State Director. • Maintenance of access for various competitive motorized use of routes. [FR Doc. 2018–05272 Filed 3–15–18; 8:45 am] types of recreational, scientific, and The Draft also considers activity-level BILLING CODE 4310–40–P other uses; travel management plans. Four • Access to private lands; alternatives are evaluated, including a • Trespass; DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR • Regional connectivity; No Action alternative. • Improving GIS and on-the-ground Finally, the Draft includes activity- Bureau of Land Management information for the public; and level specific route designation • Implementation strategies such as alternatives, based on the 43 CFR 8342.1 [LLWY920000. L51040000.FI0000. signing, monitoring, and law criteria and different thresholds for 18XL5017AR] enforcement. minimization or closure. The preferred alternative would designate a Notice of Proposed Reinstatement of In addition, a substantial number of sustainable travel network and Terminated Oil and Gas Lease comments indicated issues and needs transportation system of approximately WYW184371, Wyoming associated with specific routes and route areas in the WEMO transportation 6,300 miles from an inventory of about AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, system, and included recommendations 16,000 miles of linear transportation Interior. on the designation of specific routes, features within the WEMO Planning ACTION: Notice of proposed including limiting use to street-legal Area, as compared to the current reinstatement. vehicles. A few comments were also network of approximately 6,000 miles. received on livestock grazing issues and The designated route network addresses SUMMARY: As provided for under the the scope of the supplemental grazing the need for public, authorized, and Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as program analysis. administrative access to and across amended, the Bureau of Land In response to court order and on-the- BLM-managed lands, including Management (BLM) received a petition ground changes since 2006, the DS EIS/ motorized, non-motorized, and non- from Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC for LUPA, through four different mechanized modes of travel, while reinstatement of competitive oil and gas alternatives, also includes consideration balancing the need to protect sensitive lease WYW184371 for land in Converse of the cumulative effects of the desert resources, and minimizing the County, Wyoming. The lessee filed the transportation system alternatives to impact to those resources. petition on time, along with all rentals resource values—particularly air The preferred alternative also due since the lease terminated under the quality, soils, cultural resources, certain includes network-wide minimization law. No leases affecting this land were biological resources, and certain measures that would limit the extent of issued before the petition was filed. The sensitive species—as well as cumulative off-route stopping and parking BLM proposes to reinstate the lease. effects of livestock grazing and potential throughout the planning area to (1) FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: cumulative loss of recreational access Minimize impacts to undisturbed Chris Hite, Branch Chief for Fluid opportunities. In response to public habitat; (2) Enhance watersheds; and (3) Minerals Adjudication, Bureau of Land input, access considerations focused on Protect adjacent sensitive resources. Management, Wyoming State Office, maintaining a viable transportation Other measures are based on proximity 5353 Yellowstone Road, P.O. Box 1828, daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES network, diversifying recreational to sensitive resources, such as riparian Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003; phone: opportunities, providing access for systems, that would enhance these 307–775–6176; email: chite@blm.gov. specific users (e.g., rockhounds, resources throughout the planning area. Persons who use a motorcyclists, scientific and educational The preferred alternative provides for telecommunications device for the deaf activities, and non-motorized users), designated camping and staging areas to may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) dealing with conflicts among users, and direct intensive use to manageable at 1–800–877–8339 to contact Mr. Hite maintaining commercial access needs. locations. during normal business hours. 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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 52 / Friday, March 16, 2018 / Notices 11787 is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR week, to leave a message or question Danita Burns, District Manager, Bureau with the above individual. A reply will of Land Management Albuquerque National Park Service be sent during normal business hours. District Office, 100 Sun Avenue NE, [NPS–WASO–ANRSS–24116; SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The lessee Suite 330, Pan American Building, PPMWMWROW2, PMP00UP05.YP0000] agreed to the amended lease terms for Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109; 505– rentals and royalties at rates of $10 per 761–8700. Notice of Availability of the Final acre, or fraction thereof, per year and 16 Environmental Impact Statement To 2⁄3 percent, respectively. The lessee has SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM Address the Presence of Wolves at Isle paid the required $500 administrative will post temporary closure signs a Royale National Park, Michigan fee and the $159 cost of publishing this week prior to a closure at the main entry to the Monument. In addition, a AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. notice. The lessee met the requirements for reinstatement of the lease per Sec. temporary closure notice with all ACTION: Notice of availability. 31(d) and (e) of the Mineral Leasing Act applicable dates will be posted on the SUMMARY: The National Park Service of 1920 (30 U.S.C. 188). The BLM BLM website: https://www.blm.gov/ (NPS) announces the availability of the proposes to reinstate the lease effective nlcs_web/sites/nm/st/en/prog/NLCS/ Final Environmental Impact Statement October 1, 2016, under the original KKTR_NM.html. Presidential (EIS) to address the presence of wolves terms and conditions of the lease and Proclamation 7394 designated the at Isle Royale National Park. the increased rental and royalty rates Monument on January 17, 2001, to DATES: The NPS will execute a Record cited above. provide opportunities for visitors to of Decision (ROD) no sooner than 30 Authority: 30 U.S.C. 188 and 43 CFR observe, study, and experience the days from the date of publication by the 3108.2–3. geologic processes and cultural and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency biological objects of interest found in of the notice of filing of the Final EIS Chris Hite, the area, as well as to protect these in the Federal Register. Chief, Branch of Fluid Minerals Adjudication. resources. [FR Doc. 2018–05383 Filed 3–15–18; 8:45 am] ADDRESSES: An electronic copy of the Closure: During the temporary closure final EIS/plan will be available for BILLING CODE P dates listed above, public access is public review at http:// prohibited. parkplanning.nps.gov/isrowolves. A DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Exceptions: The temporary closure limited number of hard copies will be order does not apply to members of the available at Park Headquarters, 800 East Bureau of Land Management Pueblo de Cochiti participating in or Lakeshore Drive, Houghton, Michigan observing religious and/or cultural 49931–1896. [16X LLNMA01400 L12320000.AL0000 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LVRDNM030000] practices; or persons performing authorized BLM planning, Superintendent Phyllis Green, Isle Notice of Closure, Kasha-Katuwe Tent administrative, maintenance, and/or Royale National Park, ISRO Wolves, 800 Rocks National Monument emergency or law enforcement East Lakeshore Drive, Houghton, activities. Michigan 49931–1896, or by telephone AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, at (906) 482–0984. Interior. Penalties: Any person who violates SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant this temporary closure or these to the National Environmental Policy ACTION: Notice of Temporary Closure. restrictions may be tried before a United Act, 43 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., the NPS SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that States Magistrate and fined in announces the availability of the Final under the authority of the Federal Land accordance with 18 U.S.C. 3571, EIS. The final EIS/plan responds to, and Policy and Management Act of 1976, as imprisoned no more than 12 months incorporates where appropriate, agency amended (FLPMA), the Kasha-Katuwe under 43 U.S.C. 1733(a) and 43 CFR and public comments received on the Tent Rocks Resource Management Plan 8360.07, or both. In accordance with 43 draft EIS/plan, which was available for (RMP), Presidential Proclamation 7394, CFR 8365.17, state or local officials may public review from December 16, 2016 and other authorities, the Kasha-Katuwe also impose penalties for violations of to March 15, 2017. Two public meetings Tent Rocks National Monument New Mexico law. and two webinars were held from (Monument) will be temporarily closed February 14 through February 21, 2017 During these closure dates only BLM to the public on twelve days each year, to gather input on the draft EIS/plan. planning, administrative, and to allow for Pueblo de Cochiti cultural During the public comment period, observances. maintenance activities will be authorized, and no public access will be 4916 pieces of correspondence were DATES: The temporary closure will be in received. NPS responses to agency and granted. effect beginning April 16, 2018. The public comments are provided in closure will remain in effect for 24 Authority: FLPMA, the Kasha-Katuwe Appendix B of the final EIS/plan months upon publication in the Federal Tent Rocks RMP, Presidential Proclamation available at http://parkplanning.nps. Register. The temporary closure dates 7394, 43 CFR 8364.1, and 43 U.S.C. 1701 et gov/isrowolves. are as follows: New Year’s Day (January seq. This final EIS/plan evaluates the 1); January 6; Friday before Easter; Danita Burns, impacts of the no-action alternative daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES Easter Sunday; Monday after Easter (Alternative A) and three action District Manager, Albuquerque District. Sunday; May 3; July 13; July 14; July 25; alternatives (Alternatives B, C, and D). [FR Doc. 2018–05382 Filed 3–15–18; 8:45 am] November 1; Thanksgiving Day; and Alternative B is the preferred alternative Christmas Day. These temporary BILLING CODE 4310–FB–P and the environmentally preferable closures are compliant with the alternative. Monument RMP and Presidential Alternative A would continue existing Proclamation 7394. management practices and assume no VerDate Sep<11>2014 21:54 Mar 15, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00119 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\16MRN1.SGM 16MRN1


Document Created: 2018-03-16 01:12:07
Document Modified: 2018-03-16 01:12:07
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of proposed reinstatement.
ContactChris Hite, Branch Chief for Fluid Minerals Adjudication, Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office, 5353 Yellowstone Road, P.O. Box 1828, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003; phone: 307-775-6176; email: [email protected]
FR Citation83 FR 11786 
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