83_FR_13569 83 FR 13508 - Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Alpine Satellite Development Plan for the Proposed Greater Mooses Tooth 2 Development Project, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska; Notice of Public Meetings and Subsistence Hearings

83 FR 13508 - Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Alpine Satellite Development Plan for the Proposed Greater Mooses Tooth 2 Development Project, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska; Notice of Public Meetings and Subsistence Hearings

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 61 (March 29, 2018)

Page Range13508-13509
FR Document2018-06380

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Arctic District Office, Fairbanks, Alaska, is issuing for public comment the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Alpine Satellite Development Plan for the Proposed Greater Mooses Tooth 2 (GMT2) Development Project, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A). BLM Alaska is also announcing pending public meetings and subsistence- related hearings to receive comments on the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS and the project's potential to impact subsistence resources and activities. The EIS will supplement the September 2004 Alpine Satellite Development Plan Final EIS that originally analyzed the GMT2 Project, regarding establishing satellite oil production pads and associated infrastructure within the Alpine field.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 61 (Thursday, March 29, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 61 (Thursday, March 29, 2018)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[18X.LLAK930000 L13100000.PP0000]


Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplemental Environmental 
Impact Statement for the Alpine Satellite Development Plan for the 
Proposed Greater Mooses Tooth 2 Development Project, National Petroleum 
Reserve in Alaska; Notice of Public Meetings and Subsistence Hearings

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Arctic District Office, 
Fairbanks, Alaska, is issuing for public comment the Draft Supplemental 
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Alpine Satellite 
Development Plan for the Proposed Greater Mooses Tooth 2 (GMT2) 
Development Project, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A). BLM 
Alaska is also announcing pending public meetings and subsistence-
related hearings to receive comments on the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS 
and the project's potential to impact subsistence resources and 
activities. The EIS will supplement the September 2004 Alpine Satellite 
Development Plan Final EIS that originally analyzed the GMT2 Project, 
regarding establishing satellite oil production pads and associated 
infrastructure within the Alpine field.

DATES: To ensure that the BLM will consider your comments on the GMT2 
Draft Supplemental EIS, BLM Alaska must receive your written comments 
no later than 45 days after the Environmental Protection Agency 
publishes its notice of availability of the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS 
in the Federal Register. BLM Alaska will announce the dates, times, and 
locations of public meetings on its website, through public notices, 
media news releases, and/or mailings.

ADDRESSES: You may provide comments by mail, fax, email, or in person. 
Mail comments to: GMT2 SEIS Comments, Attn: Stephanie Rice, 222 West 
7th Avenue #13, Anchorage, Alaska 99513; fax comments to 907-271-3933; 
email comments to [email protected]; or hand-deliver 
comments during normal business hours (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) to the BLM 
Public Information Center, 222 West 7th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska.
    You may review the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS online at BLM 
Alaska's website at http://www.blm.gov/alaska. You may also review 
copies of the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS at both BLM Alaska Public 
Information Centers at the Federal Building at 222 West 7th Avenue, 
Anchorage, and at the Arctic District Office, 222 University Avenue, 
Fairbanks. You may also request a CD or paper copy of the GMT2 Draft 
Supplemental EIS by contacting Stephanie Rice, BLM project lead, at 
907-271-3202.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephanie Rice, BLM Alaska State 
Office, 907-271-3202. People who use a telecommunications device for 
the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-
8339 to contact the above individual during normal business hours. The 
FRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or 
question with the above individual. You will receive a reply during 
normal business hours.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The GMT2 Supplemental EIS analyzes an 
application from ConocoPhillips, Alaska, Inc. (ConocoPhillips). The 
application is for a permit to drill and related authorizations to 
construct, operate, and maintain a drill site, access road, pipelines, 
and ancillary facilities on federally managed land to support 
development of petroleum resources at the GMT2 drill site. BLM Alaska 
manages the surface and subsurface at the drill site and at the 
proposed infield road and pipeline route. ConocoPhillips may also 
develop subsurface resources owned by the Arctic Slope Regional 
Corporation, and may occupy surface lands owned by the Kuukpik 
Corporation.
    The proposed GMT2 site is approximately 25 miles southwest of the 
ConocoPhillips-operated Alpine Central Processing Facility (CD1) and 
will be operated and maintained by staff at the Alpine Central 
Processing Facility.
    The GMT2 Project was originally analyzed as the Colville Delta 7 
(CD7) drill pad in the BLM's September 2004 Alpine Satellite 
Development Plan Final EIS. The purpose of the Supplemental EIS is to 
evaluate any relevant new circumstances and information that have 
arisen since the Alpine Satellite Development Plan Final EIS was 
completed, to update the alternatives in the 2004 EIS, and to address 
any changes to ConocoPhillips' proposed development plan for GMT2. The 
GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS analyzes four alternatives, including two 
alternatives with an access road, an alternative without an access 
road, and a no-action alternative.
    The key issues in the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS are the 
protection of

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surface resources; the minimization of social impacts; and the 
identification of appropriate mitigation measures for the construction, 
operation, and maintenance of a drill site and access road, pipelines, 
and ancillary facilities to support development of petroleum resources 
at the proposed GMT2 site. Section 810 of the Alaska National Interest 
Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), 16 U.S.C. 3120, requires that the BLM 
evaluate effects on subsistence activities for the alternatives 
presented in this GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS and to hold public 
hearings if the BLM finds that any of the alternatives or the 
cumulative effects of past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future 
development may significantly restrict subsistence activities.
    BLM Alaska will hold public meetings on the GMT2 Draft Supplemental 
EIS in these Alaska communities: Anchorage, Anaktuvuk Pass, Atqasuk, 
Utqia[gdot]vik, Fairbanks, and Nuiqsut. In addition, the public 
meetings at Anaktuvuk Pass, Atqasuk, Utqia[gdot]vik, and Nuiqsut will 
incorporate subsistence hearings to take comments on subsistence 
impacts pursuant to the ANILCA.
    Before including your address, phone number, email address, or 
other personally identifying information in your comment, you should be 
aware that your entire comment--including your personally identifying 
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can 
ask the BLM in your comment to withhold your personally identifying 
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be 
able to do so.

    Authority:  16 U.S.C. 3120(a); 40 CFR 1506.6(b).

Karen E. Mouritsen,
Acting State Director, Alaska.
[FR Doc. 2018-06380 Filed 3-28-18; 8:45 am]
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13508 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 61 / Thursday, March 29, 2018 / Notices ACTION: Notice of reinstatement. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR alaska. You may also review copies of the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS at SUMMARY: In accordance with the Bureau of Land Management both BLM Alaska Public Information Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, Red Fork Centers at the Federal Building at 222 [18X.LLAK930000 L13100000.PP0000] (USA) Investments, Inc., timely filed a West 7th Avenue, Anchorage, and at the petition for reinstatement of competitive Notice of Availability of the Draft Arctic District Office, 222 University oil and gas leases OKNM 127909, Supplemental Environmental Impact Avenue, Fairbanks. You may also OKNM 127910, OKNM 127911, OKNM Statement for the Alpine Satellite request a CD or paper copy of the GMT2 127912, OKNM 127913, and OKNM Development Plan for the Proposed Draft Supplemental EIS by contacting 127920, in Payne County, Oklahoma, Greater Mooses Tooth 2 Development Stephanie Rice, BLM project lead, at and OKNM 127917, in Noble County, Project, National Petroleum Reserve in 907–271–3202. Oklahoma. The lessee paid the required Alaska; Notice of Public Meetings and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: rentals accruing from the date of Subsistence Hearings Stephanie Rice, BLM Alaska State termination. No new leases were issued Office, 907–271–3202. People who use a AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, telecommunications device for the deaf that affect these lands. The Bureau of Interior. (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Land Management proposes to reinstate ACTION: Notice. Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to these leases. contact the above individual during FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land normal business hours. The FRS is Management (BLM), Arctic District available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Julieann Serrano, Supervisory Land Law Office, Fairbanks, Alaska, is issuing for to leave a message or question with the Examiner, Branch of Adjudication, public comment the Draft Supplemental above individual. You will receive a Bureau of Land Management New Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) reply during normal business hours. Mexico State Office, 301 Dinosaur Trail, for the Alpine Satellite Development Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508, (505) SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The GMT2 Plan for the Proposed Greater Mooses 954–2149, jserrano@blm.gov. Persons Supplemental EIS analyzes an Tooth 2 (GMT2) Development Project, who use a telecommunications device application from ConocoPhillips, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Alaska, Inc. (ConocoPhillips). The (NPR–A). BLM Alaska is also Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 application is for a permit to drill and announcing pending public meetings to contact the above individual during related authorizations to construct, and subsistence-related hearings to normal business hours. The FRS is operate, and maintain a drill site, access receive comments on the GMT2 Draft available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, road, pipelines, and ancillary facilities Supplemental EIS and the project’s to leave a message or question with the on federally managed land to support potential to impact subsistence development of petroleum resources at above individual. You will receive a resources and activities. The EIS will the GMT2 drill site. BLM Alaska reply during normal business hours. supplement the September 2004 Alpine manages the surface and subsurface at Satellite Development Plan Final EIS SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The lessee the drill site and at the proposed infield that originally analyzed the GMT2 agrees to new lease terms for rentals and road and pipeline route. ConocoPhillips Project, regarding establishing satellite royalties of $10 per acre, or fraction may also develop subsurface resources oil production pads and associated thereof, per year, and 162⁄3 percent, owned by the Arctic Slope Regional infrastructure within the Alpine field. respectively. The lessee agrees to Corporation, and may occupy surface DATES: To ensure that the BLM will lands owned by the Kuukpik additional or amended stipulations. The consider your comments on the GMT2 Corporation. lessee paid the $500 administration fee Draft Supplemental EIS, BLM Alaska for the reinstatement of the lease and The proposed GMT2 site is must receive your written comments no approximately 25 miles southwest of the the $159 cost for publishing this Notice. later than 45 days after the ConocoPhillips-operated Alpine Central The lessee met the requirements for Environmental Protection Agency Processing Facility (CD1) and will be reinstatement of the lease per Sec. 31(d) publishes its notice of availability of the operated and maintained by staff at the and (e) of the Mineral Leasing Act of GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS in the Alpine Central Processing Facility. 1920. The BLM is proposing to reinstate Federal Register. BLM Alaska will The GMT2 Project was originally the leases, effective the date of announce the dates, times, and locations analyzed as the Colville Delta 7 (CD7) termination subject to the: of public meetings on its website, drill pad in the BLM’s September 2004 through public notices, media news Alpine Satellite Development Plan Final • Original terms and conditions of the releases, and/or mailings. EIS. The purpose of the Supplemental lease; ADDRESSES: You may provide comments EIS is to evaluate any relevant new • Additional and amended by mail, fax, email, or in person. Mail circumstances and information that stipulations; comments to: GMT2 SEIS Comments, have arisen since the Alpine Satellite • Increased rental of $10 per acre; Attn: Stephanie Rice, 222 West 7th Development Plan Final EIS was • Increased royalty of 162⁄3 percent; Avenue #13, Anchorage, Alaska 99513; completed, to update the alternatives in and fax comments to 907–271–3933; email the 2004 EIS, and to address any comments to blm_ak_gmt2_comments@ changes to ConocoPhillips’ proposed • $159 cost of publishing this Notice. blm.gov; or hand-deliver comments sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES development plan for GMT2. The GMT2 Authority: 43 CFR 3108.2–3. during normal business hours (9 a.m. to Draft Supplemental EIS analyzes four 4 p.m.) to the BLM Public Information alternatives, including two alternatives Julieann Serrano, Center, 222 West 7th Avenue, with an access road, an alternative Supervisory, Land Law Examiner. Anchorage, Alaska. without an access road, and a no-action [FR Doc. 2018–06285 Filed 3–28–18; 8:45 am] You may review the GMT2 Draft alternative. BILLING CODE 4310–FB–P Supplemental EIS online at BLM The key issues in the GMT2 Draft Alaska’s website at http://www.blm.gov/ Supplemental EIS are the protection of VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:09 Mar 28, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00040 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\29MRN1.SGM 29MRN1

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 61 / Thursday, March 29, 2018 / Notices 13509 surface resources; the minimization of SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land is therefore a qualified applicant under social impacts; and the identification of Management (BLM), Las Vegas Field the R&PP Act. appropriate mitigation measures for the Office, has examined and found suitable Subject to limitations prescribed by construction, operation, and for classification for lease and law and regulation, prior to patent maintenance of a drill site and access subsequent conveyance under the issuance, the holder of any right-of-way road, pipelines, and ancillary facilities provisions of the Recreation and Public grant within the lease area may be given to support development of petroleum Purposes (R&PP) Act, as amended, the opportunity to amend the right-of- resources at the proposed GMT2 site. approximately 2.98 acres of public land way grant for conversion to a new term, Section 810 of the Alaska National in the Las Vegas Valley, Clark County, including perpetuity, if applicable. Interest Lands Conservation Act Nevada. The City of Las Vegas proposes The land identified is not needed for (ANILCA), 16 U.S.C. 3120, requires that to use the land for a community 2.98- any Federal purpose. The lease and/or the BLM evaluate effects on subsistence acre park that will help meet future conveyance is consistent with the BLM activities for the alternatives presented expanding recreation needs in the Las Vegas Resource Management Plan in this GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS northwestern part of the Las Vegas dated October 5, 1998, and would be in and to hold public hearings if the BLM Valley. the public interest. The City of Las finds that any of the alternatives or the Vegas has not applied for more than the DATES: Interested parties may submit cumulative effects of past, present, and 640-acre limitation for public purpose written comments regarding the reasonably foreseeable future uses in a year and has submitted a proposed classification for lease and development may significantly restrict statement in compliance with the conveyance of the land until May 14, subsistence activities. regulations at 43CFR 2741.4(b). 2018. Absent any adverse comments, The lease and conveyance, when BLM Alaska will hold public the decision will become effective on issued, will be subject to the provisions meetings on the GMT2 Draft May 29, 2018. of the R&PP Act and applicable Supplemental EIS in these Alaska ADDRESSES: Mail written comments to regulations of the Secretary of the communities: Anchorage, Anaktuvuk Pass, Atqasuk, Utqiaġvik, Fairbanks, and the BLM Las Vegas Field Office, Attn: Interior, and will contain the following Nuiqsut. In addition, the public Vanessa L. Hice, Assistant Field reservations to the United States: meetings at Anaktuvuk Pass, Atqasuk, Manager, 4701 N Torrey Pines Drive, 1. A right-of-way thereon for ditches Utqiaġvik, and Nuiqsut will incorporate Las Vegas, Nevada 89130, or faxed to or canals constructed by the authority of subsistence hearings to take comments 775–515–5010. the United States, Act of August 30, on subsistence impacts pursuant to the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 1890 (43 U.S.C. 945); and ANILCA. Roger Ketterling at the above address or 2. All minerals shall be reserved to Before including your address, phone by telephone at 702–515–5087. Persons the United States, together with the number, email address, or other who use a telecommunications device right to prospect for, mine, and remove personally identifying information in for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal such deposits for the same under your comment, you should be aware Relay Service at 1–800–877–8339 to applicable law and such regulations as that your entire comment—including contact the above individual during the Secretary of the Interior may your personally identifying normal business hours. The Service is prescribe. information—may be made publicly available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, Any lease and conveyance will also available at any time. While you can ask to leave a message or question with the be subject to all valid existing rights, the BLM in your comment to withhold above individual. You will receive a will contain any terms or conditions your personally identifying information reply during normal business hours. required by law (including, but not from public review, we cannot SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The parcel limited to, any terms or conditions guarantee that we will be able to do so. is located south of the existing Wayne required by 43 CFR 2741,4), and will Bunker Park on Constantinople Avenue contain an appropriate indemnification Authority: 16 U.S.C. 3120(a); 40 CFR 1506.6(b). between Buffalo Drive and Tenaya Way clause protecting the United States from in northwest Las Vegas and is legally claims arising out of the lessee’s/ Karen E. Mouritsen, described as: patentee’s use, occupancy, or operations Acting State Director, Alaska. on the leased/patented lands. It will also Mount Diablo Meridian, Nevada [FR Doc. 2018–06380 Filed 3–28–18; 8:45 am] contain any other terms and conditions BILLING CODE 4310–JA–P T. 20 S., R. 60 E., deemed necessary and appropriate by Sec. 10, SW1⁄4NE1⁄4NW1⁄4NW1⁄4. the Authorized Officer. The area described contains 2.98 acres in Upon publication of this Notice in the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Clark County, Nevada. Federal Register, the land described In accordance with the R&PP Act, the above will be segregated from all other Bureau of Land Management City of Las Vegas has filed an forms of appropriation under the public [LLNVS00560.L58530000.EU0000.241A; N– application to develop the above- land laws, rights-of-way, including the 94628; 12–08807; MO #4500115810; described land as a community park general mining laws, except for lease TAS:15X5232] consisting of picnic shelters, children’s and conveyance under the R&PP Act, play area, restrooms, pedestrian leasing under the mineral leasing laws, Notice of Realty Action: Classification walkways, parking and turf open space and disposals under the mineral for Lease and/or Conveyance for play areas. Additional detailed material disposal laws. Recreation and Public Purposes of Interested parties may submit written sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES information pertaining to this Public Lands for a Park in the publication, plan of development, and comments on the suitability of the land Northwest Portion of the Las Vegas site plan is located in case file N–94628, for a public park in the City of Las Valley, Clark County, Nevada which is available for review at the BLM Vegas. Comments on the classification AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Las Vegas Field Office at the above are restricted to whether the land is Interior. address. physically suited for the proposal, The City of Las Vegas is a political whether the use will maximize the ACTION: Notice of realty action. subdivision of the State of Nevada and future use or uses of the land, whether VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:09 Mar 28, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00041 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\29MRN1.SGM 29MRN1


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DatesTo ensure that the BLM will consider your comments on the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS, BLM Alaska must receive your written comments no later than 45 days after the Environmental Protection Agency publishes its notice of availability of the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS in the Federal Register. BLM Alaska will announce the dates, times, and locations of public meetings on its website, through public notices, media news releases, and/or mailings.
ContactStephanie Rice, BLM Alaska State Office, 907-271-3202. People who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877- 8339 to contact the above individual during normal business hours. The FRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or question with the above individual. You will receive a reply during normal business hours.
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