Notice of Availability; Mosquito Creek Lake Proposed Planning Analysis/Environmental Assessment; DOI

Bureau of Land Management, Milwaukee Field Office.

Notice of availability.

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Notice is hereby given that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Milwaukee Field Office, in cooperation and coordination with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, has completed the Mosquito Creek Lake Proposed Planning Analysis/Environmental Assessment (PA/EA) for oil and gas leasing. The Proposed PA/EA serves as a companion document to the Mosquito Creek Lake Draft PA/EA released in April 1998. The Draft PA/EA detailed the potential impacts associated with the leasing and subsequent development of Federal oil and gas resources at the COE's Mosquito Creek Lake project, Trumbull County, Ohio. Based on the findings of the Draft PA/EA and the supplemental information/analyses included in the Proposed PA/EA, the BLM proposes to lease federally owned oil and gas resources underlying the Mosquito Creek Lake project area subject to the surface and subsurface use restrictions identified on pages 1-11 and 1-12 of the Draft PA/EA. Mitigation measures listed in Appendix A of the Proposed PA/EA would apply to all approved Federal drilling permits or agreements. The Proposed PA/EA may be protested by any person who participated in the planning process and has an interest which is or may be adversely affected by the approval of the plan. A protest may raise only those issues which were submitted for the record during the planning process (see 43 CFR 1610.5-2).

DATES/ADDRESSES: Protests must be submitted in writing to the Director of BLM at the following address: Director, Bureau of Land Management, Attn: Ms. Brenda Williams, Protests Coordinator, WO-210/LS-1075, Department of the Interior, Washington, DC 20240. Protests must be postmarked on or before November 18, 1998. Protests filed late or filed with the State Director or Field Manager shall be rejected by BLM.

Copies of the Mosquito Creek Lake Draft and/or Proposed PA/EAs are available for public and agency review from the BLM Milwaukee Field Office, P.O. Box 631, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53201-0631. For further information, please contact Terry Saarela, Team Leader, at (414) 297-4437 (e-mail: tsaarela@es.blm.gov), or Chris Hanson, Assistant Field Manager, Division of Natural Resource Management at (414) 297-4421 (e-mail: chanson@es.blm.gov).