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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[WY–030–1310–DB]
Notice of Availability of a Draft
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Seminoe Road Gas Development
Project
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) announces the
availability of the Seminoe Road Gas
Development Project DEIS that analyzes
the environmental consequences of a
proposed coalbed natural gas
development and production operation
in south central Wyoming.
DATES: The DEIS will be available for
review and comment for 60 calendar
days from the date the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) publishes its
NOA in the Federal Register. The BLM
can best use comments and resource
information if they are submitted by or
before close of business the day of the
end of the comment and review period.
If you are uncertain as to what
constitutes acceptable comment format
or when comments are due, please
contact the Project Leader or the
Rawlins Field Office at the address
below.
A copy of the DEIS was sent
to affected Federal, State, and local
government agencies and to interested
parties. The document may also be
available electronically on the following
Web site: https://www.wy.blm.gov/nepa/
nepadocs.htm. Copies of the DEIS will
be available for public inspection at the
following locations:
• Bureau of Land Management,
Wyoming State Office, 5353
Yellowstone Road, Cheyenne, Wyoming
82003.
• Bureau of Land Management,
Rawlins Field Office, 1300 N. Third
Street, Rawlins, Wyoming 82301.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David Simons, Project Leader, BLM
Rawlins Field Office, 1300 N. Third
Street, Rawlins, WY 82301. Requests for
information may be sent electronically
to: rawlins_wymail@blm.gov with
‘‘Attention: Seminoe Road DEIS
Information Request’’ in the subject line.
Mr. Simons may also be reached at (307)
328–4328.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Dudley &
Associates, LLC (the Operators) propose
to explore and develop natural gas
resources from coal beds within their
existing leases within the Seminoe Road
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Project Area. The project is located
approximately 20 miles northeast of
Rawlins, Wyoming near Seminoe
Reservoir, Townships 21–24 North,
Ranges 84–86 West, Sixth Principal
Meridian, Carbon County.
The Operators will drill up to 1,240
wells on up to 785 well pad sites over
the next 30 to 40 years. Depending on
geologic conditions, well density would
range from two wells per 640 acres to
four wells per 640 acres.
Forty-nine percent of the
approximately 137,000 surface acre area
is public land administered primarily by
the BLM. Of the remaining project area
surface, 49 percent is privately owned
and less than 2 percent is owned and
administered by the State of Wyoming.
The Federal mineral estate ownership
pattern is the same as the surface
ownership pattern. Currently,
approximately 18 gas wells operate
within the Seminoe Road Project Area
from a pilot project drilled in 2001. The
Operators propose to drill up to 1,240
additional wells over the next 30 to 40
years.
The BLM published its Notice of
Intent to prepare an Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) for the Seminoe
Road Gas Development Project in the
Federal Register on March 13, 2003.
Based upon issues and concerns
identified during scoping and during
the development of National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
analysis, the Seminoe Road DEIS
focuses on individual and cumulative
impacts to air quality, biological and
physical resources, transportation, and
socio-economics factors. In compliance
with section 7(c) of the Endangered
Species Act, as amended, the DEIS
includes a biological assessment that
identifies endangered or threatened
species which may be affected by the
Proposed Action.
This DEIS assesses the effects of
implementing the proposed action at the
scale presented by the project
proponent. Subsequent site-specific
development proposals would be
submitted to the BLM in the form of
Applications to Drill (APD). A NEPA
analysis of the, APDs would be
conducted and analyzed to address site
specific effects using best management
practices. These site-specific
environmental analyses would be tiered
to this EIS.
The Seminoe Road DEIS analyzes four
alternatives in detail:
1. Alternative A, the No Action
alternative. This means the project as
proposed would not be approved;
2. Alternative B, the proposed action,
with produced water from coalbed
natural gas drilling and production
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discharged into ephemeral stream
courses;
3. Alternative C, the proposed action,
modified to provide for produced water
discharge in the North Platte River
system using pipelines, aqueducts, or
other water transportation features; and
4. Alternative D, the proposed action,
with produced water re-injected into
underground aquifers.
Agency Preferred Alternative: BLM’s
preferred alternative is Alternative C.
The proposed action is to proceed
with field development through
establishing 785 well pad sites, drilling
up to 1,240 natural gas wells,
developing access roads and siting
pipelines and other ancillary facilities
(gas processing plant, compressor
stations, water disposal sites, etc.). The
proposed action identifies the drilling of
multiple wells from a single pad and
well completion in multiple coal
formations. Produced water would be
released into surface drainages running
into the North Platte River.
How To Submit Comments
Comments must be submitted using
one of the following methods:
1. Comments may be electronically
mailed to rawlins_wymail@blm.gov with
‘‘Attention: Seminoe Road Project
Manager’’ in the subject line, and
avoiding the use of special characters or
any form of encryption. If you do not
receive a confirmation from our system
that your comment has been received,
please contact David Simons, Project
Manager, Rawlins Field Office, (307)
328–4328;
2. Written comments may be mailed
directly or delivered to the BLM at:
Seminoe Road DEIS, Project Manager,
Bureau of Land Management Rawlins
Field Office, 1300 N. Third Street, P.O.
Box 2407, Rawlins, WY 82301; and
3. Comments may be sent via telefax
to the BLM, Attn: David Simons, at
(307) 328–4224.
To be given consideration by BLM, all
DEIS comments must include the
commenter’s name and street address.
BLM’s practice is to make all
comments, including the names and
street addresses of each respondent,
available for public review at the BLM
office listed above during business
hours (7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), Monday
through Friday, except for Federal
holidays. Your comments may be
published as part of the EIS process.
Individual respondents may request
confidentiality. If you wish to withhold
your name or street address or both from
public review or from disclosure under
the Freedom of Information Act, you
must state this prominently at the
beginning of your written comments.
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Such requests will be honored to the
extent allowed by law. BLM will not
consider anonymous comments. All
submissions from organizations or
businesses will be made available for
public inspection in their entirety.
Dated: November 15, 2005.
Martin G. Griffith,
Acting State Director.
[FR Doc. 05–23064 Filed 11–23–05; 8:45 am]
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COMMISSION
[Inv. No. 337–TA–553]
In the Matter of Certain NAND Flash
Memory Devices and Products
Containing Same; Notice of
Investigation
Authority: The authority for institution of
this investigation is contained in section 337
of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, and
in section 210.10 of the Commission’s Rules
of Practice and Procedure, 19 CFR 210.10
(2005).
U.S. International Trade
Commission.
ACTION: Institution of investigation
pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 1337.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that a
complaint was filed with the U.S.
International Trade Commission on
October 20, 2005, under section 337 of
the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, 19
U.S.C. 1337, on behalf of Hynix
Semiconductor Inc. of Korea; Hynix
Semiconductor America Inc. of San
Jose, California; and Hynix
Semiconductor Manufacturing America
Inc. of Eugene, Oregon. A supplement
was filed on November 8, 2005. The
complaint, as supplemented, alleges
violations of section 337 in the
importation into the United States, the
sale for importation, and the sale within
the United States after importation of
certain NAND flash memory devices
and products containing same by reason
of infringement of claims 1–5 of U.S.
Patent No. 5,509,995, and claim 6 of
U.S. Patent No. 5,869,404. The
complaint further alleges that an
industry in the United States exists as
required by subsection (a)(2) of section
337.
The complainant requests that the
Commission institute an investigation
and, after the investigation, issue a
permanent exclusion order and cease
and desist orders.
ADDRESSES: The complaint, except for
any confidential information contained
therein, is available for inspection
during official business hours (8:45 a.m.
to 5:15 p.m.) in the Office of the
Secretary, U.S. International Trade
Commission, 500 E Street, SW., Room
112, Washington, DC 20436, telephone
202–205–2000. Hearing impaired
individuals are advised that information
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on this matter can be obtained by
contacting the Commission’s TDD
terminal on 202–205–1810. Persons
with mobility impairments who will
need special assistance in gaining access
to the Commission should contact the
Office of the Secretary at 202–205–2000.
General information concerning the
Commission may also be obtained by
accessing its Internet server at https://
www.usitc.gov. The public record for
this investigation may be viewed on the
Commission’s electronic docket (EDIS)
at https://edis.usitc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steven R. Pedersen, Esq., Office of
Unfair Import Investigations, U.S.
International Trade Commission,
telephone 202–205–2781.
Scope of Investigation: Having
considered the complaint, the U.S.
International Trade Commission, on
November 17, 2005, Ordered That:
(1) Pursuant to subsection (b) of
section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended, an investigation be instituted
to determine whether there is a
violation of subsection (a)(1)(B) of
section 337 in the importation into the
United States, the sale for importation,
or the sale within the United States after
importation of certain NAND flash
memory devices or products containing
same by reason of infringement of one
or more of claims 1–5 of U.S. Patent No.
5,509,995, or claim 6 of U.S. Patent No.
5,869,404, and whether an industry in
the United States exists as required by
subsection (a)(2) of section 337.
(2) For the purpose of the
investigation so instituted, the following
are hereby named as parties upon which
this notice of investigation shall be
served:
(a) The complainants are: Hynix
Semiconductor Inc., San 136–1, Ami-Ri
Bubal-eub Ichon-Si, Kyoungki-do, Korea
467–860.
Hynix Semiconductor America Inc.,
3101 North First Street, San Jose,
California 95134.
Hynix Semiconductor Manufacturing
America Inc., 1830 Willow Creek,
Eugene, Oregon 97402.
(b) The respondents are the following
entities alleged to be in violation of
section 337, and are the parties upon
which the complaint is to be served:
Toshiba Corporation, 1–1, Shibaura
1–Chome, Minato-Ku, Tokyo 105–8001,
Japan.
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Toshiba America Electronic
Components, Inc., 19900 MacArthur
Blvd., Suite 400, Irvine, California
92612.
Toshiba America Information
Systems, Inc., 9740 Irvine Blvd., Irvine,
California 92618.
Toshiba America Consumer Products,
L.L.C., 82 Totowa Road, Wayne, New
Jersey 07470.
(c) Steven R. Pedersen, Esq., Office of
Unfair Import Investigations, U.S.
International Trade Commission, 500 E
Street, SW., Suite 401, Washington, DC
20436, who shall be the Commission
investigative attorney, party to this
investigation; and
(3) For the investigation so instituted,
the Honorable Sidney Harris is
designated as the presiding
administrative law judge.
Responses to the complaint and the
notice of investigation must be
submitted by the named respondents in
accordance with section 210.13 of the
Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure, 19 CFR 210.13. Pursuant to
19 CFR 201.16(d) and 210.13(a), such
responses will be considered by the
Commission if received not later than 20
days after the date of service by the
Commission of the complaint and the
notice of investigation. Extensions of
time for submitting responses to the
complaint and the notice of
investigation will not be granted unless
good cause therefor is shown.
Failure of a respondent to file a timely
response to each allegation in the
complaint and in this notice may be
deemed to constitute a waiver of the
right to appear and contest the
allegations of the complaint and this
notice, and to authorize the
administrative law judge and the
Commission, without further notice to
the respondents, to find the facts to be
as alleged in the complaint and this
notice and to enter a final determination
containing such findings, and may
result in the issuance of a limited
exclusion order or cease and desist
order or both directed against the
respondent.
By order of the Commission.
Issued: November 18, 2005.
Marilyn R. Abbott,
Secretary to the Commission.
[FR Doc. 05–23249 Filed 11–23–05; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[WY-030-1310-DB]
Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement
for the Seminoe Road Gas Development Project
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces the availability
of the Seminoe Road Gas Development Project DEIS that analyzes the
environmental consequences of a proposed coalbed natural gas
development and production operation in south central Wyoming.
DATES: The DEIS will be available for review and comment for 60
calendar days from the date the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
publishes its NOA in the Federal Register. The BLM can best use
comments and resource information if they are submitted by or before
close of business the day of the end of the comment and review period.
If you are uncertain as to what constitutes acceptable comment format
or when comments are due, please contact the Project Leader or the
Rawlins Field Office at the address below.
ADDRESSES: A copy of the DEIS was sent to affected Federal, State, and
local government agencies and to interested parties. The document may
also be available electronically on the following Web site: https://
www.wy.blm.gov/nepa/nepadocs.htm. Copies of the DEIS will be available
for public inspection at the following locations:
Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office, 5353
Yellowstone Road, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003.
Bureau of Land Management, Rawlins Field Office, 1300 N.
Third Street, Rawlins, Wyoming 82301.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Simons, Project Leader, BLM
Rawlins Field Office, 1300 N. Third Street, Rawlins, WY 82301. Requests
for information may be sent electronically to: rawlins_wymail@blm.gov
with ``Attention: Seminoe Road DEIS Information Request'' in the
subject line. Mr. Simons may also be reached at (307) 328-4328.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Dudley & Associates, LLC (the Operators)
propose to explore and develop natural gas resources from coal beds
within their existing leases within the Seminoe Road Project Area. The
project is located approximately 20 miles northeast of Rawlins, Wyoming
near Seminoe Reservoir, Townships 21-24 North, Ranges 84-86 West, Sixth
Principal Meridian, Carbon County.
The Operators will drill up to 1,240 wells on up to 785 well pad
sites over the next 30 to 40 years. Depending on geologic conditions,
well density would range from two wells per 640 acres to four wells per
640 acres.
Forty-nine percent of the approximately 137,000 surface acre area
is public land administered primarily by the BLM. Of the remaining
project area surface, 49 percent is privately owned and less than 2
percent is owned and administered by the State of Wyoming. The Federal
mineral estate ownership pattern is the same as the surface ownership
pattern. Currently, approximately 18 gas wells operate within the
Seminoe Road Project Area from a pilot project drilled in 2001. The
Operators propose to drill up to 1,240 additional wells over the next
30 to 40 years.
The BLM published its Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) for the Seminoe Road Gas Development Project in
the Federal Register on March 13, 2003. Based upon issues and concerns
identified during scoping and during the development of National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analysis, the Seminoe Road DEIS focuses
on individual and cumulative impacts to air quality, biological and
physical resources, transportation, and socio-economics factors. In
compliance with section 7(c) of the Endangered Species Act, as amended,
the DEIS includes a biological assessment that identifies endangered or
threatened species which may be affected by the Proposed Action.
This DEIS assesses the effects of implementing the proposed action
at the scale presented by the project proponent. Subsequent site-
specific development proposals would be submitted to the BLM in the
form of Applications to Drill (APD). A NEPA analysis of the, APDs would
be conducted and analyzed to address site specific effects using best
management practices. These site-specific environmental analyses would
be tiered to this EIS.
The Seminoe Road DEIS analyzes four alternatives in detail:
1. Alternative A, the No Action alternative. This means the project
as proposed would not be approved;
2. Alternative B, the proposed action, with produced water from
coalbed natural gas drilling and production discharged into ephemeral
stream courses;
3. Alternative C, the proposed action, modified to provide for
produced water discharge in the North Platte River system using
pipelines, aqueducts, or other water transportation features; and
4. Alternative D, the proposed action, with produced water re-
injected into underground aquifers.
Agency Preferred Alternative: BLM's preferred alternative is
Alternative C.
The proposed action is to proceed with field development through
establishing 785 well pad sites, drilling up to 1,240 natural gas
wells, developing access roads and siting pipelines and other ancillary
facilities (gas processing plant, compressor stations, water disposal
sites, etc.). The proposed action identifies the drilling of multiple
wells from a single pad and well completion in multiple coal
formations. Produced water would be released into surface drainages
running into the North Platte River.
How To Submit Comments
Comments must be submitted using one of the following methods:
1. Comments may be electronically mailed to rawlins_wymail@blm.gov
with ``Attention: Seminoe Road Project Manager'' in the subject line,
and avoiding the use of special characters or any form of encryption.
If you do not receive a confirmation from our system that your comment
has been received, please contact David Simons, Project Manager,
Rawlins Field Office, (307) 328-4328;
2. Written comments may be mailed directly or delivered to the BLM
at: Seminoe Road DEIS, Project Manager, Bureau of Land Management
Rawlins Field Office, 1300 N. Third Street, P.O. Box 2407, Rawlins, WY
82301; and
3. Comments may be sent via telefax to the BLM, Attn: David Simons,
at (307) 328-4224.
To be given consideration by BLM, all DEIS comments must include
the commenter's name and street address.
BLM's practice is to make all comments, including the names and
street addresses of each respondent, available for public review at the
BLM office listed above during business hours (7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.),
Monday through Friday, except for Federal holidays. Your comments may
be published as part of the EIS process. Individual respondents may
request confidentiality. If you wish to withhold your name or street
address or both from public review or from disclosure under the Freedom
of Information Act, you must state this prominently at the beginning of
your written comments.
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Such requests will be honored to the extent allowed by law. BLM will
not consider anonymous comments. All submissions from organizations or
businesses will be made available for public inspection in their
entirety.
Dated: November 15, 2005.
Martin G. Griffith,
Acting State Director.
[FR Doc. 05-23064 Filed 11-23-05; 8:45 am]
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