Notice of a 30-Day Public Comment Period To Affirm the Policy for the Standards To Establish the Potash Enclave As Used To Administer the Secretarial Order of 1986 Entitled “Oil and Gas and Potash Leasing and Development Within the Designated Potash Area of Eddy and Lea Counties, New Mexico”, 7063 [E6-1891]
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Notice of extension of an
information collection (1010–0137).
ACTION:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[WO–300–1330–EO]
Notice of a 30-Day Public Comment
Period To Affirm the Policy for the
Standards To Establish the Potash
Enclave As Used To Administer the
Secretarial Order of 1986 Entitled ‘‘Oil
and Gas and Potash Leasing and
Development Within the Designated
Potash Area of Eddy and Lea Counties,
New Mexico’’
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of correction.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) originally published
this notice on Tuesday, August 30, 2005
[70 FR 51364] and solicited public
comments on the report which affirms
the existing policy on the criteria used
to establish the potash enclave. The
BLM gave the public 30 days to
comment on these Policy Standards.
The public comment period ended on
Thursday, September 29, 2005. The
BLM received numerous requests to
lengthen the comment period. The BLM
extended the comment period an
additional 120 days. The BLM has again
received requests to lengthen the
comment period. The BLM will again
extend the comment period an
additional 120 days.
DATES: Comments should be submitted
to the address below no later than June
12, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be addressed to Group Manager, Solid
Minerals, 1620 L Street NW., Mail Stop
501 LS, Washington DC 20036.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ted
Murphy, Group Manager, Solid
Minerals, 1620 L St. NW., Mail Stop 501
LS, Washington, DC 20036, telephone
(202) 452–0351.
Thomas Lonnie,
Assistant Director, Minerals, Realty and
Resource Protection.
[FR Doc. E6–1891 Filed 2–9–06; 8:45 am]
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Activities: Proposed Collection;
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(MMS), Interior.
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SUMMARY: To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), MMS is inviting comments on a
collection of information that we will
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval.
The information collection request (ICR)
concerns the paperwork requirements in
a Notice to Lessees and Operators (NTL)
discussed below.
DATES: Submit written comments by
April 11, 2006.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods listed
below. Please use the Information
Collection Number 1010–0137 as an
identifier in your message.
• Public Connect on-line commenting
system, https://ocsconnect.mms.gov.
Follow the instructions on the Web site
for submitting comments.
• E-mail MMS at
rules.comments@mms.gov. Identify with
Information Collection Number 1010–
0137 in the subject line.
• Fax: 703–787–1093. Identify with
Information Collection Number 1010–
0137.
• Mail or hand-carry comments to the
Department of the Interior; Minerals
Management Service; Attention: Rules
Process Team (RPT); 381 Elden Street,
MS–4024; Herndon, Virginia 20170–
4817. Please reference ‘‘Information
Collection 1010–0137’’ in your
comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cheryl Blundon, Rules Processing Team
at (703) 787–1600. You may also contact
Cheryl Blundon to obtain a copy, at no
cost, of the subject collection of
information.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Historical Well Data Cleanup
Project; Wells Without Assigned MMS
API Numbers—Notice to Lessees.
OMB Control Number: 1010–0137.
Abstract: The Outer Continental Shelf
(OCS) Lands Act, as amended (43 U.S.C.
1331 et seq. and 43 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.),
authorizes the Secretary of the Interior
(Secretary) to prescribe rules and
regulations to administer leasing of the
OCS. Such rules and regulations will
apply to all operations conducted under
a lease. Operations on the OCS must
preserve, protect, and develop oil and
natural gas resources in a manner that
is consistent with the need to make such
resources available to meet the Nation’s
energy needs as rapidly as possible; to
balance orderly energy resource
development with protection of human,
marine, and coastal environments; to
ensure the public a fair and equitable
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return on the resources of the OCS; and
to preserve and maintain free enterprise
competition.
The OCSLA at 43 U.S.C. 1332(6)
states that ‘‘operations in the [O]uter
Continental Shelf should be conducted
in a safe manner by well-trained
personnel using technology,
precautions, and techniques sufficient
to prevent or minimize the likelihood of
blowouts, loss of well control, fires,
spillages, physical obstruction to other
users of the waters or subsoil and
seabed, or other occurrences which may
cause damage to the environment or to
property, or endanger life or health.’’
The MMS’s Historical Well Data
Cleanup Project is currently underway
and is expected to last several years to
allow operators ample time to provide
the missing or corrected data. This
notice announces our intention to
request a 3-year extension for this
information collection.
The information we collect under this
NTL, is missing data for wellbores that
MMS has not assigned API numbers and
other well data discovered as missing
while completing the well database
cleanup project. We are not able to
manage and utilize data from drilling
operations accurately without the
information for the missing wells. We
will use the information to identify
other well data (e.g., logs, surveys, tests)
missing from our records, geologically
map existing MMS data to the correct
wellbore/location, and correctly
exchange information with the operators
and industry. Our geoscientists can use
the information to evaluate resources for
lease sales for fair market value. With
respect to safety concerns, we believe
that there may be anywhere from 3,000
to 5,000 unidentified completed and
abandoned wellbores (bypasses and
sidetracks), some of which may contain
stuck drill pipe or other materials. In
approving permits and other operations
in an area, it is important for us to know
what may be adjacent to or near the
vicinity of the activity we are approving
to minimize the risk of blowouts, loss of
well control, and endangerment to life,
health, and the environment. This is
particularly important as, over the years,
the number of wells drilled constantly
increases, thereby increasing the risk to
adjacent activities if operators are not
aware of what might be in the area.
We will protect information
respondents submit that is considered
proprietary under the Freedom of
Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and its
implementing regulations (43 CFR part
2) and 30 CFR 250.196, ‘‘Data and
information to be made available to the
public.’’ No items of a sensitive nature
are collected. Responses are mandatory.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[WO-300-1330-EO]
Notice of a 30-Day Public Comment Period To Affirm the Policy for
the Standards To Establish the Potash Enclave As Used To Administer the
Secretarial Order of 1986 Entitled ``Oil and Gas and Potash Leasing and
Development Within the Designated Potash Area of Eddy and Lea Counties,
New Mexico''
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of correction.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) originally published this
notice on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 [70 FR 51364] and solicited public
comments on the report which affirms the existing policy on the
criteria used to establish the potash enclave. The BLM gave the public
30 days to comment on these Policy Standards. The public comment period
ended on Thursday, September 29, 2005. The BLM received numerous
requests to lengthen the comment period. The BLM extended the comment
period an additional 120 days. The BLM has again received requests to
lengthen the comment period. The BLM will again extend the comment
period an additional 120 days.
DATES: Comments should be submitted to the address below no later than
June 12, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should be addressed to Group Manager, Solid
Minerals, 1620 L Street NW., Mail Stop 501 LS, Washington DC 20036.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ted Murphy, Group Manager, Solid
Minerals, 1620 L St. NW., Mail Stop 501 LS, Washington, DC 20036,
telephone (202) 452-0351.
Thomas Lonnie,
Assistant Director, Minerals, Realty and Resource Protection.
[FR Doc. E6-1891 Filed 2-9-06; 8:45 am]
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