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all the requirements for reinstatement of
the lease as set out in Sections 31(d) and
(e) of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920
(30 U.S.C. 188). We are proposing to
reinstate lease NMNM 105214, effective
the date of termination, September 1,
2005, under the original terms and
conditions of the lease and the
increased rental and royalty rates cited
above.
Dated: April 26, 2006.
Bernadine T. Martinez,
Land Law Examiner.
[FR Doc. E6–6783 Filed 5–4–06; 8:45 am]
Dated: April 26, 2006.
Bernadine T. Martinez,
Land Law Examiner.
[FR Doc. E6–6782 Filed 5–4–06; 8:45 am]
Program for Renewable Energy and
Alternate Use of Existing Structures on
the Outer Continental Shelf
Bureau of Land Management
1. Authority
The Notice of Intent (NOI) and notice
of scoping meetings is published
pursuant to the regulations (40 CFR
1501.7) implementing the provisions of
the National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C.
4321 et seq.).
[NM–920–1310–06; TXNM 101033]
Notice of Proposed Reinstatement of
Terminated Oil and Gas Lease TXNM
101033
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
Notice of reinstatement of
terminated oil and gas lease.
ACTION:
SUMMARY: Under the provisions of 30
U.S.C. 188(d) and (e), and 43 CFR
3108.2–3(a) and (b)(1), the Bureau of
Land Management (BLM) received a
petition for reinstatement of oil and gas
lease TXNM 101033 from the lessee,
Blackwell BMC, L.P., for lands in
Grayson County, Texas. The petition
was filed on time and was accompanied
by all the rentals due since the date the
lease terminated under the law.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Bernadine T. Martinez, BLM, New
Mexico State Office, at (505) 438–7530.
No lease
has been issued that affect the lands.
The lessee agrees to new lease terms for
rentals and royalties of $20.00 per acre
or fraction thereof, per year, and 18 2/
3 percent, respectively. The lessee paid
the required $500.00 administrative fee
for the reinstatement of the lease and
$166.00 cost for publishing this Notice
in the Federal Register. The lessee met
all the requirements for reinstatement of
the lease as set out in Sections 31(d) and
(e) of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920
(30 U.S.C. 188). We are proposing to
reinstate lease TXNM 101033, effective
the date of termination, September 1,
2005, under the original terms and
conditions of the lease and the
increased rental and royalty rates cited
above.
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Minerals Management Service
Minerals Management Service
(MMS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare
a programmatic environmental impact
statement (EIS) and scoping meetings.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
AGENCY:
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AGENCY:
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2. Purpose of Notice of Intent
Pursuant to the regulations
implementing the procedural provisions
of the NEPA, the Minerals Management
Service (MMS) is announcing its intent
to prepare a programmatic EIS for the
National Offshore Alternate EnergyRelated Use (AERU) Program and Rule
as authorized by the Energy Policy Act
of 2005. The NOI also serves to
announce the scoping process for this
programmatic EIS. Throughout the
scoping process, Federal, State, and
local government agencies, and other
interested parties have the opportunity
to advise MMS in determining the
significant issues, alternatives, and
mitigation measures to be considered for
analysis in the programmatic EIS. The
programmatic EIS analysis will focus on
the potential environmental effects of
implementing the AERU program, and
associated rulemaking.
3. Cooperating Agency
The MMS invites other Federal
agencies and State, tribal, and local
governments to consider becoming
cooperating agencies in the preparation
of the programmatic EIS. We invite
qualified government entities to inquire
about cooperating agency status for the
EIS. Following the guidelines from the
Council of Environmental Quality
(CEQ), qualified agencies and
governments are those with
’’jurisdiction by law or special
expertise.’’ Potential cooperating
agencies should consider their authority
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and capacity to assume the
responsibilities of a cooperating agency
and to remember that an agency’s role
in the environmental analysis neither
enlarges nor diminishes the final
decision making authority of any other
agency involved in the NEPA process.
Upon request, the MMS will provide
potential cooperating agencies with a
written summary of ground rules for
cooperating agencies, including time
schedules and critical action dates,
milestones, responsibilities, scope and
detail of cooperating agencies’
contributions, and availability of predecisional information. The MMS
anticipates this summary will form the
basis for understanding between the
MMS and each cooperating agency.
Agencies should also consider the
‘‘Factors for Determining Cooperating
Agency Status’’ in Attachment 1 to
CEQ’s January 30, 2002, Memorandum
for the Heads of Federal Agencies:
Cooperating Agencies in Implementing
the Procedural Requirements of the
National Environmental Policy Act. A
copy of this document is available at:
https://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/regs/
cooperating/
cooperatingagenciesmemorandum.html
and https://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/regs/
cooperating/
cooperatingagencymemofactors.html.
The MMS, as the lead agency, will not
provide financial assistance to
cooperating agencies. Even if an
organization is not a cooperating
agency, opportunities will exist to
provide information and comments to
MMS during the normal public input
phases of the NEPA/EIS process. If
further information about cooperating
agencies is needed, please contact Mr.
James F. Bennett at (703) 787–1660.
4. Comments
Federal, State, tribal, local
government agencies, and other
interested parties are requested to
provide comments on the scope of the
programmatic EIS, significant issues
that should be addressed, and
alternatives that should be considered
in one of the following three ways:
1. Electronically, using the online
comment form available on the project
Web site: ocsenergy.anl.gov. This is the
preferred method for commenting.
2. In written form, mailed or delivered
to MMS Renewable Energy and
Alternate Use Programmatic EIS
Scoping, Argonne National Laboratory,
9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL
60439.
3. In person, at public scoping
meetings to be held in multiple
locations in May and June, 2006 (see
below).
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Comments should be submitted no
later than 60 days from the publication
of this NOI.
Public Comment Policy: Our practice
is to make comments, including names
and addresses of respondents, available
for public review. Individual
respondents may request that we
withhold their address from the record,
which we will honor to the extent
allowable by law. There may be
circumstances in which we would
withhold from the record a respondent’s
identity, as allowable by the law. If you
wish us to withhold your name and/or
address, you must state this
prominently at the beginning of your
comment. However, we will not
consider anonymous comments. Except
for proprietary information, we will
make all submissions from
organizations or businesses, and from
individuals identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, available
for public inspection in their entirety.
5. Scoping Meetings
The MMS will hold scoping meetings
to obtain additional comments and
information regarding the scope of the
programmatic EIS. The scoping
meetings are scheduled for the
following cities:
• Thursday, May 18, 2006, Days Hotel
and Conference Center, 2200 Centerville
Road, Herndon, Virginia, 5:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, May 23, 2006, Marriott
Trenton at Lafayette Yard, 1 West
Lafayette Street, Trenton, New Jersey,
5:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, May 23, 2006, Hilton
Austin Airport, 9515 New Airport Drive,
Austin, Texas, 5:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, May 24, 2006, Melville
Marriott, 1350 Old Walt Whitman Road,
Melville, New York, 5:30 p.m.
• Thursday, May 25, 2006, Holiday
Inn Boston-Dedham Hotel and
Conference Center, 55 Ariadne Road,
Dedham, Massachusetts, 5:30 p.m.
• Thursday, May 25, 2006, Courtyard
Long Beach Downtown, 500 East First
Street, Long Beach, California, 5:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, June 6, 2006, Atlanta
Marriott Century Center, 2000 Century
Boulevard NE, Atlanta, Georgia, 5:30
p.m.
• Tuesday, June 6, 2006, Holiday Inn
Portland-Downtown, 1441 NE 2nd
Avenue, Portland, Oregon, 5:30 p.m.
• Thursday, June 8, 2006, Embassy
Suites Hotel Orlando-International
Drive, 8978 International Drive,
Orlando, Florida, 5:30 p.m.
• Thursday, June 8, 2006, The
Presidio Officer’s Club, 50 Moraga
Avenue, San Francisco, California, 5:30
p.m.
Dated: May 2, 2006.
R.M. ‘‘Johnnie’’ Burton,
Director, Minerals Management Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
Trinity River Restoration Program,
Weaverville, CA
AGENCY:
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
Notice and correction regarding
implementation of program.
ACTION:
SUMMARY: On December 19, 2000, the
Secretary of the Interior (Secretary)
signed the Record of Decision (ROD)
implementing the Trinity River
Restoration Program (Program), which
adopted the Preferred Alternative
analyzed in the Trinity River Mainstem
Fishery Restoration Final
Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS).
The Department of the Interior
(Department) has identified a
discrepancy in the description of the
hydrologic forecast used in the annual
flow regime component of the Program.
The impacts analysis in the FEIS was
based upon modeling the historic
inflows into the Trinity River watershed
above the Trinity Dam and categorizing
this data into five water-year classes.
These classes and their probability of
occurrence were displayed in the FEIS
and are repeated below:
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TABLE A.—VALUES FROM FINAL EIR/EIS TABLE 1 (PAGE C–3)
[WY 1912–1995]
Trinity River
allocation
(T AF)
Water-year class
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Critically Dry .................................................................................................................................
Dry ...............................................................................................................................................
Normal .........................................................................................................................................
Wet ...............................................................................................................................................
Extremely Wet .............................................................................................................................
Average ........................................................................................................................................
This discrepancy occurred because
the FEIS narrative in Appendix C
incorrectly references use of a 90%
exceedence forecast in determining
classes for the upcoming water year. Use
of the 50% exceedence forecast more
accurately reflects the occurrence of
water year types identified in the chart
above and more closely approximates
the impact analysis in the FEIS.
The corrective action taken by the
Department will ensure that any
potential impacts from implementation
of the Program are consistent with the
FEIS. This correction does not require
any new action or the modification of an
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existing action, so no further National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
analysis is necessary. Moreover,
correcting this error in the FEIS
Appendix C narrative will have no new
impacts on the goals of the Program, or
on water and power users beyond what
has already been disclosed and analyzed
in the FEIS, and there is no change in
the ROD itself. By making this
correction now, Reclamation’s actions
with regards to determining the water
year type for the 2006 water year will
be consistent with the impacts analysis
approved in Westlands Water District v.
Department of the Interior 366 F.3d 853
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453,000
647,000
701,000
815,000
594
Annual runoff
into Trinity
Lake (TAF)
<650
650–1025
1025–1350
1350–2000
>2000
Probability of
occurrence
0.12
0.28
0.20
0.28
0.12
(9th Cir, 2004). In summation, the NEPA
and Trinity River Flow Evaluation
Study (TRFES) analysis are unchanged
and Reclamation is simply ensuring that
implementation of the Program reflects
the analyses used in the FEIS and ROD.
DATES: The Secretary is not proposing to
take any new action as a result of this
Federal Register notice. Accordingly,
the Department is not establishing a
specific date by which comments must
be submitted.
ADDRESSES: You may submit written
comments to Douglas Schleusner,
Executive Director, Trinity River
Restoration Program, P.O. Box 1300,
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Minerals Management Service
Program for Renewable Energy and Alternate Use of Existing
Structures on the Outer Continental Shelf
AGENCY: Minerals Management Service (MMS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare a programmatic environmental
impact statement (EIS) and scoping meetings.
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1. Authority
The Notice of Intent (NOI) and notice of scoping meetings is
published pursuant to the regulations (40 CFR 1501.7) implementing the
provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.).
2. Purpose of Notice of Intent
Pursuant to the regulations implementing the procedural provisions
of the NEPA, the Minerals Management Service (MMS) is announcing its
intent to prepare a programmatic EIS for the National Offshore
Alternate Energy-Related Use (AERU) Program and Rule as authorized by
the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The NOI also serves to announce the
scoping process for this programmatic EIS. Throughout the scoping
process, Federal, State, and local government agencies, and other
interested parties have the opportunity to advise MMS in determining
the significant issues, alternatives, and mitigation measures to be
considered for analysis in the programmatic EIS. The programmatic EIS
analysis will focus on the potential environmental effects of
implementing the AERU program, and associated rulemaking.
3. Cooperating Agency
The MMS invites other Federal agencies and State, tribal, and local
governments to consider becoming cooperating agencies in the
preparation of the programmatic EIS. We invite qualified government
entities to inquire about cooperating agency status for the EIS.
Following the guidelines from the Council of Environmental Quality
(CEQ), qualified agencies and governments are those with ''jurisdiction
by law or special expertise.'' Potential cooperating agencies should
consider their authority and capacity to assume the responsibilities of
a cooperating agency and to remember that an agency's role in the
environmental analysis neither enlarges nor diminishes the final
decision making authority of any other agency involved in the NEPA
process. Upon request, the MMS will provide potential cooperating
agencies with a written summary of ground rules for cooperating
agencies, including time schedules and critical action dates,
milestones, responsibilities, scope and detail of cooperating agencies'
contributions, and availability of pre-decisional information. The MMS
anticipates this summary will form the basis for understanding between
the MMS and each cooperating agency. Agencies should also consider the
``Factors for Determining Cooperating Agency Status'' in Attachment 1
to CEQ's January 30, 2002, Memorandum for the Heads of Federal
Agencies: Cooperating Agencies in Implementing the Procedural
Requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. A copy of this
document is available at: https://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/regs/cooperating/
cooperatingagenciesmemorandum.html and https://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/regs/
cooperating/cooperatingagencymemofactors.html.
The MMS, as the lead agency, will not provide financial assistance
to cooperating agencies. Even if an organization is not a cooperating
agency, opportunities will exist to provide information and comments to
MMS during the normal public input phases of the NEPA/EIS process. If
further information about cooperating agencies is needed, please
contact Mr. James F. Bennett at (703) 787-1660.
4. Comments
Federal, State, tribal, local government agencies, and other
interested parties are requested to provide comments on the scope of
the programmatic EIS, significant issues that should be addressed, and
alternatives that should be considered in one of the following three
ways:
1. Electronically, using the online comment form available on the
project Web site: ocsenergy.anl.gov. This is the preferred method for
commenting.
2. In written form, mailed or delivered to MMS Renewable Energy and
Alternate Use Programmatic EIS Scoping, Argonne National Laboratory,
9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439.
3. In person, at public scoping meetings to be held in multiple
locations in May and June, 2006 (see below).
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Comments should be submitted no later than 60 days from the
publication of this NOI.
Public Comment Policy: Our practice is to make comments, including
names and addresses of respondents, available for public review.
Individual respondents may request that we withhold their address from
the record, which we will honor to the extent allowable by law. There
may be circumstances in which we would withhold from the record a
respondent's identity, as allowable by the law. If you wish us to
withhold your name and/or address, you must state this prominently at
the beginning of your comment. However, we will not consider anonymous
comments. Except for proprietary information, we will make all
submissions from organizations or businesses, and from individuals
identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations
or businesses, available for public inspection in their entirety.
5. Scoping Meetings
The MMS will hold scoping meetings to obtain additional comments
and information regarding the scope of the programmatic EIS. The
scoping meetings are scheduled for the following cities:
Thursday, May 18, 2006, Days Hotel and Conference Center,
2200 Centerville Road, Herndon, Virginia, 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006, Marriott Trenton at Lafayette Yard,
1 West Lafayette Street, Trenton, New Jersey, 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006, Hilton Austin Airport, 9515 New
Airport Drive, Austin, Texas, 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006, Melville Marriott, 1350 Old Walt
Whitman Road, Melville, New York, 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 25, 2006, Holiday Inn Boston-Dedham Hotel
and Conference Center, 55 Ariadne Road, Dedham, Massachusetts, 5:30
p.m.
Thursday, May 25, 2006, Courtyard Long Beach Downtown, 500
East First Street, Long Beach, California, 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 6, 2006, Atlanta Marriott Century Center,
2000 Century Boulevard NE, Atlanta, Georgia, 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 6, 2006, Holiday Inn Portland-Downtown, 1441
NE 2nd Avenue, Portland, Oregon, 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, June 8, 2006, Embassy Suites Hotel Orlando-
International Drive, 8978 International Drive, Orlando, Florida, 5:30
p.m.
Thursday, June 8, 2006, The Presidio Officer's Club, 50
Moraga Avenue, San Francisco, California, 5:30 p.m.
Dated: May 2, 2006.
R.M. ``Johnnie'' Burton,
Director, Minerals Management Service.
[FR Doc. E6-6924 Filed 5-4-06; 8:45 am]
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