Proclaiming Certain Lands as a Reservation for the Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan, aka, Gun Lake Tribe, 44381 [E9-20791]
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Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 166 / Friday, August 28, 2009 / Notices
Clean Fuels Refinery, and that the FEIS
is now available for public review. The
proposed Federal actions are: (1) The
taking into trust of 469 acres of fee land
by the BIA in support of the MHA
Nation’s proposal to construct and
operate a clean fuels refinery and
produce buffalo forage; and (2) the
issuance by the EPA of a Clean Water
Act, National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System Discharge (NPDES)
permit for the discharge of treated
wastewater from the proposed refinery.
DATES: The Record of Decision on the
proposed action will be issued no
sooner than 30 days after the release of
the FEIS. Thus, any comments on the
FEIS must arrive by September 28, 2009.
A public meeting will be held on
September 9 at Four Bears Casino, 202
Frontage Road, New Town, ND, at
7 p.m.
ADDRESSES: You may mail or hand carry
written comments to Mike Black,
Regional Director, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, Great Plains Regional Office,
115 4th Avenue, SE., Aberdeen, SD.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mike Black, BIA, 605–226–7343, or
Steve Wharton, EPA, 303–312–6935 or
800–227–8917.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Three
Affiliated Tribes (MHA Nation) has
requested that BIA accept into trust
status 469 acres for the MHA Nation to
construct, own, operate, and maintain a
petroleum refinery on 190 acres of the
469-acre parcel. The remaining acres
would be used to grow forage for
buffalo. The land in the northeast corner
of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
is located along Highway 23, four miles
west of the town of Makoti in Ward
County, North Dakota.
The MHA Nation has also applied to
EPA for an NPDES permit under the
Clean Water Act for discharges from the
proposed refinery.
Feedstock for the proposed refinery
would include 10,000 barrels per stream
day (BPSD) of synthetic crude oil via
existing pipeline from Alberta, Canada;
3,000 BPSD of field butane from local
suppliers; 6 million standard cubic feet
per day of natural gas via existing
pipeline; and 300 barrels of bio-diesel or
8,500 bushels per day of soybeans. From
the feedstock, the refinery would
produce about 5,750 BPSD of diesel
fuel, 6,770 BPSD of gasoline, and 300
BPSD of propane.
The FEIS analyzes potential
environmental effects of two Federal
agency decisions: (1) Whether BIA
should accept lands into trust in
support of the MHA Nation’s proposal
to construct and operate a clean fuels
refinery and produce buffalo forage; and
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(2) whether EPA should issue a Clean
Water Act NPDES permit for the process
water discharges associated with the
operation of the proposed refinery. The
FEIS has identified the Agencies’
preferred alternatives. BIA and EPA will
be making their decisions in separate
Records of Decision (RODs), which will
be issued after the 30-day wait period
on the FEIS. The MHA Nation will be
deciding whether to build and operate
the refinery.
BIA has identified its preferred
alternative as Alternative 3. In this
alternative, BIA would not place the
land into trust status and the refinery
could be constructed by the Tribes. If
the proposed refinery is constructed,
EPA has identified Alternative A,
issuance of an NPDES permit for
effluent discharges associated with the
refinery as its preferred water discharge
alternative. EPA and BIA recommend
that the design of the refinery, if
constructed, be modified consistent
with Alternative 4.
Public Availability of the FEIS
The FEIS is available on the Web at:
https://www.epa.gov/region8/
compliance/nepa.
Hard copies of the document are
available for public review at the
following locations:
—Bureau of Indian Affairs, Great Plains
Regional Office, 115 4th Avenue, SE.,
Aberdeen, SD.
—Bureau of Indian Affairs, Fort
Berthold Agency, 202 Main Street,
New Town, ND.
—EPA Region 8 Library, 1595 Wynkoop
Street, Denver, CO.
—Three Affiliated Tribes Governmental
Offices, 404 Frontage Road, New
Town, ND.
—Each of the MHA Nation’s Segment
Offices: Four Bears (Tribal Gov.
Center), Mandaree, Shell Creek (New
Town), Lucky Mound (Parshall), Twin
Buttes, and White Shield, and
—Rensch garage in Makoti, ND.
Authority
This notice is published in
accordance with section 1506.10 of the
Council on Environmental Quality
Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 through
1508) implementing the procedural
requirements of the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), and
related Department of the Interior
requirements in the Department of the
Interior Manual (516 DM 1–6), and is in
exercise of authority delegated to the
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—
Indian Affairs by 209 DM 8.
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Dated: August 21, 2009.
George T. Skibine,
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—
Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. E9–20816 Filed 8–27–09; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Proclaiming Certain Lands as a
Reservation for the Match-e-be-nashshe-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians
of Michigan, aka, Gun Lake Tribe
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Reservation
Proclamation; Correction.
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian Affairs
(BIA) published a document in the
Federal Register of August 18, 2009,
concerning the Assistant SecretaryIndian Affairs proclaiming
approximately 147 acres as the Matche-be-nash-she-wish Band of
Pottawatomi Indian Reservation. The
document contained an error in the
legal description.
DATES:
Effective Date: August 28, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ben
Burshia, Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Division of Real Estate Services, MS–
4639 MIB, 1849 C Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20240, telephone (202)
208–7737.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Corrections
In the Federal Register of August 18,
2009, in FR Doc. E9–19751, on page
41741, in the first column, line one,
insert the following text after the word
‘‘section,’’ and before the word ‘‘said:’’
which is North 86 degrees 57 minutes
24 seconds East 481.98 feet from the
West line of said Section
Also on page 41741, in the first
column, line 33, change ‘‘East 431.00
feet;’’ to the following and delete lines
34, 35, 36, 37 and 38 in their entirety:
East 325.00 feet.
Dated: August 21, 2009.
George T. Skibine,
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—
Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. E9–20791 Filed 8–27–09; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Proclaiming Certain Lands as a Reservation for the Match-e-be-
nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians of Michigan, aka, Gun Lake
Tribe
AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Reservation Proclamation; Correction.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) published a document in the
Federal Register of August 18, 2009, concerning the Assistant
Secretary-Indian Affairs proclaiming approximately 147 acres as the
Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indian Reservation. The
document contained an error in the legal description.
DATES: Effective Date: August 28, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ben Burshia, Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Division of Real Estate Services, MS-4639 MIB, 1849 C Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20240, telephone (202) 208-7737.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Corrections
In the Federal Register of August 18, 2009, in FR Doc. E9-19751, on
page 41741, in the first column, line one, insert the following text
after the word ``section,'' and before the word ``said:''
which is North 86 degrees 57 minutes 24 seconds East 481.98 feet from
the West line of said Section
Also on page 41741, in the first column, line 33, change ``East
431.00 feet;'' to the following and delete lines 34, 35, 36, 37 and 38
in their entirety:
East 325.00 feet.
Dated: August 21, 2009.
George T. Skibine,
Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. E9-20791 Filed 8-27-09; 8:45 am]
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