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Dated: February 4, 2014.
Sue E. Masica,
Regional Director, Intermountain Region.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
[MMAA104000]
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), Gulf of
Mexico (GOM), Oil and Gas Lease
Sales, Western Planning Area (WPA)
Lease Sales 246 and 248
Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management (BOEM), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent (NOI) to Prepare
a Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) and an Announcement
of Scoping Meetings and Comment
Period for Proposed Gulf of Mexico OCS
Oil and Gas Western Planning Area
Lease Sales 246 and 248.
AGENCY:
Consistent with the
regulations implementing the National
Environmental Policy Act, as amended
(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) (NEPA), BOEM
is announcing its intent to prepare a
Supplemental EIS for proposed Western
Planning Area (WPA) Lease Sales 246
and 248 in the Gulf of Mexico (WPA
246/248 Supplemental EIS). The WPA
246/248 Supplemental EIS will update
the environmental and socioeconomic
analyses in the Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil
and Gas Lease Sales: 2012–2017;
Western Planning Area Lease Sales 229,
233, 238, 246, and 248; Central
Planning Area Lease Sales 227, 231,
235, 241, and 247, Final Environmental
Impact Statement (OCS EIS/EA BOEM
2012–019) (2012–2017 WPA/CPA
Multisale EIS), Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil
and Gas Lease Sales: 2013–2014;
Western Planning Area Lease Sale 233;
Central Planning Area Lease Sale 231,
Final Supplemental Environmental
Impact Statement (OCS EIS/EA BOEM
2013–0118) (WPA 233/CPA 231
Supplemental EIS), and Gulf of Mexico
OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales: 2014–
2016; Western Planning Area Lease
Sales 238, 246, and 248, Final
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement (OCS EIS/EA BOEM 2014–
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009) (WPA 238/246/248 Supplemental
EIS). The 2012–2017 WPA/CPA
Multisale EIS was completed in July
2012. The WPA 233/CPA 231
Supplemental EIS was completed in
April 2013. The WPA 238/246/248
Supplemental EIS was completed in
March 2014.
The WPA 246/248 Supplemental EIS
will supplement the NEPA documents
cited above for WPA lease sales in order
to consider new circumstances and
information arising from, among other
things, the Deepwater Horizon
explosion, oil spill, and response. The
WPA 246/248 Supplemental EIS
analysis will focus on updating the
baseline conditions and potential
environmental effects of oil and natural
gas leasing, exploration, development,
and production in the WPA.
The WPA 246/248 Supplemental EIS
analysis will also focus on the potential
environmental effects of oil and natural
gas leasing, exploration, development,
and production in the WPA identified
through the Area Identification
procedure as the proposed lease sale
area. In addition to the no action
alternative (i.e., canceling a proposed
lease sale), other alternatives may be
considered for the proposed WPA lease
sales, such as deferring certain areas
from the proposed lease sale area.
DATES: Comments should be submitted
by May 5, 2014 to the address specified
in SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information on the WPA 246/248
Supplemental EIS, the submission of
comments, or BOEM’s policies
associated with this notice, please
contact Mr. Gary D. Goeke, Chief,
Environmental Assessment Section,
Office of Environment (GM 623E),
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,
Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1201
Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans,
LA 70123–2394, telephone (504) 736–
3233.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August
27, 2012, the Secretary of the Interior
approved the OCS Oil & Gas Leasing
Program: 2012–2017 (2012–2017 FiveYear Program). This Supplemental EIS
will consider the two remaining WPA
sales for this 2012–2017 Five-Year
Program. Proposed WPA Lease Sales
246 and 248 are tentatively scheduled to
be held in 2015 and 2016, respectively.
The proposed WPA lease sale area
encompasses virtually all of the WPA’s
28.58 million acres, with the exception
of whole and partial blocks within the
boundary of the Flower Garden Banks
National Marine Sanctuary.
This Federal Register notice is not an
announcement to hold a proposed lease
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sale, but it is a continuation of
information gathering and is published
early in the environmental review
process, in furtherance of the goals of
NEPA. The comments received during
the scoping comment period will help
form the content of the WPA 246/248
Supplemental EIS and will be
summarized in presale documentation
prepared during the decision making
process for proposed WPA Lease Sale
246. If, after completion of the WPA
246/248 Supplemental EIS, the
Secretary of the Interior decides to hold
a lease sale, then the lease sale area
identified in the final Notice of Sale
may exclude or defer certain lease
blocks from the area offered. However,
for purposes of the WPA 246/248
Supplemental EIS and to adequately
assess the potential impacts of an
areawide lease sale, BOEM is assuming
that all unleased blocks may be offered
in proposed WPA Lease Sales 246 and
248.
In order to ensure a greater level of
transparency during the Outer
Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA)
stages and tiered NEPA processes of the
Five-Year Program, BOEM established
an alternative and mitigation tracking
table, which is designed to track the
receipt and treatment of alternative and
mitigation suggestions. Section 4.3.2 of
the Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas
Leasing Program: 2012–2017; Final
Programmatic Environmental Impact
Statement (the Five-Year Program EIS)
(https://www.boem.gov/5-Year/20122017/PEIS.aspx) presented a list of
deferral and alternative requests that
were received during the development
of the Five-Year Program EIS, but were
determined to be more appropriately
considered at subsequent OCSLA and
NEPA stages. The 2012–2017 WPA/CPA
Multisale EIS addressed these deferral
and alternative requests, but they were
ultimately deemed inappropriate for
further analysis as separate alternatives
or deferrals from those already included
and considered in the 2012–2017 WPA/
CPA Multisale EIS. In this and future
NEPA analyses, BOEM will continue to
evaluate whether these or other deferral
or alternative requests warrant
additional consideration as appropriate.
(Please refer to Chapter 2.2.1.2 of the
2012–2017 WPA/CPA Multisale EIS for
a complete discussion; https://
www.boem.gov/EnvironmentalStewardship/EnvironmentalAssessment/NEPA/BOEM-2012-019_
v1.aspx.) A key principle at each stage
in the NEPA process is to identify how
the recommendations for deferral and
mitigation requests are being addressed
and whether new information or
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circumstances favor new or different
analytical approaches in response to
these requests.
Additionally, BOEM has created a
tailored map of the potentially affected
area through the Multipurpose Marine
Cadastre (MMC) Web site (https://
boem.gov/Oil-and-Gas-Energy-Program/
Leasing/Five-Year-Program/Lease-SaleSchedule/Interactive-Maps.aspx). The
MMC is an integrated marine
information system that provides a
comprehensive look at geospatial data
and ongoing activities and studies
occurring in the area being considered.
This Web site provides the ability to
view multiple data layers of existing
geospatial data.
Scoping Process: This NOI also serves
to announce the scoping process for
identifying issues for the WPA 246/248
Supplemental EIS. Throughout the
scoping process, Federal, State, Tribal,
and local governments and the general
public have the opportunity to help
BOEM determine significant resources
and issues, impacting factors,
reasonable alternatives, and potential
mitigating measures to be analyzed in
the WPA 246/248 Supplemental EIS,
and to provide additional information.
BOEM will also use the NEPA
commenting process to initiate the
section 106 consultation process of the
National Historic Preservation Act (16
U.S.C. 470f), as provided for in 36 CFR
800.2(d)(3).
Pursuant to the regulations
implementing the procedural provisions
of NEPA, BOEM will hold public
scoping meetings in Texas and
Louisiana on the WPA 246/248
Supplemental EIS. The purpose of these
meetings is to solicit comments on the
scope of the WPA 246/248
Supplemental EIS. BOEM’s scoping
meetings will be held at the following
places and times:
• Corpus Christi, Texas: Tuesday,
April 22, 2014, Springhill Suites, 4331
South Padre Island Drive, Corpus
Christi, Texas 78411, one meeting
beginning at 1:00 p.m. CDT; and,
• New Orleans, Louisiana: Thursday,
April 24, 2014, Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS
Region, 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard,
New Orleans, Louisiana 70123, one
meeting beginning at 1:00 p.m. CDT.
Cooperating Agency: BOEM invites
other Federal, State, Tribal, and local
governments to consider becoming
cooperating agencies in the preparation
of the WPA 246/248 Supplemental EIS.
We invite qualified government entities
to inquire about cooperating agency
status for the WPA 246/248
Supplemental EIS. Following the
guidelines from the Council on
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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 should 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, BOEM 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. BOEM
anticipates this summary will form the
basis for a Memorandum of Agreement
between BOEM and any 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. These
documents are available at the following
location on the Internet: https://
energy.gov/sites/prod/files/nepapub/
nepa_documents/RedDont/G-CEQCoopAgenciesImplem.pdf.
BOEM, 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
BOEM during the normal public input
stages of the NEPA/EIS process. For
further information about cooperating
agencies, please contact Mr. Gary D.
Goeke at (504) 736–3233.
Comments: All interested parties,
including Federal, State, Tribal, and
local governments, and other
organizations and members of the
public, may submit written comments
on the scope of the WPA 246/248
Supplemental EIS, significant issues
that should be addressed, alternatives
that should be considered, potential
mitigating measures, and the types of oil
and gas activities of interest in the
proposed WPA lease sale area.
Written scoping comments may be
submitted in one of the following ways:
1. In an envelope labeled ‘‘Scoping
Comments for the WPA 246/248
Supplemental EIS’’ and mailed (or hand
delivered) to Mr. Gary D. Goeke, Chief,
Environmental Assessment Section,
Office of Environment (GM 623E),
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Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,
Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1201
Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans,
Louisiana 70123–2394;
2. Through the regulations.gov web
portal: Navigate to https://
www.regulations.gov and search for ‘‘Oil
and Gas Lease Sales: Gulf of Mexico,
Outer Continental Shelf; Western
Planning Area Lease Sales 246 and
248.’’ (Note: It is important to include
the quotation marks in your search
terms.) Click on the ‘‘Comment Now!’’
button to the right of the document link.
Enter your information and comment,
then click ‘‘Submit’’; or
3. BOEM’s email address: wpa246@
boem.gov.
Petitions, although accepted, do not
generally provide useful information to
assist in the development of
alternatives, resources, and issues to be
analyzed, or impacting factors. BOEM
does not consider anonymous
comments; please include your name
and address as part of your submittal.
BOEM makes all comments, including
the names and addresses of
respondents, available for public review
during regular business hours.
Individual respondents may request that
BOEM withhold their names and/or
addresses from the public record;
however, BOEM cannot guarantee that
we will be able to do so. If you wish
your name and/or address to be
withheld, you must state your
preference prominently at the beginning
of your comment. All submissions from
organizations or businesses and from
individuals identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses will be
made available for public inspection in
their entirety.
Authority: This NOI is published pursuant
to the regulations (40 CFR 1501.7)
implementing the provisions of NEPA.
Dated: March 28, 2014.
Tommy P. Beaudreau,
Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
[MMAA104000]
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), Gulf of Mexico (GOM), Oil and Gas
Lease Sales, Western Planning Area (WPA) Lease Sales 246 and 248
AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent (NOI) to Prepare a Supplemental Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) and an Announcement of Scoping Meetings and
Comment Period for Proposed Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Western
Planning Area Lease Sales 246 and 248.
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SUMMARY: Consistent with the regulations implementing the National
Environmental Policy Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) (NEPA),
BOEM is announcing its intent to prepare a Supplemental EIS for
proposed Western Planning Area (WPA) Lease Sales 246 and 248 in the
Gulf of Mexico (WPA 246/248 Supplemental EIS). The WPA 246/248
Supplemental EIS will update the environmental and socioeconomic
analyses in the Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales: 2012-2017;
Western Planning Area Lease Sales 229, 233, 238, 246, and 248; Central
Planning Area Lease Sales 227, 231, 235, 241, and 247, Final
Environmental Impact Statement (OCS EIS/EA BOEM 2012-019) (2012-2017
WPA/CPA Multisale EIS), Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales:
2013-2014; Western Planning Area Lease Sale 233; Central Planning Area
Lease Sale 231, Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (OCS
EIS/EA BOEM 2013-0118) (WPA 233/CPA 231 Supplemental EIS), and Gulf of
Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales: 2014-2016; Western Planning Area
Lease Sales 238, 246, and 248, Final Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement (OCS EIS/EA BOEM 2014-009) (WPA 238/246/248 Supplemental
EIS). The 2012-2017 WPA/CPA Multisale EIS was completed in July 2012.
The WPA 233/CPA 231 Supplemental EIS was completed in April 2013. The
WPA 238/246/248 Supplemental EIS was completed in March 2014.
The WPA 246/248 Supplemental EIS will supplement the NEPA documents
cited above for WPA lease sales in order to consider new circumstances
and information arising from, among other things, the Deepwater Horizon
explosion, oil spill, and response. The WPA 246/248 Supplemental EIS
analysis will focus on updating the baseline conditions and potential
environmental effects of oil and natural gas leasing, exploration,
development, and production in the WPA.
The WPA 246/248 Supplemental EIS analysis will also focus on the
potential environmental effects of oil and natural gas leasing,
exploration, development, and production in the WPA identified through
the Area Identification procedure as the proposed lease sale area. In
addition to the no action alternative (i.e., canceling a proposed lease
sale), other alternatives may be considered for the proposed WPA lease
sales, such as deferring certain areas from the proposed lease sale
area.
DATES: Comments should be submitted by May 5, 2014 to the address
specified in SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information on the WPA 246/248
Supplemental EIS, the submission of comments, or BOEM's policies
associated with this notice, please contact Mr. Gary D. Goeke, Chief,
Environmental Assessment Section, Office of Environment (GM 623E),
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1201
Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, LA 70123-2394, telephone (504)
736-3233.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 27, 2012, the Secretary of the
Interior approved the OCS Oil & Gas Leasing Program: 2012-2017 (2012-
2017 Five-Year Program). This Supplemental EIS will consider the two
remaining WPA sales for this 2012-2017 Five-Year Program. Proposed WPA
Lease Sales 246 and 248 are tentatively scheduled to be held in 2015
and 2016, respectively. The proposed WPA lease sale area encompasses
virtually all of the WPA's 28.58 million acres, with the exception of
whole and partial blocks within the boundary of the Flower Garden Banks
National Marine Sanctuary.
This Federal Register notice is not an announcement to hold a
proposed lease sale, but it is a continuation of information gathering
and is published early in the environmental review process, in
furtherance of the goals of NEPA. The comments received during the
scoping comment period will help form the content of the WPA 246/248
Supplemental EIS and will be summarized in presale documentation
prepared during the decision making process for proposed WPA Lease Sale
246. If, after completion of the WPA 246/248 Supplemental EIS, the
Secretary of the Interior decides to hold a lease sale, then the lease
sale area identified in the final Notice of Sale may exclude or defer
certain lease blocks from the area offered. However, for purposes of
the WPA 246/248 Supplemental EIS and to adequately assess the potential
impacts of an areawide lease sale, BOEM is assuming that all unleased
blocks may be offered in proposed WPA Lease Sales 246 and 248.
In order to ensure a greater level of transparency during the Outer
Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) stages and tiered NEPA processes of
the Five-Year Program, BOEM established an alternative and mitigation
tracking table, which is designed to track the receipt and treatment of
alternative and mitigation suggestions. Section 4.3.2 of the Outer
Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program: 2012-2017; Final
Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (the Five-Year Program EIS)
(https://www.boem.gov/5-Year/2012-2017/PEIS.aspx) presented a list of
deferral and alternative requests that were received during the
development of the Five-Year Program EIS, but were determined to be
more appropriately considered at subsequent OCSLA and NEPA stages. The
2012-2017 WPA/CPA Multisale EIS addressed these deferral and
alternative requests, but they were ultimately deemed inappropriate for
further analysis as separate alternatives or deferrals from those
already included and considered in the 2012-2017 WPA/CPA Multisale EIS.
In this and future NEPA analyses, BOEM will continue to evaluate
whether these or other deferral or alternative requests warrant
additional consideration as appropriate. (Please refer to Chapter
2.2.1.2 of the 2012-2017 WPA/CPA Multisale EIS for a complete
discussion; https://www.boem.gov/Environmental-Stewardship/Environmental-Assessment/NEPA/BOEM-2012-019_v1.aspx.) A key principle
at each stage in the NEPA process is to identify how the
recommendations for deferral and mitigation requests are being
addressed and whether new information or
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circumstances favor new or different analytical approaches in response
to these requests.
Additionally, BOEM has created a tailored map of the potentially
affected area through the Multipurpose Marine Cadastre (MMC) Web site
(https://boem.gov/Oil-and-Gas-Energy-Program/Leasing/Five-Year-Program/Lease-Sale-Schedule/Interactive-Maps.aspx). The MMC is an integrated
marine information system that provides a comprehensive look at
geospatial data and ongoing activities and studies occurring in the
area being considered. This Web site provides the ability to view
multiple data layers of existing geospatial data.
Scoping Process: This NOI also serves to announce the scoping
process for identifying issues for the WPA 246/248 Supplemental EIS.
Throughout the scoping process, Federal, State, Tribal, and local
governments and the general public have the opportunity to help BOEM
determine significant resources and issues, impacting factors,
reasonable alternatives, and potential mitigating measures to be
analyzed in the WPA 246/248 Supplemental EIS, and to provide additional
information. BOEM will also use the NEPA commenting process to initiate
the section 106 consultation process of the National Historic
Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470f), as provided for in 36 CFR
800.2(d)(3).
Pursuant to the regulations implementing the procedural provisions
of NEPA, BOEM will hold public scoping meetings in Texas and Louisiana
on the WPA 246/248 Supplemental EIS. The purpose of these meetings is
to solicit comments on the scope of the WPA 246/248 Supplemental EIS.
BOEM's scoping meetings will be held at the following places and times:
Corpus Christi, Texas: Tuesday, April 22, 2014, Springhill
Suites, 4331 South Padre Island Drive, Corpus Christi, Texas 78411, one
meeting beginning at 1:00 p.m. CDT; and,
New Orleans, Louisiana: Thursday, April 24, 2014, Bureau
of Ocean Energy Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood
Park Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70123, one meeting beginning at
1:00 p.m. CDT.
Cooperating Agency: BOEM invites other Federal, State, Tribal, and
local governments to consider becoming cooperating agencies in the
preparation of the WPA 246/248 Supplemental EIS. We invite qualified
government entities to inquire about cooperating agency status for the
WPA 246/248 Supplemental EIS. Following the guidelines from the Council
on 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 should 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, BOEM 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.
BOEM anticipates this summary will form the basis for a Memorandum of
Agreement between BOEM and any 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. These documents
are available at the following location on the Internet: https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/nepapub/nepa_documents/RedDont/G-CEQ-CoopAgenciesImplem.pdf.
BOEM, 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
BOEM during the normal public input stages of the NEPA/EIS process. For
further information about cooperating agencies, please contact Mr. Gary
D. Goeke at (504) 736-3233.
Comments: All interested parties, including Federal, State, Tribal,
and local governments, and other organizations and members of the
public, may submit written comments on the scope of the WPA 246/248
Supplemental EIS, significant issues that should be addressed,
alternatives that should be considered, potential mitigating measures,
and the types of oil and gas activities of interest in the proposed WPA
lease sale area.
Written scoping comments may be submitted in one of the following
ways:
1. In an envelope labeled ``Scoping Comments for the WPA 246/248
Supplemental EIS'' and mailed (or hand delivered) to Mr. Gary D. Goeke,
Chief, Environmental Assessment Section, Office of Environment (GM
623E), Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region,
1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70123-2394;
2. Through the regulations.gov web portal: Navigate to https://www.regulations.gov and search for ``Oil and Gas Lease Sales: Gulf of
Mexico, Outer Continental Shelf; Western Planning Area Lease Sales 246
and 248.'' (Note: It is important to include the quotation marks in
your search terms.) Click on the ``Comment Now!'' button to the right
of the document link. Enter your information and comment, then click
``Submit''; or
3. BOEM's email address: wpa246@boem.gov.
Petitions, although accepted, do not generally provide useful
information to assist in the development of alternatives, resources,
and issues to be analyzed, or impacting factors. BOEM does not consider
anonymous comments; please include your name and address as part of
your submittal. BOEM makes all comments, including the names and
addresses of respondents, available for public review during regular
business hours. Individual respondents may request that BOEM withhold
their names and/or addresses from the public record; however, BOEM
cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. If you wish your name
and/or address to be withheld, you must state your preference
prominently at the beginning of your comment. All submissions from
organizations or businesses and from individuals identifying themselves
as representatives or officials of organizations or businesses will be
made available for public inspection in their entirety.
Authority: This NOI is published pursuant to the regulations
(40 CFR 1501.7) implementing the provisions of NEPA.
Dated: March 28, 2014.
Tommy P. Beaudreau,
Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
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