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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Evangeline Campbell, (202) 513–7621.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The BIA is seeking to renew the
information collection conducted under
25 CFR 13, which prescribed procedures
by which an Indian tribe that occupies
a reservation over which a state asserts
any jurisdiction pursuant to federal law
may reassume jurisdiction over Indian
child proceedings as authorized by the
Indian Child Welfare Act, Public Law
95–608, 92 Stat. 3069, 25 U.S.C. 1918.
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II. Request for Comments
The BIA requests your comments on
this collection concerning: (a) The
necessity of this information collection
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) The accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden (hours
and cost) of the collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Ways we could enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and (d) Ways we could
minimize the burden of the collection of
the information on the respondents.
Please note that an agency may not
conduct or sponsor, and an individual
need not respond to, a collection of
information unless it has a valid OMB
Control Number.
It is our policy to make all comments
available to the public for review at the
location listed in the ADDRESSES section.
Before including your address, phone
number, email address or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
III. Data
OMB Control Number: 1076–0112.
Title: Tribal Reassumption of
Jurisdiction Over Child Custody
Proceedings, 25 CFR 13.
Brief Description of Collection: The
collection of information will ensure
that the provisions of Public Law 95–
608 are met. Any Indian Tribe that
became subject to State jurisdiction
pursuant to the provisions of the Act of
August 15, 1953 (67 Stat. 588), as
amended by title IV of the Act of April
11, 1968 (82 Stat. 73,78), or pursuant to
any other Federal law, may reassume
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jurisdiction over child custody
proceedings. The collection of
information provides data that will be
used in considering the petition and
feasibility of the plan of the Tribe for
reassumption of jurisdiction over Indian
child custody proceedings. We collect
the following information: Full name,
address, and telephone; number of
petitioning Tribe or Tribes; a Tribal
resolution; estimated total number of
members in the petitioning Tribe of
Tribes with an explanation of how the
number was estimated; current criteria
for Tribal membership; citation to
provision in Tribal constitution
authorizing the Tribal governing body to
exercise jurisdiction over Indian child
custody matters; description of Tribal
court; copy of any Tribal ordinances or
Tribal court rules establishing
procedures or rules for exercise of
jurisdiction over child custody matters;
and all other information required by 25
CFR 13.11. Response is required to
obtain or retain a benefit.
Type of Review: Extension without
change of currently approved collection.
Respondents: Federally recognized
Tribes who submit Tribal reassumption
petitions for review and approval by the
Secretary of the Interior.
Number of Respondents: 1, on
average.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
Estimated Time per Response: 8
hours.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
8 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Non-Hour
Dollar Cost: $0.
Elizabeth K. Appel,
Director, Office of Regulatory Affairs and
Collaborative Action—Indian Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
[Docket No. BOEM–2015–0093;
MMAA104000]
Outer Continental Shelf, Gulf of
Mexico, Oil and Gas Lease Sale,
Central Planning Area Lease Sale 247
Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management (BOEM), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare a
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement and an Announcement of
Scoping Meetings and Comment Period
for Proposed Gulf of Mexico Outer
Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Central
Planning Area Lease Sale 247.
AGENCY:
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Consistent with the
regulations implementing the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as
amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), BOEM
is announcing its intent to prepare a
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) for proposed Gulf of
Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)
Central Planning Area (CPA) Oil and
Gas Lease Sale 247 (CPA 247
Supplemental EIS). The CPA 247
Supplemental EIS will expand or
update the environmental and
socioeconomic analyses in: 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 (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 (WPA
233/CPA 231 Supplemental EIS); Gulf of
Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales:
2015–2017; Central Planning Area Lease
Sales 235, 241, and 247, Final
Supplemental EIS (CPA 235/241/247
Supplemental EIS); and Central
Planning Area Lease Sales 241 and 247
and Eastern Planning Area Lease Sale
226, Final Supplemental EIS (CPA 241/
247 and EPA 226 Supplemental EIS).
The CPA 247 Supplemental EIS will
supplement the NEPA documents cited
above in order to consider new
circumstances and information arising
from, among other things, the
Deepwater Horizon explosion, oil spill,
and response. It will focus on updating
the baseline conditions and any new
information on the potential
environmental effects of oil and natural
gas leasing, exploration, development,
and production in the CPA 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 CPA lease
sales, such as deferring certain areas
from the proposed lease sale area.
SUMMARY:
Comments on the scope of the
CPA 247 Supplemental EIS should be
submitted by September 16, 2015.
DATES:
For
information on the CPA 247
Supplemental EIS or the submission of
comments, please contact Mr. Gary D.
Goeke, Chief, Environmental
Assessment Section, Office of
Environment (GM 623E), BOEM, Gulf of
Mexico OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood
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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 and Gas Leasing
Program: 2012–2017 (2012–2017 Five
Year Program). This Supplemental EIS
will consider the last CPA sale for this
2012–2017 Five Year Program. Proposed
CPA Lease Sale 247 is tentatively
scheduled to be held in 2017.
Scoping Process: This Notice of Intent
(NOI) serves to announce the scoping
process for identifying issues for the
CPA 247 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 CPA 247 Supplemental EIS, and to
provide additional information. BOEM
will also use the scoping process to
inform 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, the BOEM will hold public
scoping meetings in Alabama, Louisiana
and Mississippi on the CPA 247
Supplemental EIS. The purpose of these
meetings is to solicit comments on the
scope of the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS.
BOEM’s scoping meetings will be held
at the following places and times:
• Mobile, Alabama: Tuesday,
September 1, 2015, Hilton Garden Inn
Mobile West, 828 West I–65 Service
Road South, Mobile, Alabama 36609,
one meeting beginning at 4:00 p.m.
CDT;
• Gulfport, Mississippi: Wednesday,
September 2, 2015, Courtyard by
Marriott, Gulfport Beachfront MS Hotel,
1600 East Beach Boulevard, Gulfport,
Mississippi 39501, one meeting
beginning at 6:00 p.m. CDT; and
• New Orleans, Louisiana: Thursday,
September 3, 2015, 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 CPA 247 Supplemental EIS. We
invite qualified government entities to
inquire about cooperating agency status
for the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS.
Following the guidelines from the
Council on Environmental Quality
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(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 pursuant to 43 CFR 46.225.
Agencies should also consider DOI’s
implementing regulation at 43 CFR part
46 and 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. The CEQ
documents are available at the following
location on the Internet: https://
energy.gov/sites/prod/files/nepapub/
nepa_documents/RedDont/GCEQCoopAgenciesImplem.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 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 CPA 247
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 CPA lease sale area. BOEM is
also seeking public comment and input
regarding the identification of historic
properties or potential effects, as
defined by the National Historic
Preservation Act, to historic properties
from the proposed action. Written
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comments may be submitted in one of
the following ways:
1. Federal eRulemaking Portal:
https://www.regulations.gov. In the field
entitled ‘‘Search’’ enter ‘‘BOEM’’ and
then click ‘‘search.’’ Under ‘‘Comment
Period’’ select ‘‘Open’’ and under
‘‘Document Type’’ select ‘‘Notice’’.
Choose the ‘‘Notice’’ for ‘‘Oil and Gas
Lease Sales: Gulf of Mexico, Outer
Continental Shelf; Central Planning
Area Lease Sale 247.’’ Follow the
instructions to submit public comments
and view supporting and related
materials available for this notice;
2. U.S. mail in an envelope labeled
‘‘Scoping Comments for the CPA 247
Supplemental EIS’’ and mailed (or hand
delivered) to Mr. Gary D. Goeke, Chief,
Environmental Assessment Section,
Office of Environment (GM 623E),
BOEM, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region,
1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New
Orleans, Louisiana 70123–2394.
Comments must be postmarked by the
last day of the comment period to be
considered. As noted in the ‘‘Dates’’
section above, the comment period ends
on September 16, 2015.
3. Via electronic mail to email
address: cpa247@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. Before
including your address, phone number,
email address, or other personal
identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Authority: This NOI to prepare a
Supplemental EIS is published pursuant to
the regulations (40 CFR 1501.7 and 43 CFR
46.435) implementing the provisions of
NEPA.
Dated: August 11, 2015.
Walter D. Cruickshank,
Deputy Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
[Docket No. BOEM-2015-0093; MMAA104000]
Outer Continental Shelf, Gulf of Mexico, Oil and Gas Lease Sale,
Central Planning Area Lease Sale 247
AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement and an Announcement of Scoping Meetings and Comment Period
for Proposed Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Central
Planning Area Lease Sale 247.
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SUMMARY: Consistent with the regulations implementing the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.),
BOEM is announcing its intent to prepare a Supplemental Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) for proposed Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental
Shelf (OCS) Central Planning Area (CPA) Oil and Gas Lease Sale 247 (CPA
247 Supplemental EIS). The CPA 247 Supplemental EIS will expand or
update the environmental and socioeconomic analyses in: 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
(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 (WPA 233/CPA 231 Supplemental EIS); Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil
and Gas Lease Sales: 2015-2017; Central Planning Area Lease Sales 235,
241, and 247, Final Supplemental EIS (CPA 235/241/247 Supplemental
EIS); and Central Planning Area Lease Sales 241 and 247 and Eastern
Planning Area Lease Sale 226, Final Supplemental EIS (CPA 241/247 and
EPA 226 Supplemental EIS).
The CPA 247 Supplemental EIS will supplement the NEPA documents
cited above in order to consider new circumstances and information
arising from, among other things, the Deepwater Horizon explosion, oil
spill, and response. It will focus on updating the baseline conditions
and any new information on the potential environmental effects of oil
and natural gas leasing, exploration, development, and production in
the CPA 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 CPA lease sales, such as deferring certain
areas from the proposed lease sale area.
DATES: Comments on the scope of the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS should be
submitted by September 16, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information on the CPA 247
Supplemental EIS or the submission of comments, please contact Mr. Gary
D. Goeke, Chief, Environmental Assessment Section, Office of
Environment (GM 623E), BOEM, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood
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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 and Gas Leasing Program: 2012-2017 (2012-
2017 Five Year Program). This Supplemental EIS will consider the last
CPA sale for this 2012-2017 Five Year Program. Proposed CPA Lease Sale
247 is tentatively scheduled to be held in 2017.
Scoping Process: This Notice of Intent (NOI) serves to announce the
scoping process for identifying issues for the CPA 247 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 CPA 247 Supplemental EIS, and to provide additional
information. BOEM will also use the scoping process to inform 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, the
BOEM will hold public scoping meetings in Alabama, Louisiana and
Mississippi on the CPA 247 Supplemental EIS. The purpose of these
meetings is to solicit comments on the scope of the CPA 247
Supplemental EIS. BOEM's scoping meetings will be held at the following
places and times:
Mobile, Alabama: Tuesday, September 1, 2015, Hilton Garden
Inn Mobile West, 828 West I-65 Service Road South, Mobile, Alabama
36609, one meeting beginning at 4:00 p.m. CDT;
Gulfport, Mississippi: Wednesday, September 2, 2015,
Courtyard by Marriott, Gulfport Beachfront MS Hotel, 1600 East Beach
Boulevard, Gulfport, Mississippi 39501, one meeting beginning at 6:00
p.m. CDT; and
New Orleans, Louisiana: Thursday, September 3, 2015,
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 CPA 247 Supplemental EIS. We invite qualified
government entities to inquire about cooperating agency status for the
CPA 247 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 pursuant to 43 CFR
46.225. Agencies should also consider DOI's implementing regulation at
43 CFR part 46 and 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. The
CEQ 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 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 CPA 247
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 CPA
lease sale area. BOEM is also seeking public comment and input
regarding the identification of historic properties or potential
effects, as defined by the National Historic Preservation Act, to
historic properties from the proposed action. Written comments may be
submitted in one of the following ways:
1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. In the
field entitled ``Search'' enter ``BOEM'' and then click ``search.''
Under ``Comment Period'' select ``Open'' and under ``Document Type''
select ``Notice''. Choose the ``Notice'' for ``Oil and Gas Lease Sales:
Gulf of Mexico, Outer Continental Shelf; Central Planning Area Lease
Sale 247.'' Follow the instructions to submit public comments and view
supporting and related materials available for this notice;
2. U.S. mail in an envelope labeled ``Scoping Comments for the CPA
247 Supplemental EIS'' and mailed (or hand delivered) to Mr. Gary D.
Goeke, Chief, Environmental Assessment Section, Office of Environment
(GM 623E), BOEM, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood Park
Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 70123-2394. Comments must be
postmarked by the last day of the comment period to be considered. As
noted in the ``Dates'' section above, the comment period ends on
September 16, 2015.
3. Via electronic mail to email address: cpa247@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. Before including your address, phone number, email
address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you
should be aware that your entire comment--including your personal
identifying information--may be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal
identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we
will be able to do so.
Authority: This NOI to prepare a Supplemental EIS is published
pursuant to the regulations (40 CFR 1501.7 and 43 CFR 46.435)
implementing the provisions of NEPA.
Dated: August 11, 2015.
Walter D. Cruickshank,
Deputy Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
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