States' Decisions on Participating in Accounting and Auditing Relief for Federal Oil and Gas Marginal Properties, 3018-3019 [2018-00970]
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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 14 / Monday, January 22, 2018 / Notices
The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) is scheduled to file
plats of survey 30 calendar days from
the date of this publication in the BLM
Wyoming State Office, Cheyenne,
Wyoming. The surveys, which were
executed at the request of the BLM and
U. S. Forest Service, are necessary for
the management of these lands.
DATES: Protests must be received by the
BLM by February 21, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit written
protests to the Wyoming State Director
at WY957, Bureau of Land Management,
5353 Yellowstone Road, Cheyenne,
Wyoming 82003.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sonja Sparks, BLM Wyoming Acting
Chief Cadastral Surveyor at 307–775–
6225 or s75spark@blm.gov. Persons who
use a telecommunications device for the
deaf may call the Federal Relay Service
at 1–800–877–8339 to contact this office
during normal business hours. The
Service is available 24 hours a day, 7
days a week, to leave a message or
question with this office. You will
receive a reply during normal business
hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The lands
surveyed are: The plat and field notes
representing the dependent resurvey of
portions of Tracts 42, 45 and 51, and
portions of the subdivisional lines, and
the survey of the subdivision of sections
10 and 15, Township 12 North, Range
111 West, Sixth Principal Meridian,
Wyoming, Group No. 950, was accepted
October 2, 2017.
The plat and field notes representing
the dependent resurvey of Lot 37, Lot 65
and Tract 69, portions of Lots 47, 54, 59
and 67, portions of the subdivisional
lines, the survey of the subdivision of
Lot 65 and certain sections, and the
metes-and-bounds survey of certain
parcels, Township 56 North, Range 97
West, Sixth Principal Meridian,
Wyoming, Group No. 951, was accepted
October 2, 2017.
The plat and field notes representing
the dependent resurvey of certain lots
and a portion of the range line,
Township 50 North, Ranges 102 and 103
West, Sixth Principal Meridian,
Wyoming, Group No. 952, was accepted
October 2, 2017.
The plat and field notes representing
the dependent resurvey of a portion of
Lot No. 89, and the survey of the
subdivision of Lot No. 89, and metesand-bounds survey of Lot 89–I,
Township 55 North, Range 100 West,
Sixth Principal Meridian, Wyoming,
Group No. 953, was accepted October 2,
2017.
The plat and field notes representing
the dependent resurvey of a portion of
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the north boundary and subdivisional
lines, and the survey of the subdivision
of section 2, Township 42 North, Range
84 West, Sixth Principal Meridian,
Wyoming, Group No. 954, was accepted
October 2, 2017.
The plat and field notes representing
the dependent resurvey of portions of
the subdivisional lines and the survey of
the subdivision of section 22, Township
57 North, Range 73 West, Sixth
Principal Meridian, Wyoming, Group
No. 956, was accepted October 2, 2017.
The plat and field notes representing
the dependent resurvey of a portion of
the south boundary, the rehabilitation of
the corner of Townships 50 and 51
North, Ranges 69 and 70 West, and the
survey of the subdivision of section 31,
Township 51 North, Range 69 West,
Sixth Principal Meridian, Wyoming,
Group No. 957, was accepted October 2,
2017.
The plat and field notes representing
the dependent resurvey of a portion of
Lot No. 39, portions of Lot No. 40, and
portions of the subdivisional lines, and
the survey of the subdivision of section
20, Township 21 North, Range 113
West, Sixth Principal Meridian,
Wyoming, Group No. 958, was accepted
January 11, 2018.
The plat and field notes representing
the dependent resurvey of a portion of
the north boundary and subdivisional
lines, and the survey of the subdivision
of section 4, Township 46 North, Range
81 West, Sixth Principal Meridian,
Wyoming, Group No. 960, was accepted
January 11, 2018.
A person or party who wishes to
protest one or more plats of survey
identified above must file a written
notice of protest within 30 calendar
days from the date of this publication
with the Wyoming State Director at the
above address. Any notice of protest
received after the scheduled date of
official filing will be untimely and will
not be considered. A written statement
of reasons in support of a protest, if not
filed with the notice of protest, must be
filed with the State Director within 30
calendar days after the notice of protest
is filed. If a notice of protest against a
plat of survey is received prior to the
scheduled date of official filing, the
official filing of the plat of survey
identified in the notice of protest will be
stayed pending consideration of the
protest. A plat of survey will not be
officially filed until the next business
day following dismissal or resolution of
all protests of the plat.
Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other
personal identifying information in your
protest, you should be aware that your
entire protest—including your personal
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identifying information—may be made
publicly available at any time. While
you can ask us to withhold your
personal identifying information from
public review, we cannot guarantee that
we will be able to do so.
Copies of the preceding described
plats and field notes are available to the
public at a cost of $4.20 per plat and
$.13 per page of field notes.
Dated: January 12, 2018.
Sonja S. Sparks,
Acting Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Division of
Support Services.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Natural Resources Revenue
[Docket No. ONRR–2011–0002; DS63644000
DR2000000.CH7000 189D0102R2]
States’ Decisions on Participating in
Accounting and Auditing Relief for
Federal Oil and Gas Marginal
Properties
Office of Natural Resources
Revenue (ONRR), Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
ONRR regulations provide
two types of accounting and auditing
relief for Federal onshore or Outer
Continental Shelf lease production from
marginal properties. Each year ONRR
provides a list of qualifying marginal
Federal oil and gas properties to States
that receive a portion of Federal
royalties from those properties. Each
State then decides whether to
participate in one or both relief options.
For calendar year 2018, we provide this
notice of the affected States’ decisions to
allow one or both types of relief.
DATES: January 1, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lindsay Goldstein, Market and Spatial
Analysis Office, at (303) 231–3301; or
email to lindsay.goldstein@onrr.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
regulations, codified at 30 CFR part
1204, subpart C, implement certain
provisions of section 7 of the Federal
Oil and Gas Royalty Simplification and
Fairness Act of 1996 (RSFA) (30 U.S.C.
1726), which allows States to relieve the
lessees of marginal properties from
certain reporting, accounting, and
auditing requirements. States make an
annual determination of whether or not
to allow relief. Two options for relief are
authorized: (1) Notification-based relief
from cumulative royalty reports and
payments, allowing lessees or designees
instead to file one annual report and
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make one annual payment, and (2) other
requested relief, as proposed by lessees
or designees and approved by ONRR,
after consulting with the affected
State(s). The regulations require ONRR
to publish no later than 30 days before
the beginning of the calendar year a list
of the States and their decisions
regarding marginal property relief.
To qualify for the first relief option
(notification-based relief) for calendar
year 2018 properties must produce less
than 1,000 barrels-of-oil-equivalent
(BOE) per year for the base period (July
1, 2016, through June 30, 2017). Annual
reporting relief will begin January 1,
2018, with the annual report and
payment due February 28, 2019, or
March 31, 2019, if you have an
estimated payment on file. To qualify
for the second relief option (other
requested relief), the combined
State
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Federal oil and gas properties located
in all other States where ONRR does not
share a portion of Federal royalties with
the State are eligible for relief if they
qualify as marginal under 117(c) of
RSFA, 30 U.S.C. 1726(c). For
information on how to obtain relief,
please refer to 30 CFR 1204.205, which
you may view at https://www.ecfr.gov/.
Unless the information that ONRR
received is proprietary data, all
correspondence, records, or information
that we receive in response to this
notice may be subject to disclosure
under the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552 et seq.). If
applicable, please highlight the
proprietary portions, including any
supporting documentation, or mark the
page(s) that contain proprietary data.
We protect the proprietary information
under the Trade Secrets Act (18 U.S.C.
1905), FOIA Exemption 4 (5 U.S.C.
552(b)(4)), and the Department of the
Interior’s FOIA regulations (43 CFR part
2).
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equivalent production of the marginal
properties during the base period must
equal an average daily well production
of less than 15 BOE per well, per day
calculated under 30 CFR 1204.4(c).
The following table shows the States
that have qualifying marginal properties
and the States’ decisions to allow one or
both forms of relief.
Notification-based relief
(less than 1,000 BOE per year)
Alabama .............................................................
Arkansas .............................................................
California ............................................................
Colorado .............................................................
Kansas ................................................................
Louisiana ............................................................
Michigan .............................................................
Mississippi ..........................................................
Montana ..............................................................
Nebraska ............................................................
Nevada ...............................................................
New Mexico ........................................................
North Dakota ......................................................
Oklahoma ...........................................................
South Dakota ......................................................
Utah ....................................................................
Wyoming .............................................................
Gregory J. Gould,
Director, Office of Natural Resources
Revenue.
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INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND
WATER COMMISSION
United States and Mexico; United
States Section; Notice of Availability of
a Final Environmental Assessment and
Finding of No Significant Impact for
Channel Maintenance Alternatives at
Thurman I and II Arroyos in Hatch, NM,
Rio Grande Canalization Project
United States Section,
International Boundary and Water
Commission, United States and Mexico
(USIBWC).
ACTION: Notice of Availability of the
Final Environmental Assessment (EA).
AGENCY:
Pursuant to Section 102(2)(c) of the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969 (NEPA); the Council on
Environmental Quality Final
Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 through
1508); and the USIBWC Operational
Procedures for Implementing Section
102 of NEPA, published in the Federal
Register September 2, 1981, (46 FR
44083); the USIBWC hereby gives notice
that the Final Environmental
Assessment and Finding of No
Significant Impact for Channel
Maintenance Alternatives at Thurman I
and II Arroyos in Hatch, NM, Rio
Grande Canalization Project is
available. This EA evaluated potential
environmental impacts of the No Action
Alternative and two alternatives for the
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Request-based relief
(less than 15 BOE per well per day)
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Yes.
No.
No.
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Yes.
Yes.
No.
No.
No.
No.
construction of sediment control
projects at Thurman I and II Arroyos,
two ephemeral tributaries of the Rio
˜
Grande, located in Hatch, Dona Ana
County, New Mexico within a portion of
the Rio Grande Canalization Project
protective levee system. The Preferred
Alternative, Alternative C: Sediment
Basins, calls for the construction of a
sediment basin at each arroyo with a
concrete end wall. Permits would be
required from the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers for dredge and fill of Waters
of the United States, per the Clean
Water Act Sections 404 and 401.
Potential impacts on natural, cultural,
and other resources were evaluated.
Mitigation has been proposed for
permits for construction. A Finding of
No Significant Impact (FONSI) has been
prepared for the Preferred Alternative
based on a review of the facts and
analyses contained in the EA.
Notice of the draft EA was published
in the Federal Register on October 17,
2017 (Federal Register Notice, Vol. 82,
No. 199, Page 48253) and provided a
thirty (30) day comment period. An
environmental impact statement will
not be prepared.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elizabeth Verdecchia, Natural Resources
Specialist, USIBWC, 4171 N. Mesa, C–
100; El Paso, Texas 79902. Telephone:
(915) 832–4701, email:
Elizabeth.Verdecchia@ibwc.gov.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Natural Resources Revenue
[Docket No. ONRR-2011-0002; DS63644000 DR2000000.CH7000 189D0102R2]
States' Decisions on Participating in Accounting and Auditing
Relief for Federal Oil and Gas Marginal Properties
AGENCY: Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR), Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: ONRR regulations provide two types of accounting and auditing
relief for Federal onshore or Outer Continental Shelf lease production
from marginal properties. Each year ONRR provides a list of qualifying
marginal Federal oil and gas properties to States that receive a
portion of Federal royalties from those properties. Each State then
decides whether to participate in one or both relief options. For
calendar year 2018, we provide this notice of the affected States'
decisions to allow one or both types of relief.
DATES: January 1, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lindsay Goldstein, Market and Spatial
Analysis Office, at (303) 231-3301; or email to
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The regulations, codified at 30 CFR part
1204, subpart C, implement certain provisions of section 7 of the
Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Simplification and Fairness Act of 1996
(RSFA) (30 U.S.C. 1726), which allows States to relieve the lessees of
marginal properties from certain reporting, accounting, and auditing
requirements. States make an annual determination of whether or not to
allow relief. Two options for relief are authorized: (1) Notification-
based relief from cumulative royalty reports and payments, allowing
lessees or designees instead to file one annual report and
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make one annual payment, and (2) other requested relief, as proposed by
lessees or designees and approved by ONRR, after consulting with the
affected State(s). The regulations require ONRR to publish no later
than 30 days before the beginning of the calendar year a list of the
States and their decisions regarding marginal property relief.
To qualify for the first relief option (notification-based relief)
for calendar year 2018 properties must produce less than 1,000 barrels-
of-oil-equivalent (BOE) per year for the base period (July 1, 2016,
through June 30, 2017). Annual reporting relief will begin January 1,
2018, with the annual report and payment due February 28, 2019, or
March 31, 2019, if you have an estimated payment on file. To qualify
for the second relief option (other requested relief), the combined
equivalent production of the marginal properties during the base period
must equal an average daily well production of less than 15 BOE per
well, per day calculated under 30 CFR 1204.4(c).
The following table shows the States that have qualifying marginal
properties and the States' decisions to allow one or both forms of
relief.
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Notification-based Request-based relief
State relief (less than (less than 15 BOE
1,000 BOE per year) per well per day)
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Alabama..................... No.................. No.
Arkansas.................... N/A................. Yes.
California.................. No.................. No.
Colorado.................... No.................. No.
Kansas...................... No.................. No.
Louisiana................... Yes................. Yes.
Michigan.................... Yes................. Yes.
Mississippi................. No.................. No.
Montana..................... No.................. No.
Nebraska.................... No.................. No.
Nevada...................... No.................. No.
New Mexico.................. No.................. Yes.
North Dakota................ Yes................. Yes.
Oklahoma.................... No.................. No.
South Dakota................ No.................. No.
Utah........................ No.................. No.
Wyoming..................... Yes................. No.
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Federal oil and gas properties located in all other States where
ONRR does not share a portion of Federal royalties with the State are
eligible for relief if they qualify as marginal under 117(c) of RSFA,
30 U.S.C. 1726(c). For information on how to obtain relief, please
refer to 30 CFR 1204.205, which you may view at https://www.ecfr.gov/.
Unless the information that ONRR received is proprietary data, all
correspondence, records, or information that we receive in response to
this notice may be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552 et seq.). If applicable, please
highlight the proprietary portions, including any supporting
documentation, or mark the page(s) that contain proprietary data. We
protect the proprietary information under the Trade Secrets Act (18
U.S.C. 1905), FOIA Exemption 4 (5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4)), and the Department
of the Interior's FOIA regulations (43 CFR part 2).
Gregory J. Gould,
Director, Office of Natural Resources Revenue.
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