Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Alpine Satellite Development Plan for the Proposed Greater Mooses Tooth 2 Development Project, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska; Notice of Public Meetings and Subsistence Hearings, 13508-13509 [2018-06380]

Download as PDF 13508 ACTION: Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 61 / Thursday, March 29, 2018 / Notices Notice of reinstatement. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR In accordance with the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, Red Fork (USA) Investments, Inc., timely filed a petition for reinstatement of competitive oil and gas leases OKNM 127909, OKNM 127910, OKNM 127911, OKNM 127912, OKNM 127913, and OKNM 127920, in Payne County, Oklahoma, and OKNM 127917, in Noble County, Oklahoma. The lessee paid the required rentals accruing from the date of termination. No new leases were issued that affect these lands. The Bureau of Land Management proposes to reinstate these leases. SUMMARY: Julieann Serrano, Supervisory Land Law Examiner, Branch of Adjudication, Bureau of Land Management New Mexico State Office, 301 Dinosaur Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508, (505) 954–2149, jserrano@blm.gov. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to contact the above individual during normal business hours. The FRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or question with the above individual. You will receive a reply during normal business hours. The lessee agrees to new lease terms for rentals and royalties of $10 per acre, or fraction thereof, per year, and 162⁄3 percent, respectively. The lessee agrees to additional or amended stipulations. The lessee paid the $500 administration fee for the reinstatement of the lease and the $159 cost for publishing this Notice. The lessee met the requirements for reinstatement of the lease per Sec. 31(d) and (e) of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920. The BLM is proposing to reinstate the leases, effective the date of termination subject to the: • Original terms and conditions of the lease; • Additional and amended stipulations; • Increased rental of $10 per acre; • Increased royalty of 162⁄3 percent; and • $159 cost of publishing this Notice. sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES Authority: 43 CFR 3108.2–3. Julieann Serrano, Supervisory, Land Law Examiner. [FR Doc. 2018–06285 Filed 3–28–18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310–FB–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:09 Mar 28, 2018 Jkt 244001 [18X.LLAK930000 L13100000.PP0000] Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Alpine Satellite Development Plan for the Proposed Greater Mooses Tooth 2 Development Project, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska; Notice of Public Meetings and Subsistence Hearings Bureau of Land Management, Interior. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Arctic District Office, Fairbanks, Alaska, is issuing for public comment the Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Alpine Satellite Development Plan for the Proposed Greater Mooses Tooth 2 (GMT2) Development Project, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR–A). BLM Alaska is also announcing pending public meetings and subsistence-related hearings to receive comments on the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS and the project’s potential to impact subsistence resources and activities. The EIS will supplement the September 2004 Alpine Satellite Development Plan Final EIS that originally analyzed the GMT2 Project, regarding establishing satellite oil production pads and associated infrastructure within the Alpine field. DATES: To ensure that the BLM will consider your comments on the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS, BLM Alaska must receive your written comments no later than 45 days after the Environmental Protection Agency publishes its notice of availability of the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS in the Federal Register. BLM Alaska will announce the dates, times, and locations of public meetings on its website, through public notices, media news releases, and/or mailings. ADDRESSES: You may provide comments by mail, fax, email, or in person. Mail comments to: GMT2 SEIS Comments, Attn: Stephanie Rice, 222 West 7th Avenue #13, Anchorage, Alaska 99513; fax comments to 907–271–3933; email comments to blm_ak_gmt2_comments@ blm.gov; or hand-deliver comments during normal business hours (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) to the BLM Public Information Center, 222 West 7th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska. You may review the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS online at BLM Alaska’s website at https://www.blm.gov/ SUMMARY: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Bureau of Land Management PO 00000 Frm 00040 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 alaska. You may also review copies of the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS at both BLM Alaska Public Information Centers at the Federal Building at 222 West 7th Avenue, Anchorage, and at the Arctic District Office, 222 University Avenue, Fairbanks. You may also request a CD or paper copy of the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS by contacting Stephanie Rice, BLM project lead, at 907–271–3202. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephanie Rice, BLM Alaska State Office, 907–271–3202. People who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to contact the above individual during normal business hours. The FRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or question with the above individual. You will receive a reply during normal business hours. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The GMT2 Supplemental EIS analyzes an application from ConocoPhillips, Alaska, Inc. (ConocoPhillips). The application is for a permit to drill and related authorizations to construct, operate, and maintain a drill site, access road, pipelines, and ancillary facilities on federally managed land to support development of petroleum resources at the GMT2 drill site. BLM Alaska manages the surface and subsurface at the drill site and at the proposed infield road and pipeline route. ConocoPhillips may also develop subsurface resources owned by the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, and may occupy surface lands owned by the Kuukpik Corporation. The proposed GMT2 site is approximately 25 miles southwest of the ConocoPhillips-operated Alpine Central Processing Facility (CD1) and will be operated and maintained by staff at the Alpine Central Processing Facility. The GMT2 Project was originally analyzed as the Colville Delta 7 (CD7) drill pad in the BLM’s September 2004 Alpine Satellite Development Plan Final EIS. The purpose of the Supplemental EIS is to evaluate any relevant new circumstances and information that have arisen since the Alpine Satellite Development Plan Final EIS was completed, to update the alternatives in the 2004 EIS, and to address any changes to ConocoPhillips’ proposed development plan for GMT2. The GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS analyzes four alternatives, including two alternatives with an access road, an alternative without an access road, and a no-action alternative. The key issues in the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS are the protection of E:\FR\FM\29MRN1.SGM 29MRN1 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 61 / Thursday, March 29, 2018 / Notices surface resources; the minimization of social impacts; and the identification of appropriate mitigation measures for the construction, operation, and maintenance of a drill site and access road, pipelines, and ancillary facilities to support development of petroleum resources at the proposed GMT2 site. Section 810 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), 16 U.S.C. 3120, requires that the BLM evaluate effects on subsistence activities for the alternatives presented in this GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS and to hold public hearings if the BLM finds that any of the alternatives or the cumulative effects of past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future development may significantly restrict subsistence activities. BLM Alaska will hold public meetings on the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS in these Alaska communities: Anchorage, Anaktuvuk ˙ Pass, Atqasuk, Utqiagvik, Fairbanks, and Nuiqsut. In addition, the public meetings at Anaktuvuk Pass, Atqasuk, ˙ Utqiagvik, and Nuiqsut will incorporate subsistence hearings to take comments on subsistence impacts pursuant to the ANILCA. Before including your address, phone number, email address, or other personally identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment—including your personally identifying information—may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask the BLM in your comment to withhold your personally identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. Authority: 16 U.S.C. 3120(a); 40 CFR 1506.6(b). Karen E. Mouritsen, Acting State Director, Alaska. Mount Diablo Meridian, Nevada T. 20 S., R. 60 E., Sec. 10, SW1⁄4NE1⁄4NW1⁄4NW1⁄4. The area described contains 2.98 acres in Clark County, Nevada. [FR Doc. 2018–06380 Filed 3–28–18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310–JA–P DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES [LLNVS00560.L58530000.EU0000.241A; N– 94628; 12–08807; MO #4500115810; TAS:15X5232] Notice of Realty Action: Classification for Lease and/or Conveyance for Recreation and Public Purposes of Public Lands for a Park in the Northwest Portion of the Las Vegas Valley, Clark County, Nevada Bureau of Land Management, Interior. ACTION: Notice of realty action. AGENCY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:09 Mar 28, 2018 Jkt 244001 The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Las Vegas Field Office, has examined and found suitable for classification for lease and subsequent conveyance under the provisions of the Recreation and Public Purposes (R&PP) Act, as amended, approximately 2.98 acres of public land in the Las Vegas Valley, Clark County, Nevada. The City of Las Vegas proposes to use the land for a community 2.98acre park that will help meet future expanding recreation needs in the northwestern part of the Las Vegas Valley. DATES: Interested parties may submit written comments regarding the proposed classification for lease and conveyance of the land until May 14, 2018. Absent any adverse comments, the decision will become effective on May 29, 2018. ADDRESSES: Mail written comments to the BLM Las Vegas Field Office, Attn: Vanessa L. Hice, Assistant Field Manager, 4701 N Torrey Pines Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada 89130, or faxed to 775–515–5010. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Roger Ketterling at the above address or by telephone at 702–515–5087. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service at 1–800–877–8339 to contact the above individual during normal business hours. The Service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or question with the above individual. You will receive a reply during normal business hours. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The parcel is located south of the existing Wayne Bunker Park on Constantinople Avenue between Buffalo Drive and Tenaya Way in northwest Las Vegas and is legally described as: SUMMARY: In accordance with the R&PP Act, the City of Las Vegas has filed an application to develop the abovedescribed land as a community park consisting of picnic shelters, children’s play area, restrooms, pedestrian walkways, parking and turf open space play areas. Additional detailed information pertaining to this publication, plan of development, and site plan is located in case file N–94628, which is available for review at the BLM Las Vegas Field Office at the above address. The City of Las Vegas is a political subdivision of the State of Nevada and PO 00000 Frm 00041 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 13509 is therefore a qualified applicant under the R&PP Act. Subject to limitations prescribed by law and regulation, prior to patent issuance, the holder of any right-of-way grant within the lease area may be given the opportunity to amend the right-ofway grant for conversion to a new term, including perpetuity, if applicable. The land identified is not needed for any Federal purpose. The lease and/or conveyance is consistent with the BLM Las Vegas Resource Management Plan dated October 5, 1998, and would be in the public interest. The City of Las Vegas has not applied for more than the 640-acre limitation for public purpose uses in a year and has submitted a statement in compliance with the regulations at 43CFR 2741.4(b). The lease and conveyance, when issued, will be subject to the provisions of the R&PP Act and applicable regulations of the Secretary of the Interior, and will contain the following reservations to the United States: 1. A right-of-way thereon for ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States, Act of August 30, 1890 (43 U.S.C. 945); and 2. All minerals shall be reserved to the United States, together with the right to prospect for, mine, and remove such deposits for the same under applicable law and such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Any lease and conveyance will also be subject to all valid existing rights, will contain any terms or conditions required by law (including, but not limited to, any terms or conditions required by 43 CFR 2741,4), and will contain an appropriate indemnification clause protecting the United States from claims arising out of the lessee’s/ patentee’s use, occupancy, or operations on the leased/patented lands. It will also contain any other terms and conditions deemed necessary and appropriate by the Authorized Officer. Upon publication of this Notice in the Federal Register, the land described above will be segregated from all other forms of appropriation under the public land laws, rights-of-way, including the general mining laws, except for lease and conveyance under the R&PP Act, leasing under the mineral leasing laws, and disposals under the mineral material disposal laws. Interested parties may submit written comments on the suitability of the land for a public park in the City of Las Vegas. Comments on the classification are restricted to whether the land is physically suited for the proposal, whether the use will maximize the future use or uses of the land, whether E:\FR\FM\29MRN1.SGM 29MRN1

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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 61 (Thursday, March 29, 2018)]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

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Notice of Availability of the Draft Supplemental Environmental 
Impact Statement for the Alpine Satellite Development Plan for the 
Proposed Greater Mooses Tooth 2 Development Project, National Petroleum 
Reserve in Alaska; Notice of Public Meetings and Subsistence Hearings

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Arctic District Office, 
Fairbanks, Alaska, is issuing for public comment the Draft Supplemental 
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Alpine Satellite 
Development Plan for the Proposed Greater Mooses Tooth 2 (GMT2) 
Development Project, National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A). BLM 
Alaska is also announcing pending public meetings and subsistence-
related hearings to receive comments on the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS 
and the project's potential to impact subsistence resources and 
activities. The EIS will supplement the September 2004 Alpine Satellite 
Development Plan Final EIS that originally analyzed the GMT2 Project, 
regarding establishing satellite oil production pads and associated 
infrastructure within the Alpine field.

DATES: To ensure that the BLM will consider your comments on the GMT2 
Draft Supplemental EIS, BLM Alaska must receive your written comments 
no later than 45 days after the Environmental Protection Agency 
publishes its notice of availability of the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS 
in the Federal Register. BLM Alaska will announce the dates, times, and 
locations of public meetings on its website, through public notices, 
media news releases, and/or mailings.

ADDRESSES: You may provide comments by mail, fax, email, or in person. 
Mail comments to: GMT2 SEIS Comments, Attn: Stephanie Rice, 222 West 
7th Avenue #13, Anchorage, Alaska 99513; fax comments to 907-271-3933; 
email comments to [email protected]; or hand-deliver 
comments during normal business hours (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) to the BLM 
Public Information Center, 222 West 7th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska.
    You may review the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS online at BLM 
Alaska's website at https://www.blm.gov/alaska. You may also review 
copies of the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS at both BLM Alaska Public 
Information Centers at the Federal Building at 222 West 7th Avenue, 
Anchorage, and at the Arctic District Office, 222 University Avenue, 
Fairbanks. You may also request a CD or paper copy of the GMT2 Draft 
Supplemental EIS by contacting Stephanie Rice, BLM project lead, at 
907-271-3202.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephanie Rice, BLM Alaska State 
Office, 907-271-3202. People who use a telecommunications device for 
the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-
8339 to contact the above individual during normal business hours. The 
FRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message or 
question with the above individual. You will receive a reply during 
normal business hours.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The GMT2 Supplemental EIS analyzes an 
application from ConocoPhillips, Alaska, Inc. (ConocoPhillips). The 
application is for a permit to drill and related authorizations to 
construct, operate, and maintain a drill site, access road, pipelines, 
and ancillary facilities on federally managed land to support 
development of petroleum resources at the GMT2 drill site. BLM Alaska 
manages the surface and subsurface at the drill site and at the 
proposed infield road and pipeline route. ConocoPhillips may also 
develop subsurface resources owned by the Arctic Slope Regional 
Corporation, and may occupy surface lands owned by the Kuukpik 
Corporation.
    The proposed GMT2 site is approximately 25 miles southwest of the 
ConocoPhillips-operated Alpine Central Processing Facility (CD1) and 
will be operated and maintained by staff at the Alpine Central 
Processing Facility.
    The GMT2 Project was originally analyzed as the Colville Delta 7 
(CD7) drill pad in the BLM's September 2004 Alpine Satellite 
Development Plan Final EIS. The purpose of the Supplemental EIS is to 
evaluate any relevant new circumstances and information that have 
arisen since the Alpine Satellite Development Plan Final EIS was 
completed, to update the alternatives in the 2004 EIS, and to address 
any changes to ConocoPhillips' proposed development plan for GMT2. The 
GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS analyzes four alternatives, including two 
alternatives with an access road, an alternative without an access 
road, and a no-action alternative.
    The key issues in the GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS are the 
protection of

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surface resources; the minimization of social impacts; and the 
identification of appropriate mitigation measures for the construction, 
operation, and maintenance of a drill site and access road, pipelines, 
and ancillary facilities to support development of petroleum resources 
at the proposed GMT2 site. Section 810 of the Alaska National Interest 
Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), 16 U.S.C. 3120, requires that the BLM 
evaluate effects on subsistence activities for the alternatives 
presented in this GMT2 Draft Supplemental EIS and to hold public 
hearings if the BLM finds that any of the alternatives or the 
cumulative effects of past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future 
development may significantly restrict subsistence activities.
    BLM Alaska will hold public meetings on the GMT2 Draft Supplemental 
EIS in these Alaska communities: Anchorage, Anaktuvuk Pass, Atqasuk, 
Utqia[gdot]vik, Fairbanks, and Nuiqsut. In addition, the public 
meetings at Anaktuvuk Pass, Atqasuk, Utqia[gdot]vik, and Nuiqsut will 
incorporate subsistence hearings to take comments on subsistence 
impacts pursuant to the ANILCA.
    Before including your address, phone number, email address, or 
other personally identifying information in your comment, you should be 
aware that your entire comment--including your personally identifying 
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can 
ask the BLM in your comment to withhold your personally identifying 
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be 
able to do so.

    Authority:  16 U.S.C. 3120(a); 40 CFR 1506.6(b).

Karen E. Mouritsen,
Acting State Director, Alaska.
[FR Doc. 2018-06380 Filed 3-28-18; 8:45 am]
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