Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales 259 and 261: Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, 2371-2372 [2023-00485]

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Frear, Chief, National Register of Historic Places/ National Historic Landmarks Program. [FR Doc. 2023–00608 Filed 1–12–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312–52–P PO 00000 Frm 00060 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 2371 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Ocean Energy Management [Docket No. BOEM–2023–0007] Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales 259 and 261: Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Interior. ACTION: Notice of availability of a final environmental impact statement. AGENCY: BOEM announces the availability of a final supplemental environmental impact statement, Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales 259 and 261: Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (GOM Lease Sales 259 and 261 SEIS). The GOM Lease Sales 259 and 261 SEIS provides an analysis of potential environmental impacts of the proposed action and four alternatives and identifies BOEM’s preferred alternative. DATES: BOEM will issue a final record of decision no sooner than February 13, 2023. ADDRESSES: The GOM Lease Sales 259 and 261 SEIS with appendices is available for review on BOEM’s website at https://www.boem.gov/GoM-Sales259-and-261-SEIS. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Helen Rucker, Chief, Environmental Assessment Section, Office of Environment, 1201 Elmwood Park Blvd. (MS GM 623E), New Orleans, LA 70123–2394, or by telephone at 504– 736–2421. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The GOM Lease Sales 259 and 261 SEIS will inform both lease sales, which the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) (Pub. L. 117–169, enacted August 16, 2022) directs BOEM to hold by the end of March 2023 and September 2023, respectively. While section 50264(a)(3)– (4) of the IRA requires BOEM to hold these lease sales, the IRA does not impact the bulk of BOEM’s normal leasing process, including the resolution of particular questions going to the scope of the sales and the terms of the resulting leases. BOEM has prepared the GOM Lease Sales 259 and 261 SEIS to inform its leasing decisions. SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\13JAN1.SGM 13JAN1 2372 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 9 / Friday, January 13, 2023 / Notices lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 On October 7, 2022, the notice of availability for the draft SEIS was published in the Federal Register (87 FR 61014), beginning a 45-day public comment period that ended November 21, 2022. During that time, BOEM also held two public hearings. BOEM received a total of 75,918 public comments through the Federal eRulemaking Portal (https:// www.regulations.gov, Docket No. BOEM–2022–0144) and 14 comments during the public hearings. Following the close of the public comment period, BOEM considered all comments received in preparing the Lease Sales 259 and 261 SEIS as appropriate. Detailed responses to the comments are provided in appendix C of the GOM Lease Sales 259 and 261 SEIS. The GOM Lease Sales 259 and 261 SEIS analyzes the potential environmental impacts that could result from an individual Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale. Additionally, it identifies BOEM’s preferred alternative as Alternative D combined with Alternative A. Alternative D combined with Alternative A would offer for lease available unleased blocks within all three of BOEM’s Gulf of Mexico (GOM) planning areas in the lease sale area that are not under Presidential withdrawal, not adjacent to or beyond the United States Exclusive Economic Zone in the area known as the northern portion of the Eastern Gap, and not within the boundary of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary as of the July 2008 ‘‘Memorandum on Modification of the Withdrawal of Areas of the United States Outer Continental Shelf From Leasing Disposition.’’ BOEM may also exclude from leasing any available unleased whole or partial blocks subject to one or more of the following stipulations: (1) Topographic Features Stipulation; (2) Live Bottom Stipulation; and (3) Blocks South of Baldwin County, Alabama, Stipulation. BOEM will announce more information concerning GOM Lease Sales 259 and 261 in its final notice of sale and record of decision for each sale. Authority: The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and 43 CFR 46.415. Amanda Lefton, Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. [FR Doc. 2023–00485 Filed 1–12–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4340–98–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:26 Jan 12, 2023 Jkt 259001 INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION [Investigation No. 731–TA–669 (Fifth Review)] Cased Pencils From China; Scheduling of an Expedited Five-Year Review United States International Trade Commission. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: The Commission hereby gives notice of the scheduling of an expedited review pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930 (‘‘the Act’’) to determine whether revocation of the antidumping duty order on cased pencils from China would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of material injury within a reasonably foreseeable time. DATES: November 4, 2022. 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PO 00000 Frm 00061 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 (19 CFR part 201), and part 207, subparts A, D, E, and F (19 CFR part 207). Staff report.—A staff report containing information concerning the subject matter of the review has been placed in the nonpublic record, and will be made available to persons on the Administrative Protective Order service list for this review on January 31, 2023. A public version will be issued thereafter, pursuant to § 207.62(d)(4) of the Commission’s rules. Written submissions.—As provided in § 207.62(d) of the Commission’s rules, interested parties that are parties to the review and that have provided individually adequate responses to the notice of institution,2 and any party other than an interested party to the review may file written comments with the Secretary on what determination the Commission should reach in the review. Comments are due on or before February 8, 2023 and may not contain new factual information. Any person that is neither a party to the five-year review nor an interested party may submit a brief written statement (which shall not contain any new factual information) pertinent to the review by February 8, 2023. However, should the Department of Commerce (‘‘Commerce’’) extend the time limit for its completion of the final results of its review, the deadline for comments (which may not contain new factual information) on Commerce’s final results is three business days after the issuance of Commerce’s results. If comments contain business proprietary information (BPI), they must conform with the requirements of §§ 201.6, 207.3, and 207.7 of the Commission’s rules. The Commission’s Handbook on Filing Procedures, available on the Commission’s website at https:// www.usitc.gov/documents/handbook_ on_filing_procedures.pdf, elaborates upon the Commission’s procedures with respect to filings. In accordance with §§ 201.16(c) and 207.3 of the rules, each document filed by a party to the review must be served on all other parties to the review (as identified by either the public or BPI service list), and a certificate of service must be timely filed. The Secretary will not accept a document for filing without a certificate of service. Determination.—The Commission has determined this review is 2 The Commission has found the responses submitted on behalf of Dixon Ticonderoga Company, Musgrave Pencil Company, Inc., and LaRose Industries LLC dba Cra-Z-Art, domestic producers of cased pencils, to be individually adequate. Comments from other interested parties will not be accepted (see 19 CFR 207.62(d)(2)). E:\FR\FM\13JAN1.SGM 13JAN1

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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 9 (Friday, January 13, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2371-2372]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-00485]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

[Docket No. BOEM-2023-0007]


Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales 259 and 261: Final 
Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability of a final environmental impact 
statement.

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SUMMARY: BOEM announces the availability of a final supplemental 
environmental impact statement, Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease 
Sales 259 and 261: Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement 
(GOM Lease Sales 259 and 261 SEIS). The GOM Lease Sales 259 and 261 
SEIS provides an analysis of potential environmental impacts of the 
proposed action and four alternatives and identifies BOEM's preferred 
alternative.

DATES: BOEM will issue a final record of decision no sooner than 
February 13, 2023.

ADDRESSES: The GOM Lease Sales 259 and 261 SEIS with appendices is 
available for review on BOEM's website at https://www.boem.gov/GoM-Sales-259-and-261-SEIS.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Helen Rucker, Chief, Environmental 
Assessment Section, Office of Environment, 1201 Elmwood Park Blvd. (MS 
GM 623E), New Orleans, LA 70123-2394, or by telephone at 504-736-2421.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The GOM Lease Sales 259 and 261 SEIS will 
inform both lease sales, which the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 
(IRA) (Pub. L. 117-169, enacted August 16, 2022) directs BOEM to hold 
by the end of March 2023 and September 2023, respectively. While 
section 50264(a)(3)-(4) of the IRA requires BOEM to hold these lease 
sales, the IRA does not impact the bulk of BOEM's normal leasing 
process, including the resolution of particular questions going to the 
scope of the sales and the terms of the resulting leases. BOEM has 
prepared the GOM Lease Sales 259 and 261 SEIS to inform its leasing 
decisions.

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    On October 7, 2022, the notice of availability for the draft SEIS 
was published in the Federal Register (87 FR 61014), beginning a 45-day 
public comment period that ended November 21, 2022. During that time, 
BOEM also held two public hearings. BOEM received a total of 75,918 
public comments through the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal (https://www.regulations.gov, Docket No. BOEM-2022-0144) and 14 comments during 
the public hearings. Following the close of the public comment period, 
BOEM considered all comments received in preparing the Lease Sales 259 
and 261 SEIS as appropriate. Detailed responses to the comments are 
provided in appendix C of the GOM Lease Sales 259 and 261 SEIS. The GOM 
Lease Sales 259 and 261 SEIS analyzes the potential environmental 
impacts that could result from an individual Gulf of Mexico oil and gas 
lease sale. Additionally, it identifies BOEM's preferred alternative as 
Alternative D combined with Alternative A. Alternative D combined with 
Alternative A would offer for lease available unleased blocks within 
all three of BOEM's Gulf of Mexico (GOM) planning areas in the lease 
sale area that are not under Presidential withdrawal, not adjacent to 
or beyond the United States Exclusive Economic Zone in the area known 
as the northern portion of the Eastern Gap, and not within the boundary 
of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary as of the July 
2008 ``Memorandum on Modification of the Withdrawal of Areas of the 
United States Outer Continental Shelf From Leasing Disposition.'' BOEM 
may also exclude from leasing any available unleased whole or partial 
blocks subject to one or more of the following stipulations: (1) 
Topographic Features Stipulation; (2) Live Bottom Stipulation; and (3) 
Blocks South of Baldwin County, Alabama, Stipulation. BOEM will 
announce more information concerning GOM Lease Sales 259 and 261 in its 
final notice of sale and record of decision for each sale.
    Authority: The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 
amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and 43 CFR 46.415.

Amanda Lefton,
Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
[FR Doc. 2023-00485 Filed 1-12-23; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4340-98-P
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