Department of the Interior August 5, 2021 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In accordance with the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as amended, Bevo Production Company (OKNM 123551), Red Dirt Energy, LLC (OKNM 129741), American Energy-Woodford, LLC (OKNM 134913), and Templar Energy, LLC (OKNM 121968) timely filed a petition for reinstatement of competitive oil and gas leases OKNM 123551 in Blaine County, Oklahoma, OKNM 129741 in Woods County, Oklahoma, OKNM 134913 in Payne County, Oklahoma, and OKNM 121968 in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. The lessees paid the required rentals accruing from the date of termination. No leases were issued that affect these lands. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposes to reinstate these leases.

The U.S. Department of the Interior (Department), in coordination with the U.S. Department of Justice, is hosting public meetings to obtain stakeholder input related to implementation of the Not Invisible Act of 2019, which was enacted to increase intergovernmental coordination to identify and combat violent crime on Indian lands and against Indians.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) owns or has an interest in irrigation projects located on or associated with various Indian reservations throughout the United States. We are required to establish irrigation assessment rates to recover the costs to administer, operate, maintain, and rehabilitate these projects. We are notifying you that we have adjusted the irrigation assessment rates at several of our irrigation projects and facilities to reflect current costs of administration, operation, maintenance, and rehabilitation.

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in response to a request from the Alaska Oil and Gas Association, finalize regulations authorizing the nonlethal, incidental, unintentional take by harassment of small numbers of polar bears and Pacific walruses during year-round oil and gas industry activities in the Beaufort Sea (Alaska and the Outer Continental Shelf) and adjacent northern coast of Alaska. Take may result from oil and gas exploration, development, production, and transportation activities occurring for a period of 5 years. These activities are similar to those covered by the previous 5-year Beaufort Sea incidental take regulations effective from August 5, 2016, through August 5, 2021. This rule authorizes take by harassment only. No lethal take is authorized. We will issue Letters of Authorization, upon request, for specific activities in accordance with these regulations.