[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 201 (Wednesday, October 19, 1994)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

 

Availability of a Plan of Operations and Environmental 
Assessment, Proposed Drilling and Production Operations; EP Operating 
Limited Partnership, Padre Island National Seashore, Kleberg, County, 
TX

    The National Park Service has received for approval a Plan of 
Operation for exploratory drilling and production of a gas well at 
Padre Island National Seashore, Kleberg County, Texas, from EP 
Operating Limited Partnership (EP Operating).
    Pursuant to Sec. 9.52(b) of Title 36 of the Code of Federal 
Regulations, part 9, subpart B (36 CFR part 9B); Executive Order 11988, 
Floodplain Management; and Executive Order 11990, Protection of 
Wetlands, the Plan of Operations and Environmental Assessment are 
available for public review and comment for a period of 60 days from 
the publication date of this notice in the Office of the 
Superintendent, Padre Island National Seashore, 9405 South Padre Island 
Drive, Corpus Christi, Texas; and in the Division of Environmental 
Coordination, National Park Service, Southwest Regional Office, 1220 S. 
St. Francis Drive, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Copies of the documents are 
available from the Superintendent, Padre Island National Seashore, 9405 
South Padre Island Drive, Corpus Christi, Texas 78418-5597, and will be 
sent upon request.
    EP Operating has sited their proposed operations to avoid, as much 
as possible, impacts to wetlands, and has developed mitigation measures 
to minimize unavoidable impacts. EP Operating proposes to compensate 
for direct loss of 0.11 acres of non-tidal wetlands by restoring 0.22 
acres of an abandoned oil and gas access road to its original wind-
tidal flat condition. The wetlands compensation project is also located 
at Padre Island National Seashore.

    Dated: October 13, 1994.
Philip A. Francis,
Acting Regional Director, Southwest Region.
[FR Doc. 94-25918 Filed 10-18-94; 8:45 am]
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