[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 95 (Wednesday, May 15, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 24507]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-12168]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Minerals Management Service


Outer Continental Shelf, Alaska Region, Beaufort Sea Lease Sale 
144

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service.

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

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    The Minerals Management Service (MMS) has prepared a final 
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) relating to the proposed 1996 
Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas lease sale of available unleased 
blocks in the Beaufort Sea. The proposed Beaufort Sea Sale 144 will 
offer for lease approximately 9.8 million acres. Single copies of the 
final EIS can be obtained from the Regional Director, Minerals 
Management Service, Alaska Region, 949 East 36th Avenue, Anchorage, 
Alaska 99503-4302, Attention: Public Information. Copies can be 
requested by telephone, (907) 271-6070.
    Copies of the final EIS will also be available for inspection in 
the following public libraries:

Alaska Resource Library, U.S. Department of the Interior, Anchorage, AK
Alaska State Library, Juneau, AK
Army Corps of Engineers Library, U.S. Department of Defense, Anchorage, 
AK
Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, 310 Tanana Drive, Fairbanks, AK
Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library (Noel Wien Library), 1215 
Cowles Street, Fairbanks, AK
George Francis Memorial Library, Kotzebue, AK
Kaveolook School Library, Kaktovik, AK
Kegoayah Kozga Public Library, Nome, AK
Nellie Weyiouanna Ilisaavik Library, Shishmaref, AK
North Slope Borough School District Library/Media Center, Barrow, AK
Northern Alaska Environmental Center Library, 218 Driveway, Fairbanks, 
AK
Nuiqsut Library, Nuiqsut, AK
Tikigaq Library, Point Hope, AK
University of Alaska, Anchorage Consortium Library, 3211 Providence 
Dr., Anchorage, AK
University of Alaska, Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology, 311 Irving 
Bldg., Fairbanks, AK
University of Alaska-Juneau Library, 11120 Glacier Highway, Juneau, AK.

    Dated: April 19, 1996.
Thomas Gernhofer,
Associate Director for Offshore Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 96-12168 Filed 5-14-96; 8:45 am]
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