[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 41 (Monday, March 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9445-9446]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-5136]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management

[AK-910-07-1310-00-NPR-A]


Notice of Scoping Meetings on an Integrated Activity Plan (IAP)/ 
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the National Petroleum 
Reserve--Alaska (NPR-A)

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of scoping meetings.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is announcing scoping 
meetings for its IAP/EIS for approximately 4.6 million acres in 
northeastern NPR-A. The IAP/EIS will address long-term management 
strategies for several natural resources that are present in the area. 
Potential issues that the IAP/EIS may address include, but are not 
limited to, wildlife resources (terrestrial and aquatic) protection; 
mineral resource development (including oil and gas leasing); 
subsistence resources and activities and possible impacts on 
subsistence from various management alternatives; access; recreation; 
visual resources; threatened and endangered species; and historic, 
cultural, soil, water, and vegetation resources. Potential management 
actions and activities that may be considered in the IAP/EIS and that 
may have environmental and subsistence impacts for the area include 
mineral material extraction, leasable mineral exploration and 
development, recreation, commercial development, modification of the 
existing Special Areas, and identification of any new areas for 
additional resource protection. These public scoping meetings will 
provide an opportunity for the public to contribute ideas and 
information about the resources of the area and how they should be 
managed. Translators will be present at meetings in Barrow, Atqasuk, 
and Nuiqsut.

DATES: The BLM will hold public scoping meetings according to the 
following schedule:
    1. March 17, 1997, Barrow, Alaska, North Slope Borough Assembly 
Room, 7:30 p.m.
    2. March 18, 1997, Atqasuk, Alaska, Community Center, 7:30 p.m.

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    3. March 19, 1997, Nuiqsut, Alaska, Kisik Community Center, 7:30 
p.m.
    4. March 25, 1997, Anchorage, Alaska, BLM Campbell Tract Facility 
training room, 6881 Abbott Loop Road, 6-9 p.m.
    5. March 27, 1997, Fairbanks, Alaska, Noel Wien Public Library, 
1215 Cowles Street, 5-9 p.m.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: For information about the Anchorage 
meeting, contact Rob McWhorter at (907) 271-3664 or Ed Bovy at (907) 
271-3318 at the BLM's Alaska State Office, 222 W. 7th Avenue, 
Anchorage, Alaska 99513. For information on all the other meetings, 
contact the Public Affairs Office at (907) 474-2231 at the BLM's 
Northern District Office, 1150 University Avenue, Fairbanks, Alaska 
99709.
Sally Wisely,
Associate State Director, Alaska.
[FR Doc. 97-5136 Filed 2-28-97; 8:45 am]
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