[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 98 (Wednesday, May 21, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27774-27775]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-13266]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service


Outer Continental Shelf, Alaska Region, Beaufort Sea Lease Sale 
170

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service.

ACTION: Notice of availability of the Draft Environmental Impact 
Statement and locations and dates of public hearings.

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    The Minerals Management Service (MMS) has prepared a draft 
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) relating to the proposed 1998 
Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas lease sale in the Beaufort Sea. The 
proposed Beaufort Sea Sale 170 will offer for lease approximately 1.7 
million acres. You may obtain single copies of the draft EIS from the 
Regional Director, Minerals Management Service, Alaska Region, 949 East 
36th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99503-4302, Attention: Public 
Information. You may request copies by telephone at (907) 271-6070; 1-
800-764-2627; or via e-mail at [email protected].
    Copies of the draft EIS are also available for inspection in the 
following public libraries:

Alaska Resource Library, U.S. Department of the Interior, Anchorage, AK

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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

    Under 30 CFR 256.26, the MMS will hold public hearings to receive 
comments and suggestions relating to the EIS.
    The hearings will occur on the following dates and times:

June 24, 1997: Kisik Community Center, Nuiqsut, Alaska, 7:30 p.m.
June 25, 1997: Community Building, Kaktovik, Alaska, 6:00 p.m.
June 27, 1997: University Plaza Building, 949 East 36th Avenue, 3rd 
Floor Conference Room, Anchorage, Alaska, 12:00 p.m. (noon)
July 8, 1997: North Slope Borough, Assembly Chambers, Barrow, Alaska, 
7:30 p.m.

    The hearings will allow Government agencies and the public to 
provide additional information for evaluating the potential effects of 
the proposed lease sale. If you wish to testify at the June or July 
hearings, contact the Regional Director at the above address or Ray 
Emerson by telephone (907) 271-6650 or toll free 1-800-764-2627 by June 
20, 1997, and by July 3, 1997, for the July hearing in Barrow.
    Time limitations may make it necessary to limit the length of oral 
presentations to 10 minutes. You may supplement an oral statement with 
a more complete written statement and submit it to a hearing official 
at the hearing or by mail until July 18, 1997. You may also submit a 
written statement if you are unable to testify at a public hearing.
    We will accept comments on the draft EIS until July 18, 1997. 
Address comments to the Regional Director, Minerals Management Service, 
Alaska Region, 949 East 36th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99508-4302.

    Dated: May 5, 1997.
Thomas A. Readinger,
Associate Director for Offshore Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 97-13266 Filed 5-20-97; 8:45 am]
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