[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 220 (Tuesday, November 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 68157]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-29082]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service


Availability of United States Virgin Islands Territorial 
Submerged Lands Act Boundary Determination and Submerged Lands 
Jurisdictions

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service, Interior.

ACTION: Availability of United States Virgin Islands Territorial 
Submerged Lands Act Boundary Determinations and Submerged Lands 
Jurisdictions.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Minerals Management Service's 
Mapping and Boundary Branch has prepared for review and comment by 
interested parties on the Territorial Submerged Lands Act Boundary 
Determinations and Submerged Lands Jurisdictions for the United States 
Virgin Islands, including St. Thomas, St. John, and St. Croix. The 
Mapping and Boundary Branch has conducted pursuant to 48 U.S.C. 
1705(b), coastline ownership record searches, field investigations, 
baseline point development, and review and mathematical computations to 
derive and define these boundaries and jurisdictions. The Terrirotial 
Submerged Lands Act Boundary and Submerged Lands Jurisdictions 
referenced in this notice were derived in part by using copies of the 
most current National Ocean Service nautical charts. The Territorial 
Submerged Lands Act Boundary was developed as an ambulatory boundary. 
This means that the boundary will continue to move with the erosions 
and accretions of the coastline. Outer Continental Shelf Official 
Protraction Diagrams and Supplemental Official Outer Continental Shelf 
Block Diagrams approved on the date indicated below are on file and 
available to the public for review, comment, and information in the 
Minerals Management Service, Mapping and Boundary Branch, Lakewood, 
Colorado. In accordance with Title 43, U.S.C. Sections 1457 and 1458 
and Title 48, U.S.C. Section 1705, these diagrams listed below are the 
basic record for the legal description of the Territorial Submerged 
Lands and Federal and Territorial Submerged Lands jurisdictions in the 
United States Virgin Islands.

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                Description                             Date
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NE20-04, St. Thomas.......................  June 4, 2000.
 
       (With supporting Supplemental Official OCS Block Diagrams)
 
NE20-07, St. Croix........................  June 4, 2000.
 
       (With supporting Supplemental Official OCS Block Diagrams)
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Copies of this information may be obtained by logging on to the 
Minerals Management Service's website at ftp://mmspub.mms.gov/pub/mapping/vi/

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Leland F. Thormahlen, Chief, 
Mapping and Boundary Branch, P.O. Box 25165 MS 4011, Denver Federal 
Center, Lakewood, Colorado 80225, Telephone (303) 275-7120 or E-Mail 
[email protected].

    Dated: November 8, 2000.
Carolita U. Kallaur,
Associate Director for Offshore Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 00-29082 Filed 11-13-00; 8:45 am]
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