[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 238 (Tuesday, December 11, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 64056]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-30497]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[ES-020-02-1310-EI]


Notice of Intent To Prepare Planning Analyses/Environmental 
Assessments

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare a Planning Analysis/Environmental 
Assessment.

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SUMMARY: The Jackson Field Office, Eastern States will prepare a 
Planning Analysis/Environmental Assessment (PA/EA), in cooperation with 
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to consider leasing Federal mineral 
estate for oil and gas exploration and development. The lands, managed 
by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, are located along the South Pass 
and Southwest Pass near the mouth of the Mississippi River in 
Plaquemines Parish. This notice is issued pursuant to Title 40 Code of 
Federal Regulations (CFR) 1501.7 and Title 43 CFR 1610.2(c). The 
planning effort will follow the procedures set forth in Title 43 CFR 
part 1600. The public is invited to participate in this planning 
process, beginning with the identification of planning issues and 
criteria.

DATES: Comments relating to the identification of planning issues and 
criteria will be accepted for thirty days from the date of this 
publication. Individual respondents may request confidentiality. If you 
wish to without your name or street address from public review or from 
disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, you must state this 
prominently at the beginning of your written comment. Such requests 
will be honored to the extent allowed by law. All submissions from 
organizations and businesses, and from individuals identifying 
themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or 
businesses, will be available for public inspection in their entirety.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to: Bureau of Land Management, Jackson Field 
Offices; 411 Briarwood Drive, Suite 404; Jackson, MS 39206.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Clay Moore, Lead for PA/EA, Jackson 
Field Office, (601-977-5400).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM has responsibility to consider 
nominations to lease Federal mineral estate for oil and gas exploration 
and development. An interdisciplinary team will be used in the 
preparation of the PA/EA. Preliminary issues, subject to change as a 
result of public input, are (1) Potential impacts of oil and gas 
exploration and development on the surface resources and uses by the 
Corps of Engineers and (2) consideration of restrictions on lease 
rights to protect surface resources and uses by the Corps of Engineers. 
Tract locations, along with acreage, are listed below. Total acreage 
being addressed is 7,966.6 acres.

T22S, R31E, Louisiana Meridian

Lot 3; being all of Lots or Sections 16 and 35 (33.82 acres)

T22S, R32F, Louisiana Meridian

Lot 2; being all of Lot or Sec. 16 (26.7 acres)
Lot 4a; being all of Lots or Sections 25 through 44 (870.65 acres)
Lot 7; being all of Lot or Section 19 (90.95 acres)

T22S, R33E, Louisiana Meridian

Lot 4b; being all of Lots or Sections 1 through 7 and Lots or 
Sections 3 through 14 (979.22 acres)
Lot 5; being all of Lots or Sections 15 and 16 (20 acres)

T23S, R21E, Louisiana Meridian

Lot 6; being all of Lots 9, 10, 15 and 16 (273 acres)

T23S, R32E, Louisiana Meridian

Lot 8; being all of Lot or Section 91 (121.72 acres)
Lot 9; being all of Lot or Section 1 and Lot or Section 13 (also 
described as Lot 18 T22S, R32E; Lot or Sections 14 through 90, Lots 
or Sections 92 through 96) (1,849 acres)

T24S, R32E, Louisiana Meridian

Lot 10; being all of Lots or Sections 1 through 40 and a portion of 
Lot or Section 28 (1,908.42 acres)

T24S, R32E and 33E, Louisiana Meridian

Lot 11; being all of Lots or Sections 41 through 78 and Lots 1 
through 10 (1,793.12 acres)

    Due to the limited scope of this PA/EA process, public meetings are 
not scheduled.

Sid Vogelpohl,
Acting Field Manager, Jackson Field Office.
[FR Doc. 01-30497 Filed 12-10-01; 8:45 am]
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