[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 248 (Thursday, December 27, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 66920]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-31749]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[ES-020-1310-E1]


Notice of Intent To Prepare Planning Analysis/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 Offices, 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 in the Blue Mountain 
Lake Project Area in Logan and Yell Counties, Arkansas. 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 withhold 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 
Office; 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 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 restriction on lease rights to protect surface 
resources and uses by the Corps of Engineers. The lands are located in 
the below listed townships/sections in Logan and Yell Counties, 
Arkansas. Total acreage being addressed is approximately 17,000 acres.

T5N, R25W, 5th Meridian
Sections 2, 7-11, 15-20
T5N, R26W, 5th Meridian
Sections 1-19, 24, 27, 28 330
T5N, R27W, 5th Meridian
Sections 1-4, 9-19, 24-26
T5N, R26W, 5th Meridian
Sections 29, 31, 32
T6 N, R.27W, 5th Meridian

Sections 25, 34-36
    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. 01-31749 Filed 12-26-01; 8:45 am]
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