[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 113 (Monday, June 14, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33068-33069]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-12414]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management


Notice of Availability

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior and U.S. Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture (Joint Lead Agencies).

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the 
Federal Land Policy Management Act of 1976 and other regulatory 
requirements, the Joint Lead Agencies announce the availability of the 
Northern San Juan Basin Coal Bed Methane Development Project Draft 
Environmental Impact

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Statement (DEIS) for coal bed natural gas development in the northern 
potion of the San Juan Basin, in La Plata and Achuleta Counties, 
Colorado. The Joint Lead Agencies have prepared the DEIS to provide 
agency decision makers and the public with comprehensive environmental 
impact information on which to base coal bed natural gas development 
decisions.

DATES: The Joint Lead Agencies will accept written comments on the DEIS 
for 90 days following the date that the Environmental Protection Agency 
publishes its notice of availability of the DEIS in the Federal 
Register.
    The Joint Lead Agencies will hold public meetings in Durango, 
Bayfield and Pagosa Springs, Colorado. The times and dates for these 
meetings will be announced at least 15 days in advance using local 
media. The Joint Lead Agencies will notify all parties on this 
project's mailing list of the dates, times and locations of the 
meetings and of the timeframes for comment submittal.

ADDRESSES: Please address questions, comments or requests for copies of 
the DEIS to the Northern San Juan Basin CBM EIS, USDA FS Content 
Analysis Team, P.O. Box 221150, Salt Lake City, Utah 84122. Electronic 
comment may be submitted to [email protected]. The DEIS is also 
available on the Internet at http://nsjb-eis.org/.
    DEIS comments, including names and street addresses of respondents, 
will be available for public review at the San Juan Public Lands 
Center, 15 Burnett Court, Durango, Colorado, during regular business 
hours (8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), Monday through Friday, except holidays.
    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. Anonymous comments will 
not be considered. All submissions from organizations or businesses, 
and from individuals identifying themselves as representatives of 
officials of organizations or businesses, will be made available for 
public inspection in their entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Walt Brown or Jim Powers at the above 
address, or phone: (970) 385-1304.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The DEIS analyzes industry's gas field 
development proposal (approximately three hundred new wells) and six 
other alternatives in a 125,000-acre Study Area in the Northern San 
Juan Basin of Colorado. The Study Area occupies portions of La Plata 
and Archuleta Counties, and is bounded on the south by the Southern Ute 
Reservation and on the west, north and east by the arching line of the 
base of the Pictured Cliffs sandstone.
    The Study Area consists of approximately 7,000 acres of BLM 
administered land, 49,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service administered 
land, 9,000 acres of private lands with federal minerals and 60,000 
acres of state or privately held (fee) lands with non-federal minerals.

    Dated: December 19, 2004.
Mark W. Stiles,
BLM Center Manager/U.S.F.S. Forest Supervisor, San Juan Public Lands 
Center, Durango, Colorado.


    Editorial Note:  This document was received at the Office of the 
Federal Register on May 27, 2004.


[FR Doc. 04-12414 Filed 6-10-04; 8:45 am]
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