[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 193 (Wednesday, October 6, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59948-59949]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-22464]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[WY-100-05-1310-DB]


Notice of Meetings of the Pinedale Anticline Working Group's 
Socio-Economic Task Group

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
(1976) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act (1972), the U.S. 
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Pinedale 
Anticline Working Group (PAWG) Socio-Economic Task Group (subcommittee) 
will meet in Pinedale, Wyoming, for business meetings. The meetings are 
open to the public.

DATES: The PAWG Socio-Economic Task Group will meet October 27, 
November 17, and December 14, 2004, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meetings of the PAWG Socio-Economic Task Group will be 
held in the Lovatt Room of the Sublette County Public Library, 155 S. 
Tyler Ave., Pinedale, WY.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Roy Allen, BLM/Socio-EconomicTG 
Liaison, Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office, 5353 
Yellowstone Rd, Cheyenne, WY 82009; or PO Box 1828, Cheyenne, WY 82003; 
307-775-6196.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Pinedale Anticline Working Group (PAWG) 
was authorized and established with release of the Record of Decision 
(ROD) for the Pinedale Anticline Oil and Gas Exploration and 
Development Project on July 27, 2000. The PAWG advises the BLM on the 
development and implementation of monitoring plans and adaptive 
management decisions as development of the Pinedale Anticline Natural 
Gas Field (PAPA) proceeds for the life of the field. After the ROD was 
issued, Interior determined that a Federal Advisory Committees Act 
(FACA) charter was required for this group. The charter was signed by

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Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton, on August 15, 2002, and renewed 
on August 13, 2004. An announcement of committee initiation and call 
for nominations was published in the Federal Register on February 21, 
2003, (68 FR 8522). PAWG members were appointed by Secretary Norton on 
May 4, 2004.
    At their second business meeting, the PAWG established seven 
resource- or activity-specific Task Groups: Air Quality; Water 
Resources; Reclamation; Wildlife; Socio-Economic; Cultural/Historic/
Visual Resources; and Transportation. Public participation on those 
Task Groups was solicited through the media, letters, and word-of-
mouth. The initial Task Group meeting agenda will include: review of 
Task Group charges from the Pinedale Anticline Oil and Gas Exploration 
and Development Project ROD and the PAWG (developing monitoring plan(s) 
for the wildlife resources in the Anticline gas field, identifying who 
will do the monitoring, and identifying who will pay for the 
monitoring); developing a strategy to accomplish those tasks for 
recommendation to the PAWG by February, 2005; and selecting Task Group 
leadership and a proceedings recorder. Subsequent meeting agendas will 
include developing the monitoring plan(s) and identifying who will do 
the monitoring and how those costs will be paid. Public comments will 
be heard just prior to adjournment at each meeting.

    Dated: September 30, 2004.
Donald A. Simpson,
Acting State Director.
[FR Doc. 04-22464 Filed 10-5-04; 8:45 am]
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