[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 172 (Wednesday, September 6, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52574-52575]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-14745]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service


Alaska Region, Outer Continental Shelf, Beaufort Sea Planning 
Area, Oil and Gas Lease Sale 202 (2007)

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service (MMS), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability of an Environmental Assessment (EA) and 
Finding of No New Significant Impact (FONNSI).

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SUMMARY: The Minerals Management Service has prepared an environmental 
assessment and a Finding of No New Significant Impact for the proposed 
Alaska Region Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Beaufort Sea Planning Area 
Lease Sale 202. In this EA, OCS EIS/EA MMS 2006-001, MMS reexamined the 
potential environmental effects of the proposed action and its 
alternatives based on any new information regarding potential impacts 
and issues that were not available at the time the Alaska Region OCS 
Beaufort Sea Planning Area Oil and Gas Lease Sales 186, 195, and 202, 
Final Environmental Impact Statement, Volumes I through IV (multiple-
sale EIS) was completed in February 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Minerals Management Service, Alaska 
OCS Region, 3801 Centerpoint Drive, 500, Anchorage, Alaska 
99503-5823, Ms. Deborah Cranswick, telephone (907) 334-5267.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Proposed Beaufort Sea Planning Area Lease 
Sale 202 is the third Beaufort Sea Planning Area lease sale scheduled 
in the current OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program: 2002-2007 (5-Year 
Program). The multiple-sale EIS analyzed the effects of three lease 
sales considering resource estimates, project exploration and 
development activities, and impact-producing factors for each of the 
proposed Beaufort Sea Planning Area lease sales. The resource estimates 
and level of activities projected for proposed Lease Sale 202 remains 
essentially the same as examined in the multiple-sale EIS. No new 
significant impacts were identified for proposed Lease Sale 202 that 
were not already assessed in the multiple-sale EIS. The FONNSI reflects 
the MMS determination that a supplemental EIS is not required.

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Available for Review: To obtain a copy of the EA and FONSI, you may 
contact the Minerals Management Service, Alaska OCS Region, Attention: 
Resource Center, 3801 Centerpoint Drive, 500, Anchorage, 
Alaska 99503-5823, telephone 1-800-764-2627. You may also view the EA 
on the MMS Web site at http://www.mms.gov/alaska.
    Written Comments: Interested parties may submit their written 
comments on this EA/FONNSI until 30 days after the publication of this 
notice, to the Regional Director, Alaska OCS Region, Attention: Sale 
202 EA Coordinator, Minerals Management Service, 3801 Centerpoint 
Drive, 500, Anchorage, Alaska 99503-5823, or you may provide 
electronic comments at http://ocsconnect.mms.gov/pcs-public/. Our 
practice is to make comments, including names and home addresses of 
respondents available for public review. An individual commenter may 
ask that we withhold their name, home address, or both from the public 
record, and we will honor such a request to the extent allowable by 
law. If you submit comments and wish us to withhold such information, 
you must state so prominently at the beginning of your submission. We 
will not consider anonymous comments, and we will make available for 
inspection in their entirety all comments submitted by organizations or 
businesses or by individuals identifying themselves as representatives 
of organizations or businesses.

    Dated: August 22, 2006.
Robert P. LaBelle,
Acting Associate Director for Offshore Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. E6-14745 Filed 9-5-06; 8:45 am]
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