[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 101 (Friday, May 23, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30149-30150]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-11478]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[AK-930-07-1310-DS]


Notice of Availability for the Northeast National Petroleum 
Reserve--Alaska Supplemental Final Integrated Activity Plan/
Environmental Impact Statement

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Availability.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Alaska State Office, is 
issuing the Northeast National Petroleum Reserve--Alaska (NPR-A) 
Supplemental Final Integrated Activity Plan/Environmental Impact 
Statement (IAP/EIS).

DATES: The Final IAP/EIS is available to the public. After 30 days the 
BLM will issue a Record of Decision.

ADDRESSES: Requests for information regarding the Final IAP/EIS may be 
sent to Jim Ducker, Bureau of Land Management, Alaska State Office 
(931), 222 West 7th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99513-7599. Before 
including your address, phone number, e-mail address, or other personal 
identifying information in your correspondence, you should be aware 
that your entire

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correspondence--including your personal identifying information--may be 
made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us to withhold 
your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot 
guarantee that we will be able to do so. The Final IAP/EIS is available 
on the BLM-Alaska Web site at http:www.blm.gov/ak. CD or paper copies 
may be requested by calling Jim Ducker, BLM project lead at 907-271-
3130.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Ducker, BLM Alaska State Office, 
907-271-3130.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Supplemental IAP/EIS supplements the 
Northeast NPR-A Amended IAP/EIS, which was completed in January 2005 
and was followed with a Record of Decision in January 2006. On 
September 25, 2006, the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska 
found the Amended IAP/EIS analysis failed to fully consider the 
cumulative effects of oil and gas leasing in planning area and in the 
adjacent Northwest NPR-A planning area and vacated the Record of 
Decision for the Amended IAP/EIS. The Supplemental IAP/EIS provides the 
additional analysis necessary to fully address deficiencies noted by 
the court and updates relevant sections of the document with 
information that has become available since the completion of the 
Amended IAP/EIS. Like the Amended IAP/EIS, the Supplemental IAP/EIS 
considers additional oil and gas leasing opportunities in the same 
approximately 4.6 million acres in the northeast portion of the 
National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. The Supplemental IAP/EIS considers 
the same issues and almost identical alternatives as were addressed in 
the Amended IAP/EIS. The Final Supplemental IAP/EIS identifies as the 
Preferred Alternative a modified version of Alternative D that appeared 
in the Draft Supplemental IAP/EIS. The primary modification is to defer 
more than 500,000 acres from leasing for 10 years following the 
adoption of a decision on the plan.

    Dated: March 17, 2008.
Thomas P. Lonnie,
State Director.
[FR Doc. E8-11478 Filed 5-22-08; 8:45 am]
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