[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 112 (Friday, June 10, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34096-34097]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-14405]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLUTG01100-11-L13100000-EJ0000]


Notice of Availability of a Supplement to the Draft Environmental 
Impact Statement for the Greater Natural Buttes Area Gas Development 
Project, Uintah County, UT

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the 
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA) and associated 
regulations, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared a 
Supplement to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that 
evaluates, analyzes, and discloses to the public additional air quality 
impacts of the Greater Natural Buttes proposal to develop natural gas 
in Uintah County, Utah. All other environmental impacts are 
incorporated by reference to the Draft EIS. This notice announces a 45-
day public comment period to meet the requirements of the NEPA.

DATES: The Supplement to the Draft EIS will be available for public 
review for 45 calendar days following the date that the Environmental 
Protection Agency publishes its NOA in the Federal Register. The BLM 
can best use comments and resource information submitted within this 
45-day review period.

ADDRESSES: Comments on the Supplement may be submitted by any of the 
following methods:
     Mail: Bureau of Land Management, Attn: Stephanie Howard, 
Vernal Field Office, 170 South 500 East, Vernal, UT 84078.
     E-mail: [email protected].
     Fax: (435) 781-4410.
    Please reference the Greater Natural Buttes Supplement when 
submitting your comments. Comments and information submitted on the 
Supplement to the Draft EIS for the Greater Natural Buttes project, 
including names, e-mail addresses, and street addresses of respondents 
will be available for public review at the Vernal Field Office. The BLM 
will not accept anonymous comments. Before including your address, 
phone number, e-mail address, or other personal identifying information 
in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--
including your personal identifying information--may be made publicly 
available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold 
your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot 
guarantee that we will be able to do so.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephanie Howard, Project Manager, BLM 
Vernal Field Office, 170 South 500 East, Vernal, UT 84078; telephone, 
435-781-4400.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    The Greater Natural Buttes Project Area (GNBPA) is located in 
Uintah County, Utah.

Salt Lake Meridian, Utah

T. 8 S., R. 20-23 E.,
T. 9 S., R. 20-24 E.,
T. 10 S., R. 20-23 E.,
T. 11 S., R. 21-22 E.

    The areas described aggregate approximately 162,911 acres in an 
existing gas producing area, according to the official plats of the 
surveys of the said lands, on file in the Bureau of Land Management.
    In response to a proposal submitted by Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Onshore 
LP (KMG), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, 
the BLM published in the October 5, 2007,

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Federal Register, a Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an EIS. In 
addition, a 45-day public comment period for the Draft EIS began on 
July 16, 2010, when the EPA published a Notice of Availability for the 
Draft EIS in the Federal Register, and ended on August 30, 2010.
    This notice announces a Supplement to the Draft EIS, which is 
located online at http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/vernal/planning/nepa_.html. The Supplement to the Draft EIS analyzes only new 
information relating to the project's conformance with the National 
Ambient Air Quality Standards for 1-hour nitrogen dioxide 
(NO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2), and discloses 
recent ozone monitoring data. All other environmental impacts are 
incorporated by reference to the Draft EIS. A Final EIS will be 
prepared after the comment period for the Supplement closes. All 
comments received during the Draft EIS comment period and the 
Supplement comment period will be responded to in the Final EIS.
    The BLM asks that those submitting comments make them as specific 
as possible with reference to chapters, page numbers, and paragraphs in 
the Supplement to the Draft EIS. Comments that contain only opinions or 
preferences will not receive a formal response; however, they will be 
considered, and included, as part of the BLM decision-making process. 
The most useful comments will contain new technical or scientific 
information, identify data gaps in the impact analysis, or provide 
technical or scientific rationale for opinions or preferences.

Jeff Rawson,
Associate State Director.
[FR Doc. 2011-14405 Filed 6-9-11; 8:45 am]
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