[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 222 (Tuesday, November 17, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 73292-73293]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-25316]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[19X.LLAK930000.L13100000.EI0000.241A]


Call for Nominations and Comments for the Coastal Plain Alaska 
Oil and Gas Lease Sale

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Alaska State Office is 
issuing a call for nominations and comments on the lease tracts 
considered for the upcoming Coastal Plain (CP) Oil and Gas Lease Sale.

DATES: BLM Alaska must receive all nominations and comments on these 
tracts on or before December 17, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Mail nominations and/or comments to: State Director, Bureau 
of Land Management, Alaska State Office, 222 West 7th Avenue, Mailstop 
13, Anchorage, AK 99513-7504.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wayne Svejnoha, BLM Alaska Energy and 
Minerals Branch Chief, 907-271-4407. People who use a 
telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay 
Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to contact the above individual during 
normal business hours. The FRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a 
week, to leave a message or question with the above individual. You 
will receive a reply during normal business hours.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to 43 CFR 3131.2, the BLM is 
issuing this call for nominations and comments on tracts within the 
Coastal Plain (CP) of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that may be 
offered for lease in the upcoming CP Oil and Gas Lease Sale. The BLM 
also requests comments on tracts which should receive special concern 
and analysis as well as the size of the tracts and, specifically, 
whether the sizes of any tracts should be reduced.
    BLM will protect privileged or proprietary information in 
nominations in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 
requirements. To avoid inadvertent release of such information, all 
documents and every page containing such information should be marked 
with ``Confidential--Contains Proprietary Information.'' To the extent 
a document contains a mix of proprietary and nonproprietary 
information, the document should be clearly marked to indicate which 
portion of the document is proprietary and which is not. Exemption 4 of 
FOIA applies to trade secrets and commercial or financial information 
that you submit that is privileged or confidential. BLM considers 
nominations of specific tracts to be proprietary, and therefore BLM 
will not release information that identifies any particular nomination 
or any particular submitting party, so as not to compromise the 
competitive position of any participants in the process of indicating 
interest.
    However, BLM's practice is to make all comments, including the 
names and addresses of individuals, available for public inspection. 
Before including your address, phone number, email address, or other 
personal identifying information in your comments, 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.
    A Coastal Plain map showing the tracts considered for leasing is 
online at https://www.blm.gov/programs/energy-and-minerals/oil-and-gas/leasing/regional-lease-sales/alaska. Tract number 29 covers the 
disputed Staines-Canning River area. It is currently under litigation 
with the State of Alaska. The BLM may elect to not offer this tract in 
the upcoming sale.
    To describe the tract(s) you are nominating for leasing or 
providing comments on, please use the tract number(s) on the referenced 
Coastal Plain map available at https://www.blm.gov/programs/energy-and-minerals/oil-and-gas/leasing/regional-lease-sales/alaska.

Chad B. Padgett,
State Director, Alaska.
[FR Doc. 2020-25316 Filed 11-16-20; 8:45 am]
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