Notice2024-29346
Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision for the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program, Alaska
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Published
December 13, 2024
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentLand Management Bureau
Abstract
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Alaska State Office, announces the availability of the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program. The signature of the Acting Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior on the ROD constitutes the final decision of the Department, thereby completing the required National Environmental Policy Act process for implementing an oil and gas leasing program within the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 240 (Friday, December 13, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 101042-101043]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-29346]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[BLM_AK_FRN_PO#4820000251
Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision for the Final
Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Coastal Plain Oil
and Gas Leasing Program, Alaska
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Alaska State Office,
announces the availability of the Record of Decision (ROD) for the
Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the
Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program. The signature of the Acting
Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior on the ROD
constitutes the final decision of the Department, thereby completing
the required National Environmental Policy Act process for implementing
an oil and gas leasing program within the Coastal Plain of the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge.
DATES: The ROD was signed on December 8, 2024.
ADDRESSES: The ROD is available online at the BLM National
Environmental Policy Act Register at https://eplanning.blm.gov/
eplanning-ui/
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project/2015144/510. Printed copies of the ROD will also be available
for public inspection upon publication of this notice at the following
locations:
BLM Alaska Public Information Center, James M. Fitzgerald Federal
Building, 222 West 7th Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99513, telephone: (907)
271-5960.
Alaska Resources Library & Information Services, 3211 Providence
Drive, Suite 111, Anchorage, AK 99508, telephone: (907) 272-7547.
Printed copies can be provided upon request by contacting the BLM
Alaska Public Information Center listed above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: At the BLM: Serena Sweet, Branch Chief
of Planning and Project Management; telephone: 907-271-4345; email:
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#9cefefebf9f9e8dcfef0f1b2fbf3ea"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="05767672606071456769682b626a73">[email protected]</span></a>, or Stephanie Kuhns, Acting District Manager, Arctic
District; telephone: 907-474-2310; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#82f1e9f7eaecf1c2e0eeeface5edf4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ccbfa7b9a4a2bf8caea0a1e2aba3ba">[email protected]</span></a>.
At the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS): Bobbie Jo
Skibo, Strategic Conservation and Coastal Plain Coordinator; telephone:
907-441-1539; email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#22404d40404b47484d7d51494b404d624455510c454d54"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="74161b16161d111e1b2b071f1d161b341203075a131b02">[email protected]</span></a>.
Individuals in the United States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of
hearing, or have a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or
TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay services for contacting
Ms. Sweet. Individuals outside the United States should use the relay
services offered within their country to make international calls to
the point-of-contact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 20001 of Public Law 115-97 (<a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ97/pdf/PLAW-115publ97.pdf">https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ97/pdf/PLAW-115publ97.pdf</a>)
requires the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the BLM, to
establish and administer a competitive oil and gas program for the
leasing, development, production, and transportation of oil and gas in
and from the Coastal Plain area within the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge. The BLM was directed to manage the oil and gas leasing program
on the Coastal Plain in a manner similar to lease sales under the Naval
Petroleum Reserves Production Act of 1976 (including regulations).
Section 20001 also requires the BLM to offer two lease sales by
December 22, 2021 and 2024, respectively, and for each sale to offer at
least 400,000 acres containing those areas that have the highest
potential for discovery of hydrocarbons.
The ROD approves a program to carry out this statutory directive.
By determining where and under what terms and conditions leasing will
occur, the ROD takes into account the requirements of Public Law 115-97
and other applicable law. To inform this Decision, the BLM and United
States Fish and Wildlife Service, as joint lead agencies, prepared the
Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program SEIS (Leasing SEIS). The ROD
supersedes the original Coastal Plain leasing program ROD, issued in
August 2020.
The ROD adopts Alternative D2 from the November 2024 Leasing SEIS
to govern BLM's further administration of the Coastal Plain Oil and Gas
Leasing Program. The ROD determines which lands to make available for
leasing under the Coastal Plain program and the terms and conditions
(i.e., lease stipulations and required operating procedures) to be
applied to leases and authorizations for specific oil and gas
activities.
(Authority: 40 CFR 1501.9(c)(5)(ii))
Steven Cohn,
State Director, Alaska.
[FR Doc. 2024-29346 Filed 12-12-24; 8:45 am]
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