# Presentation: 337653

## The New 5-Year Plan 2007-2012 Renee OrrChief, Leasing DivisionFebruary 21, 2007

## The OCS Leasing, Exploration, and Development Process

- States

- Solicit
- Comments

- 45-day
- Comment
- Period

- Draft
- Proposed
- Program
- Published

- 60-Day
- Comment
- Period

- Proposed
- Program

- Draft EIS
- Published

- 90-Day
- Comment
- Period

- Proposed
- Final
- Program

- Final EIS Published

- 60-Day
- Period
- for
- Congress

- Final 5-Year
- Program
- Announced

**The OCS Leasing, Exploration, and Development Process**

- Draft EIS
- Published

- 45-Day
- Comment
- Period

- 30-Day Comment
- Period
- 60-Day  Comment Period
- 90-Day Review

- Final Notice
- of Sale
- Published

- 30-Day
- Period

- Sale

- Leases
- Issued

**Pre-lease**

**Develop 5-Year Program**

**Planning for Specific Sale**

- Exploration
- Plan
- Submitted

- Environmental
- Assessment

- Exploration
-  Plan
- Review

- 90-Day
- CZM
- Review

- APD
- Decision

- Permits
- Granted

- Exploration
- Drilling
- Starts

- First
- Exploration
- Well (s)
- Completed

- Delineation
- Well
- Drilling

**Post Lease**

**Exploration Plan Approval**

- Development
- & Production
- Plan Submitted

- Company
- Submits CZM
- Consistency
- Certification

- MMS
- Prepares
- NEPA
- Analysis

- CZM Consistency
- Concurrence from State

- Then Development and
- Production Plan Decision

- Production
- Well
- Application

- First
- Oil/Gas
- Production

- Abbreviations:  ADP, Application for Permit to Drill; CD, Consistency Determination; CZM, Coastal Zone Management; EIS, Environmental Impact Statement;
- NEPA, National Environmental Policy Act

**Development and Production Plan Approval**

- Proposed
- Program

- Draft EIS
- Published

- Proposed
- Notice

- Final EIS
- Published

## What has Happened

**Request for Comments/Intent to Prepare an EIS published on August 24, 2005, with 45-day comment period.**
**Draft Proposed Program published on February 10, 2006, with 60-day comment.**
**Proposed Program and Draft EIS published on August 25, 2006, with 90-day comment period.  **

**Notes:**
What has happened so far...also additional 45-day comment period to 12/29/06 to proposed revision to expand Sale 205 to all available acreage in CGOM.

## Comments Received from all parties 

**Request for Information/Notice of Intent****	****...11,500**
**Draft Proposed Program.............................39,500**
**Proposed Program......................................73,700**
**	****Total......................................................124,900**
**	****	**** ****	**** ****	****	**
**Citizens sent over 99% of the comments of which about 75% in favor of some level of access****	**

## PP & Withdrawn Areas

## Alaska Proposed Program Areas

**Beaufort and Chukchi Seas**
**multiple sales in both areas**
**25-mile buffer in Chukchi**
**North Aleutian Basin**
**Sale 92 Area only**
**Presidential withdrawal modified January 2007**
**Cook Inlet – special interest sale(s)**
**Sale will be held only if sufficient interest after a call for nominations, and after consideration of comments and analyses**

## Gulf of Mexico Proposed Program Areas

**Central and Western Gulf of Mexico – annual areawide sales **
**Additional 2007 Sale in all available areas of Central Gulf (March 2007 sale cancelled)**
**181 South Area of Central Gulf:  Presidential withdrawal modified January 2007 and congressional moratorium lifted December 2006.  After NEPA review, scheduled for 2009 sale**

## Eastern Gulf of Mexico

**Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 mandated sale in portion of 181 in reconfigured Eastern GOM—more than 125 miles from Florida and west of military mission line.**
**Sale scheduled for 2008 after NEPA review (not subject to section 18)**
**Established moratorium in Eastern and portion of Central GOM to 2022. **

## GOMESA

## Atlantic Proposed Program Area

**Mid-Atlantic**
**Area off Virginia with 25-mile buffer and no-obstruction zone off Chesapeake Bay**
**Presidential withdrawal remains in place; area currently under annual Congressional moratorium**
**Will coordinate with DOD about military issues and concerns**
**North and South Atlantic, Straits of Florida **
**No sales**

## Atlantic Proposed Program Area

## Next Steps in 5-year Preparation

**Proposed Final Program/Final EIS are scheduled to be announced in late April 2007, with a 60-day period after submission to the President and Congress.**
**New Program begins July 1, 2007.**