Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 205 / Thursday, October 23, 2014 / Notices 63437 

Dated: October 17, 2014. 

Kevin K. Washburn, 

Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2014–25297 Filed 10–22–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–4N–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

[DR.5B711.IA000814] 

Indian Gaming 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Approved Tribal-State 

Class III Gaming Compact. 

SUMMARY: This notice publishes the 

approval of the Compact between the 

Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone 

(Tribe) and the State of Nevada (State) 

Governing Class III Gaming. 

DATES: Effective Date: October 23, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Paula L. Hart, Director, Office of Indian 

Gaming, Office of the Deputy Assistant 

Secretary—Policy and Economic 

Development, Washington, DC 20240, 

(202) 219–4066. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 

section 11 of the Indian Gaming 

Regulatory Act (IGRA) Public Law 100– 

497, 25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq., the 

Secretary of the Interior shall publish in 

the Federal Register notice of approved 

Tribal-State compacts for the purpose of 

engaging in Class III gaming activities 

on Indian lands. As required by 25 CFR 

293.4, all compacts are subject to review 

and approval by the Secretary. The 

Compact allows the Tribal Gaming 

Commission to determine the number of 

casinos, mix of games, number of 

gaming devices, wager, and prize limits. 

The Compact allows the Tribe to operate 

‘‘Slots Only Locations’’ totaling 300 slot 

machines, provided that no more than 

65 slot machines are operated at each 

location. The term of the Compact is 20 

years, and the term can be amended to 

be coterminous with a financing 

agreement. The Assistant Secretary— 

Indian Affairs, Department of the 

Interior, through his delegated 

authority, is publishing notice that the 

Tribal-State Compact between the State 

and the Tribe is now in effect. 

Dated: October 17, 2014. 

Kevin K. Washburn, 

Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2014–25296 Filed 10–22–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–4N–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[Docket No. BOEM–2014–0001; 

MMAA104000] 

Outer Continental Shelf, Alaska 

Region, Cook Inlet Program Area, 

Proposed Oil and Gas Lease Sale 244 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement and 

hold public scoping meetings. 

SUMMARY: Consistent with the 

regulations implementing the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

(BOEM) is announcing its intent to 

prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) for proposed Lease Sale 

244 in the Cook Inlet Program Area. The 

EIS will focus on the potential effects of 

leasing, exploration, development and 

production of oil and natural gas in the 

proposed lease sale area. In addition to 

the no-action alternative (i.e., not 

holding the lease sale), other 

alternatives may be considered, such as 

deferring additional areas within the 

Cook Inlet proposed lease sale area. 

DATES: Comments should be submitted 

by December 8, 2014 through http://

www.regulations.gov/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the Lease Sale 244 EIS, 

the submission of comments, or BOEM’s 

policies associated with this notice, 

please contact Michael Rolland, 

Regional Supervisor, BOEM, Alaska 

OCS Region, 3801 Centerpoint Drive, 

Suite 500, Anchorage, AK 99503, 

telephone (907) 334–5271. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 

27, 2012, the Secretary of the Interior 

approved the June 2012 Proposed Final 

Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas 

Leasing Program 2012–2017 (Five Year 

Program). The Five Year Program 

includes proposed Lease Sale 244. 

There are currently no Federal leases 

in the Cook Inlet Planning Area. The 

proposed Lease Sale 244 leasing area is 

located offshore of the State of Alaska in 

the northern portion of the Federal 

waters of Cook Inlet and consists of 224 

lease blocks and covers roughly 437,613 

hectares (approximately 1.07 million 

acres of the total Cook Inlet Planning 

Area of 5.3 million acres). The lease sale 

area was identified in the November 27, 

2013, Area Identification (Area ID) 

available at www.boem.gov/Sale-244/. 

While including most of the areas 

identified by industry in their responses 

to the March 27, 2012, Request for 

Interest, the proposed lease sale area in 

the Area ID also: 

• Excludes the majority of the 

designated critical habitat areas for 

beluga whale and northern sea otter, 

and excludes the critical habitat areas 

for Steller sea lions and the North 

Pacific right whale; 

• reduces potential effects to parks, 

preserves, and wildlife refuges by 

placing a buffer between the area 

considered for leasing and the Katmai 

National Park and Preserve, the Kodiak 

National Wildlife Refuge, and the 

Alaska Maritime National Wildlife 

Refuge; and 

• excludes many of the subsistence 

use areas for the Native Villages of 

Nanwalek and Port Graham identified 

during the Cook Inlet Lease Sale 191 

process. 

This notice of intent is not an 

announcement to hold a proposed lease 

sale, but is a continuation of the 

information gathering process and is 

published early in the environmental 

review process in furtherance of the 

goals of NEPA. The comments received 

during scoping will help inform the 

content of the Lease Sale 244 EIS. If, 

after completion of the EIS, the 

Department of the Interior’s Assistant 

Secretary for Land and Minerals 

Management chooses to hold the 

proposed lease sale, that decision and 

the details related to the lease sale 

(including, the lease sale area and any 

mitigation) will be announced in a 

Record of Decision and Final Notice of 

Sale. 

Scoping Process: This notice of intent 

also serves to announce the scoping 

process for identifying key issues for the 

Lease Sale 244 EIS. Throughout the 

scoping process, Federal, State, Tribal 

and local governments and the general 

public have the opportunity to provide 

input to BOEM in determining 

significant resources, issues, impacting 

factors, reasonable alternatives, and 

potential mitigation measures to be 

analyzed in the Lease Sale 244 EIS. 

BOEM will evaluate additional 

alternatives, deferral and/or mitigation 

suggestions identified during scoping 

meetings and the comment period 

initiated by this notice of intent in the 

preparation of the EIS. 

BOEM will use the NEPA process to 

satisfy the public comment 

requirements of section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act (16 

U.S.C. 470f), as provided for in 36 CFR 

800.2(d)(3). 

Scoping Meetings: Pursuant to the 

regulations implementing the 

procedural provisions of NEPA, BOEM 

will hold public scoping meetings. The 

purpose of these meetings is to solicit 

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comments on the scope of the Lease 

Sale 244 EIS. These meetings are 

scheduled as follows: 

• November 12, 2014, Tribal 

Conference Center, Seldovia, Alaska; 

• November 13, 2014, Tribal 

Community Center, Nanwalek, Alaska; 

• November 13, 2014, Best Western 

Bidarka Inn, 575 Sterling Highway, 

Homer, Alaska; 

• November 14, 2014, Kenai 

Peninsula College, 156 College Road, 

Soldotna, Alaska; and 

• November 24, 2014, Loussac 

Library Complex, 3600 Denali Street, 

Anchorage, Alaska. 

All meetings will start at 7:00 p.m. 

(except Nanwalek, which will begin at 

12:00 p.m.). 

Written Comments: All interested 

parties, including Federal, State, Tribal, 

and local governments, and the general 

public, may submit written comments 

on the scope of the Lease Sale 244 EIS, 

significant issues that should be 

addressed, alternatives that should be 

considered, potential mitigation 

measures, and the types of oil and gas 

activities of interest in the proposed 

Lease Sale 244 area. 

Scoping comments may be made 

through the regulations.gov web portal: 

Navigate to http://www.regulations.gov 

and search for Docket BOEM–2014– 

0001, or ‘‘Oil and Gas Lease Sales: 

Alaska Outer Continental Shelf; Cook 

Inlet Program Area Lease Sale 244’’. 

Click on the ‘‘Comment Now!’’ button to 

the right of the document link. Enter 

your information and comment, and 

then click ‘‘Submit.’’ 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email 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. 

Cooperating Agency: BOEM invites 

qualified government entities, such as 

other Federal Agencies, State, Tribal, 

and local governments, to consider 

becoming cooperating agencies for the 

preparation of Lease Sale 244 EIS. 

Following the guidelines at 40 CFR 

1501.6 and 1508.5 from the Council on 

Environmental Quality (CEQ), qualified 

agencies and governments are those 

with ‘‘jurisdiction by law or special 

expertise.’’ Potential cooperating 

agencies should consider their authority 

and capacity to assume the 

responsibilities of a cooperating agency 

and remember that an agency’s role in 

the environmental analysis neither 

enlarges nor diminishes the final 

decision-making authority of any other 

agency involved in the NEPA process. 

Upon request, BOEM will provide 

potential cooperating agencies with a 

written summary of guidelines for 

cooperating agencies, including time 

schedules and critical action dates, 

milestones, responsibilities, scope and 

detail of cooperating agencies’ 

contributions, and availability of predecisional information. BOEM 

anticipates this summary will form the 

basis for a Memorandum of 

Understanding between BOEM and any 

cooperating agency. BOEM, as the lead 

agency, will not provide financial 

assistance to cooperating agencies. In 

addition to becoming a cooperating 

agency, other opportunities will exist to 

provide information and comments to 

BOEM during the public comment 

period for the EIS. For additional 

information about cooperating agencies, 

please contact Michael Rolland, 

Regional Supervisor, BOEM, at 

telephone (907) 334–5271. 

Authority: This notice of intent is 

published pursuant to the regulation at 40 

CFR 1501.7 implementing the provisions of 

NEPA. 

Walter D. Cruickshank, 

Acting Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–25255 Filed 10–22–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation Nos. 701–TA–524–525 and 

731–TA–1260–1261 (Preliminary)] 

Certain Welded Line Pipe From Korea 

and Turkey; Institution of Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Investigations 

and Scheduling of Preliminary Phase 

Investigations 

AGENCY: United States International 

Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission hereby gives 

notice of the institution of investigations 

and commencement of preliminary 

phase antidumping and countervailing 

duty investigation Nos. 701–TA–524– 

525 and 731–TA–1260–1261 

(Preliminary) under sections 703(a) and 

733(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 

U.S.C. 1671b(a) and 1673b(a)) (the Act) 

to determine whether there is a 

reasonable indication that an industry 

in the United States is materially 

injured or threatened with material 

injury, or the establishment of an 

industry in the United States is 

materially retarded, by reason of 

imports from Korea and Turkey of 

certain welded line pipe, provided for 

in subheadings 7305.11, 7305.12, 

7305.19, and 7306.19 of the Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule of the United States, 

that are alleged to be subsidized by the 

Governments of Korea and Turkey and 

are alleged to be sold in the United 

States at less than fair value. Unless the 

Department of Commerce extends the 

time for initiation pursuant to sections 

702(c)(1)(B) or 732(c)(1)(B) of the Act 

(19 U.S.C. 1671a(c)(1)(B) or 

1673a(c)(1)(B)), the Commission must 

reach its preliminary determinations in 

these antidumping and countervailing 

duty investigations in 45 days, or in this 

case by Monday, December 1, 2014. The 

Commission’s views must be 

transmitted to Commerce within five 

business days thereafter, or by Monday, 

December 8, 2014. 

For further information concerning 

the conduct of these investigations and 

rules of general application, consult the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, part 201, subparts A through 

E (19 CFR part 201), and part 207, 

subparts A and B (19 CFR part 207). 

DATES: Effective Date: Thursday, 

October 16, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Szustakowski (202–205–3169), 

Office of Investigations, U.S. 

International Trade Commission, 500 E 

Street SW., Washington, DC 20436. 

Hearing-impaired persons can obtain 

information on this matter by contacting 

the Commission’s TDD terminal on 202– 

205–1810. Persons with mobility 

impairments who will need special 

assistance in gaining access to the 

Commission should contact the Office 

of the Secretary at 202–205–2000. 

General information concerning the 

Commission may also be obtained by 

accessing its internet server (http://

www.usitc.gov). The public record for 

these investigations may be viewed on 

the Commission’s electronic docket 

(EDIS) at http://edis.usitc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background. These investigations are 

being instituted in response to a petition 

filed on Thursday, October 16, 2014, by 

American Cast Iron Pipe Company, 

Birmingham, AL; Energex, a division of 

JMC Steel Group, Chicago, IL; Maverick 

Tube Corporation, Houston, TX; 

Northwest Pipe Company, Vancouver, 

WA; Stupp Corporation, Baton Rouge, 

LA; Tex-Tube Company, Houston, TX; 

TMK IPSCO, Houston, TX; and Welspun 

Tubular LLC USA, Little Rock, AR. 

Participation in the investigations and 

public service list. Persons (other than 

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