[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 193 (Wednesday, October 6, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 59947]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-22461]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[WY-100-05-1310-DB]


Notice of Meetings of the Pinedale Anticline Working Group's 
Water Resources Task Group

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
(1976) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act (1972), the U.S. 
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Pinedale 
Anticline Working Group (PAWG) Water Resources Task Group 
(subcommittee) will meet in Pinedale, Wyoming, for business meetings. 
The meetings are open to the public.

DATES: The PAWG Water Resources Task Group will meet October 21, 2004, 
November 10, 2004, and January 13, 2005, beginning at 9 a.m. and 
continuing until finished, as late as 5 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The October 21, 2004, meeting of the PAWG Water Task Group 
will be held in the large conference room of the Bureau of Land 
Management Office, 432 E. Mill St., Pinedale, WY. The November 10, 
2004, and January 13, 2005, meetings will be held in the Lovatt Meeting 
Room of the Sublette County Public Library at 155 S. Tyler Avenue, 
Pinedale, WY.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Catharine Woodfield, BLM/Water 
ResourcesTG Liaison, Bureau of Land Management, Pinedale Field Office, 
432 E. Mill St., P.O. Box 768, Pinedale, WY 82941; (307) 367-5360.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Pinedale Anticline Working Group (PAWG) 
was authorized and established with release of the Record of Decision 
(ROD) for the Pinedale Anticline Oil and Gas Exploration and 
Development Project on July 27, 2000. The PAWG advises the BLM on the 
development and implementation of monitoring plans and adaptive 
management decisions as development of the Pinedale Anticline Natural 
Gas Field (PAPA) proceeds for the life of the field. After the ROD was 
issued, Interior determined that a Federal Advisory Committees Act 
(FACA) charter was required for this group. The charter was signed by 
Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton, on August 15, 2002, and renewed 
on August 13, 2004. An announcement of committee initiation and call 
for nominations was published in the Federal Register on February 21, 
2003, (68 FR 8522). PAWG members were appointed by Secretary Norton on 
May 4, 2004.
    At their second business meeting, the PAWG established seven 
resource- or activity-specific Task Groups: Air Quality; Water 
Resources; Reclamation; Wildlife; Socio-Economic; Cultural/Historic/
Visual Resources; and Transportation. Public participation on those 
Task Groups was solicited through the media, letters, and word-of-
mouth. The initial Task Group meeting agenda will include: review of 
Task Group charges from the Pinedale Anticline Oil and Gas Exploration 
and Development Project ROD and the PAWG (developing monitoring plan(s) 
for the surface and ground water resources in the Anticline gas field, 
identifying who will do the monitoring, and identifying who will pay 
for the monitoring); developing a strategy to accomplish those tasks 
for recommendation to the PAWG by February, 2005; and selecting Task 
Group leadership and a proceedings recorder. Subsequent meeting agendas 
will include developing the monitoring plan(s) and identifying who will 
do the monitoring and how those costs will be paid. Public comments 
will be heard just prior to adjournment at each meeting.

    Dated: September 30, 2004.
Donald A. Simpson,
Acting State Director.
[FR Doc. 04-22461 Filed 10-5-04; 8:45 am]
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