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the south by the maritime boundary 

with Mexico as established by the 

Treaty between the Government of the 

United States of America and the 

Government of the United Mexican 

States on the Delimitation of the 

Continental Shelf in the Western Gulf of 

Mexico beyond 200 nautical miles, 

which took effect in January 2001. 

BOEM is seeking nominations and 

comments at this time on the entire 

WPA, which consists of approximately 

28.58 million acres, of which 

approximately 26.10 million acres are 

currently unleased. 

The GOM Region-wide sale area 

includes a small section of the EPA that 

is not subject to the GOMESA 

moratorium, which currently runs until 

June 30, 2022. See https://

www.boem.gov/Areas-Under-Moratoria/ 

for a map and description of the 

GOMESA Moratorium Area. The portion 

of the EPA not subject to Congressional 

moratorium is bound on the east by the 

Military Mission Line (86°41′ W 

longitude), on the south by blocks that 

are beyond the U.S. Exclusive Economic 

Zone in the area known as the northern 

portion of the Eastern Gap, and on the 

west by the CPA. BOEM is seeking 

nominations and comments at this time 

on the portion of the EPA that is not 

subject to the GOMESA moratorium. 

The portion of the EPA not subject to 

the moratorium consists of 

approximately 657,905 acres, of which 

approximately 606,995 acres are 

currently unleased. 

A map depicting the Call Area is 

available for download on the BOEM 

website at: http://www.boem.gov/MultiSale2020. Copies of Official Protraction 

Diagrams (OPDs) also are available for 

download on the BOEM website at: 

https://www.boem.gov/Maps-and-GISData/. 

3. Instructions on the Call 

Parties interested in leasing one or 

more whole or partial blocks within the 

Call Area are requested to indicate their 

interest in, and comment on, blocks 

within the boundaries of the Call Area 

that they wish to have included in the 

proposed lease sale. Respondents 

should explicitly outline the areas of 

interest along block lines and rank the 

areas or specific blocks in which they 

are interested, according to their 

priority, using the following indicators: 

1 [high], 2 [medium], or 3 [low]. 

Respondents are encouraged to be as 

specific as possible in prioritizing 

blocks and supporting nominations of 

specific blocks with detailed 

information, such as relevant geologic, 

geophysical, and economic data. Areas 

where interest has been indicated, but 

on which respondents have not 

indicated priorities, will be considered 

low priority. Respondents may also 

submit a list of blocks nominated by 

OPD and Leasing Map designations to 

ensure correct interpretation of their 

nominations. OPDs and Leasing Maps 

are available on BOEM’s website at 

https://www.boem.gov/Maps-and-GISData/. See subsection 5, ‘‘Protection of 

Privileged or Proprietary Information,’’ 

regarding protection and release of 

information and how to mark and 

submit proprietary information. 

BOEM also seeks comments from all 

interested parties regarding particular 

geological, environmental, biological, 

archaeological, and socioeconomic 

conditions; potential use conflicts, or 

other information about conditions that 

could affect the potential leasing and 

development of particular areas. 

Comments may refer to broad areas or 

may refer to particular OCS blocks. 

4. Protection of Privileged or Proprietary 

Information 

BOEM will protect privileged or 

proprietary information in accordance 

with the Freedom of Information Act 

(FOIA) and OCSLA requirements. To 

avoid inadvertent release of such 

information, you should mark all 

documents and every page containing 

such information with ‘‘Confidential— 

Contains Proprietary Information.’’ To 

the extent a document contains a mix of 

proprietary and nonproprietary 

information, you should clearly mark 

the document 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. BOEM 

considers nominations of specific blocks 

to be proprietary, and therefore will not 

release information that identifies any 

particular nomination with any 

particular party, so as not to 

compromise the competitive position of 

any participants in the process of 

indicating interest. 

However, please be aware that 

BOEM’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 comment, please be 

advised that your entire comment, 

including your personal identifying 

information, may be made publicly 

available at any time. In order for BOEM 

to withhold from disclosure your 

personal identifying information, you 

must identify any information contained 

in the submission of your comments 

that, if released, would constitute a 

clearly unwarranted invasion of your 

personal privacy. You must also briefly 

describe any possible harmful 

consequences of the disclosure of 

information, such as embarrassment, 

injury or other harm. Although you can 

ask us in your comment to withhold 

from public review your personal 

identifying information, we cannot 

guarantee that we will be able to do so. 

BOEM will make available for public 

inspection, in their entirety, all 

comments submitted by organizations 

and businesses, or by individuals 

identifying themselves as 

representatives of organizations or 

businesses. 

Authority: This Call is published pursuant 

to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act 

(OCSLA), as amended (43 U.S.C. 1331–1356) 

and the implementing regulations at 30 CFR 

part 556.301. 

Dated: December 19, 2018. 

Walter D. Cruickshank, 

Acting Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2018–27876 Filed 12–21–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[Docket ID: BOEM–2018–0060] 

Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), Gulf of 

Mexico (GOM), Oil and Gas Lease 

Sales for 2020 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a 

supplemental environmental impact 

statement. 

SUMMARY: Consistent with the 

regulations implementing the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 

BOEM is announcing its intent to 

prepare a Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS), which is 

expected to be used to inform the 

decisions for each of the two proposed 

lease sales scheduled in 2020 and the 

subsequent lease sales through 2022 

(2020 GOM Supplemental EIS) that are 

comprised of the Western and Central 

Planning Areas, and a small portion of 

the Eastern Planning Area not subject to 

Congressional moratorium. These 

planning areas are located off the States 

of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, 

Alabama, and Florida. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the 2020 GOM 

Supplemental EIS or BOEM’s policies 

associated with this notice, please 


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contact Ms. Helen Rucker, Chief, 

Environmental Assessment Section, 

Office of Environment (GM 623E), 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 

Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1201 

Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, 

Louisiana 70123–2394, telephone 504– 

736–2421, or email at helen.rucker@

boem.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Council on Environmental Quality’s 

NEPA implementing regulations 

encourage agencies to analyze similar or 

related proposals in one EIS (40 CFR 

1508.25). Since the proposed lease sale 

area and the reasonably foreseeable OCS 

oil and gas activities are similar among 

GOM lease sales, BOEM plans to use the 

2020 GOM Supplemental EIS, and the 

EISs it tiers from, to support decisions 

on lease sales proposed to be held in the 

GOM from 2020 through 2022. The 2020 

GOM Supplemental EIS will tier from 

the 2017–2022 GOM Multisale EIS and 

the 2018 GOM Supplemental EIS, and 

will focus on any changes in the 

proposed action or the new information 

released since their publication. The 

resource estimates and scenario 

information for the 2020 GOM 

Supplemental EIS will include a range 

that encompasses the estimated 

resources and reasonably foreseeable 

post-lease activities that may result from 

a single proposed lease sale. At the 

completion of this Supplemental EIS 

process, a decision will be made only 

for the first proposed 2020 GOM lease 

sale. A separate decision will be made 

for the subsequent proposed GOM lease 

sales through 2022. 

The proposed lease sales are within 

the same geographic scope, range of 

predicted activities, and dates as those 

analyzed in the 2017–2022 GOM 

Multisale EIS and 2018 GOM 

Supplemental EIS. Therefore, BOEM 

will continue to tier from the 2017–2022 

GOM Multisale EIS and 2018 GOM 

Supplemental EIS, and will begin 

preparation of the 2020 GOM 

Supplemental EIS before the 2019–2024 

National Program is finalized. Should 

the GOM lease sales ultimately included 

in the 2019–2024 National Program 

differ substantially from those 

scheduled previously, BOEM will refine 

the analyses in the 2020 GOM 

Supplemental EIS or prepare an 

additional supplemental EIS, as 

appropriate, to support an individual 

lease sale decision. Under 40 CFR 

1502.9 scoping is not required for a 

Supplemental EIS. Given the recent 

publication of the 2017–2022 GOM 

Multisale EIS and 2018 GOM 

Supplemental EIS, BOEM is not 

conducting formal scoping for the 2020 

GOM Supplemental EIS. This Notice of 

Intent (NOI) serves to announce the 

preparation of the Gulf of Mexico Outer 

Continental Shelf Lease Sales: 2020, 

Draft Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement (Draft 2020 GOM 

Supplemental EIS). 

The 2020 GOM Supplemental EIS 

analysis will focus on the potential 

environmental effects from an oil and 

gas lease sale offering all available 

unleased acreage in the GOM, including 

the Western and Central Planning Areas, 

and the portion of the Eastern Planning 

Area not subject to Congressional 

moratorium (i.e., the proposed action), 

including the effects of all reasonably 

foreseeable exploration, development, 

and production activities that may 

result from the lease sale. In addition to 

the no action alternative (i.e., cancel the 

lease sale), other alternatives will be 

considered for each proposed lease sale, 

such as offering individual or multiple 

planning areas for lease (rather than a 

regionwide sale) or potentially deferring 

certain areas from the proposed lease 

sales. Practicable means of mitigating 

potential impacts from the proposed 

action will also be analyzed in the 2020 

GOM Supplemental EIS. 

Cooperating Agencies: BOEM invites 

other Federal agencies, and State, 

Tribal, and local governments to 

consider becoming cooperating agencies 

in the preparation of the 2020 GOM 

Supplemental EIS. BOEM invites 

qualified government entities to inquire 

about cooperating agency status for this 

Supplemental EIS. Following the 

guidelines from the Council on 

Environmental Quality (CEQ), qualified 

agencies and governments are those 

with ‘‘jurisdiction by law or special 

expertise’’ (40 CFR 1508.5). Potential 

cooperating agencies should consider 

their authority and capacity to assume 

the responsibilities of a cooperating 

agency and should remember that an 

agency’s role in the environmental 

analysis neither enlarges nor diminishes 

the final decisionmaking authority of 

any other agency involved in the NEPA 

process. Upon request, BOEM will 

provide potential cooperating agencies 

with a written summary of expectations 

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 Agreement 

between BOEM and any cooperating 

agency. Agencies should also consider 

the ‘‘Factors for Determining 

Cooperating Agency Status’’ in 

Attachment 1 to CEQ’s January 30, 2002, 

Memorandum for the Heads of Federal 

Agencies: Cooperating Agencies in 

Implementing the Procedural 

Requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act. This 

document is available on the internet at 

http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/ 

nepapub/nepa_documents/RedDont/GCEQ-CoopAgenciesImplem.pdf. 

BOEM, as the lead agency, will not 

provide financial assistance to 

cooperating agencies. Even if an 

organization is not a cooperating 

agency, opportunities will exist to 

provide information and comments to 

BOEM during the normal public input 

stages of the NEPA process. 

Authority: This NOI is published pursuant 

to the regulations (40 CFR 1501.7) 

implementing the provisions of NEPA. 

Dated: December 19, 2018. 

Michael A. Celata, 

Regional Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region. 

[FR Doc. 2018–27877 Filed 12–21–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 337–TA–1050] 

Certain Dental Ceramics, Products 

Thereof, and Methods of Making the 

Same Termination of Investigation with 

a Finding of No Violation of Section 

337 

AGENCY: U.S. International Trade 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the U.S. International Trade 

Commission has found no violation of 

section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 in 

the above-captioned investigation. The 

investigation is terminated. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sidney A. Rosenzweig, Office of the 

General Counsel, U.S. International 

Trade Commission, 500 E Street, SW, 

Washington, DC 20436, telephone (202) 

708–2532. Copies of non-confidential 

documents filed in connection with this 

investigation are or will be available for 

inspection during official business 

hours (8:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.) in the 

Office of the Secretary, U.S. 

International Trade Commission, 500 E 

Street SW, Washington, DC 20436, 

telephone (202) 205–2000. General 

information concerning the Commission 

may also be obtained by accessing its 

internet server at https://www.usitc.gov. 

The public record for this investigation 

may be viewed on the Commission’s 

electronic docket (EDIS) at https:// 


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