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decision to lease and is not a 

prejudgment by the Department of the 

Interior to proceed with proposed Cook 

Inlet Lease Sale 258. A decision to lease 

must be preceded by a number of steps, 

including, but not limited to, 

completion of environmental analyses, 

opportunities for the State of Alaska and 

other interested parties to comment, and 

issuance of Proposed and Final Notices 

of Sale. 

The Area ID is available for viewing 

and downloading on BOEM’s website at 

http://www.boem.gov/ak258. It also may 

be obtained from the Alaska Regional 

Office, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, 3801 Centerpoint Drive, 

Suite 500, Anchorage, Alaska 99503– 

5820; telephone: 907–334–5200. 

Authority: This Area ID is published 

pursuant to the Outer Continental Shelf 

Lands Act, as amended (43 U.S.C. 1331– 

1356), and the implementing regulation at 30 

CFR 556.302. 

Walter D. Cruickshank, 

Acting Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2021–00777 Filed 1–14–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[Docket No. BOEM–2020–0018] 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

on the Cook Inlet Lease Sale 258 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of a draft 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM) announces the 

availability of the Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement (Draft EIS) for the 

proposed Cook Inlet Outer Continental 

Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Lease Sale 258. 

This notice marks the start of the public 

review and comment period and serves 

to announce public hearings on the 

Draft EIS. After the public hearings and 

written comments on the Draft EIS have 

been reviewed and considered, a Final 

EIS will be prepared. The Draft EIS and 

associated information, including the 

Exploration, Development and 

Production, and Decommissioning 

Scenario (E&D Scenario) are available 

for review on the agency’s website at 

https://www.boem.gov/ak258. 

DATES: Comments are due by March 1, 

2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amee Howard, project manager, at 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 

Alaska Regional Office, 3801 

Centerpoint Drive, Suite 500, 

Anchorage, Alaska 99503–5823, or at 

telephone number (907) 334–5200. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 17, 2017, the Secretary of the 

Interior approved the ‘‘Proposed Final 

2017–2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil 

and Gas Leasing Program’’ (National 

Program). The National Program 

includes proposed Lease Sale 258. 

Cook Inlet stretches from the Gulf of 

Alaska to Anchorage in south-central 

Alaska. The proposed lease sale would 

offer for lease all available OCS blocks 

in the northern portion of the Cook Inlet 

Planning Area. The proposed lease sale 

area comprises 224 OCS blocks, which 

covers an area of approximately 1.09 

million acres. 

On September 10, 2020, BOEM 

published in the Federal Register the 

notice of intent (NOI) to prepare an EIS 

in support of Lease Sale 258. 

Publication of the NOI opened a public 

comment period that extended through 

October 13, 2020. In September 2020, 

BOEM held a series of public scoping 

meetings for the EIS. The comments 

received during the public scoping 

period were used to inform the scope 

and content of this Draft EIS. 

Proposed action: The proposed action 

addressed in the Draft EIS is to conduct 

an oil and gas lease sale on portions of 

the Cook Inlet OCS Planning Area. 

Proposed Lease Sale 258 would provide 

qualified bidders the opportunity to bid 

on OCS lease blocks in Cook Inlet to 

gain conditional rights to explore, 

develop, and produce oil and natural 

gas. 

The Draft EIS analyzes the potential 

direct, indirect, and cumulative 

environmental impacts of the proposed 

lease sale on the physical, biological, 

and human environments in the Cook 

Inlet area. See 40 CFR 1508.8 (2019 ed.). 

The Draft EIS describes a hypothetical 

scenario of exploration, development, 

production, and decommissioning 

activities that could result from the 

proposed lease sale and analyzes the 

potential impacts of those activities on 

the environment. The Draft EIS also 

analyzes reasonable alternatives to the 

proposed action. In addition to the 

Proposed Action and the No Action 

Alternative, BOEM analyzed three 

alternatives consistent with internal 

agency scoping, past public input from 

National Programs and previous lease 

sales, and comments received during 

the scoping period following 

publication of the NOI in September 

2020 to prepare an EIS. The three 

alternatives address potential impacts to 

the Cook Inlet Distinct Population 

Segment (DPS) of the beluga whale, the 

Southwest Alaska DPS of the northern 

sea otter, and the Cook Inlet drift gillnet 

fishery. 

The proposed lease sale area defers 

certain areas from consideration due to 

potential conflicts with resources of 

high ecological and subsistence value. 

These deferred areas include: (1) The 

majority of the designated critical 

habitat for beluga whale and northern 

sea otter, and all of the critical habitat 

for Stellar seas lions and the North 

Pacific right whale, that are located 

within the Planning Area; (2) 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 (3) many 

of the subsistence use areas for the 

Native Villages of Nanwalek, Seldovia, 

and Port Graham identified during the 

Cook Inlet Lease Sale 191 process. 

In this Draft EIS, BOEM has examined 

the potential environmental effects of 

activities that could result from the 

Lease Sale 258 proposed action along 

with several alternatives. The Draft EIS 

is based on BOEM estimates of the 

potential oil and gas resources in the 

proposed lease sale area and an 

associated scenario that estimates a 

range of potential oil and gas activities, 

including exploration, seismic 

surveying, on-lease ancillary activities, 

exploration and delineation drilling, 

development, production, and 

decommissioning. 

Comment Submission: The public and 

all interested parties, including Federal, 

state, tribal, and local governments or 

agencies, are invited to submit written 

comments on the Draft EIS and 

associated information, including the 

E&D Scenario, through the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. In the field 

entitled ‘‘Enter Keyword or ID,’’ enter 

‘‘BOEM–2020–0018,’’ and then click 

‘‘search.’’ Follow the instructions to 

submit comments and view supporting 

and related materials available for this 

notice. 

BOEM does not accept anonymous 

comments. Name and contact 

information are required to submit 

comments on the Federal eRulemaking 

Portal. Before including your address, 

phone number, email address or other 

personal identifying information within 

the body of 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 

BOEM in your comment to withhold 

your personal identifying information 

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from public review, BOEM cannot 

guarantee that it will be able to do so. 

Public Hearings: BOEM will host 

virtual public hearings on the Draft EIS 

in February 2021. Information regarding 

these hearings can be found at https:// 

www.boem.gov/ak258. The purpose of 

these hearings is to receive public 

comments on the Draft EIS. These 

hearings are scheduled as follows: 

• February 9, 2021; 2:00 p.m.–4:00 

p.m. (Alaska Standard Time (AKST)) 

• February 10, 2021; 6:30 p.m.–8:30 

p.m. (AKST) 

• February 11, 2021; 2:00 p.m.–4:00 

p.m. (AKST) 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4231 et seq.; 43 CFR 

46.415 (2019 ed.). 

Walter D. Cruickshank, 

Acting Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2021–00781 Filed 1–14–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

[RR85672000, 21XR0680A2, 

RX.31480001.0040000; OMB Control 

Number 1006–0028] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Recreation Survey 

Questions 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, 

the Bureau of Reclamation 

(Reclamation), are proposing to renew 

an information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before March 

16, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments on 

this information collection request (ICR) 

by mail to Ronnie Baca, Bureau of 

Reclamation, Asset Management 

Division, 86–67200, P.O. Box 25007, 

Denver, CO 80225–0007; or by email to 

rbaca@usbr.gov. Please reference OMB 

Control Number 1006–0028 in the 

subject line of your comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Ronnie Baca by email 

at rbaca@usbr.gov, or by telephone at 

(303) 445–3257. Individuals who are 

hearing or speech impaired may call the 

Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–8339 

for TTY assistance. You may also view 

the ICR at http://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA, 44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), all 

information collections require approval 

under the PRA. We may not conduct or 

sponsor and you are not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

As part of our continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burdens, we invite the public and other 

Federal agencies to comment on new, 

proposed, revised, and continuing 

collections of information. This helps us 

assess the impact of our information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand our 

information collection requirements and 

provide the requested data in the 

desired format. 

We are especially interested in public 

comment addressing the following: 

(1) Whether or not the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether or not the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the 

burden for this collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(4) How might the agency minimize 

the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of response. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. 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. 

Abstract: Reclamation is responsible 

for recreation development at all of its 

reservoirs. Presently, there are more 

than 240 designated recreation areas on 

our lands within the 17 Western States 

hosting approximately 40 million 

visitors annually. As a result, we must 

be able to respond to emerging trends, 

changes in the demographic profile of 

users, changing values, needs, wants, 

and desires, and conflicts between user 

groups. Statistically valid and up-todate data derived from the user is 

essential to developing and providing 

recreation programs relevant to today’s 

visitor. Reclamation is requesting reapproval for the collection of data from 

recreational users on Reclamation lands 

and waterbodies. To meet our needs for 

the collection of visitor use data, we 

will be requesting OMB to authorize a 

two-part request: survey questions for 

our regional offices to choose from, and 

a survey form template. This will allow 

for a custom designed survey 

instrument to fit a specific activity or 

recreation site. The custom designed 

survey would be created by extracting 

questions from the approved list of 

survey questions that are applicable to 

the recreation area and issue being 

evaluated. Only questions included in 

the pre-approved list of survey 

questions will be used. 

Title of Collection: Recreation Survey 

Questions. 

OMB Control Number: 1006–0028. 

Form Number: 7–2675, Recreation 

Survey Questions. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Respondents to the surveys will be 

members of the public engaged in 

recreational activities on Reclamation 

lands and waterbodies. Visitors will 

primarily consist of local residents, 

people from large metropolitan areas in 

the vicinity of the lake/reservoir, and 

people from out of state. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 696. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 696. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: 15 minutes per survey (an 

average of 20 questions will be used on 

each survey; each question will take 

approximately 45 seconds to complete 

on average). 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 140. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Frequency of Collection: Twice 

annually. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden cost: None. 

It is estimated that there will be a total 

of 140 out of 696 contacts that choose 

not to respond to the survey. These nonrespondents account for 1 burden hour 

per year. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information