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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the December 12, 1988 

court order in National Coalition for the 

Homeless v. Veterans Administration, 

No. 88–2503–OG (D.D.C.), HUD 

publishes a Notice, on a weekly basis, 

identifying unutilized, underutilized, 

excess and surplus Federal buildings 

and real property that HUD has 

reviewed for suitability for use to assist 

the homeless. Today’s Notice is for the 

purpose of announcing that no 

additional properties have been 

determined suitable or unsuitable this 

week. 

Dated: November 3, 2011. 

Mark R. Johnston, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Needs. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

Draft Programmatic Environmental 

Impact Study (PEIS) for Proposed 

5-Year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) 

Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2012– 

2017 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 

BOEM announces the availability of the 

OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program 2012– 

2017 Draft PEIS prepared by BOEM to 

support the Proposed Outer Continental 

Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 

2012–2017. BOEM concurrently 

requests comments and announces 

public hearings. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

January 9, 2012. See public hearing 

dates in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 

Headquarters, 381 Elden Street, 

Herndon, VA 20170; Attention: Mr. 

James F. Bennett, Chief of the Division 

of Environmental Assessment, 

telephone: (703) 787–1660. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This draft 

PEIS assesses the scheduling for 

proposed lease sales during the years 

2012 to 2017 in six planning areas on 

the OCS. These areas are the Western, 

Central and Eastern Gulf of Mexico, 

Cook Inlet, the Beaufort Sea, and the 

Chukchi Sea. Federal regulations (40 

CFR 1502.4(b)) recommend analyzing 

effects of broad programs within a single 

programmatic EIS. 

EIS Availability: Persons interested in 

reviewing the OCS Oil and Gas Leasing 

Program for 2012–2017 Draft 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement, OCS EIS/EA BOEM 2011– 

001 can locate it on the Internet at 

http://www.boem.gov/5-year/2012-2017 

or you may contact Mr. James F. Bennett 

at the address listed above to request a 

copy, in hard copy or as a CD/ROM 

version. Please specify if you wish a CD 

or paper copy. If neither is specified, a 

CD containing the Draft PEIS will be 

forwarded. 

Library Availability: The Draft PEIS 

will also be available for review at 

libraries in states near the proposed 

lease sales. These libraries are listed at 

the BOEM Web site at http:// 

www.boem.gov/5-Year/2012-2017/ 

libraries or a list of libraries can be 

provided by contacting the contact 

person listed above. 

Written Comments: Comments may be 

submitted online at http:// 

www.boem.gov/5-year/2012-2017 or 

letters may be sent to Mr. James F. 

Bennett at the address listed above. 

Comments should be labeled ‘‘Attn: 5- 

Year Program Draft PEIS.’’ 

An individual commenter may ask 

that we withhold their name, home 

address, or both from the public record, 

and we will honor such a request to the 

extent allowable by law. If you submit 

comments and wish us to withhold such 

information, you must state so 

prominently at the beginning of your 

submission. We will not consider 

anonymous comments. 

Public Hearings: Thirteen public 

hearings on the 2012–2017 OCS Oil and 

Gas Leasing Program Draft PEIS will be 

held December 5 through December 16, 

2011. In the Gulf Region, the hearings 

will be held from 1:00 to 4 p.m. and 

from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the following 

dates and at the following locations: 

December 6, 2011, Houston, TX at the 

Marriott Houston Intercontinental at 

George Bush Intercontinental, 18700 

John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Houston, 

TX 77032; December 7, 2011, Mobile, 

AL at the Renaissance Mobile Riverview 

Plaza Hotel, 64 South Water Street, 

Mobile, AL 36602; and December 8, 

2011, New Orleans, LA at the 

Doubletree New Orleans Airport Hotel, 

2150 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, 

Kenner, LA 70062. 

In Washington, DC, the hearing will 

be held from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on 

December 6, 2011, at the Main 

Department of the Interior Building at 

1849 C Street NW., Washington, DC 

20240. 

In Alaska, public hearings will be 

held from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the 

following dates and at the following 

locations: December 5, 2011, 

Wainwright at the R. James Community 

Center; December 6, 2011, Nuiqsut at 

the Community Center, on; December 7, 

2011, Katovik at the Community Center; 

December 8, 2011, Fairbanks at the 

Westmark Hotel and Conference Center, 

813 Noble Street, Fairbanks, AK 99701; 

December 9, 2011, Anchorage at the 

Wilda Marston Theatre, 3600 Denali 

Street, Anchorage, AK; December 12, 

2011, Kotzebue at the NW Arctic 

Borough Assembly Chamber, 163 

Lagoon Street, Kotzebue, AK 99752; 

December 13, 2011, Point Hope at the 

City Qalgi Center; December 14, 2011, 

Point Lay at the Community Center; and 

December 16, 2011, Barrow at the 

Inupiat Heritage Center. 

After the public hearings and written 

comments on the Draft PEIS have been 

reviewed and analyzed, a Final PEIS 

will be prepared. 

Dated: October 26, 2011. 

Rodney Cluck, 

Acting Chief Environmental Officer, Bureau 

of Ocean Energy Management. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

Proposed 5-Year Outer Continental 

Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing 

Program for 2012–2017 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM) announces the 

availability of and requests comments 

on the Proposed 5-Year OCS Oil and 

Gas Leasing Program for 2012–2017 

(‘‘Proposed Program’’). This is part of a 

multi-step process required by law 

before the Secretary of the Interior may 

approve a new 5-year program. BOEM is 

publishing a Notice of Availability of 

the 5-Year Draft Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) 

concurrently with this notice. 

DATES: Please submit comments and 

information to BOEM no later than 

February 8, 2012. 

Public Comment Procedure 

BOEM will accept comments in one of 

two formats: By mail or via our Internet 

commenting system. Please submit your 

comments using only one of these 

formats, and include full names and 

addresses. Comments submitted by 

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comments, and we will make available 

for inspection in their entirety all 

comments submitted by organizations 

and businesses or by individuals 

identifying themselves as 

representatives of organizations and 

businesses. 

Our practice is to make comments, 

including the names and home 

addresses of respondents, available for 

public review. An individual 

commenter may ask that we withhold 

his or her name, home address, or both 

from the public record, and we will 

honor such a request to the extent 

allowable by law. If you submit 

comments and wish us to withhold such 

information, you must so state 

prominently at the beginning of your 

submission. 

ADDRESSES: 

By Mail—Mail comments and 

information to: Steven Textoris, 5-Year 

Program Manager, Bureau of Ocean 

Energy Management (MS–4010), Room 

3120, 381 Elden Street, Herndon, 

Virginia 20170. Please label your 

comments and the packaging in which 

they are submitted as ‘‘Comments on 

Proposed 5-Year Program for 2012– 

2017.’’ If you submit any privileged or 

proprietary information to be treated as 

confidential, please mark the envelope, 

‘‘Contains Confidential Information.’’ 

By Internet—Federal eRulemaking 

Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 

Under the tab ‘‘More Search Options,’’ 

click ‘‘Advanced Docket Search,’’ then 

select ‘‘Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management’’ from the agency dropdown menu, then click the submit 

button. In the Docket ID column, select 

BOEM–2011–0119 to submit public 

comments and to view related materials 

available for the proposed program. 

Information on using Regulations.gov, 

including instructions for accessing 

documents, submitting comments, and 

viewing the docket after the close of the 

comment period, is available through 

the site’s ‘‘User Tips’’ link. The BOEM 

will post all comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Steven Textoris, 5-Year Program 

Manager, at (703) 787–1215. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is the 

second proposal in the usual statutory 

preparation process for a new program 

to succeed the current program, which 

expires on June 30, 2012. The first 

proposal—the Draft Proposed Program— 

was issued in January 2009, for a 60-day 

comment period that was extended by 

180 days and closed on September 21, 

2009. 

Section 18 of the Outer Continental 

Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) specifies a 

multi-step process of consultation and 

analysis that must be completed before 

the Secretary of the Interior may 

approve a new 5-year Program. The 

required steps following this notice 

include the development of a proposed 

final program to be submitted to the 

Congress and the President, with 

Secretarial approval of a new program 

no sooner than 60 days after such 

submission. Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 

BOEM also is preparing a PEIS for the 

new 5-Year Program. The draft PEIS is 

being issued with this Proposed 

Program and a final PEIS will be issued 

with the Proposed Final Program. 

BOEM requests comments from states, 

local governments, native groups, 

Tribes, the oil and gas industry, Federal 

agencies, environmental and other 

interest organizations, and all other 

interested parties, including the public, 

to assist in the preparation of a 5-Year 

OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 

2012–2017. 

The Proposed Program document may 

be downloaded from the BOEM Web 

site at www.BOEM.gov. The document 

also is available as part of our electronic 

commenting system noted above. Hard 

copies may be obtained by contacting 

the 5-Year Program Office at (703) 787– 

1215. 

Along with the proposed program, 

three technical documents will be 

posted on http://www.BOEM.gov for 

public review and comment: (1) 

Economic Analysis for the OCS 5-Year 

Program 2012–2017: Theory and 

Methodology (BOEM 050–2011), a paper 

containing a more detailed description 

of the methodology used for the Net 

Benefits analysis; (2) Energy 

Alternatives and the Environment, 

2012–2017 (BOEM 051–2011), a paper 

expanding upon the energy alternatives 

likely to replace OCS oil and gas in the 

absence of a new program; and (3) the 

draft Revised Offshore Environmental 

Cost Model (OECM): Guide to Cost and 

Benefit Calculations, a document 

designed to provide decisionmakers 

with information about the relative 

environmental and social costs 

associated with having, or not having, 

an offshore leasing program absent a 

low probability, high impact event. This 

is relevant to weighing the costs and 

benefits of the Proposed Program. A 

report documenting the final version of 

the OECM will be published prior to the 

Proposed Final Program. 

The use of the acronym ‘‘BOEM’’ 

includes, within its meaning, BOEM’s 

predecessor agencies, the Bureau of 

Ocean Energy Management, Regulation 

and Enforcement and the Minerals 

Management Service. 

Summary of the Proposed Program 

The proposed program document 

analyzes the six planning areas 

proposed for 2012–2017 leasing in the 

Proposed Program and reflects the 

consideration of the analysis of all 12 

areas in the DPP. The Proposed Program 

schedules a total of 15 OCS lease sales 

in six areas (three areas off Alaska and 

three areas in the Gulf of Mexico). Maps 

A and B show the areas proposed for 

leasing. Table A lists the location and 

timing of the proposed lease sales in 

areas under consideration for leasing. 

Alaska Region 

In the Alaska Region, the program 

proposes one sale in the Beaufort Sea in 

2015, excluding at least two whaling 

deferral areas from leasing 

consideration, as was done in the 2009 

DPP. In the Chukchi Sea, the proposed 

program schedules one sale in 2016, 

excluding at least a 25-mile buffer area 

along the coast, as presented in the 2009 

DPP. 

The Cook Inlet Planning Area is 

included on the schedule as a special 

interest sale, which may occur as early 

as 2013. Before BOEM proceeds with 

the presale process, it will issue a 

request for interest and comments and 

will move forward if there is sufficient 

industry interest. If there is insufficient 

interest, a request may be issued again 

the following year, and so on through 

the 5-year schedule, until the sale is 

held or the schedule expires. 

Gulf of Mexico Region 

In the Central and Western Gulf of 

Mexico Planning Areas, which remain 

the two areas of highest resource 

potential and interest, the Proposed 

Program schedules annual areawide 

lease sales of all unleased available 

acreage, starting in 2012 in the Western 

Gulf and 2013 in the Central Gulf. There 

are two lease sales scheduled in the 

portion of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico 

Planning Area that is not under 

congressional moratorium, pursuant to 

the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act 

of 2006 (GOMESA). The Proposed 

Program area includes the 2008 Sale 224 

Area (mandated by GOMESA) and a 

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TABLE A—PROPOSED PROGRAM FOR 2012–2017—LEASE SALE SCHEDULE

Sale No. Area Year 

229 ............................................................. Western Gulf of Mexico .................................................................................................. 2012 

227 ............................................................. Central Gulf of Mexico .................................................................................................... 2013 

244 ............................................................. Cook Inlet ........................................................................................................................ 2013 

233 ............................................................. Western Gulf of Mexico .................................................................................................. 2013 

231 ............................................................. Central Gulf of Mexico .................................................................................................... 2014 

225 ............................................................. Eastern Gulf of Mexico ................................................................................................... 2014 

238 ............................................................. Western Gulf of Mexico .................................................................................................. 2014 

235 ............................................................. Central Gulf of Mexico .................................................................................................... 2015 

242 ............................................................. Beaufort Sea ................................................................................................................... 2015 

246 ............................................................. Western Gulf of Mexico .................................................................................................. 2015 

241 ............................................................. Central Gulf of Mexico .................................................................................................... 2016 

226 ............................................................. Eastern Gulf of Mexico ................................................................................................... 2016 

237 ............................................................. Chukchi Sea .................................................................................................................... 2016 

248 ............................................................. Western Gulf of Mexico .................................................................................................. 2016 

247 ............................................................. Central Gulf of Mexico .................................................................................................... 2017 

Assurance of Fair Market Value 

Section 18 of the OCSLA requires 

receipt of fair market value for OCS oil 

and gas leases and the rights they 

convey. A series of decisions related to 

the timing of a lease sale, the leasing 

framework, sale terms, and bid 

adequacy provide the foundation for 

ensuring receipt of fair market value. 

Under the Proposed Program, BOEM 

intends to use a two-phase post-sale bid 

evaluation process that has been in 

effect since 1983, while studying and 

evaluating refinements and alternative 

approaches throughout the 2012–2017 

5-Year Program. The flexibility 

incorporated into the Proposed Program 

allows BOEM to evaluate alternatives 

with respect to delaying a sale area, 

choosing a leasing framework, and 

setting the fiscal terms and conditions 

by individual lease sale, based on a 

current assessment of market and 

resource conditions. 

Information Requested 

We request all interested and affected 

parties to comment on the size, timing, 

and location of leasing and the 

procedures for assuring fair market 

value that are included in the Proposed 

5-Year OCS Oil and Gas Leasing 

Program for 2012–2017. Respondents 

who submitted information in response 

to previous requests for comments on 

the preparation of this 5-year program 

may wish to reference that information, 

as appropriate, rather than repeating it 

in their comments on the proposed 

program. We also invite comments and 

suggestions on how to proceed with the 

section 18 analysis for the Proposed 

Final Program. 

Section 18(g) of the OCSLA authorizes 

confidential treatment of privileged or 

proprietary information that is 

submitted to BOEM. In order to protect 

the confidentiality of such information, 

respondents should include it as an 

attachment to other comments 

submitted and mark it appropriately. On 

request, BOEM will treat such 

information as confidential from the 

time of its receipt until 5 years after 

approval of the new leasing program, 

subject to the standards of the Freedom 

of Information Act. BOEM will not treat 

as confidential any aggregate summaries 

of privileged or proprietary information, 

the names of respondents, or any 

comments not marked by the 

respondent as confidential. 

Next Steps in the Process 

BOEM plans to issue the proposed 

final program and final PEIS in the 

summer of 2012. Sixty days later, the 

Secretary may approve the new 5-year 

Program. 

Dated: November 7, 2011. 

Tommy P. Beaudreau, 

Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

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[FR Doc. 2011–29151 Filed 11–9–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–C 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R8–ES–2011–N234; 80221–1113– 

0000–F5] 

Endangered Species Recovery Permit 

Applications 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of receipt of permit 

applications; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, invite the public to 

comment on the following applications 

to conduct certain activities with 

endangered species. With some 

exceptions, the Endangered Species Act 

(Act) prohibits activities with 

endangered and threatened species 

unless a Federal permit allows such 

activity. The Act also requires that we 

invite public comment before issuing 

these permits. 

DATES: Comments on these permit 

applications must be received on or 

before December 12, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Written data or comments 

should be submitted to the U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service, Endangered 

Species Program Manager, Region 8, 

2800 Cottage Way, Room W–2606, 

Sacramento, CA 95825 (telephone: 916– 

414–6464; fax: 916–414–6486). Please 

refer to the respective permit number for 

each application when submitting 

comments. 


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