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Environmental Impact Statement. In this 

instance, the Service has elected to be 

a Cooperating Agency to the Western 

and the RUS. The Endangered Species 

Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), as 

amended, provides for the conservation 

and recovery of listed species of plants 

and animals native to the United States 

and its territories. Section 7 of the 

Endangered Species Act requires 

Federal agencies to insure that any 

action authorized, funded, or carried out 

by them is not likely to jeopardize the 

continued existence of listed species or 

modify their critical habitat. The 

Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) 

prohibits the taking of any migratory 

birds without authorization from the 

Secretary of the Interior. The regulations 

of the National Wildlife Refuge System 

Administration Act of 1997, 16 U.S.C. 

668dd–ee, require uses of the National 

Wildlife Refuge System (System) to be 

compatible. 

Dated: November 5, 2010. 

Stephen Guertin, 

Regional Director, Region 6.. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 

Regulation and Enforcement 

Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), 

Western and Central Planning Areas, 

Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Oil and Gas 

Lease Sales for the 2007–2012 5-Year 

OCS Program 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Regulation and 

Enforcement (BOEMRE), Interior. 

ACTION: Correction—Notice of Intent to 

Prepare a Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement. This Notice corrects 

clerical errors in a Notice that published 

in the Federal Register on November 10, 

2010 (75 FR 69122). 

1. Authority 

This Notice of Intent (NOI) is 

published pursuant to the regulations 

(40 CFR 1501.7) implementing the 

provisions of the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 

1969 as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq. 

(1988)). 

2. Purpose of the Notice of Intent 

BOEMRE is announcing its intent to 

prepare a supplemental environmental 

impact statement (SEIS) for the 

remaining Western Planning Area 

(WPA) and Central Planning Area (CPA) 

lease sales in the 2007–2012 5-Year OCS 

Program. The proposed sales are in the 

Gulf of Mexico’s WPA off the States of 

Texas and Louisiana and in the CPA off 

the States of Texas, Louisiana, 

Mississippi, and Alabama. The SEIS 

will update the environmental and 

socioeconomic analyses in the Gulf of 

Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales: 

2007–2012; WPA Sales 204, 207, 210, 

215, and 218; CPA Sales 205, 206, 208, 

213, 216, and 222, Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (OCS EIS/EA MMS 

2007–018) (Multisale EIS), the NOI for 

which was published in the Federal 

Register on March 7, 2006 (Vol. 71, No. 

44, Page 11444). The SEIS will also 

update the environmental and 

socioeconomic analyses in the GOM 

OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales: 2009– 

2012; CPA Sales 208, 213, 216, and 222; 

WPA Sales 210, 215, and 218; Final 

SEIS (OCS EIS/EA MMS 2008–041), the 

NOI for which was published in the 

Federal Register on September 10, 2007 

(Vol. 72, No. 174, Page 51654). The SEIS 

for 2009–2012 was prepared after the 

Gulf of Mexico Energy and Security Act 

(Pub. L. 109–432, December 20, 2006) 

required BOEMRE to offer 

approximately 5.8 million acres in the 

CPA (‘‘181 South Area’’) for oil and gas 

leasing, ‘‘as soon as practicable after the 

date of enactment of this Act.’’ 

A SEIS is deemed appropriate to 

supplement the NEPA documents cited 

above for these lease sales to consider 

new circumstances and information 

arising, among other things, from the 

Deepwater Horizon blowout and spill. 

The SEIS analysis will focus on 

updating the baseline conditions and 

potential environmental effects of oil 

and natural gas leasing, exploration, 

development, and production in the 

WPA and CPA. The SEIS will also 

inform future decisions regarding the 

approval of operations, as well as 

leasing. 

Scoping Process: 

Federal, State, and local government 

agencies, and other interested parties 

may assist BOEMRE in determining the 

significant issues and alternatives to be 

analyzed in the SEIS. Early planning 

and consultation is important for 

ensuring that all interests and concerns 

are communicated to the Department of 

the Interior for future decisions in the 

leasing process pursuant to the Outer 

Continental Shelf Lands Act and 

regulations at 30 CFR 256. At a 

minimum, alternatives that will be 

considered for the sales are no action 

(i.e., cancel the sale) or to exclude 

certain areas from the sales. Input is 

requested on additional measures (e.g., 

technology or water depth limitations) 

that would maximize avoidance and 

minimizes impacts to environmental 

and socioeconomic resources. Formal 

consultation with other Federal 

agencies, the affected States, and the 

public will be carried out during the 

NEPA process and will be completed 

before a final decision is made on the 

lease sales. 

For more information on the proposed 

sales or the SEIS, you may contact Mr. 

Gary Goeke, Gulf of Mexico OCS 

Region, 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, 

Mail Stop 5410, New Orleans, Louisiana 

70123–2394 or by calling (504) 736– 

3233. 

3. Description of the Area 

The CPA sale area covers 

approximately 66.45 million acres in 

12,409 blocks in the Central portion of 

GOM (excluding blocks that were 

previously included within the Eastern 

Planning Area (EPA) and that are within 

100 miles of the Florida coast; or 

beyond the U.S. Exclusive Economic 

Zone in the area known as the northern 

portion of the Eastern Gap). The general 

area proposed for sale in the WPA 

covers approximately 28.57 million 

acres in 5,240 blocks in the western 

portion of the GOM (excluding whole 

and partial blocks within the boundary 

of the Flower Garden Banks National 

Marine Sanctuary). A map is available 

on the BOEMRE Web site at http:// 

www.gomr.mms.gov/homepg/lsesale/ 

mau_gom_pa.pdf. 

4. Cooperating Agency 

The BOEMRE invites other Federal 

agencies and State, tribal, and local 

governments to consider becoming 

cooperating agencies in the preparation 

of the SEIS. Following the guidelines 

from the Council of 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 to 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, BOEMRE will provide 

potential cooperating agencies with an 

information package with a draft 

Memorandum of Agreement that 

includes a schedule with critical action 

dates and milestones, mutual 

responsibilities, designated points of 

contact, and expectations for handling 

predecisional information. Agencies 

should also consider the ‘‘Factors for 

Determining Cooperating Agency 

Status’’ in Attachment 1 to CEQ’s 

January 30, 2002, Memorandum for the 

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Heads of Federal Agencies: Cooperating 

Agencies in Implementing the 

Procedural Requirements of the NEPA. 

A copy of this document is available at 

http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/nepa/regs/ 

cooperating/ 

cooperatingagenciesmemorandum.html 

and http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/nepa/regs/ 

cooperating/ 

cooperatingagencymemofactors.html. 

The BOEMRE, 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 

BOEMRE during the normal public 

input phases of the NEPA/EIS process. 

If further information about cooperating 

agency status is needed, please contact 

Mr. Gary Goeke at (504) 736–3233. 

5. Comments 

Public meetings will be held in 

locations near these areas in to mid 

November 2010. The meetings are being 

planned for, but not necessarily limited 

to: 

• Tuesday, November 16, 2010, New 

Orleans, Louisiana, Hilton New Orleans 

Airport, 901 Airline Drive Kenner, 

Louisiana 70062, 1 p.m. CST. 

• Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 

Houston, Texas, Houston Airport 

Marriott at George Bush 

Intercontinental, 18700 John F. Kennedy 

Boulevard, Houston, Texas 77032, 1 

p.m. CST. 

• Thursday, November 18, 2010, 

Mobile, Alabama, The Battle House 

Renaissance Mobile Hotel and Spa, 26 

North Royal Street, Mobile, Alabama 

36602 1 p.m. CST. 

These scoping meetings may also 

accept comments on the EIS being 

prepared for the Proposed 2012–2017 5- 

Year OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program 

and the EIS addressing proposed lease 

sales in the Central and Western GOM 

in the 2012–2017 OCS Program. The 

BOEMRE will use and coordinate the 

NEPA commenting process to satisfy the 

public involvement process for Section 

106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470f) as 

provided for in 36 CFR 800.2(d)(3). 

Federal, State, local government 

agencies, and other interested parties 

are requested to send their written 

comments on the scope of the SEIS, 

significant issues that should be 

addressed, and alternatives that should 

be considered in one of the following 

ways: 

1. Electronically to the BOEMRE email address: 

GOMRSEIS@BOEMRE.GOV. 

2. In written form, delivered by hand 

or by mail, enclosed in an envelope 

labeled ‘‘SEIS Comments’’ to the 

Regional Supervisor, Leasing and 

Environment (MS 5410), Bureau of 

Ocean Energy Management, Regulation 

and Enforcement, Gulf of Mexico OCS 

Region, 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, 

New Orleans, Louisiana 70123–2394. 

Comments should be submitted no 

later than January 3, 2011. 

Dated: November 10, 2010. 

L. Renee Orr, 

Acting Associate Director for Offshore Energy 

and Minerals Management. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLUT920–09–L13300000–EN000, UTU– 

XXXX] 

Notice of Expansion of the Lisbon 

Valley Known Potash Leasing Area, 

Utah 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Potash is a trade name for 

potassium bearing minerals used mainly 

for fertilizer. Potash and certain other 

non-energy solid minerals found on 

Federal lands may be leased for 

development in either of two ways: (1) 

If it is unknown whether an area 

contains valuable potash deposits, an 

interested party may obtain a 

prospecting permit, which grants it the 

exclusive right to explore for potash, 

and, if a valuable deposit is found, that 

party may qualify for a noncompetitive 

lease; or (2) If the BLM has access to 

information which shows that valuable 

deposits of potash exist in an area, the 

area may be classified and designated a 

Known Potash Leasing Area (KPLA), 

where prospecting permits may not be 

issued, and any leasing must be done on 

a competitive basis. 

In 1960, the United States Geological 

Survey (USGS) established the Lisbon 

Valley KPLA, based on mineral land 

classification standards established in 

1957. In 1983, under Secretarial Order 

3087, the authority to designate KPLAs 

was transferred to the BLM. Recent 

advances in drilling technology have 

provided the capability to extract deep 

potash deposits using dissolution. Based 

on this new technology, the BLM 

approved new mineral land 

classification standards for the Utah 

portion of the Paradox Basin geologic 

province, which includes Lisbon Valley 

in 2009. The BLM Utah State Office 

used the new standards and the analysis 

of available drilling information to 

determine that the Lisbon Valley KPLA 

should be expanded to include deep 

solution-mineable potash deposits. 

Additional information regarding this 

KPLA expansion, including maps and 

the Potash Master Title Plats, are 

available in the Public Room of the BLM 

Utah State Office and at the following 

Web site: 

http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/prog/more/ 

Land_Records.html. The lands included 

in the Lisbon Valley KPLA expansion, 

located in San Juan County, Utah, are 

described as follows: 

Salt Lake Base Meridian, Utah 

T. 29 S., R. 24 E., 

Sec. 29, SW1⁄4SW1⁄4; 

Sec. 30, E1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 31, E1⁄2E1⁄2, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4, W1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 32, W1⁄2W1⁄2, E1⁄2SW1⁄4, S1⁄2SE1⁄4; and 

Sec. 33, E1⁄2, SE1⁄4NW1⁄4, E1⁄2SW1⁄4, 

SW1⁄4SW1⁄4. 

Containing 1,200.00 acres. 

T. 291⁄2 S., R. 24 E., 

Sec. 27, lots 2–4; 

Sec. 28, lots 1–4; 

Sec. 29, lots 1–4; 

Sec. 32, N1⁄2, E1⁄2SW1⁄4, SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 33, all; and 

Sec. 34, W1⁄2NE1⁄4, W1⁄2, SE1⁄4. 

Containing 1,980.68 acres. 

T. 30 S., R. 24 E., 

Sec. 2, W1⁄2SW1⁄4; 

Sec. 3, all; 

Sec. 4, all; 

Sec. 5, lots 1, 2, S1⁄2NE1⁄4, SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 8, E1⁄2, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4; 

Sec. 9, all; 

Sec. 10, all; 

Sec. 11, SW1⁄4NE1⁄4, W1⁄2, W1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 13, W1⁄2SW1⁄4; 

Sec. 14, all; 

Sec. 15, all; 

Sec. 16, N1⁄2, N1⁄2S1⁄2, S1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 17, NE1⁄4, E1⁄2NW1⁄4, N1⁄2S1⁄2; 

Sec. 21, E1⁄2E1⁄2; 

Sec. 22, all; 

Sec. 23, all; 

Sec. 24, W1⁄2; 

Sec. 25, W1⁄2NE1⁄4, SE1⁄4NE1⁄4, W1⁄2, SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 26, all; 

Sec. 27, N1⁄2, N1⁄2S1⁄2, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4, S1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 28, N1⁄2, N1⁄2S1⁄2; 

Sec. 35, N1⁄2N1⁄2, S1⁄2NE1⁄4; and 

Sec. 36, N1⁄2, N1⁄2S1⁄2, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4, S1⁄2SE1⁄4. 

Containing 10,997.82 acres. 

T. 31 S., R. 24 E., 

Sec. 1, lots 1–3, S1⁄2NE1⁄4, NE1⁄4SE1⁄4. 

Containing 253.75 acres. 

T. 30 S., R. 25 E., 

Sec. 30, lots 2–4, SE1⁄4SW1⁄4, SW1⁄4SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 31, all; 

Sec. 32, W1⁄2NE1⁄4, SE1⁄4NE1⁄4, NW1⁄4, S1⁄2; 

Sec. 33, SW1⁄4NE1⁄4, S1⁄2NW1⁄4, S1⁄2; 

Sec. 34, S1⁄2NE1⁄4, SE1⁄4NW1⁄4, S1⁄2; and 

Sec. 35, SW1⁄4, SW1⁄4SE1⁄4 . 

Containing 2,517.75 acres. 

T. 31 S., R 25 E., 

Sec. 2, lots 3, 4, SW1⁄4NW1⁄4; 

Sec. 3, lots 1–4, S1⁄2N1⁄2, N1⁄2SW1⁄4, 

SW1⁄4SW1⁄4, NE1⁄4;SE1⁄4; 

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