70554 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 228 / Wednesday, November 26, 2014 / Notices 

• An agreement among bidders not to 

bid for a particular LA; 

• An agreement among bidders not to 

bid against each other; and 

• Other agreements among bidders 

that have the effect of limiting the final 

auction price. 

Pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 1337(c), BOEM 

will decline to award a lease if it is 

determined by the Attorney General in 

consultation with the Federal Trade 

Commission that doing so would be 

inconsistent with the antitrust laws. 

For more information on whether 

specific communications or agreements 

could constitute a violation of Federal 

antitrust law, please see: http://

www.justice.gov/atr/public/businessresources.html, or consult counsel. 

Bidder’s Financial Form SelfCertification: Each bidder is required to 

sign the self-certification, in accordance 

with 18 U.S.C. 1001 (Fraud and False 

Statements) in the BFF, which can be 

found on BOEM’s Web site: http://

www.boem.gov/State-ActivitiesMassachusetts/. The form must be filled 

out and returned to BOEM in 

accordance with the ‘‘Deadlines and 

Milestones for Bidders’’ section of this 

notice. 

Non-Procurement Debarment and 

Suspension Regulations 

Pursuant to regulations at 43 CFR part 

42, subpart C, an OCS renewable energy 

lessee must comply with the 

Department of the Interior’s nonprocurement debarment and suspension 

regulations at 2 CFR 180 and 1400 and 

agree to communicate the requirement 

to comply with these regulations to 

persons with whom the lessee does 

business as it relates to this lease, by 

including this term as a condition in 

their contracts and other transactions. 

Force Majeure: The Program Manager 

of BOEM’s Office of Renewable Energy 

Programs has the discretion to change 

any auction details, such as the date and 

time, specified in the FSN in case of a 

force majeure event that the Program 

Manager deems may interfere with a fair 

and proper lease sale process. Such 

events may include, but are not limited 

to: natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, 

hurricanes, floods), wars, riots, acts of 

terrorism, fire, strikes, civil disorder or 

other events of a similar nature. In case 

of such events, bidders should call 703– 

787–1320 or access the BOEM Web site 

at: http://www.boem.gov/RenewableEnergy-Program/index.aspx. 

Appeals: The appeals procedures are 

provided in BOEM’s regulations at 30 

CFR 585.225 and 585.118(c). Pursuant 

to 30 CFR 585.225: 

(a) If BOEM rejects your bid, BOEM 

will provide a written statement of the 

reasons, and refund any money 

deposited with your bid, without 

interest. 

(b) You will then be able to ask the 

BOEM Director for reconsideration, in 

writing, within 15 business days of bid 

rejection, under 30 CFR 585.118(c)(1). 

We will send you a written response 

either affirming or reversing the 

rejection. 

The procedures for appealing final 

decisions with respect to lease sales are 

described in 30 CFR 585.118(c). 

Protection of Privileged or Confidential 

Information 

BOEM will protect privileged or 

confidential information that you 

submit as required by the Freedom of 

Information Act (FOIA). Exemption 4 of 

FOIA applies to trade secrets and 

commercial or financial information 

that you submit that is privileged or 

confidential. If you wish to protect the 

confidentiality of such information, 

clearly mark it and request that BOEM 

treat it as confidential. BOEM will not 

disclose such information, except as 

required by FOIA. Please label 

privileged or confidential information 

‘‘Contains Confidential Information’’ 

and consider submitting such 

information as a separate attachment. 

However, BOEM will not treat as 

confidential any aggregate summaries of 

such information or comments not 

containing such information. 

Additionally, BOEM may not treat as 

confidential the legal title of the 

commenting entity (e.g., the name of 

your company). Information that is not 

labeled as privileged or confidential will 

be regarded by BOEM as suitable for 

public release. 

Dated: November 17, 2014. 

Walter D. Cruickshank, 

Acting Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–27965 Filed 11–25–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[Docket No. BOEM–2014–0078; 

MMAA104000] 

Outer Continental Shelf, Alaska OCS 

Region, Chukchi Sea Planning Area, 

Oil and Gas Lease Sale 193 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of a 

Second Draft Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Notice of Public Hearings; Correction. 

SUMMARY: On November 7, 2014, BOEM 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register (79 FR 66401). BOEM is 

changing the venue for one of the public 

hearing dates. This notice makes that 

change. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public 

Hearings: Pursuant to the regulations 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of NEPA, BOEM will hold public 

hearings on the Second Draft SEIS. The 

hearing scheduled on December 1, 2014, 

previously announced to occur at the 

Loussac Library Complex, will be held 

at a different location. The hearing will 

instead take place at the Crowne Plaza 

Hotel, 109 W. International Airport 

Road, Anchorage, Alaska. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Routhier, Program Analysis 

Officer and Project Manager, BOEM, 

Alaska OCS Region, 3801 Centerpoint 

Drive, Suite 500, Anchorage, Alaska 

99503–5823 or by telephone at (907) 

334–5200. 

Dated: November 17, 2014. 

Walter D. Cruickshank, 

Acting Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–28003 Filed 11–25–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of a Proposed 

Amended Consent Decree Under the 

Clean Water Act 

On November 19, 2014, the 

Department of Justice lodged a proposed 

Amended Consent Decree with the 

United States District Court for the 

Western District of Missouri in the 

lawsuit entitled United States v. The 

City of Kansas City, Missouri, Civil 

Action No. 4:10–cv–0497–GAF, 

proposing to modify the implementation 

schedule for certain injunctive measures 

required under the original Consent 

Decree entered in this matter on 

September 27, 2010, resolving Kansas 

City’s alleged violations of the Clean 

Water Act (‘‘CWA’’ or ‘‘Act’’). 

The Consent Decree (‘‘CD’’) requires, 

among other measures intended to 

reduce or eliminate sewage overflows 

from Kansas City’s sewer system, that 

Kansas City (‘‘KC’’) build 68 million 

gallons of additional storage tank 

capacity at the City’s 87th Street 

Pumping Station in two phases: Phase I 

(20 MM gallons) is due to be completed 

in 2016; Phase II (remaining 48 MM 

gallons) is due to be completed in 2024. 

The proposed Amendment would allow 

the City to defer the Phase I 

construction so that completion of both 

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