Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 166 / Friday, August 28, 2009 / Notices 44381 

Clean Fuels Refinery, and that the FEIS 

is now available for public review. The 

proposed Federal actions are: (1) The 

taking into trust of 469 acres of fee land 

by the BIA in support of the MHA 

Nation’s proposal to construct and 

operate a clean fuels refinery and 

produce buffalo forage; and (2) the 

issuance by the EPA of a Clean Water 

Act, National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System Discharge (NPDES) 

permit for the discharge of treated 

wastewater from the proposed refinery. 

DATES: The Record of Decision on the 

proposed action will be issued no 

sooner than 30 days after the release of 

the FEIS. Thus, any comments on the 

FEIS must arrive by September 28, 2009. 

A public meeting will be held on 

September 9 at Four Bears Casino, 202 

Frontage Road, New Town, ND, at 

7 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: You may mail or hand carry 

written comments to Mike Black, 

Regional Director, Bureau of Indian 

Affairs, Great Plains Regional Office, 

115 4th Avenue, SE., Aberdeen, SD. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mike Black, BIA, 605–226–7343, or 

Steve Wharton, EPA, 303–312–6935 or 

800–227–8917. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Three 

Affiliated Tribes (MHA Nation) has 

requested that BIA accept into trust 

status 469 acres for the MHA Nation to 

construct, own, operate, and maintain a 

petroleum refinery on 190 acres of the 

469-acre parcel. The remaining acres 

would be used to grow forage for 

buffalo. The land in the northeast corner 

of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation 

is located along Highway 23, four miles 

west of the town of Makoti in Ward 

County, North Dakota. 

The MHA Nation has also applied to 

EPA for an NPDES permit under the 

Clean Water Act for discharges from the 

proposed refinery. 

Feedstock for the proposed refinery 

would include 10,000 barrels per stream 

day (BPSD) of synthetic crude oil via 

existing pipeline from Alberta, Canada; 

3,000 BPSD of field butane from local 

suppliers; 6 million standard cubic feet 

per day of natural gas via existing 

pipeline; and 300 barrels of bio-diesel or 

8,500 bushels per day of soybeans. From 

the feedstock, the refinery would 

produce about 5,750 BPSD of diesel 

fuel, 6,770 BPSD of gasoline, and 300 

BPSD of propane. 

The FEIS analyzes potential 

environmental effects of two Federal 

agency decisions: (1) Whether BIA 

should accept lands into trust in 

support of the MHA Nation’s proposal 

to construct and operate a clean fuels 

refinery and produce buffalo forage; and 

(2) whether EPA should issue a Clean 

Water Act NPDES permit for the process 

water discharges associated with the 

operation of the proposed refinery. The 

FEIS has identified the Agencies’ 

preferred alternatives. BIA and EPA will 

be making their decisions in separate 

Records of Decision (RODs), which will 

be issued after the 30-day wait period 

on the FEIS. The MHA Nation will be 

deciding whether to build and operate 

the refinery. 

BIA has identified its preferred 

alternative as Alternative 3. In this 

alternative, BIA would not place the 

land into trust status and the refinery 

could be constructed by the Tribes. If 

the proposed refinery is constructed, 

EPA has identified Alternative A, 

issuance of an NPDES permit for 

effluent discharges associated with the 

refinery as its preferred water discharge 

alternative. EPA and BIA recommend 

that the design of the refinery, if 

constructed, be modified consistent 

with Alternative 4. 

Public Availability of the FEIS 

The FEIS is available on the Web at: 

http://www.epa.gov/region8/ 

compliance/nepa. 

Hard copies of the document are 

available for public review at the 

following locations: 

—Bureau of Indian Affairs, Great Plains 

Regional Office, 115 4th Avenue, SE., 

Aberdeen, SD. 

—Bureau of Indian Affairs, Fort 

Berthold Agency, 202 Main Street, 

New Town, ND. 

—EPA Region 8 Library, 1595 Wynkoop 

Street, Denver, CO. 

—Three Affiliated Tribes Governmental 

Offices, 404 Frontage Road, New 

Town, ND. 

—Each of the MHA Nation’s Segment 

Offices: Four Bears (Tribal Gov. 

Center), Mandaree, Shell Creek (New 

Town), Lucky Mound (Parshall), Twin 

Buttes, and White Shield, and 

—Rensch garage in Makoti, ND. 

Authority 

This notice is published in 

accordance with section 1506.10 of the 

Council on Environmental Quality 

Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 through 

1508) implementing the procedural 

requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 

amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), and 

related Department of the Interior 

requirements in the Department of the 

Interior Manual (516 DM 1–6), and is in 

exercise of authority delegated to the 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary— 

Indian Affairs by 209 DM 8. 

Dated: August 21, 2009. 

George T. Skibine, 

Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary— 

Indian Affairs. 

[FR Doc. E9–20816 Filed 8–27–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–W7–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Proclaiming Certain Lands as a 

Reservation for the Match-e-be-nashshe-wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians 

of Michigan, aka, Gun Lake Tribe 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Reservation 

Proclamation; Correction. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian Affairs 

(BIA) published a document in the 

Federal Register of August 18, 2009, 

concerning the Assistant SecretaryIndian Affairs proclaiming 

approximately 147 acres as the Matche-be-nash-she-wish Band of 

Pottawatomi Indian Reservation. The 

document contained an error in the 

legal description. 

DATES: Effective Date: August 28, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ben 

Burshia, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Division of Real Estate Services, MS– 

4639 MIB, 1849 C Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20240, telephone (202) 

208–7737. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Corrections 

In the Federal Register of August 18, 

2009, in FR Doc. E9–19751, on page 

41741, in the first column, line one, 

insert the following text after the word 

‘‘section,’’ and before the word ‘‘said:’’ 

which is North 86 degrees 57 minutes 

24 seconds East 481.98 feet from the 

West line of said Section 

Also on page 41741, in the first 

column, line 33, change ‘‘East 431.00 

feet;’’ to the following and delete lines 

34, 35, 36, 37 and 38 in their entirety: 

East 325.00 feet. 

Dated: August 21, 2009. 

George T. Skibine, 

Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary— 

Indian Affairs. 

[FR Doc. E9–20791 Filed 8–27–09; 8:45 am] 

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