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TAKKPRIDE* Alaska State Office INAMERICA 

222 West Seventh Avenue, #13 

Anchorage, Alaska 99513-7504 

http://www.blm.gov/ak 

In Reply Refer To: 

1793 (AK-931) 

Dear Reader: 

We are pleased to present the Northeast National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) Draft 

Supplemental Integrated Activity Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (IAPEIS). This 

Supplement addresses a list of issues and contains a range of alternatives regarding the Bureau of 

Land Management's (BLM) administration of public lands within the planning area. These 

alternatives are essentially unchanged from those analyzed in the Northeast NPR-A Final 

Amended IAPEIS issued in January 2005. The Supplement updates information presented in 

the Amended IAPEIS and corrects inadequacies in the Amended IAPEIS identified in the 

September 25,2006, decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska. 

You are encouraged to comment on any errors in our portrayal of the resources and uses of the 

planning area or the impacts that could occur from activities that the BLM may authorize in the 

planning area. You may recommend other alternatives to better manage these lands consistent 

with the purposes of the NPR-A, or measures to mitigate potential impacts. 

We are especially interested in comments on the new analysis that addresses the inadequacies 

identified in the District Court's decision and any mitigation measures that you think the new 

analysis suggests. The court found that the Amended IAPEIS failed to fully consider the 

cumulative effects of oil and gas leasing in the planning area and in the adjacent Northwest NPRA planning area. The Supplement adds this analysis (see Chapter 4, sections 4.7.3 and 4.7.7 in 

particular). 

When you share your comments with us, please be specific. Identify the specific mistake or 

concern you have, where it appears in the Draft Supplemental IAPEIS, and the correction you 

feel is necessary. If you have a potential mitigation measure, please tell us what it is and the 

benefits it would provide. 
There are four ways to get your ideas to us. You may go to our plan's online site at: 

http://www.blm.gov/ak/st/en/prog/planning/npra~eneraVne_npra/ne_npr-a_supplement.html 


and use the comment form. 

You may write to us via ENSR, our contractor assisting with receiving and analyzing public 

comments, at: 

Northeast NPR-A Supplemental IAPEIS Comments 

ENSR Project Office 

1835 South Bragaw Street, Suite 490 

Anchorage, AK 99508 

You may fax comments to ENSR at 888-907-3677, or you can hand-deliver your comments to us 

at the contractor's address or to the BLM Public Information Center in the Federal Building, 222 

West 7th Avenue, Anchorage. 

Before including your address, phone number, e-mail 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. All submissions from organizations and 

businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of 

organizations and businesses, will be available for public inspection in their entirety. 

The public comment period for the Draft Supplemental IAPEIS will begin with publication of a 

notice by the Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register. The precise dates of the 

comment period and information about public meetings and subsistence hearings pursuant to 

section 810 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act will be found on the BLM's 

Web site address noted above and in a Notice of Availability published by the BLM in the 

Federal Register. 

If you have questions about the public comment process or this Draft Supplemental IAPEIS, 

please call Jim Ducker, BLM-Alaska State Office at (907) 271-3130. 

Thomas P. Lonnie 

State Director