23818 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 82 / Wednesday, April 29, 2015 / Notices 

Land Management (BLM) Front Range 

Resource Advisory Council (RAC), will 

meet as indicated below. 

DATES: The Front Range RAC has 

scheduled a meeting June 11, 2015, from 

9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with a public comment 

period regarding matters on the agenda 

at 9:30 a.m. A specific agenda for each 

meeting will be available prior to the 

meetings at http://www.blm.gov/co/st/

en/BLM_Resources/racs/frrac.html. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the BLM Can ̃ on City Field Office, 3028 

E. Main St., Can ̃ on City, CO 81212. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kyle 

Sullivan, Public Affairs Specialist, Front 

Range District Office, 3028 E. Main St., 

Can ̃on City, CO 81212. Phone: (719) 

269–8553. Email: ksullivan@blm.gov. 

Persons who use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) may call the 

Federal Information Relay Service 

(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to contact the 

above individual during normal 

business hours. The FIRS is available 24 

hours a day, seven days a week, to leave 

a message or question with the above 

individual. You will receive a reply 

during normal business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 15- 

member Council advises the Secretary 

of the Interior, through the BLM, on a 

variety of planning and management 

issues associated with public land 

management in the BLM Front Range 

District, which includes the Royal Gorge 

Field Office (RGFO) and the San Luis 

Valley Field Office (SLVFO), Colorado. 

Planned topics of discussion include: 

introductions of new members, an 

update from field managers and updates 

on the Guffey Gorge Management Plan 

and the Royal Gorge Field Office 

Resource Management Plan revision 

status. The public is encouraged to 

make oral comments to the Council at 

9:30 a.m. or submit written comments 

for the Council’s consideration. 

Summary minutes for the RAC meetings 

will be maintained in the Royal Gorge 

Field Office and will be available for 

public inspection and reproduction 

during regular business hours within 

thirty (30) days following the meeting. 

Previous meeting minutes and agendas 

are available at www.blm.gov/co/st/en/

BLM_Resources/racs/frrac/co_rac_

minutes_front.html. 

Ruth Welch, 

Colorado State Director. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–JB–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[MMAA 104000] 

Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), Gulf of 

Mexico (GOM), Oil and Gas Lease 

Sales for 2017–2022 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

notice of public scoping meetings. 

SUMMARY: Consistent with the 

regulations implementing the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) (42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), BOEM is 

announcing its intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (2017– 

2022 Gulf of Mexico Multisale EIS) on 

the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) oil and gas 

lease sales tentatively proposed in the 

2017–2022 Outer Continental Shelf 

(OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Draft 

Proposed Program (2017–2022 Draft 

Proposed Program). This Notice of 

Intent (NOI) serves to announce the EIS 

scoping process and scoping meetings 

for the 2017–2022 Gulf of Mexico 

Multisale EIS. Due to the lead time to 

prepare an EIS, BOEM will begin 

preparation of the 2017–2022 Gulf of 

Mexico Multisale EIS prior to the 2017– 

2022 OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program 

being finalized. Should the GOM lease 

sales ultimately included in the 2017– 

2022 OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program 

differ substantially from those proposed 

in the 2017–2022 Draft Proposed 

Program, BOEM will incorporate those 

changes into the 2017–2022 Gulf of 

Mexico Multisale EIS, as appropriate. 

Section 18 of the OCS Lands Act (43 

U.S.C. 1344) requires the development 

of an OCS oil and gas leasing program 

every five years, setting forth a five-year 

schedule of lease sales designed to best 

meet the Nation’s energy needs. The 

lease sales proposed in the GOM in the 

2017–2022 Draft Proposed Program are 

region-wide sales comprised of the 

Western, Central, and a small portion of 

the Eastern Planning Areas in the GOM 

not subject to Congressional 

moratorium. These planning areas are 

located offshore the States of Texas, 

Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and 

Florida. Should the 2017–2022 OCS Oil 

and Gas Leasing Program include GOMwide sales, any individual lease sale 

could still be scaled back during the 

pre-lease sale process to offer a smaller 

area should circumstances warrant. For 

example, an individual lease sale could 

offer an area that conforms more closely 

to the separate planning area model 

used in the 2012–2017 OCS Oil and Gas 

Leasing Program. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Regulations implementing NEPA 

encourage agencies to analyze similar or 

related proposals in one EIS (40 CFR 

1508.25). Since each lease sale and 

ensuing OCS activities are similar each 

year in each sale area, BOEM is 

preparing a single 2017–2022 Gulf of 

Mexico Multisale EIS for the lease sales 

proposed to be held in the GOM during 

the program. The 2017–2022 Gulf of 

Mexico Multisale EIS will eliminate the 

repetition of annual draft and final EISs 

for each proposed lease sale. The 

Multisale EIS approach allows for 

subsequent NEPA analysis to focus on 

changes in the proposed sales and on 

new issues and information. The 

resource estimates and scenario 

information for the 2017–2022 Multisale 

EIS will include a range that 

encompasses the resources and 

activities estimated for any of the 

proposed lease sales. At the completion 

of this Multisale EIS process, a decision 

will be made for the first lease sale in 

the GOM. Thereafter, BOEM will 

conduct a NEPA review for each of the 

remaining proposed lease sales in the 

2017–2022 OCS Oil and Gas Leasing 

Program. 

The 2017–2022 Gulf of Mexico 

Multisale EIS analysis will focus on the 

potential environmental effects from oil 

and natural gas leasing, exploration, 

development, and production on all 

available acreage in the GOM, including 

the Western and Central Planning Areas 

and the portion of the Eastern Planning 

Area not subject to Congressional 

moratorium. In addition to the no action 

alternative (i.e., cancel the sale), other 

alternatives will be considered for each 

proposed lease sale, such as offering 

individual or multiple planning areas 

for lease (rather than GOM-wide) and 

potentially deferring certain areas from 

the proposed lease sales in addition to 

those considered in the 2017–2022 OCS 

Oil and Gas Leasing Program. 

Pursuant to OCSLA, BOEM will 

separately publish a Call for Information 

and Nominations (Call) to request and 

gather information to determine the 

Area Identification (ID) for each sale. 

The Call will invite potential bidders to 

nominate areas of interest within the 

program area(s) included in the 2017– 

2022 OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program. 

The Call is also an opportunity for the 

public to provide information on 

environmental, socioeconomic, and 

other considerations relevant to 

determining the Area ID. Using 

information provided in response to the 

Call and from scoping comments 

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resulting from this NOI, BOEM will then 

develop an Area ID Memorandum and 

identify the area for environmental 

analysis and consideration for leasing. 

All of this information will be used to 

develop a range of alternatives for the 

2017–2022 Gulf of Mexico Multisale 

EIS. 

Scoping Process: This NOI serves to 

announce the scoping process for 

identifying issues and potential 

alternatives for consideration in the 

2017–2022 Gulf of Mexico Multisale 

EIS. Throughout the scoping process, 

Federal, State, Tribal, and local 

governments and the general public 

have the opportunity to help BOEM 

determine significant resources and 

issues, impacting factors, reasonable 

alternatives, and potential mitigating 

measures to be analyzed in the EIS and 

to provide additional information. 

BOEM will also use the NEPA 

commenting process to initiate the 

Section 106 consultation process of the 

National Historic Preservation Act (54 

U.S.C. 300101 et seq.), as provided in 36 

CFR 800.2(d)(3). 

BOEM typically prepares technical 

reports that allow for detailed technical 

information to be incorporated by 

reference into EISs (40 CFR 1502.21). 

BOEM proposes to develop technical 

reports for this purpose, which will be 

publicly available and may replace and 

update appendices used in previous 

lease sale EISs (e.g., the 2012–2017 

Western Planning Area/Central 

Planning Area Multisale EIS and the 

2014–2016 Eastern Planning Area 

Multisale EIS), such as the 

‘‘Catastrophic Spill Event Analysis,’’ 

‘‘BOEM–OSRA Catastrophic Run,’’ and 

‘‘Essential Fish Habitat Assessment.’’ 

BOEM proposes to incorporate by 

reference other technical information 

from air quality modeling, the Gulfwide 

Offshore Activity Data System (an air 

emissions inventory system), and a 

methodology paper related to the 

exploration and development scenario. 

These reports will be summarized and 

incorporated by reference in the 2017– 

2022 GOM Multisale EIS and will be 

made publicly available on BOEM’s 

Web site http://www.boem.gov/Gulf-ofMexico-Region/. BOEM is soliciting 

input on these examples and other 

topics that would be conducive to 

reducing the size of the 2017–2022 Gulf 

of Mexico Multisale EIS and future 

NEPA documents. 

BOEM is also soliciting comments to 

identify significant environmental 

issues deserving study, but also to 

deemphasize insignificant issues, thus 

streamlining the analyses and narrowing 

the scope of the EIS process accordingly 

(40 CFR 1501.7). BOEM has reviewed 

the environmental and socioeconomic 

resources analyzed in the 2012–2017 

Western Planning Area/Central 

Planning Area Multisale EIS, 2014–2016 

Eastern Planning Area Multisale EIS, 

and the resulting Supplemental EISs 

and is therefore proposing the following 

list of resources to be analyzed in the 

2017–2022 Gulf of Mexico Multisale 

EIS: 

• Air Quality 

• Water Quality 

Æ Coastal 

Æ Offshore 

• Coastal Habitats 

Æ Wetlands 

Æ Dunes and Beaches 

• Deepwater Habitats 

Æ Chemosynthetic Communities 

Æ Deepwater Corals 

Æ Sargassum 

• Live Bottom Habitats 

Æ Topographic Features 

Æ Pinnacles (Low Relief) 

Æ Inshore Reefs 

Æ Seagrass 

• Fishes and Invertebrate Resources 

• Coastal and Migratory Bird Resources 

• Protected Species 

Æ ESA Species’ List (Protected Birds 

and Protected Fish) 

Æ Sea Turtles 

Æ Diamondback Terrapins 

Æ Beach Mice 

Æ Marine Mammals 

• Archaeological Resources 

Æ Historic 

Æ Prehistoric 

• Commercial Fisheries 

• Recreational Fishing 

• Recreational Resources 

• Human Resources and Land Use 

Æ Land Use and Coastal Infrastructure 

Æ Demographics 

Æ Economic Factors 

Æ Environmental Justice 

Pursuant to the regulations 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of NEPA (42 U.S.C. 1501.7), BOEM will 

hold public scoping meetings in Texas, 

Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and 

Florida. BOEM’s scoping meetings will 

be held at the following places and 

times: 

• New Orleans, Louisiana: Tuesday, 

May 12, 2015, BOEM, Gulf of Mexico 

OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood Park 

Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 

70123, one meeting beginning at 1:00 

p.m. CDT. 

• Houston, Texas: Thursday, May 14, 

2015, Hilton Garden Inn Houston/Bush 

Intercontinental Airport, 15400 John F. 

Kennedy Boulevard, Houston, Texas 

77032, one meeting beginning at 1:00 

p.m. CDT. 

• Panama City, Florida: Tuesday, 

May 19, 2015, Hilton Garden Inn 

Panama City, 1101 US Highway 231, 

Panama City, Florida 32405, one 

meeting beginning at 6:00 p.m. CDT. 

• Mobile, Alabama: Wednesday, May 

20, 2015, Hilton Garden Inn Mobile 

West, 828 West I–65 Service Road 

South, Mobile, Alabama 36609, one 

meeting beginning at 3:00 p.m. CDT. 

• Gulfport, Mississippi: Thursday, 

May 21, 2015, Courtyard by Marriott, 

Gulfport Beachfront MS Hotel, 1600 

East Beach Boulevard, Gulfport, 

Mississippi 39501, one meeting 

beginning at 3:00 p.m. CDT. 

Cooperating Agencies: BOEM invites 

other Federal, State, Tribal, and local 

governments to consider becoming 

cooperating agencies in the preparation 

of the 2017–2022 Gulf of Mexico 

Multisale EIS. We invite qualified 

government entities to inquire about 

cooperating agency status for this EIS. 

Following the guidelines from the 

Council on 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 should remember that an agency’s 

role in the environmental analysis 

neither enlarges nor diminishes the final 

decision making authority of any other 

agency involved in the NEPA process. 

Upon request, BOEM will provide 

potential cooperating agencies with a 

written summary of expectations for 

cooperating agencies, including time 

schedules and critical action dates, 

milestones, responsibilities, scope and 

detail of cooperating agencies’ 

contributions, and availability of 

predecisional information. BOEM 

anticipates this summary will form the 

basis for a Memorandum of Agreement 

between BOEM and any cooperating 

agency. Agencies should also consider 

the ‘‘Factors for Determining 

Cooperating Agency Status’’ in 

Attachment 1 to CEQ’s January 30, 2002, 

Memorandum for the Heads of Federal 

Agencies: Cooperating Agencies in 

Implementing the Procedural 

Requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act. This 

document is available on the Internet at 

http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/

nepapub/nepa_documents/RedDont/GCEQ-CoopAgenciesImplem.pdf. 

BOEM, 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 

BOEM during the normal public input 

stages of the NEPA process. 

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23820 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 82 / Wednesday, April 29, 2015 / Notices 

Comments: Federal agencies; Tribal, 

State, and local governments; and other 

interested parties are requested to send 

their written comments on the scope of 

the 2017–2022 Gulf of Mexico Multisale 

EIS, significant issues that should be 

addressed, and alternatives that should 

be considered one of the following 

ways: 

1. In written form enclosed in an 

envelope labeled ‘‘Comments on the 

2017–2022 GOM Multisale EIS’’ and 

mailed (or hand carried) to Mr. Gary D. 

Goeke, Chief, Environmental 

Assessment Section, Office of 

Environment (GM 623E), BOEM, Gulf of 

Mexico OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood 

Park Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 

70123–2394; 

2. Through the regulations.gov web 

portal: Navigate to http://

www.regulations.gov and search for ‘‘Oil 

and Gas Lease Sales: Gulf of Mexico, 

Outer Continental Shelf; 2017–2022 

GOM Multisale EIS’’ (Note: It is 

important to include the quotation 

marks in your search terms.) Click on 

the ‘‘Comment Now!’’ button to the right 

of the document link. Enter your 

information and comment, then click 

‘‘Submit’’; or 

3. BOEM email address: multisaleeis

2017-2022@boem.gov. 

It is BOEM’s practice to make 

comments, including the names and 

addresses of respondents, available for 

public review. BOEM does not consider 

anonymous comments. Please include 

your name and address as part of your 

submittal. Individual respondents may 

request that BOEM withhold their 

names and/or addresses from the public 

record, but BOEM cannot guarantee that 

it will be able to do so. If you wish your 

name and/or address to be withheld, 

you must state your preference 

prominently at the beginning of your 

comment. All submissions from 

organizations or businesses, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, will be 

made available for public inspection in 

their entirety. 

DATES: Comments should be submitted 

no later than May 29, 2015 to the 

address specified above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the 2017–2022 Gulf of 

Mexico Multisale EIS, the submission of 

comments, or BOEM’s policies 

associated with this notice, please 

contact Mr. Gary D. Goeke, Chief, 

Environmental Assessment Section, 

Office of Environment (GM 623E), 

BOEM, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 

1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New 

Orleans, Louisiana 70123–2394, 

telephone 504–736–3233. 

Authority: This NOI is published pursuant 

to the regulations (40 CFR 1501.7) 

implementing the provisions of NEPA. 

Dated: April 16, 2015. 

Abigail Ross Hopper, 

Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2013–0007] 

Maritime Advisory Committee for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(MACOSH) 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of renewal of the 

MACOSH charter. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA), and after 

consultation with the General Services 

Administration, the Secretary of Labor 

is renewing the charter for the Maritime 

Advisory Committee for Occupational 

Safety and Health. The Committee will 

better enable OSHA to perform its 

duties under the Occupational Safety 

and Health Act (the OSH Act) of 1970. 

The Committee is diverse and balanced, 

both in terms of segments of the 

maritime industry represented, (e.g., 

shipyard employment, longshoring, 

commercial fishing, and marine 

terminal industries), and in the views 

and interests represented by the 

members. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy Wangdahl, Director, Office of 

Maritime and Agriculture, Directorate of 

Standards and Guidance, U.S. 

Department of Labor, Occupational 

Safety and Health Administration, 

Room N–3609, 200 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20210; telephone: 

(202) 693–2066; email: wangdahl.amy@

dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Committee will advise OSHA on matters 

relevant to the safety and health of 

employees in the maritime industry. 

This includes advice on maritime issues 

that will result in more effective 

enforcement, training, and outreach 

programs, and streamlined regulatory 

efforts. The maritime industry includes 

shipyard employment, longshoring, 

marine terminal, and other related 

industries, e.g., commercial fishing and 

shipbreaking. The Committee will 

function solely as an advisory body in 

compliance with the provisions of 

FACA and OSHA’s regulations covering 

advisory committees (29 CFR part 1912). 

Authority and Signature 

David Michaels, Ph.D., MPH, 

Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. 

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210, 

authorized the preparation of this notice 

pursuant to Sections 6(b)(1), and 7(b) of 

the Occupational Safety and Health Act 

of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 655(b)(1), 656(b)), the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 

U.S.C. App. 2), Section 41 of the 

Longshore and Harbor Workers’ 

Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. 941), 

Secretary of Labor’s Order 1–2012 (77 

FR 3912, Jan. 25, 2012), and 29 CFR part 

1912. 

Signed at Washington, DC, on April 23, 

2015. 

David Michaels, 

Assistant Secretary of Labor, for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

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BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2012–0017] 

Reports of Injuries to Employees 

Operating Mechanical Power Presses; 

Extension of the Office of Management 

and Budget’s (OMB) Approval of an 

Information Collection (Paperwork) 

Requirement 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Request for public comments. 

SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public 

comments concerning its proposal to 

extend OMB approval of the 

information collection requirement 

contained in the Standard on Reports of 

Injuries to Employees Operating 

Mechanical Power Presses (29 CFR 

1910.217(g)). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

(postmarked, sent, or received) by June 

29, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: 

Electronically: You may submit 

comments and attachments 

electronically at http://

www.regulations.gov, which is the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the 

instructions online for submitting 

comments. 

Facsimile: If your comments, 

including attachments, are not longer 

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