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reimbursed for travel and per diem 

expenses at current rates for 

Government employees. The Board will 

meet no less than two times annually. 

The Director, Bureau of Land 

Management may call additional 

meetings in connection with special 

needs for advice. 

Dated: August 1, 2007. 

Bud Cribley, 

Deputy Assistant Director, Renewable 

Resources and Planning. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[AK–020–1610–DP–088L] 

Announcement That BLM–Alaska Has 

Discontinued Its Planning Efforts for 

the South Portion of the National 

Petroleum Reserve—Alaska Integrated 

Activity Plan and Environmental 

Impact Statement 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to discontinue 

planning efforts for the South NPR–A. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM), Alaska State Office, 

is discontinuing preparation of the 

Integrated Activity Plan (IAP) for the 

South portion of the National Petroleum 

Reserve—Alaska (NPR–A) and its 

accompanying Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS). 

DATES: Planning activities will officially 

cease with publication of this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Bob 

Schneider (907–474–2216), Lon Kelly 

(907–474–2368) or Mike Kleven (907–

474–2317) by phone or by mail at 1150 

University Avenue, Fairbanks Alaska, 

99708–3844. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

planning area for the South NPR–A 

Integrated Activity Plan/Environmental 

Impact Statement includes 

approximately 9.2 million acres within 

the southwestern portion of the National 

Petroleum Reserve—Alaska. The 

planning effort was initiated with a 

Notice of Intent to Plan published June 

15, 2005. Although the formal scoping 

period ended in August 2005 and a 

scoping report was finalized in 

November of 2005, further development 

of the plan was suspended to allow the 

North Slope Borough (a cooperating 

agency) to develop a ‘‘communitybased’’ management alternative. As part 

of its effort, the Borough conducted 

several public meetings and submitted a 

Community Based Planning Report to 

the BLM in January 2007. Evident from 

the Borough’s report and the BLM’s own 

scoping efforts is the high level of 

concern on the part of North Slope 

residents regarding the potential 

impacts of oil and gas activity on 

subsistence resources, especially the 

Western Arctic Caribou Herd, whose 

primary calving area is within the South 

NPR–A planning area. The Bureau’s 

resource assessments indicate that the 

South NPR–A planning area contains 

limited oil reserves—approximately 2.1 

percent of the undiscovered oil in the 

NPR–A. Although the area contains an 

estimated 27 percent of the NPR–A’s 

undiscovered gas reserves, there is no 

transportation system to move the gas to 

market. 

The BLM places great emphasis on 

public participation during land use 

planning and has listened carefully to 

the concerns of the people of Alaska’s 

North Slope. In consideration of these 

concerns and the practicality of energy 

development, the BLM is discontinuing 

the South NPR–A planning effort at this 

time. 

Sharon K. Wilson, 

Acting State Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Minerals Management Service 

Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), Alaska 

OCS Region, Beaufort Sea and 

Chukchi Sea, Proposed Oil and Gas 

Lease Sales for Years 2007 to 2012 

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service 

(MMS), Interior. 

ACTION: Correction of the Call for 

Information and Nominations and 

Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). 

SUMMARY: On August 23, 2007, pursuant 

to 30 CFR 256 and 40 CFR 1501.7 as a 

matter of information to the public, the 

MMS published in the Federal Register 

a Call for Information and Nomination 

and Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS 

for the Beaufort Sea and Chukchi Sea 

OCS planning areas. The Call is the 

initial step of a multiple sale process 

that incorporates planning and analysis 

for the Alaska lease sales included in 

the proposed final OCS Oil and Gas 

Leasing Program 2007–2012. We 

inadvertently omitted a page-size map 

of the Beaufort Sea Planning Area which 

should have accompanied a page-size 

map of the Chukchi Sea Planning Area 

and instead included two duplicate 

page-size maps of the Chukchi Sea 

Planning Area. The correct Beaufort Sea 

Planning Area map accompanies this 

notice. 

DATES: Nominations and Information 

must be received no later than October 

9, 2007. This correction is effective as of 

the date of publication of this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Please contact Fred King at (907) 334- 

5271 in MMS’s Alaska OCS Region, 

3801 Centerpoint Drive, Ste. 500, 

Anchorage, AK 99503–5823. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Need for Correction 

As published in the Federal Register 

on August 23, 2007 (72 FR 48295), the 

Call contains an error that is in need of 

correction. 

Correction of Publication 

Accordingly, the publication on 

August 23, 2007 (72 FR 48295) is 

corrected as follows: On page 48300, the 

accompanying map titled, ‘‘Proposed 

Beaufort Sea Sales 209 and 217’’

replaces the duplicate map titled 

‘‘Proposed Chukchi Sea Sales 212 and 

221.’’

Dated: September 6, 2007. 

Randall B. Luthi, 

Director, Minerals Management Service. 

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