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Before including your address, phone 

number, email 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 may 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. 

Dated: February 11, 2014. 

Alma Ripps, 

Chief, Office of Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2014–03341 Filed 2–13–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–53–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–NERO–GATE–14879; PPNEGATEB0, 

PPMVSCS1Z.Y00000] 

Notice of the February Through August 

2014 Meeting Schedule for the 

Gateway National Recreation Area Fort 

Hancock 21st Century Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Meeting notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

meeting schedule of the Gateway 

National Recreation Area Fort Hancock 

21st Century Advisory Committee 

(Committee) occurring in February 

through August 2014. 

DATES: The schedule for future public 

meetings of the Committee is as follows: 

1. February 28, 2014, at 9:00 a.m. 

(EASTERN) 

2. April 11, 2014, at 9:00 a.m. 

(EASTERN) 

3. May 30, 2014, at 9:00 a.m. 

(EASTERN) 

4. July 18, 2014, 2014, at 9:00 a.m. 

(EASTERN) 

5. August 22, 2014, at 9:00 a.m. 

(EASTERN) 

ADDRESSES: For the February through 

August 2014 meetings, the Committee 

will meet at The Chapel at Sandy Hook, 

Hartshorne Drive, Middletown, NJ 

07732. Please check 

www.forthancock21stcentury.org for 

additional information. 

Agenda: Committee meeting will 

consist of the following: 

1. Welcome and Introductory Remarks 

2. Update on Working Group Progress 

3. Assessment of Committee Needs 

4. Public Comment 

5. Potential Frameworks and Reuse 

Scenarios 

6. Development of Committee Work 

Plan 

7. Future Committee Activities, Meeting 

Schedule 

8. Adjournment 

The final agenda will be posted on 

www.forthancock21stcentury.org prior 

to each meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Further information concerning the 

meeting may be obtained from John 

Warren, Park Ranger, Gateway National 

Recreation Area, 26 Hudson Road, Fort 

Hancock, NJ, at (732) 872–5908 or 

email: forthancock21stcentury@

yahoo.com, or visit the Committee Web 

site at www.forthancock21stcentury.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 

section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (5 U.S.C. Appendix 1– 

16), the purpose of the Committee is to 

provide advice to the Secretary of the 

Interior, through the Director of the 

National Park Service, on the 

development of a reuse plan and on 

matters relating to future uses of certain 

buildings at Fort Hancock within 

Gateway National Recreation Area. 

The meeting is open to the public. 

Interested members of the public may 

present, either orally or through written 

comments, information for the 

Committee to consider during the public 

meeting. Attendees and those wishing to 

provide comment are strongly 

encouraged to preregister through the 

contact information provided. The 

public will be able to comment at the 

February through August meetings from 

1:00 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Written 

comments will be accepted prior to, 

during or after the meeting. Due to time 

constraints during the meeting, the 

Committee is not able to read written 

public comments submitted into the 

record. Individuals or groups requesting 

to make oral comments at the public 

committee meeting will be limited to no 

more than 5 minutes per speaker. 

Before including your address, 

telephone number, email address, or 

other personal indentifying information 

in your written comments, you should 

be aware that your entire comment 

including your personal identifying 

information may be made publicly 

available. While you may 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 comments will 

be made part of the public record and 

will be electronically distributed to all 

Committee members. 

Dated: February 11, 2014. 

Alma Ripps, 

Chief, Office of Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2014–03301 Filed 2–13–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–WV–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

(BOEM) 

[MMAA104000] 

Eastern Gulf of Mexico Planning Area 

(EPA) Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) 

Oil and Gas Lease Sale 225 (EPA Sale 

225) 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Interior. 

ACTION: Final notice of sale. 

SUMMARY: On Wednesday, March 19, 

2014, BOEM will open and publicly 

announce bids received for blocks 

offered in EPA Sale 225 in accordance 

with the provisions of the OCS Lands 

Act (OCSLA, 43 U.S.C. 1331–1356, as 

amended) and the implementing 

regulations issued pursuant thereto (30 

CFR parts 550 and 556). 

The EPA 225 Final Notice of Sale 

(NOS) package (Final NOS Package) 

contains information essential to 

potential bidders, and bidders are 

charged with knowing the contents of 

the documents contained in the Final 

NOS Package. The Final NOS Package is 

available at the address and Web site 

below. 

DATES: Public bid reading for EPA Sale 

225 will begin at 9:00 a.m., Wednesday, 

March 19, 2014, at the Mercedes-Benz 

Superdome, 1500 Sugarbowl Drive, New 

Orleans, Louisiana 70112. The lease sale 

will be held in the St. Charles Club 

Room on the second floor (Loge Level). 

Entry to the Superdome will be on the 

Poydras Street side of the building 

through Gate A on the Ground Level; 

parking will be available at Garage 6. All 

times referred to in this document are 

local New Orleans times, unless 

otherwise specified. 

Bid Submission Deadline: BOEM 

must receive all sealed bids between 

8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on normal 

working days, or from 8:00 a.m. to the 

Bid Submission Deadline of 10:00 a.m. 

on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, the day 

before the lease sale. For more 

information on bid submission, see 

Section VII, ‘‘Bidding Instructions,’’ of 

this document. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties, upon 

request, may obtain a compact disc (CD– 

ROM) containing the Final NOS Package 

by contacting the BOEM Gulf of Mexico 

Region (GOMR) at: 

Gulf of Mexico Region Public 

Information Office, Bureau of Ocean 

Energy Management, 1201 Elmwood 

Park Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 

70123–2394, (504) 736–2519 or (800) 

200–GULF. 

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or by visiting the BOEM Web site at 

www.boem.gov/sale-225/. 

Table of Contents 

This Final NOS includes the 

following sections: 

I. Lease Sale Area 

II. Statutes and Regulations 

III. Lease Terms and Economic Conditions 

IV. Lease Stipulations 

V. Information to Lessees 

VI. Maps 

VII. Bidding Instructions 

VIII. Bidding Rules and Restrictions 

IX. Forms 

X. The Lease Sale 

XI. Delay of Sale 

I. Lease Sale Area 

Blocks Offered for Leasing 

In EPA Sale 225, BOEM is offering for 

lease all blocks and partial blocks in the 

document ‘‘List of Blocks Available for 

Leasing’’ included in the Final NOS 

Package. All of these blocks are shown 

on the following leasing maps and 

Official Protraction Diagrams (OPDs): 

Outer Continental Shelf Official 

Protraction Diagrams (These Diagrams 

Sell for $2.00 Each.) 

NG16–02 Lloyd Ridge (revised 

February 28, 2007) 

NH16–11 De Soto Canyon (revised 

February 28, 2007) 

Please Note: 

A CD–ROM (in ArcInfo and Acrobat 

(.pdf) format) containing all of the Gulf 

of Mexico (GOM) leasing maps and 

OPDs, except for those not yet converted 

to digital format, is available from the 

BOEM Gulf of Mexico Region Public 

Information Office for a price of $15.00. 

These GOM leasing maps and OPDs are 

available for free online in .pdf and .gra 

formats at http://www.boem.gov/Oiland-Gas-Energy-Program/Mapping-andData/Official-ProtractionDiagrams.aspx. 

For the current status of all EPA 

leasing maps and OPDs, please refer to 

66 FR 28002 (May 21, 2001), 69 FR 

23211 (April 28, 2004), 72 FR 27590 

(May 16, 2007), 72 FR 35720 (June 29, 

2007), 73 FR 63505 (October 24, 2008), 

and 76 FR 54787 (September 2, 2011). 

All blocks being offered in the lease 

sale are shown on these leasing maps 

and OPDs. The available Federal acreage 

of all whole and partial blocks in this 

lease sale is shown in the document 

‘‘List of Blocks Available for Leasing’’ 

included in the Final NOS Package. 

Some of these blocks may be partially 

leased or deferred, or transected by 

administrative lines such as the Federal/ 

State jurisdictional line. A bid on a 

block must include all of the available 

Federal acreage of that block. 

Information on the unleased portions of 

such blocks is found in the document 

‘‘Eastern Planning Area, Lease Sale 225, 

March 19, 2014—Unleased Split Blocks 

and Available Unleased Acreage of 

Blocks With Aliquots and Irregular 

Portions Under Lease or Deferred’’ 

included in the Final NOS Package. 

For additional information, please call 

Mr. Lenny Coats, Chief of the Mapping 

and Automation Section, at (504) 736– 

1457. 

Blocks Not Offered for Leasing 

All whole or partial blocks in the EPA 

deferred by the Gulf of Mexico Energy 

Security Act of 2006, Public Law 109– 

432. 

II. Statutes and Regulations 

Each lease is issued pursuant to 

OCSLA, and is subject to OCSLA, 

implementing regulations promulgated 

pursuant thereto, and other applicable 

statutes and regulations in existence 

upon the effective date of the lease, as 

well as those applicable statutes enacted 

and regulations promulgated thereafter, 

except to the extent that the afterenacted statutes and regulations 

explicitly conflict with an express 

provision of the lease. Each lease is also 

subject to amendments to statutes and 

regulations, including but not limited to 

OCSLA, that do not explicitly conflict 

with an express provision of the lease. 

The lessee expressly bears the risk that 

such new or amended statutes and 

regulations (i.e., those that do not 

explicitly conflict with an express 

provision of the lease) may increase or 

decrease the lessee’s obligations under 

the lease. 

III. Lease Terms and Economic 

Conditions 

Lease Terms 

OCS Lease Form 

BOEM will use Form BOEM–2005 

(October 2011) to convey leases issued 

as a result of this sale. This lease form 

may be viewed on the BOEM Web site 

at http://www.boem.gov/About-BOEM/ 

Procurement-Business-Opportunities/ 

BOEM-OCS-Operation-Forms/BOEM2005.aspx. The lease form will be 

amended to conform with the specific 

terms, conditions, and stipulations 

applicable to each individual lease. The 

terms, conditions, and stipulations 

applicable to this sale are set forth 

below. 

Initial Periods 

Initial periods are summarized in the 

following table: 

Water depth (meters) Initial periods 

800 to <1,600 .................................. Standard initial period is 7 years; the lessee will earn an additional 3 years (i.e., for a 10-year extended initial period) if a well is spudded during the first 7 years of the lease. 

1,600+ ............................................. 10 years. 

(1) The standard initial period for a 

lease in water depths of 800 to less than 

1,600 meters issued as a result of this 

sale will be 7 years. The lessee will earn 

an additional 3 years, resulting in a 10- 

year extended initial period, if the 

lessee spuds a well within the first 7 

years of the lease. 

In order to earn the 10-year extended 

initial period, the lessee is required to 

submit to the appropriate Bureau of 

Safety and Environmental Enforcement 

(BSEE) District Manager, within 30 days 

after spudding a well, a letter providing 

the well number and spud date, and 

requesting concurrence that the lessee 

earned the 10-year extended initial 

period. The BSEE District Manager will 

review the request and make a 

determination. A written response will 

be sent to the lessee documenting the 

BSEE District Manager’s decision within 

30 days of receipt of the request. The 

BSEE District Manager must concur in 

writing that the conditions have been 

met by the lessee to earn the 10-year 

extended initial period. 

(2) The standard initial period for a 

lease in water depths 1,600 meters or 

greater issued as a result of this sale will 

be 10 years. 

Economic Conditions 

Minimum Bonus Bid Amounts 

• $100.00 per acre or fraction thereof 

for all blocks. 

BOEM will not accept a bonus bid 

unless it provides for a cash bonus in 

the amount equal to, or exceeding, the 

specified minimum bid of $100.00 per 

acre or fraction thereof. 

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Rental Rates 

Annual rental rates for all blocks are 

summarized in the following table: 

RENTAL RATES PER ACRE OR

FRACTION THEREOF

Water depth 

(meters) Years 1–5 Years 6+ 

800+ .................. $11.00 $16.00 

Royalty Rate 

• 18.75 percent 

Minimum Royalty Rate 

• $11.00 per acre or fraction thereof 

per year 

IV. Lease Stipulations 

One or more of the following 

stipulations may be applied to leases 

issued as a result of this sale. The 

detailed text of these stipulations is 

contained in the ‘‘Lease Stipulations’’ 

section of the Final NOS Package. 

(1) Military Areas 

(2) Evacuation 

(3) Coordination 

(4) Protected Species 

V. Information to Lessees 

The ‘‘Information to Lessees’’ (ITL) 

clauses provide detailed information on 

certain issues pertaining to this oil and 

gas lease sale. The detailed text of these 

ITL clauses is contained in the 

‘‘Information to Lessees’’ section of the 

Final NOS Package: 

(1) Navigation Safety 

(2) Ordnance Disposal Areas 

(3) Existing and Proposed Artificial 

Reefs/Rigs-to-Reefs 

(4) Lightering Zones 

(5) Indicated Hydrocarbons List 

(6) Military Warning Areas 

(7) Bureau of Safety and Environmental 

Enforcement (BSEE) Inspection and 

Enforcement of Certain Coast Guard 

Regulations 

(8) Commercial Waste Disposal Areas 

(9) Air Quality Permits 

(10) Notice of Arrival on the Outer 

Continental Shelf 

(11) Bidder/Lessee Notice Obligations 

Related to Criminal/Civil Charges and 

Offenses, Suspension, or Debarment. 

VI. Maps 

The map pertaining to this lease sale 

may be found on the BOEM Web site at 

www.boem.gov/sale-225/. The following 

map is also included in the Final NOS 

Package: 

Lease Terms, Economic Conditions, and 

Stipulations Map 

The lease terms, economic conditions, 

stipulations, and blocks to which these 

terms and conditions apply are shown 

on the map ‘‘Final, Eastern Planning 

Area, Lease Sale 225, March 19, 2014, 

Lease Terms, Economic Conditions, and 

Stipulations’’ included in the Final NOS 

Package. 

VII. Bidding Instructions 

Instructions on how to submit a bid, 

secure payment of the advance bonus 

bid deposit (if applicable), and what 

information must be included with the 

bid are as follows: 

Bid Form 

For each block bid upon, a separate 

sealed bid shall be submitted in a sealed 

envelope (as described below) and must 

include the following: 

• Total amount of the bid in whole 

dollars only; 

• sale number; 

• sale date; 

• each bidder’s exact name; 

• each bidder’s proportionate interest, 

stated as a percentage, using a 

maximum of five decimal places (e.g., 

33.33333 percent); 

• typed name, title, and signature of 

each bidder’s authorized officer; 

• each bidder’s qualification number; 

• map name and number or Official 

Protraction Diagram (OPD) name and 

number; 

• block number; and 

• statement acknowledging that the 

bidder(s) understand that this bid 

legally binds the bidder(s) to comply 

with all applicable regulations, 

including payment of one-fifth of the 

bonus bid amount on all apparent high 

bids. 

The information required on the 

bid(s) will be specified in the document 

‘‘Bid Form’’ contained in the Final NOS 

Package. A blank bid form is provided 

therein for convenience and may be 

copied and completed with the 

necessary information described above. 

Bid Envelope 

Each bid must be submitted in a 

separate sealed envelope labeled as 

follows: 

• ‘‘Sealed Bid for Oil and Gas Lease 

Sale 225, not to be opened until 9 a.m. 

Wednesday, March 19, 2014’’; 

• map name and number or OPD 

name and number; 

• block number for block bid upon; 

and 

• the exact name and company 

number of the submitting bidder only. 

The Final NOS Package includes 

samples of the bid envelopes for 

reference. 

Mailed Bids 

If bids are mailed, please address the 

envelope containing the sealed bid 

envelope(s) as follows: 

Attention: Leasing and Financial 

Responsibility Section, BOEM Gulf of 

Mexico Region, 1201 Elmwood Park 

Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 

70123–2394. 

Contains Sealed Bids for EPA Oil and 

Gas Lease Sale 225 

Please Deliver to Ms. Cindy Thibodeaux 

or Ms. Kasey Couture, 2nd Floor, 

Immediately 

Please Note: 

Bidders mailing bid(s) are advised to 

call Ms. Cindy Thibodeaux at (504) 736– 

2809, or Ms. Kasey Couture at (504) 

736–2909, immediately after putting 

their bid(s) in the mail. If BOEM 

receives bids later than the Bid 

Submission Deadline, the BOEM 

Regional Director (RD) will return those 

bids unopened to bidders. Please see 

‘‘Section XI. Delay of Sale’’ regarding 

BOEM’s discretion to extend the Bid 

Submission Deadline in the case of an 

unexpected event (e.g., flooding or 

travel restrictions) and how bidders can 

obtain more information on such 

extensions. 

Advance Bonus Bid Deposit Guarantee 

Bidders that are not currently an OCS 

oil and gas lease record title holder or 

designated operator or those that ever 

have defaulted on a one-fifth bonus bid 

deposit, by Electronic Funds Transfer 

(EFT) or otherwise, must guarantee 

(secure) the payment of the one-fifth 

bonus bid deposit prior to bid 

submission using one of the following 

four methods: 

• Provide a third-party guarantee; 

• amend an areawide development 

bond via bond rider; 

• provide a letter of credit; or 

• provide a lump sum payment in 

advance via EFT. 

For more information on EFT 

procedures, see Section X of this 

document entitled ‘‘The Lease Sale.’’ 

Affirmative Action 

BOEM requests that, prior to bidding, 

the bidder file the Equal Opportunity 

Affirmative Action Representation Form 

BOEM–2032 (October 2011) and the 

Equal Opportunity Compliance Report 

Certification Form BOEM–2033 

(October 2011) with the BOEM Gulf of 

Mexico Region Adjudication Section. 

This certification is required by 41 CFR 

part 60 and Executive Order No. 11246, 

issued September 24, 1965, as amended 

by Executive Order No. 11375, issued 

October 13, 1967. Please note that both 

forms are required to be on file for the 

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bidder(s) in the GOMR Adjudication 

Section prior to the execution of any 

lease contract. 

Geophysical Data and Information 

Statement Package (GDIS) 

The GDIS is composed of three parts: 

(1) The ‘‘Statement’’ page includes the 

company representatives’ information 

and lists of blocks bid on that used 

proprietary data and those bid on that 

did not use proprietary data, 

(2) the ‘‘Table’’ listing the required 

data about each proprietary survey used 

(see below), and 

(3) the ‘‘Maps,’’ which are the live 

trace maps for each survey identified in 

the GDIS statement and table. 

Every bidder submitting a bid on a 

block in EPA Sale 225, or participating 

as a joint bidder in such a bid, must 

submit at the time of bid submission all 

three parts of the GDIS. A bidder must 

submit the GDIS even if its joint bidder 

or bidders on a specific block also have 

submitted a GDIS. Any speculative data 

that has been reprocessed externally or 

‘‘in-house’’ is considered proprietary 

due to the proprietary processing and is 

no longer considered to be speculative. 

The GDIS must be submitted in a 

separate and sealed envelope. It also 

must identify all proprietary data; 

reprocessed speculative data, and/or 

any Controlled Source Electromagnetic 

surveys, Amplitude Versus Offset 

(AVO), Gravity, or Magnetic data; or 

other information used as part of the 

decision to bid or participate in a bid on 

the block. The bidder and joint bidder 

must also include a live trace map (e.g., 

.pdf and ArcGIS shape file) for each 

survey that they identify in the GDIS 

illustrating the actual areal extent of the 

proprietary geophysical data in the 

survey (see the ‘‘Example of Preferred 

Format’’ in the Final NOS Package for 

additional information). 

The GDIS statement must include the 

name, phone number, and full address 

of a contact person and an alternate who 

are both knowledgeable about the 

information and data listed and who are 

available for 30 days post sale. The 

GDIS statement also must include 

entries for all blocks bid upon that did 

not use proprietary or reprocessed preor post-stack geophysical data and 

information as part of the decision to 

bid or to participate as a joint bidder in 

the bid. The GDIS statement must be 

submitted even if no proprietary 

geophysical data and information were 

used in bid preparation for the block. 

The GDIS table should have columns 

that clearly state the sale number; the 

bidder company’s name; the block area 

and block number bid on; the owner of 

the original data set (i.e., who initially 

acquired the data); the industry’s 

original survey name (e.g., E Octopus); 

the BOEM permit number for the 

survey; whether the data set is a fast 

track version; whether the data is 

speculative or proprietary; the data type 

(e.g., 2–D, 3–D, or 4–D; pre-stack or 

post-stack; and time or depth); 

migration algorithm (e.g., Kirchhoff 

Migration, Wave Equation Migration, 

Reverse Migration, Reverse Time 

Migration) of the data; and areal extent 

of bidder survey (i.e., number of line 

miles for 2–D or number of blocks for 

3–D). Provide the computer storage size, 

to the nearest gigabyte, of each seismic 

data and velocity volume used to 

evaluate the lease block in question. 

This will be used in estimating the 

reproduction costs for each data set, if 

applicable. The next column should 

state who reprocessed the data (e.g., 

external company name or ‘‘in-house’’) 

and when the date of final reprocessing 

was completed (month and year). If the 

data was sent to BOEM for bidding in 

a previous lease sale, list the date the 

data was processed (month and year) 

and indicate if AVO data was used in 

the evaluation. BOEM reserves the right 

to query about alternate data sets, to 

quality check, and to compare the listed 

and alternative data sets to determine 

which data set most closely meets the 

needs of the fair market value 

determination process. An example of 

the preferred format of the table may be 

found in the Final NOS Package and a 

blank digital version of the preferred 

table may be accessed on the EPA 225 

Sale page at http://www.boem.gov/Sale225/. 

The GDIS maps are live trace maps (in 

.pdf and ArcGIS shape files) that should 

be submitted for each survey that is 

identified in the GDIS table. They 

should illustrate the actual areal extent 

of the proprietary geophysical data in 

the survey (see the ‘‘Example of 

Preferred Format’’ in the Final NOS 

Package for additional information). 

Pursuant to 30 CFR 551.12 and 30 

CFR 556.32, as a condition of the sale, 

the BOEM Gulf of Mexico RD requests 

that all bidders and joint bidders submit 

the proprietary data identified on their 

GDIS within 30 days after the lease sale 

(unless they are notified after the lease 

sale that BOEM has withdrawn the 

request). This request only pertains to 

proprietary data that is not 

commercially available. Commercially 

available data is not required to be 

submitted to BOEM, and reimbursement 

will not be provided if such data is 

submitted by a bidder. The BOEM Gulf 

of Mexico RD will notify bidders and 

joint bidders of any withdrawal of the 

request, for all or some of the 

proprietary data identified on the GDIS, 

within 15 days of the lease sale. 

Pursuant to 30 CFR part 551 and as a 

condition of this sale, all bidders 

required to submit data must ensure that 

the data is received by BOEM no later 

than the 30th day following the lease 

sale, or the next business day if the 

submission deadline falls on a weekend 

or Federal holiday. The data must be 

submitted to BOEM at the following 

address: 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 

Resource Studies, MS 881A, 1201 

Elmwood Park Blvd., New Orleans, LA 

70123–2304. 

BOEM recommends that bidders mark 

the submission’s external envelope as 

‘‘Deliver Immediately to DASPU.’’ 

BOEM also recommends that the data be 

submitted in an internal envelope, or 

otherwise marked, with the following 

designation: ‘‘Proprietary Geophysical 

Data Submitted Pursuant to Lease Sale 

225 and used during <Bidder Name’s> 

evaluation of Block <Block Number>.’’ 

In the event a person supplies any 

type of data to BOEM, that person must 

meet the following requirements to 

qualify for reimbursement: 

(1) Persons must be registered with 

the System for Award Management 

(SAM), formerly known as the Central 

Contractor Registration (CCR). CCR 

usernames will not work in SAM. A 

new SAM User Account is needed to 

register or update an entity’s records. 

The Web site for registering is https:// 

www.sam.gov. 

(2) Persons must be enrolled in the 

Department of Treasury’s Internet 

Payment Platform (IPP) for electronic 

invoicing. The person must enroll in the 

IPP at https://www.ipp.gov/. Access 

then will be granted to use the IPP for 

submitting requests for payment. When 

a request for payment is submitted, it 

must include the assigned Purchase 

Order Number on the request. 

(3) Persons must have a current Online Representations and Certifications 

Application at https://www.sam.gov. 

Please Note: 

The GDIS Information Table must be 

submitted digitally, preferably as an 

Excel spreadsheet, on a CD or DVD 

along with the seismic data map(s). If 

you have any questions, please contact 

Ms. Dee Smith at (504) 736–2706, or Mr. 

John Johnson at (504) 736–2455. Bidders 

should refer to Section X of this 

document, ‘‘The Lease Sale: 

Acceptance, Rejection, or Return of 

Bids,’’ regarding a bidder’s failure to 

comply with the requirements of the 

Final NOS, including any failure to 

submit information as required in the 

Final NOS or Final NOS Package. 

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Telephone Numbers/Addresses of 

Bidders 

BOEM requests that bidders provide 

this information prior to or at the time 

of bid submission. The suggested format 

is contained in the Final NOS Package. 

This form must not be enclosed inside 

the sealed bid envelope. 

Additional Documentation 

BOEM may require bidders to submit 

other documents in accordance with 30 

CFR 556.46. 

VIII. Bidding Rules and Restrictions 

Restricted Joint Bidders 

BOEM published in the Federal 

Register, on October 28, 2013, the most 

recent List of Restricted Joint Bidders at 

78 FR 64243. Potential bidders are 

advised to refer to the Federal Register, 

prior to bidding, for the most current 

List of Restricted Joint Bidders in place 

at the time of the lease sale. Please refer 

to joint bidding provisions at 30 CFR 

556.41 for additional restrictions. 

Authorized Signatures 

All signatories executing documents 

on behalf of bidder(s) must execute the 

same in conformance with the BOEM 

qualification records. 

Unlawful Combination or Intimidation 

BOEM warns bidders against violation 

of 18 U.S.C. 1860, prohibiting unlawful 

combination or intimidation of bidders. 

Bid Withdrawal 

Bids may be withdrawn only by 

written request delivered to BOEM prior 

to the Bid Submission Deadline. The 

withdrawal request must be on 

company letterhead and must contain 

the bidder’s name, its company number, 

the map name/number, and the block 

number(s) of the bid(s) to be withdrawn. 

The request must be executed in 

conformance with the BOEM 

qualification records. Signatories must 

be authorized to bind their respective 

legal business entities (e.g., a 

corporation, partnership, or LLC); they 

also must have an incumbency 

certificate and/or specific power of 

attorney setting forth express authority 

to act on the business entity’s behalf for 

purposes of bidding and lease execution 

under OCSLA. The name and title of the 

signatory must be typed under the 

signature block on the withdrawal letter. 

Upon the BOEM Gulf of Mexico RD’s, or 

his designee’s, approval of such request, 

he will indicate his approval by signing 

and dating the withdrawal request. 

Bid Rounding 

The bonus bid amount must be stated 

in whole dollars. If the acreage of a 

block contains a decimal figure, then 

prior to calculating the minimum bonus 

bid, BOEM rounded up to the next 

whole acre. The appropriate minimum 

rate per acre was then applied to the 

whole (rounded up) acreage. If this 

calculation resulted in a fractional 

dollar amount, the minimum bonus bid 

was rounded up to the next whole 

dollar amount. The bonus bid amount 

must be greater than or equal to the 

minimum bonus bid in whole dollars. 

Minimum bonus bid calculations, 

including all rounding, for all blocks 

will be shown in the document ‘‘List of 

Blocks Available for Leasing’’ included 

in the Final NOS Package. 

IX. Forms 

The Final NOS Package includes 

instructions, samples, and/or the 

preferred formats for the following 

items. Bidders are strongly encouraged 

to use these formats; should bidders use 

another format, they are responsible for 

including all the information specified 

for each item in the Final NOS Package. 

(1) Bid Form 

(2) Sample Completed Bid 

(3) Sample Bid Envelope 

(4) Sample Bid Mailing Envelope 

(5) Telephone Numbers/Addresses of 

Bidders Form 

(6) GDIS Form 

(7) GDIS Envelope Form 

X. The Lease Sale 

Bid Opening and Reading 

Sealed bids received in response to 

the Final NOS will be opened at the 

place, date, and hour specified in the 

DATES section of this document above. 

The opening of the bids is for the sole 

purpose of publicly announcing and 

recording the bids received; no bids will 

be accepted or rejected at that time. 

Bonus Bid Deposit for Apparent High 

Bids 

Each bidder submitting an apparent 

high bid must submit a bonus bid 

deposit to the U.S. Department of the 

Interior’s Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue (ONRR) equal to one-fifth of 

the bonus bid amount for each such bid. 

A copy of the notification of the high 

bidder’s one-fifth bonus liability may be 

obtained at the EFT Area outside the 

Bid Reading Room on the day of the bid 

opening, or it may be obtained on the 

BOEM Web site at www.boem.gov/Sale225/ under the heading ‘‘Notification of 

EFT 1/5 Bonus Liability.’’ All payments 

must be deposited electronically into an 

interest-bearing account in the U.S. 

Treasury by 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time the 

day following the bid reading (no 

exceptions). Account information is 

provided in the ‘‘Instructions for 

Making Electronic Funds Transfer 

Bonus Payments’’ found on the BOEM 

Web site at http://www.boem.gov/FinalNotice-of-Sale-225-Package/. 

BOEM requires bidders to use EFT 

procedures for payment of one-fifth 

bonus bid deposits for EPA Sale 225, 

following the detailed instructions 

contained on the ONRR Payment 

Information Web page at www.onrr.gov/ 

FM/PayInfo.htm. Acceptance of a 

deposit does not constitute and shall not 

be construed as acceptance of any bid 

on behalf of the United States. 

Withdrawal of Blocks 

The United States reserves the right to 

withdraw any block or partial block 

from this lease sale prior to issuance of 

a written acceptance of a bid for the 

block. 

Acceptance, Rejection, or Return of Bids 

The United States reserves the right to 

reject any and all bids. No bid will be 

accepted, and no lease for any block 

will be awarded, to any bidder, unless 

the bidder has complied with all 

requirements of the Final NOS, 

including those set forth in the 

documents contained in the Final NOS 

Package and applicable regulations, the 

bid is the highest valid bid, and the 

amount of the bid has been determined 

to be adequate by the authorized officer. 

Any bid submitted that does not 

conform to the requirements of the Final 

NOS and Final NOS Package, OCSLA, 

or other applicable statute or regulation 

may be rejected and returned to the 

bidder. The U.S. Department of Justice 

and Federal Trade Commission will 

review the results of the lease sale for 

anti-trust issues prior to the acceptance 

of bids and issuance of leases. To ensure 

that the Government receives a fair 

return for the conveyance of leases from 

this sale, high bids will be evaluated in 

accordance with BOEM’s bid adequacy 

procedures. A copy of current 

procedures, ‘‘Modifications to the Bid 

Adequacy Procedures,’’ published at 64 

FR 37560 on July 12, 1999, can be 

obtained from the BOEM Gulf of Mexico 

Region Public Information Office, or via 

the BOEM Gulf of Mexico Region Web 

site at www.boem.gov/Oil-and-GasEnergy-Program/Leasing/RegionalLeasing/Gulf-of-Mexico-Region/BidAdequacy-Procedures.aspx. 

Lease Award 

BOEM requires each bidder awarded 

a lease to: (1) Execute all copies of the 

lease (Form BOEM–2005 (October 

2011), as amended); (2) pay by EFT the 

balance of the bonus bid amount and 

the first year’s rental for each lease 

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issued in accordance with the 

requirements of 30 CFR 1218.155 and 

556.47(f); and (3) satisfy the bonding 

requirements of 30 CFR part 556, 

subpart I, as amended. ONRR requests 

that only one transaction be used for 

payment of the four-fifths bonus bid 

amount and the first year’s rental. 

XI. Delay of Sale 

The BOEM Gulf of Mexico RD has the 

discretion to change any date, time, 

and/or location specified in the Final 

NOS Package in case of an event that the 

BOEM Gulf of Mexico RD deems may 

interfere with the carrying out of a fair 

and proper lease sale process. Such 

events could include, but are not 

limited to, natural disasters (e.g., 

earthquakes, hurricanes, and floods), 

wars, riots, acts of terrorism, fires, 

strikes, civil disorder, or other events of 

a similar nature. In case of such events, 

bidders should call (504) 736–0557, or 

access the BOEM Web site at http:// 

www.boem.gov. for information 

regarding any changes. 

Tommy P. Beaudreau, 

Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2014–03320 Filed 2–13–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[MMAA104000] 

Central Gulf of Mexico Planning Area 

(CPA) Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) 

Oil and Gas Lease Sale 231 (CPA Sale 

231) 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Interior. 

ACTION: Final notice of sale. 

SUMMARY: On Wednesday, March 19, 

2014, BOEM will open and publicly 

announce bids received for blocks 

offered in CPA Sale 231 in accordance 

with the provisions of the OCS Lands 

Act (OCSLA, 43 U.S.C. 1331–1356, as 

amended) and the implementing 

regulations issued pursuant thereto (30 

CFR Parts 550 and 556). 

The CPA 231 Final Notice of Sale 

(NOS) package (Final NOS Package) 

contains information essential to 

potential bidders, and bidders are 

charged with knowing the contents of 

the documents contained in the Final 

NOS Package. The Final NOS Package is 

available at the address and Web site 

below. 

DATES: Public bid reading for CPA Sale 

231 will begin at 9:00 a.m., Wednesday, 

March 19, 2014, at the Mercedes-Benz 

Superdome, 1500 Sugarbowl Drive, New 

Orleans, Louisiana 70112. The lease sale 

will be held in the St. Charles Club 

Room on the second floor (Loge Level). 

Entry to the Superdome will be on the 

Poydras Street side of the building 

through Gate A on the Ground Level; 

parking will be available at Garage 6. All 

times referred to in this document are 

local New Orleans times, unless 

otherwise specified. 

Bid Submission Deadline: BOEM 

must receive all sealed bids between 

8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on normal 

working days, or from 8:00 a.m. to the 

Bid Submission Deadline of 10:00 a.m. 

on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, the day 

before the lease sale. For more 

information on bid submission, see 

Section VII, ‘‘Bidding Instructions,’’ of 

this document. 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties, upon 

request, may obtain a compact disc (CD– 

ROM) containing the Final NOS Package 

by contacting the BOEM Gulf of Mexico 

Region (GOMR) at: Gulf of Mexico 

Region Public Information Office, 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 

1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New 

Orleans, Louisiana 70123–2394, (504) 

736–2519 or (800) 200–GULF, or by 

visiting the BOEM Web site at http://

www.boem.gov/Sale-231/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

This Final NOS includes the 

following sections: 

I. Lease Sale Area 

II. Statutes and Regulations 

III. Lease Terms and Economic Conditions 

IV. Lease Stipulations 

V. Information to Lessees 

VI. Maps 

VII. Bidding Instructions 

VIII. Bidding Rules and Restrictions 

IX. Forms 

X. The Lease Sale 

XI. Delay of Sale 

I. Lease Sale Area 

Blocks Offered for Leasing 

In CPA Sale 231, BOEM is offering for 

lease all blocks and partial blocks in the 

document ‘‘List of Blocks Available for 

Leasing’’ included in the Final NOS 

Package. All of these blocks are shown 

on the following leasing maps and 

Official Protraction Diagrams (OPDs): 

Outer Continental Shelf Leasing Maps— 

Louisiana Map Numbers 1 Through 12 

(These 30 maps sell for $2.00 each.) 

LA1 West Cameron Area (Revised July 

1, 2011) 

LA1A West Cameron Area, West 

Addition (Revised February 28, 2007) 

LA1B West Cameron Area, South 

Addition (Revised February 28, 2007) 

LA2 East Cameron Area (Revised 

November 1, 2000) 

LA2A East Cameron Area, South 

Addition (Revised November 1, 2000) 

LA3 Vermilion Area (Revised November 

1, 2000) 

LA3A South Marsh Island Area (Revised 

November 1, 2000) 

LA3B Vermilion Area, South Addition 

(Revised November 1, 2000) 

LA3C South Marsh Island Area, South 

Addition (Revised November 1, 2000) 

LA3D South Marsh Island Area, North 

Addition (Revised November 1, 2000) 

LA4 Eugene Island Area (Revised 

November 1, 2000) 

LA4A Eugene Island Area, South 

Addition (Revised November 1, 2000) 

LA5 Ship Shoal Area (Revised 

November 1, 2000) 

LA5A Ship Shoal Area, South Addition 

(Revised November 1, 2000) 

LA6 South Timbalier Area (Revised 

November 1, 2000) 

LA6A South Timbalier Area, South 

Addition (Revised November 1, 2000) 

LA6B South Pelto Area (Revised 

November 1, 2000) 

LA6C Bay Marchand Area (Revised 

November 1, 2000) 

LA7 Grand Isle Area (Revised November 

1, 2000) 

LA7A Grand Isle Area, South Addition 

(Revised February 17, 2004) 

LA8 West Delta Area (Revised 

November 1, 2000) 

LA8A West Delta Area, South Addition 

(Revised November 1, 2000) 

LA9 South Pass Area (Revised 

November 1, 2000) 

LA9A South Pass Area, South and East 

Additions (Revised November 1, 

2000) 

LA10 Main Pass Area (Revised 

November 1, 2000) 

LA10A Main Pass Area, South and East 

Additions (Revised November 1, 

2000) 

LA10B Breton Sound Area (Revised 

November 1, 2000) 

LA11 Chandeleur Area (Revised 

November 1, 2000) 

LA11A Chandeleur Area, East Addition 

(Revised November 1, 2000) 

LA12 Sabine Pass Area (Revised July 1, 

2011) 

Outer Continental Shelf Official 

Protraction Diagrams 

(These 19 diagrams sell for $2.00 each.) 

NG15–02 Garden Banks (Revised 

February 28, 2007) 

NG15–03 Green Canyon (Revised 

November 1, 2000) 

NG15–05 Keathley Canyon (Revised 

February 28, 2007) 

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