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qualification number, the map name/ 

number, and the block number(s) of the 

bid(s) to be withdrawn. The withdrawal 

request must be executed in 

conformance with the BOEM 

qualification records. The name and 

title of the authorized signatory must be 

typed under the signature block on the 

withdrawal request. The BOEM Gulf of 

Mexico RD, or the RD’s designee, will 

indicate their approval by signing and 

dating the withdrawal request. 

Bid Rounding 

Minimum bonus bid calculations, 

including rounding, for all blocks are 

shown in the document ‘‘List of Blocks 

Available for Leasing’’ included in the 

Final NOS package. 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. The bonus bid amount must be 

greater than or equal to the minimum 

bonus bid in whole dollars. 

IX. Forms 

The Final NOS package includes 

instructions, samples, and/or the 

preferred format for the following items. 

BOEM strongly encourages bidders to 

use the recommended formats. If 

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 under 

the DATES and ADDRESSES sections of the 

Final NOS. The venue will not be open 

to the public. Instead, the bid opening 

will be available for the public to view 

on BOEM’s website at www.boem.gov 

via live-streaming. 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 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 bid 

amount may be obtained on the BOEM 

website at http://www.boem.gov/Sale251 under the heading ‘‘Notification of 

EFT 1/5 Bonus Liability’’ after 1:00 p.m. 

on the day of the sale. All payments 

must be deposited electronically into an 

interest-bearing account in the U.S. 

Treasury by 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time (10 

a.m. Central 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 website identified above. 

BOEM requires bidders to use EFT 

procedures for payment of one-fifth 

bonus bid deposits for GOM Regionwide Sale 251 following the detailed 

instructions contained on the ONRR 

Payment Information web page at http:// 

www.onrr.gov/ReportPay/ 

Payments.htm. Acceptance of a deposit 

does not constitute, and will 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 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: 

(1) 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; 

(2) The bid is the highest valid bid; 

and 

(3) 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 

will be rejected and returned to the 

bidder. The U.S. Department of Justice 

and the Federal Trade Commission will 

review the results of the lease sale for 

antitrust issues prior to the acceptance 

of bids and issuance of leases. 

Bid Adequacy Review Procedures for 

GOM Region-Wide Sale 251 

To ensure that the U.S. 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, 

which are available at http://

www.boem.gov/Oil-and-Gas-EnergyProgram/Leasing/Regional-Leasing/ 

Gulf-of-Mexico-Region/Bid-AdequacyProcedures.aspx. 

Lease Award 

BOEM requires each bidder awarded 

a lease to: 

(1) Execute all copies of the lease 

(Form BOEM–2005 (February 2017), as 

amended); 

(2) Pay by EFT the balance of the 

bonus bid amount and the first year’s 

rental for each lease issued in 

accordance with the requirements of 30 

CFR 218.155 and 556.520(a); and 

(3) Provide to BOEM the bonding 

required by 30 CFR part 556, subpart I. 

ONRR requests that bidders use only 

one transaction to pay the balance of the 

bonus bid amount and the first year’s 

rental. When ONRR receives such 

payment, the bidder awarded the lease 

may not request a refund of the balance 

bonus bid amount or first year’s rental 

payment. 

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 the case of an event that 

the BOEM Gulf of Mexico RD deems 

may interfere with the carrying out of a 

fair and orderly 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 website at http://

www.boem.gov, for information 

regarding any changes. 

Dated: July 11, 2018. 

Walter D. Cruickshank, 

Acting Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2018–15180 Filed 7–13–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[Docket No. BOEM–2018–0035] 

Gulf of Mexico, Outer Continental Shelf 

(OCS), Oil and Gas Lease Sale 251 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of a 

Record of Decision. 


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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM) is announcing the 

availability of a Record of Decision for 

proposed Gulf of Mexico (GOM) 

regionwide oil and gas Lease Sale 251. 

This Record of Decision identifies 

BOEM’s selected alternative for 

proposed Lease Sale 251, which is 

analyzed in the Gulf of Mexico Outer 

Continental Shelf Lease Sale: Final 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement 2018 (2018 GOM 

Supplemental EIS). 

ADDRESSES: The Record of Decision is 

available on BOEM’s website at http:// 

www.boem.gov/nepaprocess/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

more information on the Record of 

Decision, you may contact Mr. Greg 

Kozlowski, Deputy Regional Supervisor, 

Office of Environment, by telephone at 

504–736–2512 or by email at 

greg.kozlowski@boem.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the 

2018 GOM Supplemental EIS, BOEM 

evaluated five alternatives in regard to 

proposed Lease Sale 251. These 

alternatives are summarized below: 

Alternative A—Regionwide OCS Lease 

Sale: This is BOEM’s preferred 

alternative. This alternative would 

allow for a proposed GOM regionwide 

lease sale encompassing all three 

planning areas: The Western Planning 

Area (WPA); the Central Planning Area 

(CPA); and a small portion of the 

Eastern Planning Area (EPA) not under 

Congressional moratorium. Under this 

alternative, BOEM would offer for lease 

all available unleased blocks within the 

proposed regionwide lease sale area for 

oil and gas operations with the 

following exceptions: Whole and 

portions of blocks deferred by the Gulf 

of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006; 

blocks that are adjacent to or beyond the 

United States’ Exclusive Economic Zone 

in the area known as the northern 

portion of the Eastern Gap; whole and 

partial blocks within the current 

boundary of the Flower Garden Banks 

National Marine Sanctuary; and blocks 

where the lease status is currently under 

appeal. The unavailable blocks are 

listed in Section I of the Final Notice of 

Sale for proposed Lease Sale 251 and at 

www.boem.gov/Sale-251. The proposed 

regionwide lease sale area encompasses 

about 91.93 million acres (ac). As of 

June 2018, approximately 78.2 million 

ac of the proposed regionwide lease sale 

area are available for lease. As described 

in the Final 2018 GOM Supplemental 

EIS, the estimated amounts of resources 

projected to be leased, discovered, 

developed, and produced as a result of 

the proposed regionwide lease sale are 

between 0.211 and 1.118 billion barrels 

of oil (BBO) and 0.547 and 4.424 trillion 

cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas. 

Alternative B—Regionwide OCS Lease 

Sale Excluding Available Unleased 

Blocks in the WPA Portion of the 

Proposed Lease Sale Area: This 

alternative would offer for lease all 

available unleased blocks within the 

CPA and EPA portions of the proposed 

lease sale area for oil and gas operations, 

with the following exceptions: Whole 

and portions of blocks deferred by the 

Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 

2006; and blocks that are adjacent to or 

beyond the United States’ Exclusive 

Economic Zone in the area known as the 

northern portion of the Eastern Gap. The 

proposed CPA/EPA lease sale area 

encompasses about 63.35 million ac. As 

of February 2018, approximately 51.2 

million ac of the proposed CPA/EPA 

lease sale area are available for lease. 

The estimated amounts of resources 

projected to be leased, discovered, 

developed, and produced as a result of 

the proposed lease sale under 

Alternative B are 0.185–0.970 BBO and 

0.441–3.672 Tcf of gas. 

Alternative C—Regionwide OCS Lease 

Sale Excluding Available Unleased 

Blocks in the CPA and EPA Portions of 

the Proposed Lease Sale Area: This 

alternative would offer for lease all 

available unleased blocks within the 

WPA portion of the proposed lease sale 

area for oil and gas operations, with the 

following exception: Whole and partial 

blocks within the current boundary of 

the Flower Garden Banks National 

Marine Sanctuary. The proposed WPA 

lease sale area encompasses about 28.58 

million ac. As of February 2018, 

approximately 26.2 million ac of the 

proposed WPA lease sale area are 

available for lease. The estimated 

amounts of resources projected to be 

leased, discovered, developed, and 

produced as a result of the proposed 

lease sale under Alternative C are 

0.026–0.148 BBO and 0.106–0.752 Tcf 

of gas. 

Alternative D—Alternative A, B, or C, 

with the Option to Exclude Available 

Unleased Blocks Subject to the 

Topographic Features, Live Bottom 

(Pinnacle Trend), and/or Blocks South 

of Baldwin County, Alabama, 

Stipulations: This alternative could be 

combined with any of the Action 

alternatives above (i.e., Alternative A, B, 

or C) and would allow the flexibility to 

offer leases under any alternative with 

additional exclusions. Under 

Alternative D, the decisionmaker could 

exclude from leasing any available 

unleased blocks subject to any one and/ 

or a combination of the following 

stipulations: Topographic Features 

Stipulation; Live Bottom Stipulation; 

and Blocks South of Baldwin County, 

Alabama, Stipulation (not applicable to 

Alternative C). This alternative 

considered blocks subject to these 

stipulations because these areas have 

been emphasized in scoping, can be 

geographically defined, and adequate 

information exists regarding their 

ecological importance and sensitivity to 

OCS oil- and gas-related activities. 

A total of 207 blocks within the CPA 

and 160 blocks in the WPA are affected 

by the Topographic Features 

Stipulation. There are currently no 

identified topographic features 

protected under this stipulation in the 

EPA. The Live Bottom Stipulation 

covers the pinnacle trend area of the 

CPA, affecting a total of 74 blocks. 

Under Alternative D, the number of 

blocks that would become unavailable 

for lease represents only a small 

percentage of the total number of blocks 

to be offered under Alternative A, B, or 

C (<4%, even if blocks subject to all 

three stipulations were excluded). 

Therefore, Alternative D could reduce 

offshore infrastructure and activities in 

the pinnacle trend area, but Alternative 

D also shifts the location of offshore 

infrastructure and activities farther from 

these sensitive zones and would not 

lead to a reduction in overall offshore 

infrastructure and activities. 

Alternative E—No Action: This 

alternative is not holding proposed 

regionwide Lease Sale 251 and is 

identified as the environmentally 

preferred alternative. 

Lease Stipulations—The 2018 GOM 

Supplemental EIS describes all lease 

stipulations, which are included in the 

Final Notice of Sale Package. In the 

Record of Decision for the 2017–2022 

Five-Year Program, the Secretary of the 

Interior required the protection of 

biologically sensitive underwater 

features in all Gulf of Mexico oil and gas 

lease sales as programmatic mitigation; 

therefore, the application of the 

Topographic Features Stipulation and 

Live Bottom Stipulation are being 

adopted and applied for applicable 

designated lease blocks in Lease Sale 

251. 

The additional eight lease stipulations 

for proposed regionwide Lease Sale 251 

are the Military Areas Stipulation; the 

Evacuation Stipulation; the 

Coordination Stipulation; the Blocks 

South of Baldwin County, Alabama, 

Stipulation; the Protected Species 

Stipulation; the United Nations 

Convention on the Law of the Sea 

Royalty Payment Stipulation; the Below 

Seabed Operations Stipulation; and the 

Stipulation on the Agreement between 

the United States of America and the 

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1The record is defined in sec. 207.2(f) of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (19 

CFR 207.2(f)). 

2Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts from 

Thailand: Affirmative Final Determination of Sales 

at Less Than Fair Value and Final Affirmative 

Determination of Critical Circumstances in Part, 82 

FR 25998, June 5, 2018; Citric Acid and Certain 

Citrate Salts from Belgium: Affirmative Final 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value, 82 

FR 26001, June 5, 2018; Citric Acid and Certain 

Citrate Salts from Colombia: Affirmative Final 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and 

Final Negative Determination of Critical 

Circumstances, 82 FR 26002, June 5, 2018. 

3The Commission also finds that imports subject 

to Commerce’s affirmative critical circumstances 

determination are not likely to undermine seriously 

the remedial effect of the antidumping duty order 

on Thailand. 

4Commissioner Jason E. Kearns did not 

participate in these investigations. 

Transboundary Hydrocarbon Reservoirs 

in the Gulf of Mexico. These eight 

stipulations will be added as lease terms 

where applicable and will be 

enforceable as part of the lease. 

Appendix B of the Gulf of Mexico OCS 

Oil and Gas Lease Sales: 2017–2022; 

Gulf of Mexico Lease Sales 249, 250, 

251, 252, 253, 254, 256, 257, 259, and 

261; Final Multisale Environmental 

Impact Statement provides a list and 

description of standard post-lease 

conditions of approval that may be 

required by BOEM or the Bureau of 

Safety and Environmental Enforcement 

as a result of plan and permit review 

processes for the Gulf of Mexico OCS 

Region. 

After careful consideration, BOEM 

has selected the preferred alternative 

(Alternative A) in the 2018 GOM 

Supplemental EIS for proposed Lease 

Sale 251. BOEM’s selection of the 

preferred alternative meets the purpose 

and need for the proposed action, as 

identified in the 2018 GOM 

Supplemental EIS, and provides for 

orderly resource development with 

protection of the human, marine, and 

coastal environments while also 

ensuring that the public receives an 

equitable return for these resources and 

that free-market competition is 

maintained. 

Authority: This Notice of Availability of a 

Record of Decision is published pursuant to 

the regulations (40 CFR part 1505) 

implementing the provisions of the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 

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

Dated: July 11, 2018. 

Walter D. Cruickshank, 

Acting Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 731–TA–1374–1376 

(Final)] 

Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts 

From Belgium, Colombia, and Thailand 

Determination 

On the basis of the record 1 developed 

in the subject investigations, the United 

States International Trade Commission 

(‘‘Commission’’) determines, pursuant 

to the Tariff Act of 1930 (‘‘the Act’’), 

that an industry in the United States is 

materially injured by reason of imports 

of citric acid and certain citrate salts 

from Belgium, Colombia, and Thailand 

that have been found by the U.S. 

Department of Commerce (‘‘Commerce’’) 

to be sold in the United States at less 

than fair value (‘‘LTFV’’).234

Background 

The Commission, pursuant to section 

735(b) of the Act (19 U.S.C. 1673d(b)), 

instituted these investigations effective 

June 2, 2017, following receipt of a 

petition filed with the Commission and 

Commerce by Archer Daniels Midland 

Company, Decatur, Illinois; Cargill, 

Incorporated, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 

and Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas, 

LLC, Hoffman Estates, Illinois. The 

Commission scheduled the final phase 

of the investigations following 

notification of a preliminary 

determination by Commerce that 

imports of citric acid and certain citrate 

salts from Belgium, Colombia, and 

Thailand were being sold at LTFV 

within the meaning of section 733(b) of 

the Act (19 U.S.C. 1673b(b)). Notice of 

the scheduling of the final phase of the 

Commission’s investigation and of a 

public hearing to be held in connection 

therewith was given by posting copies 

of the notice in the Office of the 

Secretary, U.S. International Trade 

Commission, Washington, DC, and by 

publishing the notice in the Federal 

Register of February 2, 2018 (83 FR 

4922). The hearing was held in 

Washington, DC, on May 14, 2018, and 

all persons who requested the 

opportunity were permitted to appear in 

person or by counsel. 

The Commission made these 

determinations pursuant to section 

735(b) of the Act (19 U.S.C. 1673d(b)). 

It completed and filed its 

determinations in these investigations 

on July 10, 2018. The views of the 

Commission are contained in USITC 

Publication 4799 (July 2018), entitled 

Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts 

from Belgium, Colombia, and Thailand: 

Investigation Nos. 731–TA–1374–1376 

(Final). 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: July 10, 2018. 

Lisa Barton, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2018–15067 Filed 7–13–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Drug Enforcement Administration 

[Docket No. DEA–392] 

Bulk Manufacturer of Controlled 

Substances Application: Siegfried 

USA, LLC 

ACTION: Notice of application. 

DATES: Registered bulk manufacturers of 

the affected basic classes, and 

applicants therefore, may file written 

comments on or objections to the 

issuance of the proposed registration on 

or before September 14, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to: Drug Enforcement 

Administration, Attention: DEA Federal 

Register Representative/DRW, 8701 

Morrissette Drive, Springfield, Virginia 

22152. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Attorney General has delegated his 

authority under the Controlled 

Substances Act to the Administrator of 

the Drug Enforcement Administration 

(DEA), 28 CFR 0.100(b). Authority to 

exercise all necessary functions with 

respect to the promulgation and 

implementation of 21 CFR part 1301, 

incident to the registration of 

manufacturers, distributors, dispensers, 

importers, and exporters of controlled 

substances (other than final orders in 

connection with suspension, denial, or 

revocation of registration) has been 

redelegated to the Assistant 

Administrator of the DEA Diversion 

Control Division (‘‘Assistant 

Administrator’’) pursuant to section 7 of 

28 CFR part 0, appendix to subpart R. 

In accordance with 21 CFR 

1301.33(a), this is notice that on 

November 2, 2017, Siegfried USA, LLC, 

33 Industrial Park Rd., Pennsville, NJ 

08070 applied to be registered as a bulk 

manufacturer for the basic classes of 

controlled substances: 

Controlled 

substance Drug code Schedule 

Gamma Hydroxybutyric Acid.2010 I 

Dihydromorphine .... 9145 I 

Hydromorphinol ...... 9301 I 


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