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agency, or Tribe that is interested in 

serving as a cooperating agency for the 

development of the MDP/EIS is asked to 

submit such requests to the BLM by 

September 6, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on issues related to the scope of the 

proposed Willow MDP/EIS by any of the 

following methods: 

• Email: BLM_AK_Willow_

Comments@blm.gov. 

• Mail: Willow MDP/EIS Scoping 

Comments, Bureau of Land 

Management, 222 West 7th Avenue, 

Stop #13, Anchorage, AK 99513. 

Requests for information regarding the 

Willow MDP/EIS and cooperating 

agency requests may be mailed to: Attn: 

Willow MDP/EIS, 222 West 7th Avenue, 

Stop #13, Anchorage, Alaska 99517. 

You may also request to be added to the 

mailing list for the MDP/EIS. 

Documents and other information 

pertaining to the MDP/EIS are available 

on the BLM Alaska website at http://

www.blm.gov/alaska. 

You may examine documents 

pertinent to this proposal at the BLM 

Alaska Public Room, Arctic District 

Office, 222 University Avenue, 

Fairbanks, Alaska 99709, and at the 

BLM Alaska Public Information Center, 

Alaska State Office, 222 West 7th Ave., 

Anchorage, Alaska 99513. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ferris Couture, BLM Alaska State Office, 

907–271–1306. People who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Relay 

Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to 

contact the above individual during 

normal business hours. The FRS 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: 

ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. 

(ConocoPhillips) initiated discussions 

with the BLM regarding potential 

development of its recently announced 

Willow oil and gas prospect, which is 

located on Federal oil and gas leases 

ConocoPhillips holds within the Bear 

Tooth Unit of the NPR–A approximately 

30 air miles west of the Native Village 

of Nuiqsut. The BLM manages 

approximately 23 million acres 

comprising the NPR–A, located on 

Alaska’s North Slope. 

On May 10, 2018, ConocoPhillips 

submitted a letter requesting the 

development of the Willow prospect 

through a MDP/EIS. The letter, available 

on the BLM Alaska website, includes a 

description of the foreseeable 

infrastructure and activity associated 

with the proposed Willow prospect 

development and a map of the proposed 

area of development. Analyzing the 

entire proposed Willow development in 

a single MDP/EIS will allow the BLM to 

make determinations of National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

adequacy when individual applications 

for permits to drill are submitted. This 

is expected to result in a quicker and 

more efficient process for the approval 

of applications for permits to drill. 

The MDP/EIS will analyze the 

environmental impacts and appropriate 

mitigation measures to reduce adverse 

effects to surface resources of the 

proposed Willow prospect which would 

involve the construction, operation, and 

maintenance of an oil and gas 

development project which may 

include: One central processing facility, 

an infrastructure pad, up to five drill 

pads with up to fifty wells on each pad, 

access and infield roads, an airstrip, 

pipelines, a gravel mine, and a 

temporary island to support module 

delivery via sealift barges. 

The MDP/EIS will be prepared in 

accordance with recently issued 

Executive Orders and Secretarial 

guidance on streamlining and 

improving the NEPA and other 

regulatory processes. At present, the 

BLM has identified the following 

preliminary issues for evaluation in the 

MDP/EIS, impacts to: Subsistence use 

and access; biological resources, 

including caribou, polar bears, 

spectacled and Stellar eiders, yellow 

billed loons, and fisheries; social and 

cultural resources; air quality and 

climate; and aquatic resources. 

The BLM will use NEPA public 

participation guidelines to assist the 

agency in satisfying the public 

involvement requirements under 

Section 106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act (54 U.S.C. 306108), 

pursuant to 36 CFR 800.2(d)(3). 

The information about historic and 

cultural resources within the area 

potentially affected by the Willow 

development project will assist the BLM 

in identifying and evaluating impacts to 

cultural resources in the context of both 

NEPA and Section 106 of the National 

Historic Preservation Act. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personally identifiable information in 

your comment, you should be aware 

that your entire comment—including 

your personally identifiable 

information—may be made publicly 

available at any time. While you can ask 

the BLM in your comment to withhold 

your personally identifiable information 

from public review, we cannot 

guarantee that we will be able to do so. 

The BLM will consult with federally 

recognized Tribes on a government-togovernment basis in accordance with 

Executive Order 13175 and other 

policies. Tribal concerns will be given 

appropriate consideration. 

Federal, state, local agencies, and 

Tribes that may be interested in or 

substantially affected by the proposal 

that the BLM is evaluating are invited to 

request participation in the 

development of the MDP/EIS as 

cooperating agencies. Appropriate 

cooperating agencies are those with 

jurisdiction by law and/or those that can 

offer special expertise in the 

development of the MDP/EIS. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7. 

Karen E. Mouritsen, 

Acting State Director, Alaska. 

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TIME AND DATE: 12:00 noon, August 22, 

2018. 

PLACE: On board MISSISSIPPI V at City 

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STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: (1) 

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Notice of Information Collection 

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Notice of information collection. 

SUMMARY: The National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration, as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing information collections. 

DATES: All comments should be 

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the date of this publication. 

ADDRESSES: All comments should be 

addressed to Gatrie Johnson, National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration, 

300 E Streets SW, Washington, DC 

20546–0001. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument(s) and instructions should 

be directed to Gatrie Johnson, NASA 

Clearance Officer, NASA Headquarters, 

300 E Street SW, JF0000, Washington, 

DC 20546 or email Gatrie.Johnson@

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other respondents. 

II. Methods of Collection 

Electronic. 

III. Data 

Title: Research and Related Personal 

Data. 

OMB Number: 2700–0161. 

Type of Review: Existing information 

collection. 

Affected Public: Not-For-Profit 

Institutions. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

5,000. 

Estimated Time per Response: 5 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Public 

Burden Hours: 416.7. 

Estimated Total Annual Government 

Cost: $37,500. 

IV. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (1) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

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of the functions of NASA, including 

whether the information collected has 

practical utility; (2) the accuracy of 

NASA’s estimate of the burden 

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clarity of the information to be 

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burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including automated 

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forms of information technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection. 

They will also become a matter of 

public record. 

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NASA PRA Clearance Officer. 

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