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accommodation is required, please 

contact the BLM Vale District Office at 

(541) 473–6218 as soon as possible. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comments, please be aware that your 

entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can 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. 

The field trip on May 18 will start at 

8 a.m. PDT, and members will be 

looking at grazing parcels in the Denny 

Flat area. The field trip should end by 

2 p.m. 

Donald N. Gonzalez, 

BLM Vale District Manager. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6639 Filed 3–19–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–33–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

Notice of Public Scoping Meetings on 

an Environmental Impact Statement for 

Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Gulf 

of Mexico Eastern Planning Area Oil 

and Gas Lease Sales 225 and 226 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of public scoping 

meetings and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Proposed Outer 

Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas 

Leasing Program for 2012–2017 

(Proposed Program) schedules two 

potential lease sales, Proposed Lease 

Sales 225 and 226, to accommodate 

anticipated industry interest in the 

portion of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) 

Eastern Planning Area (EPA) that is not 

currently subject to the Congressionallymandated leasing moratorium. This 

notice describes the public scoping 

process that BOEM is initiating in 

preparation for completing an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

under the National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA) relating to these two 

proposed sales. While it is necessary to 

commence the presale information 

gathering process before finalizing the 

Five-Year OCS Oil and Gas Leasing 

Program for 2012–2017 in order to 

conform to the schedule in the Proposed 

Program, this scoping and EIS process 

will be terminated in the event that 

Lease Sales 225 and 226 are not 

included in the Final Program. 

Pursuant to the regulations 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of the NEPA of 1969, as amended (42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq. [1988]), BOEM will 

hold public scoping meetings to solicit 

information to assist in a determination 

of the significant issues to be addressed 

and their scope, and to identify 

mitigating measures and alternatives. 

This information will be used in the 

preparation of an EIS to evaluate the 

potential environmental effects of 

proposed Lease Sales 225 and 226. 

BOEM has planned five scoping 

meetings in April 2012 to provide 

opportunities for public participation 

and comment as part of the process for 

evaluating proposed Lease Sales 225 

and 226. BOEM also will use and 

coordinate the NEPA public comment 

process to satisfy the requirement for 

public involvement under Section 106 

of the National Historic Preservation Act 

(16 U.S.C. 470f), as provided for in 36 

CFR 800.2(d)(3). 

Throughout the scoping process, 

Federal, State, Tribal, and local 

governments and the general public 

have the opportunity to aid BOEM in 

determining the significant issues, 

reasonable alternatives, and potential 

mitigating measures to be analyzed in 

the EIS, as well as to provide additional 

information. Possible alternatives for 

analysis may represent a range of levels 

of activities, including: (1) The 

proposed action (holding the Lease 

Sale); (2) taking no action (canceling or 

postponing the sale); (3) defining 

appropriate restrictions on oil and gas 

activities based on environmental 

resources that are present; and/or (4) 

defining temporal or spatial work 

windows to accommodate the existing 

use of OCS space important to other 

critical national missions. Additional 

alternatives developed through scoping 

and NEPA evaluation will be considered 

and may also be evaluated. BOEM will 

receive statements, oral and written, at 

the venues listed below. All persons 

wishing to speak will have the 

opportunity to do so. Time limits may 

be set on speakers to allow time for all 

speakers to participate. The following 

public scoping meetings are planned for 

proposed Lease Sales 225 and 226: 

• Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 

Tallahassee, Florida: Tallahassee 

Community College, 444 Appleyard 

Drive, Tallahassee, Florida; at 1 p.m. 

EDT; 

• Wednesday, April 4, 2012, Panama 

City Beach, Florida: Wyndham Bay 

Point Resort, 4114 Jan Cooley Drive, 

Panama City Beach, Florida; two 

meetings, the first beginning at 1 p.m. 

CDT and the second beginning at 6 p.m. 

CDT; 

• Thursday, April 5, 2012, Mobile, 

Alabama: Five Rivers—Alabama’s Delta 

Resource Center, 30945 Five Rivers 

Boulevard, Spanish Fort, Alabama; at 1 

p.m. CDT; and 

• Monday, April 9, 2012, New 

Orleans, Louisiana: BOEM, GOM OCS 

Region, 1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, 

New Orleans, Louisiana; at 1 p.m. CDT. 

Procedures for submitting written 

comments via mail and electronically 

are also detailed below. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Proposed 

Lease Sales 225 and 226 are tentatively 

scheduled for 2014 and 2016 under the 

Proposed Program. The previous lease 

sale in the EPA, Lease Sale 224, was 

held on March 19, 2008. The EIS that 

will be prepared subsequent to this 

scoping process will analyze an area in 

the EPA that was addressed in Gulf of 

Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sale 

224: Eastern Planning Area, Final 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement (OCS EIS/EA MMS 2007– 

060), plus a 109,977-acre triangular area 

located immediately south of the Lease 

Sale 224 area. The area for proposed 

Lease Sales 225 and 226 covers 

approximately 657,905 acres in the EPA 

and is south of eastern Alabama and 

western Florida; the nearest point of 

land to the lease sale area is 125 miles 

north to Florida. The Call for 

Information and Nominations/Notice of 

Intent to prepare an EIS was published 

in the Federal Register on November 18, 

2011. This Federal Register notice is not 

an announcement to hold the proposed 

lease sales, but it is a continuation of 

information gathering and an early step 

in the environmental review process 

required by NEPA. The comments 

received during the scoping meetings 

and public comment period will help 

form the content of the EIS and will be 

summarized in the presale 

documentation prepared prior to 

holding a lease sale. 

Comments: In addition to, or in lieu 

of participation in the scoping meetings 

listed above, all interested parties, 

including Federal, State, Tribal, and 

local governments and the general 

public, may submit written comments 

on the scope of the EIS, significant 

issues that should be addressed, 

alternatives that should be considered, 

potential mitigating measures and the 

types of oil and gas activities of interest 

in the proposed lease sale area. 

Written scoping comments may be 

submitted in one of the following two 

ways: 

1. In written form enclosed in an 

envelope labeled ‘‘Scoping for Proposed 

EPA Lease Sales 225 and 226’’ and 

mailed (or hand delivered) to Mr. Gary 


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D. Goeke, Chief, Regional Assessment 

Section, Office of Environment (MS 

5410), BOEM, GOM OCS Region, 1201 

Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, 

Louisiana 70123–2394; or 

2. Electronically to the BOEM email 

address: boemegomeis@BOEM.gov. 

Petitions, although accepted, do not 

generally provide more weight or useful 

information than a single comment to 

assist in scoping. Please include your 

name and address as part of your 

submittal; BOEM does not consider 

anonymous comments. BOEM makes all 

comments, including the names and 

addresses of respondents, available for 

public review during regular business 

hours. Individual respondents may 

request that BOEM withhold their name 

and/or address from the public record; 

this request will be honored to the 

extent allowable by law. 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 4, 2012 to the address 

or email address specified above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the EIS, public scoping 

meetings, the submission of comments, 

or BOEM’s policies associated with this 

notice, please contact Mr. Gary D. 

Goeke, Chief, Regional Assessment 

Section, Office of Environment (MS 

5410), BOEM, GOM OCS Region, 1201 

Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, 

LA 70123–2394, telephone (504) 736– 

3233. 

Dated: March 14, 2012. 

Tommy P. Beaudreau, 

Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6724 Filed 3–19–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–VH–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection for 1029–0059 

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing 

its intention to request approval for the 

collections of information for 30 CFR 

part 735—Grants for Program 

Development and Administration and 

Enforcement, 30 CFR part 885 — Grants 

for Certified States and Indian Tribes, 

and 30 CFR part 886—State and Tribal 

Reclamation Grants. This collection 

request has been forwarded to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval. The information 

collection request describes the nature 

of the information collection and the 

expected burden and cost. 

DATES: OMB has up to 60 days to 

approve or disapprove the information 

collections but may respond after 30 

days. Therefore, public comments 

should be submitted to OMB by April 

19, 2012, in order to be assured of 

consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Please send comments to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, Attention: Department of the 

Interior Desk Officer, via email to 

OIRA_Docket@omb.eop.gov, or by 

facsimile to (202) 395–5806. Also, 

please send a copy of your comments to 

John Trelease, Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement, 1951 

Constitution Ave. NW., Room 203—SIB, 

Washington, DC 20240, by telefax to 

(202) 219–3276, or by email to 

jtrelease@osmre.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

receive a copy of the information 

collection request, contact John Trelease 

at (202) 208–2783, or electronically at 

jtrelease@osmre.gov. You may also 

review this collection on the Internet by 

going to http://www.reginfo.gov 

(Information Collection Review, 

Currently Under Review, Agency is 

Department of the Interior, DOI– 

OSMRE). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The OMB 

regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, which 

implement provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13), 

require that interested members of the 

public and affected agencies have an 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection and recordkeeping activities 

[see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)]. OSM has 

submitted a request to OMB to renew its 

approval of the collections of 

information contained in 30 CFR part 

735—Grants for Program Development 

and Administration and Enforcement, 

30 CFR part 886—State and Tribal 

Reclamation Grants, and 30 CFR part 

885—Grants for Certified States and 

Indian Tribes. OSM is requesting a 3- 

year term of approval for each 

information collection activity. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. Responses are required 

to receive a benefit of grant funding. The 

OMB control number for 30 CFR parts 

735, 885, 886 and the corresponding 

forms OSM–47, OSM–49, and OSM–51 

that require grant submittals are 

currently approved under OMB control 

number 1029–0059. 

As required under 5 CFR 1320.8(d), a 

Federal Register notice soliciting 

comments on this collection of 

information was published on 

November 15, 2011 (76 FR 70753). No 

comments were received. This notice 

provides the public with an additional 

30 days in which to comment on the 

following information collection 

activity: 

Title: 30 CFR Parts 735, 885 and 886. 

OMB Control Number: 1029–0059. 

Summary: State and Tribal 

reclamation and regulatory authorities 

are requested to provide specific budget 

and program information as part of the 

grant application and reporting 

processes authorized by the Surface 

Mining Control and Reclamation Act. 

Bureau Form Numbers: OSM–47, 

OSM–49 and OSM–51. 

Frequency of Collection: Once and 

annually. 

Description of Respondents: State and 

Tribal reclamation and regulatory 

authorities. 

Total Annual Responses: 136. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 892 

hours. 

Send comments on the need for the 

collection of information for the 

performance of the functions of the 

agency; the accuracy of the agency’s 

burden estimates; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility and clarity of the 

information collection; and ways to 

minimize the information collection 

burden on respondents, such as use of 

automated means of collection of the 

information, to the addresses listed in 

ADDRESSES. Please refer to OMB control 

number 1029–0059 in your 

correspondence. 

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 can 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. 


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