52562 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 164 / Friday, August 23, 2013 / Notices 

Dated: August 14, 2013. 

Rhea S. Suh, 

Assistant Secretary—Policy, Management 

and Budget. 

[FR Doc. 2013–20591 Filed 8–22–13; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[MMAA 104000] 

Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), Gulf of 

Mexico (GOM), Oil and Gas Lease 

Sales, Central Planning Area (CPA) 

Lease Sales 235, 241, and 247 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent (NOI) to Prepare 

a Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS). 

SUMMARY: Consistent with the 

regulations implementing the National 

Environmental Policy Act, as amended 

(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) (NEPA), BOEM 

is announcing its intent to prepare a 

Supplemental EIS for proposed Central 

Planning Area (CPA) Lease Sales 235, 

241 and 247 in the Gulf of Mexico (CPA 

Supplemental EIS). Proposed Lease Sale 

235 is the next proposed lease sale in 

the Gulf of Mexico’s CPA off the States 

of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. 

The CPA Supplemental EIS will update 

the environmental and socioeconomic 

analyses in the Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil 

and Gas Lease Sales: 2012–2017; 

Western Planning Area Lease Sales 229, 

233, 238, 246, and 248; Central 

Planning Area Lease Sales 227, 231, 

235, 241, and 247, Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (OCS EIS/EA BOEM 

2012–019) (WPA/CPA Multisale EIS) 

and in the Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and 

Gas Lease Sales: 2013–2014; Western 

Planning Area Lease Sale 233; Central 

Planning Area Lease Sale 231, Final 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement (OCS EIS/EA BOEM 2013– 

0118) (WPA 233/CPA 231 Supplemental 

EIS). The WPA/CPA Multisale EIS was 

completed in July 2012. The WPA 233/ 

CPA 231 Supplemental EIS was 

completed in April 2013. 

A Supplemental EIS is deemed 

appropriate to supplement the NEPA 

documents cited above for these lease 

sales in order to consider new 

circumstances and information arising 

from, among other things, the 

Deepwater Horizon explosion, oil spill, 

and response. The CPA Supplemental 

EIS analysis will focus on updating the 

baseline conditions. 

The CPA Supplemental EIS analysis 

will focus on the potential 

environmental effects of oil and natural 

gas leasing, exploration, development, 

and production in the CPA identified 

through the Area Identification 

procedure as the proposed lease sale 

area. In addition to the no action 

alternative (i.e., canceling a proposed 

lease sale), other alternatives may be 

considered for the proposed CPA lease 

sales, such as deferring certain areas 

from the proposed lease sale area. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 

27, 2012, the Secretary of the Interior 

approved as final the Proposed Final 

OCS Oil & Gas Leasing Program: 2012– 

2017 (Five-Year Program). The FiveYear Program includes the three 

remaining CPA lease sales that will be 

considered in the CPA Supplemental 

EIS. Proposed CPA Lease Sales 235, 241, 

and 247 are tentatively scheduled to be 

held in 2015, 2016, and 2017, 

respectively. The proposed CPA lease 

sale area encompasses about 63 million 

acres of the total CPA area of 66.45 

million acres (excluding whole and 

partial 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). 

This Federal Register notice is not an 

announcement to hold a proposed lease 

sale, but it is a continuation of 

information gathering and is published 

early in the environmental review 

process, in furtherance of the goals of 

NEPA. The comments received during 

the scoping comment period will help 

form the content of the CPA 235, 241, 

and 247 Supplemental EIS and will be 

summarized in presale documentation 

prepared during the decision making 

process for CPA Lease Sale 235. If, after 

completion of the CPA Supplemental 

EIS, the Department of the Interior’s 

Assistant Secretary for Land and 

Minerals Management decides to hold a 

lease sale, then the lease sale area 

identified in the final Notice of Sale 

may exclude or defer certain lease 

blocks from the area offered. However, 

for purposes of the CPA Supplemental 

EIS and to adequately assess the 

potential impacts of an areawide lease 

sale, BOEM is assuming that all 

unleased blocks may be offered in 

proposed CPA Lease Sale 235 and in 

each of the remaining proposed CPA 

lease sales. 

In order to ensure a greater level of 

transparency during the Outer 

Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) 

stages and tiered NEPA processes of the 

Five-Year Program, BOEM established 

an alternative and mitigation tracking 

table, which is designed to track the 

receipt and treatment of alternative and 

mitigation suggestions. Section 4.3.2 of 

the Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas 

Leasing Program: 2012–2017; Final 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement (the Five-Year Program EIS) 

(http://www.boem.gov/5-Year/2012– 

2017/PEIS.aspx) presented a list of 

deferral and alternative requests that 

were received during the development 

of the Five-Year Program EIS, but were 

determined to be more appropriately 

considered at subsequent OCSLA and 

NEPA stages. The WPA/CPA Multisale 

EIS addressed these deferral and 

alternative requests, but they were 

ultimately deemed inappropriate for 

further analysis as separate alternatives 

or deferrals from those already included 

and considered in the WPA/CPA 

Multisale EIS. In this and future NEPA 

analyses, BOEM will continue to 

evaluate whether these or other deferral 

or alternative requests warrant 

additional consideration as appropriate. 

(Please refer to Chapter 2.2.1.2 of the 

WPA/CPA Multisale EIS for a complete 

discussion; http://www.boem.gov/

Environmental-Stewardship/

Environmental-Assessment/NEPA/

BOEM–2012–019_v1.aspx). A key 

principle at each stage in the NEPA 

process is to identify how the 

recommendations for deferral and 

mitigation requests are being addressed 

and whether new information or 

circumstances favor new or different 

analytical approaches in response to 

these requests. 

Additionally, BOEM has created a 

tailored map of the potentially affected 

area through the Multipurpose Marine 

Cadastre (MMC) Web site (http://

boem.gov/Oil-and-Gas-Energy-Program/

Leasing/Five-Year-Program/Lease-SaleSchedule/Interactive-Maps.aspx). The 

MMC is an integrated marine 

information system that provides a 

comprehensive look at geospatial data 

and ongoing activities and studies 

occurring in the area being considered. 

This Web site provides the ability to 

view multiple data layers of existing 

geospatial data. 

Scoping Process: This NOI also serves 

to announce the scoping process for 

identifying issues for the CPA 

Supplemental EIS. Throughout the 

scoping process, Federal, State, Tribal, 

and local governments and the general 

public have the opportunity to help 

BOEM determine significant resources 

and issues, impacting factors, 

reasonable alternatives, and potential 

mitigation measures to be analyzed in 

the CPA Supplemental EIS, and to 

provide additional information. BOEM 

will also use the NEPA commenting 

process to initiate the section 106 


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consultation process of the National 

Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 

470f), as provided for in 36 CFR 

800.2(d)(3). 

Pursuant to the regulations 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of NEPA (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), BOEM 

will hold public scoping meetings in 

Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama on 

the CPA Supplemental EIS. The purpose 

of these meetings is to solicit comments 

on the scope of the CPA Supplemental 

EIS. BOEM’s scoping meetings will be 

held at the following places and times: 

• Gulfport, Mississippi: Monday, 

September 9, 2013, Courtyard by 

Marriott Beachfront MS Hotel, 1600 East 

Beach Boulevard, Gulfport, Mississippi 

39501; one meeting beginning at 6:30 

p.m. CDT; 

• Mobile, Alabama: Tuesday, 

September 10, 2013, Hilton Garden Inn 

Mobile West, 828 West I–65 Service 

Road South, Mobile, Alabama 36609; 

one meeting beginning at 6:30 p.m. 

CDT; and 

• New Orleans, Louisiana: Thursday, 

September 12, 2013, Bureau of Ocean 

Energy Management, Gulf of Mexico 

OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood Park 

Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana 

70123; one meeting beginning at 1:00 

p.m. CDT. 

Cooperating Agency: BOEM invites 

other Federal, State, Tribal, and local 

governments to consider becoming 

cooperating agencies in the preparation 

of the CPA Supplemental EIS. We invite 

qualified government entities to inquire 

about cooperating agency status for the 

CPA Supplemental EIS. Following the 

guidelines from the Council on 

Environmental Quality (CEQ), qualified 

agencies and governments are those 

with ‘‘jurisdiction by law or special 

expertise.’’ Potential cooperating 

agencies should consider their authority 

and capacity to assume the 

responsibilities of a cooperating agency, 

and remember that an agency’s role in 

the environmental analysis neither 

enlarges nor diminishes the final 

decisionmaking authority of any other 

agency involved in the NEPA process. 

Upon request, BOEM will provide 

potential cooperating agencies with a 

written summary of ground rules for 

cooperating agencies, including time 

schedules and critical action dates, 

milestones, responsibilities, scope and 

detail of cooperating agencies’ 

contributions, and availability of 

predecisional information. BOEM 

anticipates this summary will form the 

basis for a Memorandum of Agreement 

between BOEM and any cooperating 

agency. Agencies should also consider 

the ‘‘Factors for Determining 

Cooperating Agency Status’’ in 

Attachment 1 to CEQ’s January 30, 2002, 

Memorandum for the Heads of Federal 

Agencies: Cooperating Agencies in 

Implementing the Procedural 

Requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act. These 

documents are available at the following 

locations on the Internet: http://ceq.hss.

doe.gov/nepa/regs/cooperating/

cooperatingagenciesmemorandum.html; 

and http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/nepa/regs/

cooperating/cooperatingagencymemo

factors.html. 

BOEM, as the lead agency, will not 

provide financial assistance to 

cooperating agencies. Even if an 

organization is not a cooperating 

agency, opportunities will exist to 

provide information and comments to 

BOEM during the normal public input 

stages of the NEPA/EIS process. For 

further information about cooperating 

agencies, please contact Mr. Gary D. 

Goeke at (504) 736–3233. 

Comments: All interested parties, 

including Federal, State, Tribal, and 

local governments, and other interested 

parties, may submit written comments 

on the scope of the CPA Supplemental 

EIS, significant issues that should be 

addressed, alternatives that should be 

considered, potential mitigation 

measures, and the types of oil and gas 

activities of interest in the proposed 

CPA lease sale area. 

Written scoping comments may be 

submitted in one of the following ways: 

1. In an envelope labeled ‘‘Scoping 

Comments for the CPA Supplemental 

EIS’’ and mailed (or hand delivered) to 

Mr. Gary D. Goeke, Chief, 

Environmental Assessment Section, 

Office of Environment (GM 623E), 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 

Gulf of Mexico OCS Region, 1201 

Elmwood Park Boulevard, New Orleans, 

Louisiana 70123–2394; 

2. Through the regulations.gov web 

portal: Navigate to http://

www.regulations.gov and search for ‘‘Oil 

and Gas Lease Sales: Gulf of Mexico, 

Outer Continental Shelf; Central 

Planning Area Lease Sales 235, 241, and 

247’’ (Note: It is important to include 

the quotation marks in your search 

terms.) Click on the ‘‘Comment Now!’’ 

button to the right of the document link. 

Enter your information and comment, 

then click ‘‘Submit’’; or 

3. BOEM’s email address: cpa235@

boem.gov. 

Petitions, although accepted, do not 

generally provide useful information to 

assist in the development of 

alternatives, resources and issues to be 

analyzed, or impacting factors. BOEM 

does not consider anonymous 

comments; please include your name 

and address as part of your submittal. 

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 names and/or 

addresses from the public record; 

however, BOEM cannot guarantee that 

we will be able to do so. 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 

by September 23, 2013 to the address 

specified above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the CPA Supplemental 

EIS, the submission of comments, or 

BOEM’s policies associated with this 

notice, please contact Mr. Gary D. 

Goeke, Chief, Environmental 

Assessment Section, Office of 

Environment (GM 623E), Bureau of 

Ocean Energy Management, Gulf of 

Mexico OCS Region, 1201 Elmwood 

Park Boulevard, New Orleans, LA 

70123–2394, telephone (504) 736–3233. 

Authority: This NOI is published pursuant 

to the regulations (40 CFR 1501.17) 

implementing the provisions of NEPA. 

Dated:August 16, 2013. 

Tommy P. Beaudreau, 

Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

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