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international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 

24, 2023, the Notice of Intent to 

segregate lands and prepare an 

environmental impact statement for the 

proposed Libra Solar Project was 

published in the Federal Register (88 

FR 24827). This announced the 

segregation of 5,500 acres of public 

lands for the proposed project. This 

notice effectively adds 120 acres to the 

segregation for a total of 5,620 acres of 

public land. 

Regulations found at 43 CFR 2091.3– 

1(e) and 43 CFR 2804.25(f) allow the 

BLM to temporarily segregate public 

lands within a right-of-way application 

area for solar energy development from 

the operation of the public land laws, 

including the Mining Law, by 

publication of a Federal Register notice. 

The BLM uses this temporary 

segregation authority to preserve its 

ability to approve, approve with 

modifications, or deny proposed rightsof-way, and to facilitate the orderly 

administration of the public lands. This 

temporary segregation is subject to valid 

existing rights, including existing 

mining claims, located before this 

segregation notice. Licenses, permits, 

cooperative agreements, or discretionary 

land use authorizations of a temporary 

nature that would not impact lands 

identified in this notice may be allowed 

with the approval of an authorized 

officer of the BLM during the 

segregation period. The lands segregated 

under this notice are legally described 

as follows: 

Mount Diablo Meridian, Nevada 

T. 12 N., R. 27 E., 

Sec. 32, N1⁄2SE1⁄4; 

Sec. 35, NE1⁄4 SW1⁄4. 

The areas described aggregate 120 

acres, according to the official plat of 

the survey on file with the BLM. 

As provided in the regulations, the 

segregation of lands in this notice will 

not exceed 2 years from the date of 

publication unless extended for up to 2 

additional years through publication of 

a new notice in the Federal Register. 

Termination of the segregation occurs 

on the earliest of the following dates: 

upon issuance of a decision by the 

authorized officer granting, granting 

with modifications, or denying the 

application for a ROW; automatically at 

the end of the segregation; or upon 

publication of a Federal Register notice 

of termination of the segregation. 

Upon termination of segregation of 

these lands, all lands subject to this 

segregation would automatically reopen 

to appropriation under the public land 

laws. 

(Authority: 43 CFR 2091.3–1e and 43 CFR 

2804.25(f)) 

Kimberly D. Dow, 

District Manager. 

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BILLING CODE 4331–21–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[Docket No. BOEM–2024–0006] 

Notice of Availability of a Draft 

Environmental Assessment for 

Additional Site Assessment Activities 

on Beacon Wind, LLC’s Renewable 

Energy Lease OCS–A 0520 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM) announces the 

availability of the draft environmental 

assessment (EA) to analyze the 

reasonably foreseeable impacts from 

additional site assessment plan (SAP) 

activities in Lease Area OCS–A 0520 

offshore Massachusetts. Beacon Wind, 

LLC (Beacon Wind), the leaseholder, 

requests to conduct additional site 

assessment activities in the lease area 

that were not analyzed in the initial EA 

titled ‘‘Commercial Wind Lease 

Issuance and Site Assessment Activities 

on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf 

Offshore Massachusetts’’ (2014 EA). The 

draft EA analyzes the potential 

environmental impacts of the proposed 

site assessment activities, which consist 

of 35 deployments and removals of a 

single suction bucket foundation at 26 

locations within the Lease Area to 

gather information to support the 

engineering design of wind turbine and 

offshore substation foundations that 

would potentially be installed within 

the Lease Area for a future Beacon Wind 

project. This notice of availability 

(NOA) announces the start of the public 

review and comment period, as well as 

the dates and times for public meetings 

on the draft EA. After BOEM holds the 

public meetings and addresses public 

comments submitted during the review 

period, BOEM will publish a final EA. 

The EA will inform BOEM’s decision 

whether to approve the site assessment 

plan amendment for additional site 

assessment activities. 

DATES: Comments must be received no 

later than March 4, 2024. BOEM’s 

virtual public meetings will be held on 

the following dates at the times (eastern 

time) indicated. 

• Friday, February 23, 2024; 1:00 p.m. 

• Wednesday, February 28, 2024; 5:00 

p.m. 

Registration for the virtual public 

meeting is required and may be 

completed at https://www.boem.gov/ 

renewable-energy/state-activities/ 

beacon-wind. Meeting information will 

be sent to registrants via their email 

address provided during registration. 

ADDRESSES: The draft EA and detailed 

information about the proposed site 

assessment activities can be found on 

BOEM’s website at: https://

www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/stateactivities/beacon-wind. Comments can 

be submitted in any of the following 

ways: 

• Orally or in written form during any 

of the public meetings identified in this 

NOA. 

• In written form by mail or any other 

delivery service, enclosed in an 

envelope labeled ‘‘Beacon Wind SAP 

EA’’ and addressed to Chief, Office of 

Renewable Energy Programs, Bureau of 

Ocean Energy Management, 45600 

Woodland Road, Mailstop VAM–OREP, 

Sterling, VA 20166. 

• Through the regulations.gov web 

portal: Navigate to https://

www.regulations.gov and search for 

Docket No. BOEM–2024–0006. Click on 

the ‘‘Comment’’ button below the 

document link. Enter your information 

and comment, then click ‘‘Submit 

Comment.’’ 

For more information about 

submitting comments, please see 

‘‘Information on Submitting Comments’’ 

under the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

heading below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Laura Lee Wolfson, BOEM Office of 

Renewable Energy Programs, 45600 

Woodland Road, Sterling, Virginia 

20166, (703) 787–1433 or 

lauralee.wolfson@boem.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposed Action: The draft EA 

analyzes two alternatives: the proposed 

action, which is approving the 

additional site assessment activities 

proposed in the Beacon Wind SAP 

Amendment to the Lease Area, and the 

no action alternative. The EA considers 

the reasonably foreseeable 

environmental consequences associated 

with the deployment and recovery of 

suction bucket foundations to further 

assess the site conditions and gather 

information to support the engineering 

design of wind turbine and offshore 

substation foundations that would 

potentially be installed within the Lease 

Area for the proposed Beacon Wind 

project. BOEM prepared an EA for this 

proposed action in order to assist the 


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agency’s planning and decision-making 

(40 CFR 1501.5(b)). 

Availability of the draft EA: The draft 

EA and associated information are 

available on BOEM’s website at: https:// 

www.boem.gov/renewable-energy/stateactivities/beacon-wind. If you require a 

digital copy on a flash drive or paper 

copy, BOEM may provide one upon 

request, if supplies are available. You 

may request a flash drive or paper copy 

of the draft EA by contacting Laura Lee 

Wolfson at (703) 787–1662 or 

lauralee.wolfson@boem.gov. 

Cooperating Agencies: The following 

Federal agency will participate as 

cooperating agency in the preparation of 

the EA: the Bureau of Safety and 

Environmental Enforcement. 

Information on Submitting Comments 

a. Freedom of Information Act 

BOEM will protect privileged or 

confidential information that you 

submit when required by the Freedom 

of Information Act (FOIA). Exemption 4 

of FOIA applies to trade secrets and 

commercial or financial information 

that is privileged or confidential. If you 

wish to protect the confidentiality of 

such information, clearly label it and 

request that BOEM treat it as 

confidential. BOEM will not disclose 

such information if BOEM determines 

under 30 CFR 585.114(b) that it qualifies 

for exemption from disclosure under 

FOIA. Please label privileged or 

confidential information ‘‘Contains 

Confidential Information’’ and consider 

submitting such information as a 

separate attachment. 

BOEM will not treat as confidential 

any aggregate summaries of such 

information or comments not containing 

such privileged or confidential 

information. Information that is not 

labeled as privileged or confidential 

may be regarded by BOEM as suitable 

for public release. 

b. Personally Identifiable Information 

BOEM discourages anonymous 

comments. Please include your name 

and address as part of your comment. 

You should be aware that your entire 

comment, including your name, 

address, and any other personally 

identifiable information (PII) that you 

include, may be made publicly 

available. All comments from identified 

individuals, businesses, and 

organizations will be available for 

public viewing on regulations.gov. Note 

that BOEM will make available for 

public inspection all comments, in their 

entirety, submitted by organizations and 

businesses, or by individuals identifying 

themselves as representatives of 

organizations or businesses. 

For BOEM to consider withholding 

your PII from disclosure, you must 

identify any information contained in 

your comments that, if released, would 

constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of your personal privacy. You 

must also briefly describe any possible 

harmful consequences of the disclosure 

of information, such as embarrassment, 

injury, or other harm. Even if BOEM 

withholds your information in the 

context of this notice, your comment is 

subject to FOIA. If your comment is 

requested under FOIA, BOEM will 

withhold your information only if it 

determines that one of FOIA’s 

exemptions to disclosure applies. Such 

a determination will be made in 

accordance with the Department’s FOIA 

regulations and applicable law. 

c. Section 304 of the NHPA (54 U.S.C. 

307103(a)) 

After consultation with the Secretary, 

BOEM is required to withhold the 

location, character, or ownership of 

historic resources if it determines that 

disclosure may, among other things, risk 

harm to the historic resources or impede 

the use of a traditional religious site by 

practitioners. Tribal entities should 

designate information that falls under 

section 304 of NHPA as confidential. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4231 et seq. 

(NEPA, as amended) and 40 CFR 1506.6. 

Karen Baker, 

Chief, Office of Renewable Energy Programs, 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. 

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BILLING CODE 4340–98–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement 

[S1D1S SS08011000 SX064A000 

245S180110; S2D2S SS08011000 

SX064A000 24XS501520; OMB Control 

Number 1029–0063] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Fee Collection and Coal 

Production Reporting and Form OSM– 

1, Coal Reclamation Fee Report 

AGENCY: Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, 

the Office of Surface Mining 

Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE), 

are proposing to renew an information 

collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before March 4, 

2024. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. Please provide a copy 

of your comments to Mark Gehlhar, 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation 

and Enforcement, 1849 C Street NW, 

Room 4556–MIB, Washington, DC 

20240, or by email to mgehlhar@

osmre.gov. Please reference OMB 

Control Number 1029–0063 in the 

subject line of your comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Mark Gehlhar by email 

at mgehlhar@osmre.gov, or by telephone 

at (202) 208–2716. Individuals in the 

United States who are deaf, deafblind, 

hard of hearing, or have a speech 

disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or 

TeleBraille) to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

Individuals outside the United States 

should use the relay services offered 

within their country to make 

international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. You may 

also view the ICR at http://

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA; 44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), we 

provide the general public and other 

Federal agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on new, proposed, revised, 

and continuing collections of 

information. This helps us assess the 

impact of our information collection 

requirements and minimize the public’s 

reporting burden. It also helps the 

public understand our information 

collection requirements and provide the 

requested data in the desired format. 

A Federal Register notice with a 60- 

day public comment period soliciting 

comments on this collection of 

information was published on 

September 12, 2023 (88 FR 62599). No 

comments were received. 

As part of our continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burdens, we are again soliciting 

comments from the public and other 

Federal agencies on the proposed ICR 

that is described below. We are 

especially interested in public comment 

addressing the following: 


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