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BILLING CODE 9110–12–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

Outer Continental Shelf, Gulf of 

Mexico, Oil and Gas Lease Sales, 

Western Planning Area Lease Sale 248 

MMAA 104000 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare a 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement and Announcement of 

Scoping Meetings and Comment Period 

for Proposed Gulf of Mexico Outer 

Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Western 

Planning Area Lease Sale 248. 

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 Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) for proposed Western 

Planning Area (WPA) Lease Sale 248 in 

the Gulf of Mexico (WPA 248 

Supplemental EIS). The WPA 248 

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 (2012–2017 WPA/

CPA Multisale EIS; OCS EIS/EA BOEM 

2012–019); 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 (WPA 233/CPA 231 

Supplemental EIS; OCS EIS/EA BOEM 

2013–0118); Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil 

and Gas Lease Sales: 2014–2016; 

Western Planning Area Lease Sales 238, 

246, and 248, Final Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement (WPA 

238, 246, and 248 Supplemental EIS; 

OCS EIS/EA BOEM 2014–009); and Gulf 

of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales: 

2015 and 2016; Western Planning Area 

Lease Sales 246 and 248, Final 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement (WPA 246 and 248 

Supplemental EIS; OCS EIS/EA BOEM 

2015–008). 

The WPA 248 Supplemental EIS will 

supplement the NEPA documents cited 

above for the proposed lease sale in 

order to consider new circumstances 

and information arising from, among 

other things, the Deepwater Horizon 

explosion, oil spill, and response. It will 

focus on updating the baseline 

conditions and any new information on 

the potential environmental effects of 

oil and natural gas leasing, exploration, 

development, and production in the 

WPA identified through the Area 

Identification procedure as the proposed 

lease sale area. In addition to the no 

action alternative (i.e., canceling the 

proposed lease sale), other alternatives 

may be considered for the proposed 

WPA lease sale, such as deferring 

certain areas from the proposed lease 

sale area. 

DATES: Comments should be submitted 

by April 29, 2015 to the address 

specified above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the WPA 248 

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, 

Louisiana 70123–2394, telephone 504– 

736–3233. 

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). This 

Supplemental EIS will consider the one 

remaining WPA lease sale for this 2012– 

2017 Five-Year Program. The proposed 

WPA lease sale area encompasses 

virtually all of the WPA’s 28.58 million 

acres, with the exception of whole and 

partial blocks within the boundary of 

the Flower Garden Banks National 

Marine Sanctuary. 

This Federal Register notice is not an 

announcement to hold the 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. Once the NEPA process and 

WPA 248 Supplemental EIS is 

completed, the WPA 248 Supplemental 

EIS content will be summarized in 

presale documentation prepared during 

the decisionmaking process for WPA 

Lease Sale 248. If, after completion of 

the WPA 248 Supplemental EIS, the 

Department of the Interior’s Assistant 

Secretary for Land and Minerals 

Management decides to hold the 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 WPA 248 Supplemental EIS and to 

adequately assess the potential impacts 

of an areawide lease sale, BOEM will 

consider all unleased blocks that may be 

offered in proposed WPA Lease Sale 

248. 

Scoping Process: This Notice of Intent 

(NOI) serves to announce the scoping 

process for identifying issues and 

alternatives to consider in the WPA 248 

Supplemental EIS. Throughout the 

scoping process, Federal, State, Tribal, 

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and local governments and the general 

public have the opportunity to help 

BOEM determine significant resources 

and issues, impacting factors, 

reasonable alternatives, and potential 

mitigating measures to be analyzed in 

the WPA 248 Supplemental EIS and to 

provide additional information. BOEM 

will also use the NEPA commenting 

process to initiate the Section 106 

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 

Texas and Louisiana on the WPA 248 

Supplemental EIS. The purpose of these 

meetings is to solicit comments on the 

scope of the WPA 248 Supplemental 

EIS. BOEM’s scoping meetings will be 

held at the following places and times: 

• Houston, Texas: Tuesday, April 14, 

2015, Houston Airport Marriott at 

George Bush Intercontinental, 18700 

John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Houston, 

Texas 77032, one meeting beginning at 

1:00 p.m. CDT; and 

• New Orleans, Louisiana: Thursday, 

April 16, 2015, 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 WPA 248 Supplemental EIS. We 

invite qualified government entities to 

inquire about cooperating agency status 

for the WPA 248 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 of 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/.html; 

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

cooperating/.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 WPA 248 

Supplemental 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 WPA 248 lease sale area. 

Written scoping comments may be 

submitted in one of the following ways: 

1. In an envelope labeled ‘‘Scoping 

Comments for the WPA 248 

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; 

Western Planning Area Lease Sale 248’’ 

(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. Through BOEM’s email address: wpa248@

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. 

Authority: This NOI is published pursuant 

to the regulations (40 CFR 1501. 7) 

implementing the provisions of NEPA. 

Dated: March 25, 2015. 

Abigail Ross Hopper, 

Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–HQ–IA–2015–N061; 

FXIA16710900000–156–FF09A30000] 

Endangered Species; Marine 

Mammals; Receipt of Applications for 

Permit 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications 

for permit. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, invite the public to 

comment on the following applications 

to conduct certain activities with 

endangered species, marine mammals, 

or both. With some exceptions, the 

Endangered Species Act (ESA) and 

Marine Mammal Protection Act 

(MMPA) prohibit activities with listed 

species unless Federal authorization is 

acquired that allows such activities. 

DATES: We must receive comments or 

requests for documents on or before 

April 29, 2015. We must receive 

requests for marine mammal permit 

public hearings, in writing, at the 

address shown in the ADDRESSES section 

by April 29, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Brenda Tapia, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, Division of 

Management Authority, Branch of 

Permits, MS: IA, 5275 Leesburg Pike, 

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