Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 239 / Tuesday, December 12, 2000 / Notices 77665

request for Office of Management and

Budget approval. All comments will

also become a matter of public record.

Dated: December 6, 2000.

Michael Schwartz,

BLM Information Collection Clearance

Officer.

[FR Doc. 00–31497 Filed 12–11–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–84–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[OR–030–01–1220–PA: GP1–0051]

Notice of Meeting of the Oregon Trail

Interpretive Center Advisory Board

AGENCY: National Historic Oregon Trail

Interpretive Center, Vale District,

Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: Notice is given that a meeting

of the Advisory Board for the National

Historic Oregon Trail Interpretive

Center will be held on Tuesday, January

9, 2001 from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. in the

Conference Room at the Baker County

Library, 2400 Resort Street, Baker City,

Oregon. Public comments will be

received from 11 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.,

January 9, 2001. Topics to be discussed

are the review and approval of the

updated Strategic Plan, reports from

Coordinators of Subcommittees, and the

development of Action Plan and

Recommendations for FY2001–2002.

DATES: The meeting will begin at 8 a.m.

and run to 12 p.m. January 9, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David B. Hunsaker, Bureau of Land

Management, National Historic Oregon

Trail, Interpretive Center, P.O. Box 987,

Baker City, OR 97814, (Telephone 541–

523–1845).

Sandra L. Guches,

Acting Vale District Manager.

[FR Doc. 00–31506 Filed 12–11–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–33–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[AK—910–1410–PG]

Notice of Alaska Resource Advisory

Council Meeting

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

SUMMARY: The BLM Alaska Resource

Advisory Council will conduct an open

meeting Thursday, January 11, 2001,

from 9:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. and

Friday, January 12, 2001, from 8:30 a.m.

until 3 p.m. The meeting will be held

at the BLM Northern Field Office, 1150

University Avenue, Fairbanks, Alaska.

The primary agenda item for this

meeting is to review draft resource

management standards for BLM public

lands in Alaska and to take public

comment on this draft from 1 to 3 p.m.

Thursday, January 11, 2001. The draft

standards are standards are available for

public review and comment at

www.ak.blm.gov or call (907) 271–5555

to request a copy. Both oral and written

comments will be taken at the meeting,

or written comments may be mailed to

BLM at the address below.

ADDRESSES: Inquiries or comments

should be sent to External Affairs,

Bureau of Land Management, 222 W.

7th Avenue, #13, Anchorage, AK

99513–7599.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Teresa McPherson, (907) 271–5555.

Francis R. Cherry, Jr.,

Acting State Director.

[FR Doc. 00–31536 Filed 12–11–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–JA–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service

Request for Comments on the

Preparation of a New 5-Year Outer

Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas

Leasing Program for 2002–2007; and

Notice of Intent To Prepare an

Environmental Impact Statement for

the Proposed 5-Year Program

SUMMARY: Section 18 of the OCS Lands

Act (43 USC 1344) requires the

Department of the Interior to solicit

information from interested and affected

parties during the preparation of a 5-

year OCS oil and gas leasing program.

The current 5-year program covers the

period July 1997 to July 2002. The

Minerals Management Service (MMS)

intends to prepare a new 5-year program

for 2002–2007 to succeed the current

one.

The MMS is starting the program

preparation process at this time because

section 18 requires completion of a

lengthy, multi-step process of

consultation and analysis before the

Secretary of the Interior may approve a

new 5-year program. The section 18

process includes the following required

steps: this solicitation of comments;

development of a draft proposed

program, a proposed program, and a

proposed final program; and Secretarial

approval. The MMS also will prepare an

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)

that analyzes the alternatives considered

for the new 5-year program. This notice

announces the start of the EIS

preparation process. The MMS will

consider comments received in response

to this notice in developing the draft

proposed program and in determining

the scope of the EIS.

DATES: The MMS must receive all

comments and information by February

1, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Mail comments and

information to: 5-Year Program

Manager, Minerals Management Service

(MS–4400), Room 2324, 381 Elden

Street, Herndon, Virginia 20170. The

MMS will accept hand deliveries at

1849 C Street, N.W., Room 4230,

Washington, D.C. Please label your

comments and the packaging in which

they are submitted as to subject matter:

mark those pertaining to program

preparation, ‘‘Comments on Preparation

of the 5-Year Program for 2002–2007;

and mark those pertaining to EIS

preparation, ‘‘Scoping Comments on the

EIS for the 5-Year Program for 2002–

2007.’’ If you submit any privileged or

proprietary information to be treated as

confidential, please mark the envelope,

‘‘Contains Confidential Information.’’

The MMS will accept comments

submitted by electronic mail. Send your

comments on the preparation of the

program to MMS5-

year.document@mms.gov and your

comments concerning the scope of the

EIS to MMS5-year.eis@mms.gov. We

also will provide access to information

concerning the 5-year program and EIS,

including copies of comments we

receive in response to this notice, at the

MMS internet website (www.mms.gov).

Public Comment Procedure

Our practice is to make comments,

including the names and home

addresses of respondents, available for

public review. An individual

commenter may ask that we withhold

his or her name, home address, or both

from the public record, and we will

honor such a request to the extent

allowable by law. If you submit

comments and wish us to withhold such

information, you must state so

prominently at the beginning of your

submission.

We will not consider anonymous

comments, and we will make available

for inspection in their entirety all

comments submitted by organizations

and businesses or by individuals

identifying themselves as

representatives of organizations and

businesses.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ralph Ainger, 5-Year Program Manager,

at (703) 787–1215.