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prior U.S. officials mismanaged the 

administration of trust assets. 

• Established a trust land 

consolidation fund for the voluntary 

buy-back and consolidation of 

fractionated land interests. 

The draft plan we are making 

available for comment would 

implement the last of the above 

elements by carrying out a program of 

land consolidation within the 10-year 

deadline established in the agreement. 

The trust land consolidation fund is 

intended to remedy the proliferation of 

thousands of new trust accounts caused 

by the increasing subdivision or 

‘‘fractionation’’ of land interests through 

succeeding generations. Fractionation is 

the result of the division among 

multiple heirs of increasingly smaller 

land interests. The land consolidation 

fund and the associated land 

consolidation program will provide 

individual American Indians an 

opportunity to obtain cash payments for 

fractionated land interests and will 

make consolidated lands available for 

use by tribal communities. 

The goal of the draft land 

consolidation plan, developed as a 

result of consultation with Indian tribal 

representatives, is to reduce land 

fractionation as quickly and 

economically as possible. The draft plan 

would achieve sufficient capacity and 

efficiency for the implementation of the 

land consolidation program under the 

settlement agreement and includes a 

land consolidation process consisting of 

three elements: 

• A targeted land fractionation 

program to focus on areas where land 

fractionation is greatest; 

• A willing seller program to enable 

sales of fractionated interests from 

interested owners; and 

• The availability of cooperative 

agreements to maximize tribal 

involvement in the consolidation 

process. 

Copies of the complete draft plan are 

available at the address given in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

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. 

Dated: January 27, 2012. 

David J. Hayes, 

Deputy Secretary of the Interior. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–10–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[BOEM–2012–0006] 

Commercial Lease of Submerged 

Lands for Renewable Energy 

Development on the Outer Continental 

Shelf 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM) will use Form 

0008 to issue commercial renewable 

energy leases on the Outer Continental 

Shelf (OCS). In the preamble to the 

April 29, 2009, Final Rule, ‘‘Renewable 

Energy and Alternate Uses of Existing 

Facilities on the Outer Continental 

Shelf,’’ BOEM stated that ‘‘we intend to 

develop a model lease form through a 

public process that will invite all 

interested and affected parties for their 

input.’’ (74 FR 19638, April 29, 2009). 

The BOEM developed a draft of the 

form included in this Notice, and 

published it in the Federal Register (76 

FR 55090, September 6, 2011) with a 30- 

day comment period (Draft Form). 

BOEM has reviewed all the comments 

received and revised the Draft Form 

where appropriate. For further 

information, including summaries of 

comments and BOEM’s response to 

those comments, visit BOEM’s Web site, 

at http://www.boem.gov/RenewableEnergy-Program/RegulatoryInformation/Index.aspx. 

DATES: The lease form will be effective 

and available for use on February 21, 

2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maureen A. Bornholdt, Program 

Manager, Office of Renewable Energy 

Programs, at (703) 787–1300 for lease 

questions. 

Dated: January 23, 2012. 

Tommy P. Beaudreau, 

Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–VH–C 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[Docket No. BOEM–2011–0093] 

Commercial Leasing for Wind Power 

Development on the Outer Continental 

Shelf (OCS) Offshore Virginia—Call for 

Information and Nominations 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM), Interior. 

ACTION: Call for Information and 

Nominations. 

SUMMARY: BOEM invites submissions of 

nominations from parties interested in 

obtaining one or more commercial 

leases that would allow a lessee to 

propose the construction of a wind 

energy project(s) on the OCS offshore 

Virginia. Although the publication of 

this notice is not itself a leasing 

announcement, the area described 

herein may be subject to future leasing. 

BOEM will use the response to this Call 

for Information and Nominations (Call) 

to gauge specific interest in the 

acquisition of commercial wind lease(s) 

in some or all of the area and to 

determine whether competitive interest 

exists in any particular area, as required 

by 43 U.S.C. 1337(p)(3). Parties wishing 

to submit a nomination in response to 

this Call should submit detailed and 

specific information as described in the 

section entitled, ‘‘Required Nomination 

Information.’’ 

BOEM also requests comments from 

interested and affected parties regarding 

site conditions, resources, and multiple 

uses of the identified area that would be 

relevant to BOEM’s review of the 

nominations submitted and any 

subsequent decision concerning 

whether to offer all or part of the area 

for commercial wind leasing. 

Information that BOEM is requesting is 

described in the section entitled, 

‘‘Requested Information from Interested 

or Affected Parties.’’ 

This notice is published pursuant to 

subsection 8(p)(3) of the OCS Lands Act 

(43 U.S.C. 1337(p)(3)), which was added 

by section 388 of the Energy Policy Act 

of 2005 (EPAct), as well as the 

implementing regulations at 30 CFR part 

585. 

The Call Area described in this notice 

is located on the OCS offshore Virginia. 

The western edge of the Call Area is 

approximately 23.5 nautical miles (nmi) 

from the Virginia Beach coastline, and 

extends to an eastern edge that is 

approximately 36.5 nmi from the same 

location. The longest north/south 

portion is approximately 10.5 nmi in 

length and the longest portion of the 

east/west portion is approximately 13 

nmi in length. The area is made up of 

19 whole OCS blocks and 13 sub-blocks. 

The entire area is approximately 

112,799 acres, or 45,648 hectares. This 

area was delineated in consultation with 

the BOEM Virginia Renewable Energy 

Task Force. A detailed description of 

the area is presented later in this notice. 

DATES: BOEM must receive your 

nomination describing your interest in 

this potential leasing area postmarked 

by March 19, 2012. BOEM will consider 

only those nominations received or 

postmarked by then. Submissions of 

comments or other submissions of 

information are also requested by this 

date. 

Submission Procedures: If you are 

submitting a nomination for a 

commercial lease in response to this 

Call, please submit your nomination by 

mail to the following address: Bureau of 

Ocean Energy Management, Office of 

Renewable Energy Programs, 381 Elden 

Street, HM 1328, Herndon, Virginia 

20170–4817. In addition to a paper copy 

of the nomination, include an electronic 

copy of the nomination on a compact 

disc (CD). Nominations must be 

postmarked by March 19, 2012. BOEM 

will list the parties that submitted 

nominations and the location of the 

proposed lease areas (OCS blocks they 

nominated) on the BOEM Web site after 

the 45-day comment period closes. 

Comments and other submissions of 

information may be submitted by either 

of the following two methods: 

1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

http://www.regulations.gov. In the entry 

titled ‘‘Enter Keyword or ID,’’ enter 

BOEM–2011–0093, then click ‘‘search.’’ 

Follow the instructions to submit public 

comments and view supporting and 

related materials available for this 

notice. 

2. By U.S. Postal Service or other 

delivery service, sending your comments 

and information to the following 

address: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Office of Renewable 

Energy Programs, 381 Elden Street, HM 

1328, Herndon, Virginia 20170–4817. 

All responses will be reported on 

http://www.regulations.gov. 

If you wish to protect the 

confidentiality of your nominations or 

comments, clearly mark the relevant 

sections and request that BOEM treat 

them as confidential. Please label 

privileged or confidential information 

‘‘Contains Confidential Information’’ 

and consider submitting such 

information as a separate attachment. 

Treatment of confidential information is 

addressed in the section of this Call 

entitled, ‘‘Protection of Privileged or 

Confidential Information.’’ Information 

that is not labeled as privileged or 

confidential will be regarded by BOEM 

as suitable for public release. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Erin C. Trager, Project Coordinator, 

BOEM, Office of Renewable Energy 

Programs, 381 Elden Street, HM 1328, 

Herndon, Virginia 20170–4817, (703) 

787–1320, or Erin.Trager@boem.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Call for Information and 

Nominations 

The OCS Lands Act requires BOEM to 

award leases competitively, unless 

BOEM makes a determination that there 

is no competitive interest (43 U.S.C. 

1337(p)(3)). The issuance of this Call is 

not intended to indicate that BOEM has 

determined that competitive interest 

exists in the area identified. Rather, this 

notice is the first step in the renewable 

energy leasing process offshore Virginia 

and the responses to it will assist BOEM 

in determining whether competitive 

interest exists in the area. This notice 

also requests information from 

interested and affected parties on issues 

relevant to BOEM’s review of 

nominations for potential leasing in the 

area. 

BOEM is issuing a Call instead of a 

Request for Interest (RFI) to facilitate 

and expedite the leasing process 

consistent with the goals and objectives 

of the Secretary of the Interior’s ‘‘Smart 

from the Start’’ initiative. If an RFI were 

issued and the responses to it indicated 

competitive interest, the applicable 

regulations would require BOEM to 

issue a Call, which BOEM believes 

would be duplicative of the RFI process. 

Issuance of this Call, without an RFI, is 

designed to enable BOEM to obtain and 

analyze the information needed to 

support consideration of appropriate 

commercial leasing, while ensuring 

ample opportunity for input from 

interested and affected parties. 

The responses to this Call could lead 

to the initiation of a competitive leasing 

process in some areas of the Call Area 

(i.e., where competition exists for 

certain tracts), and a noncompetitive 

process in others (i.e., where no 

competitive interest exists for certain 

tracts). The leasing process is described 

more completely under ‘‘Competitive 

Leasing Process’’ and ‘‘Noncompetitive 

Leasing Process’’ below. If BOEM 

determines that there is no competitive 

interest in some or all of this area 

offshore Virginia, BOEM may proceed 

with the noncompetitive lease process 


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