Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 19 / Thursday, January 29, 2015 / Notices 4939 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–SER–CONG–17094; PPSECONGS0/

PPMPSPD1Z.YM00000] 

Establishment of a New Fee Area at 

Congaree National Park 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Congaree National Park in 

South Carolina plans to collect 

expanded amenity recreation fees at the 

Longleaf Campground and Bluff 

Campground beginning in early 2015. 

Revenue will be used to cover the cost 

of collections at the campground and for 

deferred maintenance in the park. 

DATES: We will begin collecting fees on 

July 28, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lauren Gurniewicz, Chief of 

Interpretation, Congaree National Park, 

100 National Park Road, Hopkins, SC 

29061; telephone (803) 647–3969; or by 

email at lauren_gurniewicz@nps.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is to comply with Section 804 of 

the Federal Lands Recration 

Enhancement Act of 2004 (Pub.L. 108– 

447). The act requires agencies to give 

the public 6 months advance notice of 

the establishment of a new recreation 

fee area. 

Rates at Longleaf Campground will be 

$10 per night for an individual tent only 

site with no hook-ups; $20 per night for 

a group tent only site with no hook-ups. 

Rates at Bluff Campground will be $5 

per night for an individual tent only site 

with no hook-ups. These fees were 

determined through a comparability 

study of similar sites in the area at 

Federal, state, and private recreation 

areas and will only be charged at the 

Longleaf and Bluff campgrounds. In 

accordance with NPS public 

involvement guidelines, the park 

engaged numerous individuals, 

organizations, and local, state, and 

Federal government representatives 

while planning for the implementation 

of this fee. 

Dated: November 21, 2014. 

Lena McDowall, 

Associate Director, Business Services. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01678 Filed 1–28–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–JD–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[BOEM–2014–0085; MMAA104000] 

Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), 2017– 

2022 Oil and Gas Leasing Program 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent (NOI) to Prepare 

a Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) and Notice of Scoping. 

SUMMARY: Consistent with the 

regulations implementing the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as 

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

is announcing its intent to prepare an 

EIS to inform the decisions that will be 

taken during the preparation and 

implementation of the 2017–2022 Oil 

and Gas Leasing Program (2017–2022 

Program). Section 18 of the Outer 

Continental Shelf (OCS) Lands Act (43 

U.S.C. 1344) requires the development 

of an OCS oil and gas leasing program 

every five years. The 2017–2022 

Program must address the size, timing 

and location of the lease sales to be held 

under it. Section 18 also requires a 

multi-step process of consultation and 

analysis that must be completed before 

the Secretary of the Interior may 

approve a new Program. BOEM initiated 

the 2017–2022 Program process by 

issuing a request for information and 

comments (RFI) in June 2014. The 

remaining process required by section 

18 of the OCS Lands Act includes 

development of a Draft Proposed 

Program (DPP), a Proposed Program, a 

Proposed Final Program (PFP), and 

Secretarial approval of the 2017–2022 

Program. 

The EIS is developed in concert with 

the 2017–2022 Program documents. The 

EIS will analyze the potential direct, 

indirect, and cumulative impacts of 

possible OCS oil and gas activities that 

could result from lease sales 

contemplated under the 2017–2022 

Program. The scope of the EIS will be 

based on the DPP after consideration of 

public input received during the 

scoping period for the EIS. The DPP 

includes potential lease sales in the Gulf 

of Mexico (Western, Central, and a small 

portion of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico 

Planning Areas not subject to 

Congressional moratorium), Atlantic 

(Mid and South Atlantic Planning 

Areas), and Alaska (Cook Inlet, Chukchi, 

and Beaufort Planning Areas) (for 

details, see the DPP at http://www.boem.

gov/Five-Year-Program/). 

This notice starts the formal scoping 

process for the EIS under 40 CFR 1501.7 

of the Council on Environmental 

Quality (CEQ) regulations and solicits 

input from the public regarding 

alternatives to the proposed action, 

impacting factors, environmental 

resources and issues of concern in the 

DPP area, and possible mitigating 

measures that should be evaluated in 

the EIS. The purpose of scoping is to 

determine the appropriate content for a 

focused and balanced programmatic 

environmental analysis by (a) ensuring 

significant issues are identified early 

and properly studied during 

development of the Programmatic EIS; 

(b) identifying alternatives, mitigation 

measures, and analytic tools; and (c) 

identifying insignificant issues and 

narrowing the scope of the EIS. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This NOI 

informs the public about the start of the 

EIS preparation process and continues 

information gathering to be done 

through formal scoping. This NOI is 

published early in the environmental 

review process in furtherance of the 

goals of NEPA. The comments received 

during public scoping will help frame 

and inform the content of the EIS. 

Alternatives may be developed based on 

scoping comments. In addition to the 

No Action alternative required by CEQ 

regulations (i.e., not adopting a new oil 

and gas leasing program), other 

alternatives will be considered in the 

EIS. 

On June 16, 2014, BOEM published a 

RFI concerning the preparation of the 

2017–2022 Program. Based on the input 

received in response to the RFI, BOEM 

is releasing the DPP concurrently with 

this NOI. The Draft EIS will be released 

in about one year from the date of the 

NOI to coincide with the release of the 

Proposed Program. Stakeholders are 

encouraged to go to 

www.boemoceaninfo.com for additional 

information about the EIS and the 2017– 

2022 Program. 

Scoping Process: BOEM is aware of 

many of the key issues, concerns, and 

potential conflicts to be considered in 

the EIS for the 2017–2022 Program. 

Some of these concerns were reflected 

in responses to the RFI. Additional 

national and regional issues and 

concerns may be identified and 

addressed as a result of input received 

during the scoping period initiated by 

this NOI. Therefore, BOEM invites the 

public to submit comments during the 

EIS scoping process to assist BOEM in 

drafting the EIS. We recommend that 

you provide scientific information, 

technical data, or anecdotal evidence, 

etc., to support your comments. 

Specifically, BOEM seeks focused input, 

including input in geospatial format as 

we intend to use geospatial information 

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