24568 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 85 / Monday, May 4, 1998 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[WY–060–1610–00]

Notice of Availability

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Availability of the

second draft Environmental Impact

Statement (EIS) for the Newcastle

Resource Management Plan (RMP) for

the Public Lands administered by the

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in

the Wyoming portion of the Newcastle

Resource Area.

SUMMARY: The first draft EIS for the

Newcastle RMP was issued in

September, 1993. It has been decided to

update and reissue a second draft for

further comment because some public

comments were inappropriately

accepted on the first draft after the

comment period ended. All public

comments received on the first draft EIS

have been considered and changes in

the second draft document have been

made based on those comments. When

published, the final EIS will contain the

proposed Newcastle Resource

Management Plan, the comments on the

second draft EIS, and the BLM

responses to them.

EFFECTIVE DATES: Written comments

concerning the analysis will be accepted

for 90 days following the date the

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

publishes a notice of availability and

filing of the draft EIS in the Federal

Register. The EPA notice of availability

is expected to be published on April 24,

1998.

Public meetings will be held in

Sundance, Newcastle, and Lusk,

Wyoming, to provide opportunities for

the public to meet with representatives

from the BLM and to comment on the

draft EIS. A court reporter will be in

attendance to record all comments for

the record. When the times, dates, and

places for these meetings are

established, the public will be notified

in advance through Federal Register or

other notices, news releases, or

mailings. Persons who wish to be placed

on the mailing list or participate in the

Newcastle RMP planning process

should contact the person(s) identified

below at the Newcastle Resource Area

Office.

The draft EIS may be viewed at the

following locations: Newcastle Resource

Area BLM Office, 1101 Washington

Blvd., Newcastle, Wyoming; Wyoming

BLM State Office, 5353 Yellowstone

Road, Cheyenne, Wyoming; and county

and city libraries in Crook, Niobrara and

Weston counties. Copies of the draft EIS

may be obtained from the address

below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary

Johnson, Area Manager, or Project

Leaders, Jack Hanson or Shelley Peele,

Bureau of Land Management, Newcastle

Resource Area, 1101 Washington Blvd.,

Newcastle, Wyoming 82701, phone

307–746–4453.

Comments, including names and

street addresses of respondents, will be

available for public review at the above

address during regular business hours

(7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), Monday

through Friday, except holidays, and

may be published with the final EIS.

Individual respondents may request

confidentiality. If you wish to withhold

your name or street address from public

review or from disclosure under the

Freedom of Information Act, you must

state this prominently at the beginning

of your written comment. Such requests

will be honored to the extent allowed by

law. All submissions from organizations

or businesses, and from individuals

identifying themselves as

representatives or officials of

organizations or businesses, will be

available for public inspection in their

entirety.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Bureau of Land Management Newcastle

Resource Area administers all public

lands and minerals (as defined by the

Federal Land Management Policy Act

(FLPMA)) in Crook, Niobrara, and

Weston counties. The draft EIS for the

Newcastle RMP presents four alternative

multiple use management plans (or four

alternative RMPs) for those public lands

that were analyzed in detail: Alternative

A (continuation of existing management

direction) and three other alternatives

that provide a variety of land use and

resource management options for the

public lands.

Issues addressed in the draft EIS

include split-estate lands and the

related limitations of BLM management

responsibilities (particularly those

involving non-Federal land surface over

Federally owned minerals), the control

of prairie dogs on intermingled public

and private land ownerships, whether

or not public lands in the Lance Creek

Fossil Area should be designated an

Area of Critical Environmental Concern

(ACEC), and clarification of several

maps in the first draft EIS to distinguish

between public and non-Federal lands.

Dated: April 27, 1998.

Alan L. Kesterke,

Associate State Director.

[FR Doc. 98–11610 Filed 5–1–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–22–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service

Environmental Documents Prepared

for Proposed Oil and Gas Operations

on the Gulf of Mexico Outer

Continental Shelf (OCS)

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of the Availability of

Environmental Documents Prepared for

OCS Mineral Proposals on the Gulf of

Mexico OCS.

SUMMARY: The Minerals Management

Service (MMS), in accordance with

Federal Regulations (40 CFR 1501.4 and

1506.6) that implement the National

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),

announces the availability of NEPArelated Site-Specific Environmental

Assessments (SEA’s) and Findings of No

Significant Impact (FONSI’s), prepared

by the MMS for the following oil and

gas activities proposed on the Gulf of

Mexico OCS. This listing includes all

proposals for which the FONSI’s were

prepared by the Gulf of Mexico OCS

Region in the period subsequent to

publication of the preceding notice.

Activity/Operator Location

PGS Reservoir (U.S.), Inc., G&G Activity, SEA No. L98–3 ........ Green Canyon Area, 130 miles south of Terrebonne Parish,

Louisiana.

02/13/98

ARN Pipeline Company, Pipeline Activity, SEA No. G–17713 ... Eugene Island Area, Blocks 63, 62, 55, 40, 34, and 33, Lease

OCS–G 17713, 63 miles southwest of Terrebonne Parish,

Louisiana.

02/20/98