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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) is scheduled to file 

plats of survey 30 calendar days from 

the date of this publication in the BLM 

Wyoming State Office, Cheyenne, 

Wyoming. The surveys, which were 

executed at the request of the BLM and 

U. S. Forest Service, are necessary for 

the management of these lands. 

DATES: Protests must be received by the 

BLM by February 21, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit written 

protests to the Wyoming State Director 

at WY957, Bureau of Land Management, 

5353 Yellowstone Road, Cheyenne, 

Wyoming 82003. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sonja Sparks, BLM Wyoming Acting 

Chief Cadastral Surveyor at 307–775– 

6225 or s75spark@blm.gov. Persons who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf may call the Federal Relay Service 

at 1–800–877–8339 to contact this office 

during normal business hours. The 

Service is available 24 hours a day, 7 

days a week, to leave a message or 

question with this office. You will 

receive a reply during normal business 

hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The lands 

surveyed are: The plat and field notes 

representing the dependent resurvey of 

portions of Tracts 42, 45 and 51, and 

portions of the subdivisional lines, and 

the survey of the subdivision of sections 

10 and 15, Township 12 North, Range 

111 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, 

Wyoming, Group No. 950, was accepted 

October 2, 2017. 

The plat and field notes representing 

the dependent resurvey of Lot 37, Lot 65 

and Tract 69, portions of Lots 47, 54, 59 

and 67, portions of the subdivisional 

lines, the survey of the subdivision of 

Lot 65 and certain sections, and the 

metes-and-bounds survey of certain 

parcels, Township 56 North, Range 97 

West, Sixth Principal Meridian, 

Wyoming, Group No. 951, was accepted 

October 2, 2017. 

The plat and field notes representing 

the dependent resurvey of certain lots 

and a portion of the range line, 

Township 50 North, Ranges 102 and 103 

West, Sixth Principal Meridian, 

Wyoming, Group No. 952, was accepted 

October 2, 2017. 

The plat and field notes representing 

the dependent resurvey of a portion of 

Lot No. 89, and the survey of the 

subdivision of Lot No. 89, and metesand-bounds survey of Lot 89–I, 

Township 55 North, Range 100 West, 

Sixth Principal Meridian, Wyoming, 

Group No. 953, was accepted October 2, 

2017. 

The plat and field notes representing 

the dependent resurvey of a portion of 

the north boundary and subdivisional 

lines, and the survey of the subdivision 

of section 2, Township 42 North, Range 

84 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, 

Wyoming, Group No. 954, was accepted 

October 2, 2017. 

The plat and field notes representing 

the dependent resurvey of portions of 

the subdivisional lines and the survey of 

the subdivision of section 22, Township 

57 North, Range 73 West, Sixth 

Principal Meridian, Wyoming, Group 

No. 956, was accepted October 2, 2017. 

The plat and field notes representing 

the dependent resurvey of a portion of 

the south boundary, the rehabilitation of 

the corner of Townships 50 and 51 

North, Ranges 69 and 70 West, and the 

survey of the subdivision of section 31, 

Township 51 North, Range 69 West, 

Sixth Principal Meridian, Wyoming, 

Group No. 957, was accepted October 2, 

2017. 

The plat and field notes representing 

the dependent resurvey of a portion of 

Lot No. 39, portions of Lot No. 40, and 

portions of the subdivisional lines, and 

the survey of the subdivision of section 

20, Township 21 North, Range 113 

West, Sixth Principal Meridian, 

Wyoming, Group No. 958, was accepted 

January 11, 2018. 

The plat and field notes representing 

the dependent resurvey of a portion of 

the north boundary and subdivisional 

lines, and the survey of the subdivision 

of section 4, Township 46 North, Range 

81 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, 

Wyoming, Group No. 960, was accepted 

January 11, 2018. 

A person or party who wishes to 

protest one or more plats of survey 

identified above must file a written 

notice of protest within 30 calendar 

days from the date of this publication 

with the Wyoming State Director at the 

above address. Any notice of protest 

received after the scheduled date of 

official filing will be untimely and will 

not be considered. A written statement 

of reasons in support of a protest, if not 

filed with the notice of protest, must be 

filed with the State Director within 30 

calendar days after the notice of protest 

is filed. If a notice of protest against a 

plat of survey is received prior to the 

scheduled date of official filing, the 

official filing of the plat of survey 

identified in the notice of protest will be 

stayed pending consideration of the 

protest. A plat of survey will not be 

officially filed until the next business 

day following dismissal or resolution of 

all protests of the plat. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

protest, you should be aware that your 

entire protest—including your personal 

identifying information—may be made 

publicly available at any time. While 

you can ask us to withhold your 

personal identifying information from 

public review, we cannot guarantee that 

we will be able to do so. 

Copies of the preceding described 

plats and field notes are available to the 

public at a cost of $4.20 per plat and 

$.13 per page of field notes. 

Dated: January 12, 2018. 

Sonja S. Sparks, 

Acting Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Division of 

Support Services. 

[FR Doc. 2018–00945 Filed 1–19–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of Natural Resources Revenue 

[Docket No. ONRR–2011–0002; DS63644000 

DR2000000.CH7000 189D0102R2] 

States’ Decisions on Participating in 

Accounting and Auditing Relief for 

Federal Oil and Gas Marginal 

Properties 

AGENCY: Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue (ONRR), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: ONRR regulations provide 

two types of accounting and auditing 

relief for Federal onshore or Outer 

Continental Shelf lease production from 

marginal properties. Each year ONRR 

provides a list of qualifying marginal 

Federal oil and gas properties to States 

that receive a portion of Federal 

royalties from those properties. Each 

State then decides whether to 

participate in one or both relief options. 

For calendar year 2018, we provide this 

notice of the affected States’ decisions to 

allow one or both types of relief. 

DATES: January 1, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lindsay Goldstein, Market and Spatial 

Analysis Office, at (303) 231–3301; or 

email to lindsay.goldstein@onrr.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

regulations, codified at 30 CFR part 

1204, subpart C, implement certain 

provisions of section 7 of the Federal 

Oil and Gas Royalty Simplification and 

Fairness Act of 1996 (RSFA) (30 U.S.C. 

1726), which allows States to relieve the 

lessees of marginal properties from 

certain reporting, accounting, and 

auditing requirements. States make an 

annual determination of whether or not 

to allow relief. Two options for relief are 

authorized: (1) Notification-based relief 

from cumulative royalty reports and 

payments, allowing lessees or designees 

instead to file one annual report and 


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make one annual payment, and (2) other 

requested relief, as proposed by lessees 

or designees and approved by ONRR, 

after consulting with the affected 

State(s). The regulations require ONRR 

to publish no later than 30 days before 

the beginning of the calendar year a list 

of the States and their decisions 

regarding marginal property relief. 

To qualify for the first relief option 

(notification-based relief) for calendar 

year 2018 properties must produce less 

than 1,000 barrels-of-oil-equivalent 

(BOE) per year for the base period (July 

1, 2016, through June 30, 2017). Annual 

reporting relief will begin January 1, 

2018, with the annual report and 

payment due February 28, 2019, or 

March 31, 2019, if you have an 

estimated payment on file. To qualify 

for the second relief option (other 

requested relief), the combined 

equivalent production of the marginal 

properties during the base period must 

equal an average daily well production 

of less than 15 BOE per well, per day 

calculated under 30 CFR 1204.4(c). 

The following table shows the States 

that have qualifying marginal properties 

and the States’ decisions to allow one or 

both forms of relief. 

State Notification-based relief 

(less than 1,000 BOE per year) 

Request-based relief 

(less than 15 BOE per well per day) 

Alabama ............................................................. No ..................................................................... No. 

Arkansas ............................................................. N/A ................................................................... Yes. 

California ............................................................ No ..................................................................... No. 

Colorado ............................................................. No ..................................................................... No. 

Kansas ................................................................ No ..................................................................... No. 

Louisiana ............................................................ Yes ................................................................... Yes. 

Michigan ............................................................. Yes ................................................................... Yes. 

Mississippi .......................................................... No ..................................................................... No. 

Montana .............................................................. No ..................................................................... No. 

Nebraska ............................................................ No ..................................................................... No. 

Nevada ............................................................... No ..................................................................... No. 

New Mexico ........................................................ No ..................................................................... Yes. 

North Dakota ...................................................... Yes ................................................................... Yes. 

Oklahoma ........................................................... No ..................................................................... No. 

South Dakota ...................................................... No ..................................................................... No. 

Utah .................................................................... No ..................................................................... No. 

Wyoming ............................................................. Yes ................................................................... No. 

Federal oil and gas properties located 

in all other States where ONRR does not 

share a portion of Federal royalties with 

the State are eligible for relief if they 

qualify as marginal under 117(c) of 

RSFA, 30 U.S.C. 1726(c). For 

information on how to obtain relief, 

please refer to 30 CFR 1204.205, which 

you may view at https://www.ecfr.gov/. 

Unless the information that ONRR 

received is proprietary data, all 

correspondence, records, or information 

that we receive in response to this 

notice may be subject to disclosure 

under the Freedom of Information Act 

(FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552 et seq.). If 

applicable, please highlight the 

proprietary portions, including any 

supporting documentation, or mark the 

page(s) that contain proprietary data. 

We protect the proprietary information 

under the Trade Secrets Act (18 U.S.C. 

1905), FOIA Exemption 4 (5 U.S.C. 

552(b)(4)), and the Department of the 

Interior’s FOIA regulations (43 CFR part 

2). 

Gregory J. Gould, 

Director, Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue. 

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BILLING CODE 4335–30–P 

INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND 

WATER COMMISSION 

United States and Mexico; United 

States Section; Notice of Availability of 

a Final Environmental Assessment and 

Finding of No Significant Impact for 

Channel Maintenance Alternatives at 

Thurman I and II Arroyos in Hatch, NM, 

Rio Grande Canalization Project 

AGENCY: United States Section, 

International Boundary and Water 

Commission, United States and Mexico 

(USIBWC). 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of the 

Final Environmental Assessment (EA). 

Pursuant to Section 102(2)(c) of the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA); the Council on 

Environmental Quality Final 

Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 through 

1508); and the USIBWC Operational 

Procedures for Implementing Section 

102 of NEPA, published in the Federal 

Register September 2, 1981, (46 FR 

44083); the USIBWC hereby gives notice 

that the Final Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for Channel 

Maintenance Alternatives at Thurman I 

and II Arroyos in Hatch, NM, Rio 

Grande Canalization Project is 

available. This EA evaluated potential 

environmental impacts of the No Action 

Alternative and two alternatives for the 

construction of sediment control 

projects at Thurman I and II Arroyos, 

two ephemeral tributaries of the Rio 

Grande, located in Hatch, Don ̃ a Ana 

County, New Mexico within a portion of 

the Rio Grande Canalization Project 

protective levee system. The Preferred 

Alternative, Alternative C: Sediment 

Basins, calls for the construction of a 

sediment basin at each arroyo with a 

concrete end wall. Permits would be 

required from the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers for dredge and fill of Waters 

of the United States, per the Clean 

Water Act Sections 404 and 401. 

Potential impacts on natural, cultural, 

and other resources were evaluated. 

Mitigation has been proposed for 

permits for construction. A Finding of 

No Significant Impact (FONSI) has been 

prepared for the Preferred Alternative 

based on a review of the facts and 

analyses contained in the EA. 

Notice of the draft EA was published 

in the Federal Register on October 17, 

2017 (Federal Register Notice, Vol. 82, 

No. 199, Page 48253) and provided a 

thirty (30) day comment period. An 

environmental impact statement will 

not be prepared. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elizabeth Verdecchia, Natural Resources 

Specialist, USIBWC, 4171 N. Mesa, C– 

100; El Paso, Texas 79902. Telephone: 

(915) 832–4701, email: 

Elizabeth.Verdecchia@ibwc.gov. 


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