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scoping and development of this public

notification process.

Possible Alternatives

The EIS will analyze the Proposed

Action and No-Action Alternative as

well as corridor capacity. Other

alternatives may include different routes

for portions of the proposed pipelines,

fewer but larger pipelines in the

corridor, and optional sites for pipeline

facilities, as well as mitigating measures

to minimize impacts.

Responsible Officials

The Responsible Officials are: Sally

Wisely, the BLM Utah State Director

(Utah State Office, 324 South State

Street, Suite 301, Salt Lake City, Utah

84111; the Manti-LaSal National Forest

Supervisor (Manti-LaSal National

Forest, 599 West Price River Drive,

Price, Utah 84501); and Peter W. Karp,

the Uinta National Forest Supervisor

(Uinta National Forest, 88 West 100

North, Provo, Utah 84601). Additional

information about the natural gas

pipeline proposals is available from

Paul McKee of the FERC’s Office of

External Affairs at (202) 208–1088 (refer

to Docket No. CP00–68–000).

Decisions to be Made

The purpose of the EIS is to disclose

to the public and permitting agencies

the environmental impacts of

constructing and operating the proposed

projects. If one or more of the projects

are approved, the participating agencies

would take the following actions. The

BLM, as the lead agency, would sign the

necessary Record of Decision (ROD) for

the issuance of right-of-way grants

under the Mineral Leasing Act for the

pipeline proposals. FERC, as a

Cooperating Agency and the regulatory

agency for the transmission of natural

gas in interstate commerce, would issue

the natural gas pipeline companies

Certificates of Public Convenience and

Necessity under the Natural Gas Act.

The Forest Service, as a cooperating

agency, would sign the necessary

Record(s) of Decision for the Forest

Land and Resource Management Plan

Amendments (may include standards

and guidelines) on the Manti-LaSal and

Uinta National Forests. The USFS ROD

would also include the use and

allocation of National Forest System

Lands which may or may not expand

the existing designated utility

corridor(s) and/or identify other

corridor(s).

Tentative Project Schedule

The tentative project schedule is as

follows:

• Begin Public Comment Period—

April 1999.

• Scoping Meetings—May and June

1999, May 10, 11, 2000.

• Scoping Comment Period Ends—

May 17, 2000.

• File Draft EIS—October 1, 2000.

• File Final EIS—February 2001.

• Record of Decision—March, 2001.

Public Scoping Meetings

Nine public scoping meetings were

held on the following dates and in the

following locations: May 18, 1999,

Green River, Utah, May 19, 1999, Moab,

Utah, May 20, 1999, Price, Utah, May

25, 1999, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 26,

1999, Payson, Utah, May 27, 1999, Lehi,

Utah, June 2, 1999, Dolores, Colorado,

June 3, 1999, Durango, Colorado, and

June 23, 1999, Price, Utah. Additional

public scoping meetings will be held in

West Valley City, Utah, on May 10,

2000, and at Nephi, Utah on May 11,

2000.

Public Input Requested

Comments concerning the Proposed

Action and EIS should address

environmental issues to be considered,

feasible alternatives to examine,

possible mitigation, and information

relevant to or bearing on the Proposed

Action.

DATES: An additional comment period

for scoping of the EIS will commence

with publication of this revised notice.

Written comments must be submitted

on or before May 19, 2000.

Comments, including names and

street addresses of respondents will be

available for public review at the BLM

Utah State Office and will be subject to

disclosure under the Freedom of

Information Act (FOIA). They may be

published as part of the EIS and other

related documents. Individual

respondents may request

confidentiality. If you wish to withhold

your name or street address from public

review and disclosure under the FOIA,

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, will

be made available for public inspection

in their entirety.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to

LaVerne Steah, EIS Team Leader,

Bureau of Land Management, Utah State

Office, 324 South State Street, Suite 301,

Salt Lake City, UT 84111 or at the

website: QWK–EIS.ORG.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

LaVerne Steah, (801) 539–4114 or email: LaVerne Steah@blm.gov

Dated: April 10, 2000.

Linda Colville,

Acting Utah State Director.

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BILLING CODE 4310–DQ–U

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Submitted for Office of

Management and Budget Review,

Comment Request

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service

(MMS), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of information collection.

SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995, we are soliciting

comments on an information collection

titled Office of Indian Royalty

Assistance Customer Satisfaction

Survey, OMB 1010–0098, which expires

on November 30, 2000. We are

preparing an information collection

request, which we will submit to the

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB), for a 3-year extension of this

information collection.

DATES: Written comments should be

received on or before June 19, 2000.

ADDRESSES: The mailing address for

written comments regarding this

information collection is David S. Guzy,

Chief, Rules and Publications Staff,

Minerals Management Service, Royalty

Management Program, P.O. Box 25165,

MS 3021, Denver, Colorado 80225.

Courier address is Building 85, Room

A–613, Denver Federal Center, Denver,

Colorado 80225. The Internet address is

RMP.comments@mms.gov.

PUBLIC COMMENT PROCEDURE If you wish

to comment, you may submit your

comments by any one of several

methods and to the mailing addresses

stated in the ADDRESSES section of this

Notice. Please submit Internet

comments as an ASCII file avoiding the

use of special characters and any form

of encryption. Please also include Attn:

Office of Indian Royalty Assistance

Customer Satisfaction Survey, OMB

Control Number 1010–0098, and your

name and return address in your

Internet message. If you do not receive

a confirmation from the system that we

have received your Internet message,

contact David S. Guzy directly (303)

231–3432.

We will post public comments after

the comment period closes on the

Internet at http://www.rmp.mms.gov.

You may arrange to view paper copies

of the comments by contacting David S.

Guzy, Chief, Rules and Publications

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Staff, telephone (303) 231–3432, FAX

(303) 231–3385. Our practice is to make

comments, including names and

addresses of respondents, available for

public review on the Internet and

during regular business hours at our

offices in Lakewood, Colorado.

Individual respondents may request that

we withhold their home address from

the rulemaking record, which we will

honor to the extent allowable by law.

There also may be circumstances in

which we would withhold from the

rulemaking record a respondent’s

identity, as allowable by law. If you

wish us to withhold your name and/or

address, you must state this

prominently at the beginning of your

comment. However, we will not

consider anonymous comments. We

will make all submissions from

organizations or businesses, and from

individuals identifying themselves as

representatives or officials of

organizations or businesses, available

for public inspection in their entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dennis C. Jones, Rules and Publications

Staff, phone (303) 231–3046, FAX (303)

231–3385, email

Dennis.C.Jones@mms.gov. A copy of the

information collection is available to

you without charge upon request.

Title: Office of Indian Royalty

Assistance Customer Satisfaction

Survey, OMB Control Number 1010–

0098.

Abstract: Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the

Paperwork Reduction Act requires each

agency ‘‘to provide notice * * * and

otherwise consult with members of the

public and affected agencies concerning

each proposed collection of information

* * *’’ Agencies must specifically

solicit comments to: (a) evaluate

whether the proposed collection of

information is necessary for the agency

to perform its duties, including whether

the information is useful; (b) evaluate

the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of

the burden of the proposed collection of

information; (c) enhance the quality,

usefulness, and clarity of the

information to be collected; and (d)

minimize the burden on the

respondents, including the use of

automated collection techniques or

other forms of information technology.

The Department of the Interior (DOI)

is responsible for matters relevant to

mineral resource development on

Federal and Indian Lands and the Outer

Continental Shelf (OCS). The Secretary

of the Interior (Secretary) is responsible

for managing the production of minerals

from Federal and Indian Lands and the

OCS; for collecting royalties from

lessees who produce minerals; and for

distributing the funds collected in

accordance with applicable laws. The

Secretary also has an Indian trust

responsibility to manage Indian lands

and seek advice and information from

Indian beneficiaries. MMS performs the

royalty management functions and

assists the Secretary in carrying out his

Indian trust responsibility.

Executive Order 12862 requires

Federal agencies to develop and

implement customer service standards.

As part of these standards, the Office of

Indian Royalty Assistance (OIRA)

pledges to ‘‘work continuously to

streamline and improve our services.’’

When individual Indian mineral owners

request assistance from OIRA offices, we

include a postage-paid Customer

Satisfaction Survey card when

responding to the owner’s request. This

survey card asks Indian mineral owners

several questions regarding the quality

of service that our offices are providing

to them.

The information collected from these

Customer Satisfaction Survey cards

helps us determine the effectiveness of

our office and guides us in developing

and implementing new procedures to

improve our service.

We receive approximately 300

completed survey cards annually. Based

on this response rate and the 2 minutes

required to complete the survey card,

we estimate the annual reporting and

recordkeeping ‘‘hour’’ burden is 10

hours; there is no ‘‘non-hour’’ burden.

Frequency: On occasion.

Estimated Number and Description of

Respondents: 300 individual Indian

mineral owners.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping ‘‘Hour’’ Burden: 10

hours.

Estimated Annual Reporting and

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour’’ Burden: 0

hours.

Dated: April 12, 2000.

R. Dale Fazio,

Acting Associate Director for Royalty

Management.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Minerals Management Service

Environmental Assessment Prepared

for Proposed Western Gulf Sale 177 on

the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental

Shelf (OCS)

AGENCY: Minerals Management Service,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability of the

environmental assessment on proposed

western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 177.

SUMMARY: The Minerals Management

Service (MMS) has prepared an

environmental assessment (EA) for the

proposed annual Lease Sale 177 for the

Western Planning Area of the Gulf of

Mexico Outer Continental Shelf.

In this EA, MMS has reexamined the

potential environmental effects of the

proposed action and alternatives based

on any new information regarding

potential impacts and issues that were

not available at the time the Final

Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS)

for Lease Sales 171, 174, 177, and 180

was prepared.

In summary, no new significant

impacts were identified for proposed

Lease Sale 177 that were not already

assessed in the FEIS for Lease Sales 171,

174, 177, and 180. As a result, MMS

determined that a supplemental EIS is

not required and prepared a Finding of

No New Significant Impact.

If you wish to comment, you may

mail or hand-carry written comments to

the Department of the Interior, Minerals

Management Service, Regional Director

(MS–5410), Minerals Management

Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Region,

1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, New

Orleans, Louisiana 70123–2394. Our

practice is to make comments, including

names and home addresses of

respondents, available for public review

during regular business hours.

Individual respondents may request that

we withhold their home address from

the rulemaking record, which we will

honor to the extent allowable by law.

There may be circumstances in which

we would withhold from the

rulemaking record a respondent’s

identity, as allowable by the law. If you

wish us to withhold your name and/or

address, you must state this

prominently at the beginning of your

comment. However, we will not

consider anonymous comments. We

will make all submissions from

organizations or businesses, and from

individuals identifying themselves as

representatives or officials of

organizations or businesses, available

for public inspection in their entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Public Information Unit, Information

Services Section at number below. You

may obtain single copies of the EA from

the Minerals Management Service, Gulf

of Mexico OCS Region, Attention:

Public Information Office (MS 5034),

1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard, Room

114, New Orleans, LA 70123–2394 or by

calling 1–800–200–GULF.