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comments or statements to the Board, in 

response to the stated agenda of the 

open meeting or in regard to the Board’s 

mission in general. Written comments 

or statements should be submitted to 

Colonel Bryan S. Green, DFO, via 

electronic mail, the preferred mode of 

submission, is the address listed in the 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section. Each page of the comment or 

statement must include the author’s 

name, title or affiliation, address, and 

daytime phone number. The DFO will 

review all submitted written comments 

or statements and provide them to 

members of the Board for their 

consideration. Written comments or 

statements being submitted in response 

to the agenda set forth in this notice 

must be received by the DFO at least 

five business days prior to the meeting 

to be considered by the Board. The DFO 

will review all timely submitted written 

comments or statements with the Board 

Chairperson and ensure the comments 

are provided to all members of the 

Board before the meeting. Written 

comments or statements received after 

this date may not be provided to the 

Board until its next meeting. 

Verbal Comments: Pursuant to 41 CFR 

102–3.140d, the Board is not obligated 

to allow a member of the public to speak 

or otherwise address the Board during 

the meeting. Members of the public will 

be permitted to make verbal comments 

during the Board meeting only at the 

time and in the manner described 

below. If a member of the public is 

interested in making a verbal comment 

at the open meeting, that individual 

must submit a request, with a brief 

statement of the subject matter to be 

addressed by the comment, at least five 

business days in advance to the Board’s 

DFO, via electronic mail, the preferred 

mode of submission, at the address 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. The DFO will log each 

request, in the order received, and in 

consultation with the Board Chair, 

determine whether the subject matter of 

each comment is relevant to the Board’s 

mission and/or the topics to be 

addressed in this public meeting. A 30- 

minute period near the end of the 

meeting will be available for verbal 

public comments. Members of the 

public who have requested to make a 

verbal comment, and whose comments 

have been deemed relevant under the 

process described above, will be allotted 

no more than five minutes during this 

period, and will be invited to speak in 

the order in which their requests were 

received by the DFO. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army, Corps of 

Engineers 

Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Nanushuk 

Project; Located 7.5 Miles Northeast of 

Nuiqsut, Alaska 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The Alaska District, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) 

intends to prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) to identify and 

analyze the potential impacts associated 

with the development of the Alpine C 

and Nanushuk reservoirs, including 

construction and operation of the 

proposed project. The Corps will be 

evaluating a permit application for work 

under Section 10 of the Rivers and 

Harbors Act and section 404 of the 

Clean Water Act. The EIS will be used 

to support the permit decision in 

compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). 

ADDRESSES: Please send written 

comments to Ms. Janet Post, U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers, Regulatory Division 

CEPOA–RD, P.O. Box 6898, JBER, AK 

99506–0898; by email: janet.l.post@

usace.army.mil, or by Web site 

www.NanushukEIS.com. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions about the proposed action 

and the EIS can be answered by: Ms. 

Janet Post, Regulatory Division, by 

telephone: (907) 753–2831 or toll free 

from within Alaska: (800) 478–2712, by 

fax: (907) 753–5567, by email: 

janet.l.post@usace.army.mil, or by mail: 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

Regulatory Division CEPOA–RD, P.O. 

Box 6898, JBER, AK 99506–0898. To be 

added to the project mailing list and for 

additional information, please visit the 

following Web site: 

www.NanushukEIS.com. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposed Action: The permit 

applicant, Repsol E&P USA, Inc. 

(Repsol), is proposing to develop the 

Alpine C and Nanushuk reservoirs, 

located approximately 52 miles west of 

Deadhorse, 7.5 miles northeast of 

Nuiqsut, and 1 mile southeast of the 

East Channel of the Colville River, in 

the State of Alaska. Up to 76 production 

and injection wells would be drilled 

from three drill sites (Drill Sites (DS) 1– 

3). Construction would include the 

Nanushuk Pad, comprised of DS1 and a 

central processing facility (CPF); two 

additional drill sites (DS2 and DS3); and 

an operations center pad. A tie-in pad 

would be constructed adjacent to the 

existing Kuparuk CPF2 facility. The 

operations center pad would include 

infrastructure to support operations and 

drilling, such as camps, office, 

warehouse, maintenance building, cold 

storage, potable water tanks, wastewater 

and water treatment plant, temporary 

waste storage area, communication 

structures, diesel-fired back-up power 

generators, and a helicopter landing 

pad. Tie-in pad infrastructure would 

include a pig launcher and receiver, a 

metering skid, pipe rack, laydown area, 

and a communications tower. One time 

screeding would be required at Oliktok 

Point Dock to support sealift module 

delivery. 

The Project would include 11.1 miles 

of gravel infield roads, comprised of a 

4.0-mile DS2 road and a 7.1 mile DS3 

road, to provide all-season ground 

transport between the Nanushuk Pad 

and DS2 and DS3. And a 13.8-mile 

gravel access road to provide all-season 

ground transport between the Nanushuk 

Pad and the existing road network at 

Kuparuk DS2M. 

The applicant would produce 

multiphase product from the three drill 

sites and transport it to the Nanushuk 

Pad via multiphase pipelines for 

processing. Water separated from the oil 

would be transported back to the drill 

sites via water injection pipelines to be 

reinjected back into the subsurface 

formation to help maintain pressure and 

enhance oil production. Separated gas 

would be used for power generation at 

the CPF, and the remainder would be 

transported back to the drill sites via gas 

lift pipelines for gas lift. Excess gas, if 

any, would be injected into a dedicated 

injection well at DS2. Sales-quality oil 

processed at the Nanushuk Pad would 

be transported to the tie-in pad at the 

Kuparuk CPF2 via the Nanushuk 

Pipeline. 

Reasonable Alternatives: A reasonable 

range of alternatives will be identified 

and evaluated through scoping and the 

alternatives development process. 

Scoping: The scoping period is 

anticipated to begin in February and 

end in March 2016. 

(1) Public involvement: The Corps 

invites full public participation to 

promote open communication on the 

issues to be addressed in preparation of 

the EIS regarding the proposed action. 


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All Federal, State, Tribal, and local 

agencies, and other interested persons 

or organizations, are urged to participate 

in the NEPA scoping process. Scoping 

meetings will be conducted to inform 

interested parties of the proposed 

project, receive public input on the 

development of proposed alternatives to 

be reviewed in the EIS, and to identify 

significant issues to be analyzed. 

(2) Scoping meetings: The Corps plans 

to hold scoping meetings in Barrow, 

Nuiqsut, Anchorage, and Fairbanks. 

Public notices will be placed in local 

newspapers and other public places, 

and will be communicated directly with 

the smaller communities, once dates are 

confirmed. 

(3) Information about these meetings 

and meeting dates will be published 

locally, posted at the project Web site, 

and available by contacting the Corps as 

previously described. A description of 

the proposed project will be posted on 

the project Web site prior to these 

meetings to help the public focus their 

scoping comments. 

(4) The Corps will serve as the lead 

Federal agency in the preparation of the 

EIS. Agencies that are being invited to 

act as Cooperating Agencies include the 

following: 

a. U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency 

b. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

c. State of Alaska, Department of 

Natural Resources, Office of Project 

Management and Permitting 

d. North Slope Borough 

e. Native Village of Nuiqsut 

(5) The EIS will analyze the potential 

social, economic, physical, and 

biological impacts to the affected areas. 

Numerous issues will be analyzed in 

depth in the EIS. These issues include, 

but are not limited to, the following: 

The construction and operation of the 

facilities and their effect upon the 

community of Nuiqsut; subsistence; 

cultural resources; air quality; 

socioeconomics; alternatives; secondary 

and cumulative impacts; threatened and 

endangered species including critical 

habitat; hydrology and wetlands; and 

fish and wildlife. 

(6) Other Environmental Review and 

Consultation Requirements: Other 

environmental review and consultation 

requirements include Executive Order 

13175 Consultation and Coordination 

with Indian Tribal Governments, 

Executive Order 12898 Federal Actions 

to Address Environmental Justice in 

Minority Populations and Low-Income 

Populations, 106 of the National 

Historic Preservation Act of 1966, and 

Endangered Species Act Section 7 

consultation. 

(7) Land and Resource Ownership: 

Kuukpik Corporation owns the surface 

estate of lands at the drill sites and 

lands traversed by the infield roads and 

infield pipelines, and portions of the 

access road and Nanushuk Pipeline. The 

State of Alaska, through the Alaska 

Department of Natural Resources 

(ADNR), manages the majority of surface 

lands traversed by the Nanushuk 

Pipeline and access road. The Project 

will access subsurface mineral resources 

that are shared by the State of Alaska 

and the Arctic Slope Regional 

Corporation (ASRC). 

Estimated Date Draft EIS Available to 

Public: It is anticipated that the Draft 

EIS will be available in spring 2017 for 

public review. 

Dated: January 26, 2016. 

Michael Salyer, 

Chief, North Branch, Regulatory Division, 

Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[OE Docket No. PP–371] 

Notice of Public Hearings for the Draft 

Northern Pass Transmission Line 

Project Environmental Impact 

Statement (DOE/EIS–0463) 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of public hearings. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) announces public 

hearings to receive comments on the 

Draft EIS. The Draft EIS evaluates the 

potential environmental impacts of 

DOE’s proposed Federal action of 

issuing a Presidential permit to 

Northern Pass LLC (the Applicant) to 

construct, operate, maintain, and 

connect a new electric transmission line 

across the U.S./Canada border in 

northern New Hampshire. 

The U.S. Forest Service—White 

Mountain National Forest (USFS), the 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers—New 

England District (USACE), the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency— 

Region 1 (EPA), and the New Hampshire 

Office of Energy and Planning (NHOEP) 

are cooperating agencies in the 

preparation of the EIS. 

The New Hampshire Site Evaluation 

Committee (SEC) was established by the 

New Hampshire legislature for the 

review, approval, monitoring and 

enforcement of compliance in the 

planning, siting, construction and 

operation of energy facilities in the State 

of New Hampshire. 

On October 19, 2015, Northern Pass 

Transmission, LLC and Public Service 

Company of New Hampshire d/b/a 

Eversource Energy (collectively 

Applicant), filed an Application for a 

Certificate of Site and Facility 

(Application) seeking the issuance of a 

Certificate of Site and Facility approving 

the siting, construction, and operation 

of a 192-mile transmission line and 

associated facilities with a capacity 

rating of up to 1,090 MW from the 

Canadian border in Pittsburg in Coos 

County to Deerfield in Rockingham 

County (Project). New Hampshire law, 

R.S.A. Section 162–H:10(I–c), requires 

that within 90 days after acceptance of 

an application for a certificate, that the 

New Hampshire Site Evaluation 

Committee shall hold at least one public 

hearing in each county where the 

proposed facility will be located. 

DATES: The public review period to 

receive comments on the Draft EIS 

closes on April 4, 2016, see the Public 

Participation section for more 

information about submitting 

comments. 

DOE and the cooperating agencies and 

the New Hampshire SEC will conduct 

joint public hearings to receive oral and 

written comments concerning the 

project on March 7 and March 10, 2016. 

DOE and the cooperating agencies will 

conduct public hearings to receive oral 

and written comments on the Draft EIS 

at the following locations commencing 

at the times identified: 

Colebrook: Monday March 7, 2016, 5:00 

p.m., Colebrook Elementary School, 

Gymnasium, Colebrook, NH 

Waterville Valley: Wednesday March 9, 

2016, 5:00 p.m., Waterville Valley 

Conference and Event Center, 

Waterville Room, Waterville Valley, 

NH 03215 

Concord: Thursday March 10, 2016, 

5:00 p.m., Grappone Conference 

Center, Granite Ballroom, 70 

Constitution Avenue, Concord, NH 

03301 

Whitefield: Friday March 11, 2016, 5:00 

p.m., Mountain View Grand Resort 

and Spa, Presidential Room, 101 

Mountain View Road, Whitefield, NH 

03598 

ADDRESSES: Requests to pre-register to 

provide oral comments at a public 

hearing should be addressed to the 

Northern Pass EIS Team at this email 

address: info@northernpasseis.us. 

Comments on the Draft EIS can be 

submitted verbally during public 

hearings or in writing to Mr. Brian Mills 

at: Office of Electricity Delivery and 

Energy Reliability (OE–20), U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 


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