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Service section 7 consultation. The 

results of this consultation, in 

combination with the above findings, 

will be used in the final analysis to 

determine whether or not to issue the 

ITP. If it is determined that the 

requirements of the Act are met, the ITP 

will be issued. 

Authority 

We provide this notice under Section 

10 of the Endangered Species Act (16 

U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and NEPA 

regulations (40 CFR 1506.6). 

Dated: November 20, 2014. 

Robert Progulske, 

Field Supervisor, South Florida Ecological 

Services Office. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R2–ES–2014–N226; FXES1113

0200000–156–FF02ENEH00] 

Receipt of Six Incidental Take Permit 

Applications for Participation in the Oil 

and Gas Industry Conservation Plan 

for the American Burying Beetle in 

Oklahoma 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for public comments. 

SUMMARY: Under the Endangered 

Species Act, as amended (Act), we, the 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite 

the public to comment on six incidental 

take permit applications for take of the 

federally listed American burying beetle 

resulting from activities associated with 

the construction, operation, 

maintenance, repair, and 

decommissioning of oil and gas 

pipelines and related well field 

activities in Oklahoma. If approved, the 

permits would be issued under the 

approved Oil and Gas Industry 

Conservation Plan Associated with 

Issuance of Endangered Species Act 

Section 10(a)(1)(B) Permits for the 

American Burying Beetle in Oklahoma 

(ICP). 

DATES: To ensure consideration, written 

comments must be received on or before 

December 26, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may obtain copies of 

all documents and submit comments on 

the applicant’s ITP application by one of 

the following methods. Please refer to 

the permit number when requesting 

documents or submitting comments. 

Æ U.S. Mail: U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Division of Endangered 

Species—HCP Permits, P.O. Box 1306, 

Room 6034, Albuquerque, NM 87103. 

Æ Electronically: fw2_hcp_permits@

fws.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Marty Tuegel, Branch Chief, by U.S. 

mail at Environmental Review, P.O. Box 

1306, Room 6034, Albuquerque, NM 

87103; or by telephone at 505–248– 

6651. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

Under the Endangered Species Act, as 

amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.; Act), 

we, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

invite the public to comment on six 

incidental take permit (ITP) applications 

for take of the federally listed American 

burying beetle (Nicrophorus 

americanus) resulting from activities 

associated with the construction, 

operation, maintenance, repair, and 

decommissioning of oil and gas 

pipelines and related well field 

activities in Oklahoma. If approved, the 

permits would be issued to the 

applicants under the Oil and Gas 

Industry Conservation Plan Associated 

with Issuance of Endangered Species 

Act Section 10(a)(1)(B) Permits for the 

American Burying Beetle in Oklahoma 

(ICP). The ICP was made available for 

comment on April 16, 2014 (79 FR 

21480), and approved on May 21, 2014 

(publication of the finding of no 

significant impact (FONSI) notice was 

on July 25, 2014; 79 FR 43504). The ICP 

and the associated environmental 

assessment/FONSI are available on the 

Web site at http://www.fws.gov/

southwest/es/oklahoma/ABBICP. 

However, we are no longer taking 

comments on these documents. 

Applications Available for Review and 

Comment 

We invite local, State, Tribal, and 

Federal agencies, and the public to 

comment on the following applications 

under the ICP, for incidental take of the 

federally listed American burying beetle 

(Nicrophorus americanus; ABB). Please 

refer to the appropriate permit number 

(i.e., TE–XXXXXX) when requesting 

application documents and when 

submitting comments. Documents and 

other information the applicants have 

submitted with this application are 

available for review, subject to the 

requirements of the Privacy Act 

(5 U.S.C. 552a) and Freedom of 

Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552). 

Permit TE–49742B 

Applicant: BP America Production 

Company, Houston, TX. 

Applicant requests a new permit for 

oil and gas upstream production, 

including geophysical exploration 

(seismic) and construction, 

maintenance, operation, repair, and 

decommissioning of oil and gas well 

field infrastructure within Oklahoma. 

Permit TE–49745B 

Applicant: PetroQuest Energy, LLC, 

Tulsa, OK. 

Applicant requests a new permit for 

oil and gas upstream production, 

including geophysical exploration 

(seismic) and construction, 

maintenance, operation, repair, and 

decommissioning of oil and gas well 

field infrastructure within Oklahoma. 

Permit TE–49749B 

Applicant: MarkWest Oklahoma Gas 

Company, LLC, Tulsa, OK. 

Applicant requests a new permit for 

oil and gas midstream production, 

including construction, maintenance, 

operation, repair, decommissioning, and 

reclamation of oil and gas gathering, 

transmission, and distribution pipeline 

infrastructure within Oklahoma. 

Permit TE–51880B 

Applicant: LINN Operating, Inc., 

Oklahoma City, OK. 

Applicant requests a new permit for 

oil and gas upstream and midstream 

production, including geophysical 

exploration (seismic) and construction, 

maintenance, operation, repair, and 

decommissioning of oil and gas well 

field infrastructure, as well as 

construction, maintenance, operation, 

repair, decommissioning, reclamation of 

oil and gas gathering, transmission, and 

distribution pipeline infrastructure 

within Oklahoma. 

Permit TE–51520B 

Applicant: Bravo Arkoma, LLC, Tulsa, 

OK. 

Applicant requests a new permit for 

oil and gas upstream and midstream 

production, including geophysical 

exploration (seismic) and construction, 

maintenance, operation, repair, and 

decommissioning of oil and gas well 

field infrastructure, as well as 

construction, maintenance, operation, 

repair, decommissioning, reclamation of 

oil and gas gathering, transmission, and 

distribution pipeline infrastructure 

within Oklahoma. 

Permit TE–B 

Applicant: Pantera Energy Company, 

Amarillo, TX. 

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Applicant requests a new permit for 

oil and gas upstream production, 

including geophysical exploration 

(seismic) and construction, 

maintenance, operation, repair, and 

decommissioning of oil and gas well 

field infrastructure within Oklahoma. 

Public Availability of Comments 

Written comments we receive become 

part of the public record associated with 

this action. Before including your 

address, phone number, email address, 

or other personal identifying 

information in your comment, you 

should be aware that your entire 

comment—including your personal 

identifying information—may be made 

publicly available at any time. While 

you can request in your comment that 

we withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. We will not consider anonymous 

comments. All submissions from 

organizations or businesses, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, will be 

made available for public disclosure in 

their entirety. 

Authority 

We provide this notice under section 

10(c) of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) 

and its implementing regulations (50 

CFR 17.22) and the National 

Environmental Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 

4321 et seq.) and its implementing 

regulations (40 CFR 1506.6). 

Dated: November 19, 2014. 

David Mendais, 

Acting Regional Director, Southwest Region. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[Docket No. BOEM–2014–0091] 

Atlantic Wind Lease Sale 4 (ATLW4) 

Commercial Leasing for Wind Power 

on the Outer Continental Shelf 

Offshore Massachusetts—Final Sale 

Notice; MMAA104000 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM), Interior. 

ACTION: Final Sale Notice for 

Commercial Leasing for Wind Power on 

the Outer Continental Shelf Offshore 

Massachusetts. 

SUMMARY: This document is the Final 

Sale Notice (FSN) for the sale of four 

commercial wind energy leases on the 

Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) offshore 

Massachusetts, pursuant to BOEM’s 

regulations at 30 CFR 585.216. BOEM is 

offering four leases for sale using a 

multiple factor auction format: Lease 

OCS–A 0500, Lease OCS–A 0501, Lease 

OCS–A 0502, and Lease OCS–A 0503. 

The four lease areas (LAs) are identical 

to those announced in the Proposed 

Sale Notice (PSN) for Commercial 

Leasing for Wind Power on the Outer 

Continental Shelf (OCS) Offshore 

Massachusetts, which was published on 

June 18, 2014, in the Federal Register 

with a 60-day public comment period 

(79 FR 34771). This FSN contains 

information pertaining to the areas 

available for leasing, lease provisions 

and conditions, auction procedures, the 

lease form, criteria for evaluating 

competing bids, award procedures, 

appeal procedures, and lease execution. 

The issuance of the leases resulting from 

this lease sale would not constitute an 

approval of project-specific plans to 

develop offshore wind energy. Such 

plans, expected to be submitted by 

successful lessees, will be subject to 

subsequent environmental and public 

review prior to a decision to proceed 

with development. 

DATES: BOEM will hold a mock auction 

for the eligible bidders on January 26, 

2015. The monetary auction will be held 

online and will begin at 8:30 a.m. 

Eastern Standard (EST) on January 29, 

2015. Additional details are provided in 

the section entitled, ‘‘Deadlines and 

Milestones for Bidders.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jessica Stromberg, BOEM Office of 

Renewable Energy Programs, 381 Elden 

Street, HM 1328, Herndon, Virginia 

20170, (703) 787–1320 or 

jessica.stromberg@boem.gov. 

Authority: This FSN is published 

pursuant to subsection 8(p) of the OCS Lands 

Act (43 U.S.C. 1337(p)) (‘‘the Act’’), as 

amended by section 388 of the Energy Policy 

Act of 2005 (EPAct), and the implementing 

regulations at 30 CFR part 585, including 30 

CFR 585.211 and 585.216. 

Background: The four LAs offered in 

this FSN are the same areas BOEM 

announced in the PSN on June 18, 2014 

(79 FR 34771). BOEM received 25 

comment submissions in response to the 

PSN, which are available in the Federal 

Register docket for this notice through 

BOEM’s Web site at: http://

www.boem.gov/State-ActivitiesMassachusetts/. BOEM also has posted 

a document containing responses to 

comments submitted during the PSN 

comment period and a list of other 

changes that BOEM has implemented 

for this lease sale since publication of 

the PSN. The document entitled, 

Response to Comments and Explanation 

of Changes can be found at the 

following URL: http://www.boem.gov/

State-Activities-Massachusetts/. 

On June 18, 2014, BOEM published a 

Notice of Availability (NOA) (79 FR 

34781) for the revised Environmental 

Assessment (EA) and Finding of No 

Significant Impact (FONSI) for 

commercial wind lease issuance and 

site assessment activities on the Atlantic 

OCS offshore Massachusetts pursuant to 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA). Consultations occurred 

concurrently with the preparation of the 

EA and included consultation under the 

Endangered Species Act (ESA), the 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act 

(MSFCMA), and the Coastal Zone 

Management Act (CZMA). BOEM 

prepared and executed a programmatic 

agreement (PA) to guide its 

consultations under section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act 

(NHPA). The PA provides for 

consultations to continue through 

BOEM’s decision-making process 

regarding the approval, approval with 

modification, or disapproval of a 

lessee’s Site Assessment Plan (SAP), 

and allows for phased identification and 

evaluation of historic properties. The 

four LAs identified in this FSN together 

comprise the Massachusetts Wind 

Energy Area (WEA) described in the 

preferred alternative in the Commercial 

Wind Lease Issuance and Site 

Assessment Activities on the Atlantic 

OCS Offshore Massachusetts Revised 

Environmental Assessment, which can 

be found at: http://www.boem.gov/StateActivities-Massachusetts/. 

Additional environmental reviews 

will be conducted upon receipt of the 

lessees’ proposed project-specific plans, 

such as a SAP or Construction and 

Operations Plan (COP). 

List of Eligible Bidders: BOEM has 

determined that the following 

companies are legally, technically, and 

financially qualified, pursuant to 30 

CFR 585.106 and 107, to hold a 

commercial wind lease offshore 

Massachusetts, and are therefore eligible 

to participate in this lease sale as 

bidders. 

Company name 

Company 

No. 

Deepwater Wind New England, 

LLC .............................................. 15012 

EDF Renewable Development, Inc. 15027 

Energy Management, Inc. .............. 15015 

Fishermen’s Energy, LLC ............... 15005 

Green Sail Energy LLC .................. 15045 

IBERDROLA RENEWABLES, Inc. 15019 

NRG Bluewater Wind Massachusetts, LLC .................................... 15025 

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