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[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 248 (Thursday, December 27, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66920-66921]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-31748]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[ES-020-02-1310-EI]

Notice of Intent To Prepare Planning Analyses/Environmental 
Assessments

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Interior.

[[Page 66921]]

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a Planning Analysis/Environmental 
Assessment.

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SUMMARY: The Jackson Field Office, Eastern States will prepare a 
Planning Analysis/Environmental Assessment (PA/EA), in cooperation with 
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to consider leasing Federal mineral 
estate for oil and gas exploration and development. The lands, managed 
by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, are located in the Carr Creek 
Project Area in Knott County, Kentucky. This notice is issued pursuant 
to Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 1501.7 and Title 43 CFR 
1610.2(c). The planning effort will follow the procedures set forth in 
Title 43 CFR part 1600. The public is invited to participate in this 
planning process, beginning with the identification of planning issues 
and criteria.

DATES: Comments relating to the identification of planning issues and 
criteria will be accepted for thirty days from the date of this 
publication. 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 and businesses, and from individuals identifying 
themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or 
businesses, will be available for public inspection in their entirety.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to: Bureau of Land Management, Jackson Field 
Office; 411 Briarwood Drive, Suite 404; Jackson, MS 39206.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Clay Moore, Lead for PA/EA, Jackson 
Field Office, (601-977-5400).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM has responsibility to consider 
nominations to lease Federal mineral estate for oil and gas exploration 
and development. An interdisciplinary team will be used in the 
preparation of the PA/EA. Preliminary issues, subject to change as a 
result of public input, are (1) Potential impacts of oil and gas 
exploration and development on the surface resources and uses by the 
Corps of Engineers and (2) consideration of restrictions on lease 
rights to protect surface resources and uses by the Corps of Engineers. 
The Carr Creek Project Area is composed of lands acquired in many 
separate tracts totaling 3,914.64 acres. The Project Area is in Knott 
County; approximately 20 miles east of Hazard, Kentucky.
    Due to the limited scope of this PA/EA process, public meetings are 
not scheduled.

Bruce E. Dawson,
Field Manager, Jackson Field Office.
[FR Doc. 01-31748 Filed 12-26-01; 8:45 am]
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