[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 98 (Wednesday, May 21, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27774-27775]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-13266]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Minerals Management Service
Outer Continental Shelf, Alaska Region, Beaufort Sea Lease Sale
170
AGENCY: Minerals Management Service.
ACTION: Notice of availability of the Draft Environmental Impact
Statement and locations and dates of public hearings.
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The Minerals Management Service (MMS) has prepared a draft
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) relating to the proposed 1998
Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas lease sale in the Beaufort Sea. The
proposed Beaufort Sea Sale 170 will offer for lease approximately 1.7
million acres. You may obtain single copies of the draft EIS from the
Regional Director, Minerals Management Service, Alaska Region, 949 East
36th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99503-4302, Attention: Public
Information. You may request copies by telephone at (907) 271-6070; 1-
800-764-2627; or via e-mail at akwebmaster@mms.gov.
Copies of the draft EIS are also available for inspection in the
following public libraries:
Alaska Resource Library, U.S. Department of the Interior, Anchorage, AK
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Alaska State Library, Juneau, AK
Army Corps of Engineers Library, U.S. Department of Defense, Anchorage,
AK
Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, 310 Tanana Drive, Fairbanks, AK
Fairbanks North Star Borough Public Library (Noel Wien Library), 1215
Cowles Street, Fairbanks, AK
George Francis Memorial Library, Kotzebue, AK
Kaveolook School Library, Kaktovik, AK
Kegoayah Kozga Public Library, Nome, AK
Nellie Weyiouanna Ilisaavik Library, Shishmaref, AK
North Slope Borough School District Library/Media Center, Barrow, AK
Northern Alaska Environmental Center Library, 218 Driveway, Fairbanks,
AK
Nuiqsut Library, Nuiqsut, AK
Tikigaq Library, Point Hope, AK
University of Alaska, Anchorage Consortium Library, 3211 Providence
Dr., Anchorage, AK
University of Alaska, Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology, 311 Irving
Bldg., Fairbanks, AK
University of Alaska-Juneau Library, 11120 Glacier Highway, Juneau, AK
Under 30 CFR 256.26, the MMS will hold public hearings to receive
comments and suggestions relating to the EIS.
The hearings will occur on the following dates and times:
June 24, 1997: Kisik Community Center, Nuiqsut, Alaska, 7:30 p.m.
June 25, 1997: Community Building, Kaktovik, Alaska, 6:00 p.m.
June 27, 1997: University Plaza Building, 949 East 36th Avenue, 3rd
Floor Conference Room, Anchorage, Alaska, 12:00 p.m. (noon)
July 8, 1997: North Slope Borough, Assembly Chambers, Barrow, Alaska,
7:30 p.m.
The hearings will allow Government agencies and the public to
provide additional information for evaluating the potential effects of
the proposed lease sale. If you wish to testify at the June or July
hearings, contact the Regional Director at the above address or Ray
Emerson by telephone (907) 271-6650 or toll free 1-800-764-2627 by June
20, 1997, and by July 3, 1997, for the July hearing in Barrow.
Time limitations may make it necessary to limit the length of oral
presentations to 10 minutes. You may supplement an oral statement with
a more complete written statement and submit it to a hearing official
at the hearing or by mail until July 18, 1997. You may also submit a
written statement if you are unable to testify at a public hearing.
We will accept comments on the draft EIS until July 18, 1997.
Address comments to the Regional Director, Minerals Management Service,
Alaska Region, 949 East 36th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99508-4302.
Dated: May 5, 1997.
Thomas A. Readinger,
Associate Director for Offshore Minerals Management.
[FR Doc. 97-13266 Filed 5-20-97; 8:45 am]
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