98-21297. Oil and Gas Leasing: Custer National Forest; Sioux Ranger District; Harding County, SD

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 153 (Monday, August 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 42611]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-21297]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Oil and Gas Leasing: Custer National Forest; Sioux Ranger 
District; Harding County, SD

AGENCIES: Forest Service, USDA; Bureau of Land Management, USDI.

ACTION: Notice; revision of notice of intent to prepare an 
environmental impact statement.

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SUMMARY: A Notice of Intent was published in the Federal Register [61 
FR 11602] on Thursday, March 21, 1996, indicating that an environmental 
impact statement (EIS) would be prepared on the proposal to lease 
Federal oil and gas minerals on that portion of the Sioux Ranger 
District in South Dakota on the Custer National Forest. That Notice of 
Intent is revised to change the schedule for completion of the draft 
EIS.
    Originally the draft environmental impact statement was scheduled 
to be released to the public in March 1997 with the final statement to 
be filed in September 1997. Under the current schedule, the draft 
environmental impact statement should be available for review in 
February 1999, and the final statement should be released in August 
1999.

DATE: This action is effective upon the publication of this notice.

ADDRESSES: Nancy T. Curriden, Forest Supervisor, Custer National 
Forest, P.O. Box 50760, Billings, MT 59105; and Larry E. Hamilton, 
State Director, Bureau of Land Management, Montana State Office, P.O. 
Box 36800, Billings, MT 59107-6800.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mark Slacks, EIS Team Leader, Custer National Forest, telephone (406) 
248-9885, extension 240.

    Dated: July 20, 1998.
Nancy T. Curriden,
Forest Supervisor.
[FR Doc. 98-21297 Filed 8-7-98; 8:45 am]
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