[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 112 (Friday, June 10, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34096-34097]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-14405]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLUTG01100-11-L13100000-EJ0000]
Notice of Availability of a Supplement to the Draft Environmental
Impact Statement for the Greater Natural Buttes Area Gas Development
Project, Uintah County, UT
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA) and associated
regulations, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has prepared a
Supplement to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that
evaluates, analyzes, and discloses to the public additional air quality
impacts of the Greater Natural Buttes proposal to develop natural gas
in Uintah County, Utah. All other environmental impacts are
incorporated by reference to the Draft EIS. This notice announces a 45-
day public comment period to meet the requirements of the NEPA.
DATES: The Supplement to the Draft EIS will be available for public
review for 45 calendar days following the date that the Environmental
Protection Agency publishes its NOA in the Federal Register. The BLM
can best use comments and resource information submitted within this
45-day review period.
ADDRESSES: Comments on the Supplement may be submitted by any of the
following methods:
Mail: Bureau of Land Management, Attn: Stephanie Howard,
Vernal Field Office, 170 South 500 East, Vernal, UT 84078.
E-mail: [email protected].
Fax: (435) 781-4410.
Please reference the Greater Natural Buttes Supplement when
submitting your comments. Comments and information submitted on the
Supplement to the Draft EIS for the Greater Natural Buttes project,
including names, e-mail addresses, and street addresses of respondents
will be available for public review at the Vernal Field Office. The BLM
will not accept anonymous comments. Before including your address,
phone number, e-mail 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 ask us in your comment to withhold
your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot
guarantee that we will be able to do so.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephanie Howard, Project Manager, BLM
Vernal Field Office, 170 South 500 East, Vernal, UT 84078; telephone,
435-781-4400.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The Greater Natural Buttes Project Area (GNBPA) is located in
Uintah County, Utah.
Salt Lake Meridian, Utah
T. 8 S., R. 20-23 E.,
T. 9 S., R. 20-24 E.,
T. 10 S., R. 20-23 E.,
T. 11 S., R. 21-22 E.
The areas described aggregate approximately 162,911 acres in an
existing gas producing area, according to the official plats of the
surveys of the said lands, on file in the Bureau of Land Management.
In response to a proposal submitted by Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Onshore
LP (KMG), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation,
the BLM published in the October 5, 2007,
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Federal Register, a Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an EIS. In
addition, a 45-day public comment period for the Draft EIS began on
July 16, 2010, when the EPA published a Notice of Availability for the
Draft EIS in the Federal Register, and ended on August 30, 2010.
This notice announces a Supplement to the Draft EIS, which is
located online at http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/vernal/planning/nepa_.html. The Supplement to the Draft EIS analyzes only new
information relating to the project's conformance with the National
Ambient Air Quality Standards for 1-hour nitrogen dioxide
(NO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2), and discloses
recent ozone monitoring data. All other environmental impacts are
incorporated by reference to the Draft EIS. A Final EIS will be
prepared after the comment period for the Supplement closes. All
comments received during the Draft EIS comment period and the
Supplement comment period will be responded to in the Final EIS.
The BLM asks that those submitting comments make them as specific
as possible with reference to chapters, page numbers, and paragraphs in
the Supplement to the Draft EIS. Comments that contain only opinions or
preferences will not receive a formal response; however, they will be
considered, and included, as part of the BLM decision-making process.
The most useful comments will contain new technical or scientific
information, identify data gaps in the impact analysis, or provide
technical or scientific rationale for opinions or preferences.
Jeff Rawson,
Associate State Director.
[FR Doc. 2011-14405 Filed 6-9-11; 8:45 am]
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