[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 34 (Monday, February 22, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8743-8744]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-03600]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement
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Notice of Availability of Draft Programmatic Environmental
Assessment To Evaluate Potential Environmental Effects of Well
Stimulation Treatments on the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf
AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), Interior; and Bureau
of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: After an 11 month process that began in March of 2015, the
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and Bureau of Safety and
Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) have prepared a Draft Programmatic
Environmental Assessment (PEA) to evaluate potential environmental
effects of well stimulation treatments (WSTs) on the Pacific Outer
Continental Shelf (OCS). These activities include: Fracturing WSTs
(Diagnostic fracture injection test; Frac pac; and Acid fracturing) and
non-fracturing WSTs (Matrix acidizing; and Polymer/surfactant
injection).
DATES: Comments on this Draft PEA will be accepted until March 23,
2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For more information on the Draft PEA,
you may contact Mr. Rick Yarde, Regional
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Supervisor, Office of Environment Pacific Region, BOEM, (805) 384-6379
or Mr. David Fish, Acting Chief Environmental Compliance Division,
BSEE, (202) 208-3599.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This NOA is published pursuant to the
regulations (40 CFR part 1503) implementing the provisions of the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended, (42
U.S.C. 4321 et seq. (1988)). To obtain a copy of the Draft PEA:
1. You may download or view the Draft PEA on the following Web
site: http://pocswellstim.evs.anl.gov.
2. Hard Copies are available at:
Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 E Anapamu St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101,
(805) 962-7653;
E.P. Foster Library, 651 E. Main St., Ventura, CA 93001, (805) 648-
2716; and
Long Beach Public Library, 101 Pacific Ave, Long Beach, CA 90822, (562)
570-7500.
3. You may also obtain a hard copy of the Draft PEA by contacting
either Mr. Rick Yarde or Mr. David Fish.
Comments: Government agencies and other interested parties are
requested to send their written comments on the Draft PEA in one of the
following ways:
1. Preferred: Submit your comment on the project's public review
Web site at: http://pocswellstim.evs.anl.gov/;
2. In an envelope labeled ``Comments on the Draft PEA for Well
Stimulation Treatments on the Pacific OCS'' and mailed (or hand
carried) to Mr. Rick Yarde, Regional Supervisor, Office of Environment
Pacific Region, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 760 Paseo Camarillo,
Suite 102 (CM102), Camarillo, CA 93010; or Mr. David Fish, Acting Chief
Environmental Compliance Division, Bureau of Safety and Environmental
Enforcement, 1849 C Street NW., Room 5429, Washington, DC 20240; and
3. By email to: [email protected].
Comments must be submitted by March 23, 2016.
Public Disclosure of Names and Addresses
Before including your address, phone number, email address or other
personal identifying information in your comment, be advised 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 from public review your personal identifying
information, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. The
Bureaus will not consider anonymous comments, and the Bureaus will make
available for inspection, in their entirety, all comments submitted by
organizations or businesses or by individuals identifying themselves as
representatives of organizations or businesses.
Dated: February 9, 2016.
Brian Salerno,
Director, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
Dated: February 9, 2016.
Abigail Ross Hopper,
Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
[FR Doc. 2016-03600 Filed 2-19-16; 8:45 am]
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