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Virginia Lease Sale 220
 The MMS has
initiated the first step for a potential lease sale offshore Virginia. The sale will be held no earlier than 2011. The MMS has published
a Call for Information and Interest/Nominations and Notice of Intent to
Prepare an EIS (Call/NOI) for Lease Sale 220 in the
Federal Register on November 13, 2008. The comment period closed
January 13, 2009. The area covered by the
Call/NOI is about 2.9 million acres offshore Virginia in the Mid-Atlantic Planning Area,
and is at least 50 miles offshore.
The MMS estimates that this area may contain 130 million barrels of
oil and 1.14 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
This Call/NOI is
the first step in the information gathering, evaluation, and public
participation process. Lease Sale 220 offshore Virginia is scheduled for
2011 under the current Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leasing Program
2007-2012. The area was included in the 5-Year plan at the
request of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Additional Information
General Leasing Reference Files:
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