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The NewsRoom
Release: #3582
Date: November 17,
2006
Minerals Management Service
Proposes to Expand
Lease Sale 205 Available Acreage
WASHINGTON
—
The Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS)
has released for comment in the Federal Register a
proposal to expand the available acreage in Lease Sale 205.
MMS will accept comments on the proposal through
December 29, 2006.
In the Proposed 5-Year Program for 2007-2012,
Lease Sale 205 originally included acreage located along the
eastern boundary of the Central Gulf of Mexico Planning Area
(see Map 1). MMS proposes to expand Lease Sale 205 to
include all available acreage in the Central Gulf of Mexico
Planning Area (see Map 2). While this additional acreage
would be new to Sale 205, it is the same acreage proposed
for the other Central Gulf of Mexico lease sales scheduled
for 2008 – 2012.
Lease Sale 205 is currently included in the
Proposed 5-Year Program for 2007-2012 and accompanying Draft
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The comment period for
the Proposed 5-Year Program remains open until November 24,
2006 and the comment period for the Draft EIS is open until
November 22, 2006.
Lease Sale 201 scheduled for 2007 was part of
the 5-Year Program for 2002 – 2007 and included all of the
available acreage in the Central Gulf of Mexico Planning
Area as proposed in the 5-Year Program for 2002 – 2007. As
part of a lawsuit settlement agreement with the State of
Louisiana, MMS has agreed to prepare an EIS before
conducting any additional lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico.
As a result of this agreement, MMS is cancelling Lease Sale
201. The
proposal to expand the available acreage in Lease Sale 205
includes the acreage that would have been offered in Lease
Sale 201.
The MMS will accept comments
submitted electronically using
MMS’s Public Connect online commenting system. You
may also mail comments and information to:
Renee Orr
5-Year Program Manager
Minerals Management Service (MS-4010), Room 3120
381 Elden Street
Herndon, Virginia 20170
Please label your comments
“Comments on Revisions to Proposed 5-Year Program for
2007-2012”.
The DEIS is available on the
MMS website. You may comment electronically using
MMS’s Public Connect online commenting system. You
may also mail comments to:
James F.
Bennett
Chief, Branch of Environmental Assessment
381 Elden Street, Mail Stop 4042
Herndon, Virginia 20170-4817
Envelopes or packages must be
marked “Comments on 2007-2012 Oil and Gas Program Revisions
for Draft Environmental Impact Statement”.
Relevant Web
Site:
MMS
Main Website
Media Contact:
Eileen P. Angelico,
(504) 736-2595
Caryl Fagot, (504) 736-2590
MMS:
Securing Ocean Energy & Economic Value for
America
U.S. Department
of the Interior
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