[Federal Register: August 10, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 154)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[CO-800;1920-PP-4070]
Northern San Juan Basin Coal Bed Methane Development Project, CO
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior and U.S.
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture (Joint Lead Agencies).
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the
Federal Land Policy Management Act of 1976 and other regulatory
requirements, the Joint Lead Agencies announce the availability of the
Northern San Juan Basin Coal Bed Methane Development Project Final
Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for coal bed natural gas
development in the northern portion of the San Juan Basin, in La Plata
and Archuleta Counties, Colorado. The Joint Lead Agencies have prepared
the FEIS to provide agency decision makers and the public with
comprehensive environmental impact information on which to base coal
bed natural gas project development decisions.
DATES: The FEIS will be available until September 11, 2006, before any
final project determinations will be made.
ADDRESSES: Questions, requests for copies of the FEIS, or new
information that is relevant to project decision making may be sent by
mail to the San Juan Public Lands Center, 15 Burnett Court, Durango, CO
81301, Attn: Walt Brown, or by E-mail to: nsjb-feis@arcadis-us.com by
September 11, 2006. The FEIS is also available on the Internet at
http://nsjb-eis.net/.
Names and street addresses of respondents, will be available for
public review at the San Juan Public Lands Center, 15 Burnett Court,
Durango, Colorado, during regular business hours (8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.),
Monday through Friday, except holidays.
Individual respondents may request confidentiality. If you wish to
withhold your name or street address from public review or from
disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, you must state this
prominently at the beginning of your written comment. Such requests
will be honored to the extent allowed by law. All submissions from
organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying
themselves as representatives of officials of organizations or
businesses, will be made available for public inspection in their
entirety.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Walt Brown or Jim Powers at the above
address, or phone: 970-385-1304.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FEIS analyzes industry's gas field
development proposal (approximately two hundred sixty-two new wells)
and four other alternatives in a 125,000-acre Study Area in the
Northern San Juan Basin of Colorado. The Study Area occupies portions
of La Plata and Archuleta Counties, and is bounded on the south by the
Southern Ute Reservation and on the west, north and east by the arcing
line of the base of the Pictured Cliffs sandstone.
The Study Area consists of approximately 7,000 acres of BLM
administered land, 49,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service administered
land, 9,000 acres of private lands with federal minerals and 60,000
acres of state or privately held (fee) lands with non-federal minerals.
Dated: July 26, 2006.
Mark W. Stiles,
Center Manager/Forest Supervisor, San Juan Public Lands Center,
Durango, Colorado.
[FR Doc. E6-12610 Filed 8-9-06; 8:45 am]
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