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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 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.

Comments are sought from all interested parties about particular environmental, biological, archaeological, socioeconomic, and geological (including natural hazard areas) conditions or potential conflicts, or other information that might bear upon the potential leasing, exploration, and development of the program area and vicinity. Comments are also sought on possible conflicts between future OCS oil and gas activities that may result from the proposed sale and the enforceable policies of an approved state coastal management plan.

Comments on the call are due by January 13, 2008 (extended from December 29, 2008) to:

Minerals Management Service
Gulf of Mexico OCS Region
Attention: Mr. Carrol Williams
1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard
Mail Stop 5422
New Orleans, Louisiana 70123-2394

Comments on the NOI are due by January 13, 2008 (extended from December 29, 2008) to:

Minerals Management Service
Gulf of Mexico OCS Region
Attention:  Mr. Gary Goeke
1201 Elmwood Park Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70123-2394

You may also submit comments via e-mail.

The MMS is sponsoring a workshop on the environmental research needs in support of potential Virginia offshore oil and gas activities to be held December 3-4, 2008, in Williamsburg, Virginia. The focus of the workshop will be on the existing scientific knowledge base along the Virginia Coast and the information gaps that need to be addressed should a lease sale for oil and gas activities be held offshore Virginia.

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Frequently Asked Questions--Sale 220
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Sale Area Map
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Sale 220 Area and Block Map

General Leasing Reference Files:

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