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Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the West Tavaputs Plateau Natural Gas Full Field Development Plan, Carbon and Duchesne Counties, Utah

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[Federal Register: February 1, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 22)]
[Notices]
[Page 6201-6202]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr01fe08-97]

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DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[UT-070-1310-EJ]

Notice of Availability of the Draft Environmental Impact
Statement for the West Tavaputs Plateau Natural Gas Full Field
Development Plan, Carbon and Duchesne Counties, Utah

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of the Draft
Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the West Tavaputs Plateau
Natural Gas Full Field Development Plan prepared pursuant to the
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). The DEIS evaluates
the impacts of development of natural gas resources on approximately
137,700 acres of public, state, and private lands on the West Tavaputs
Plateau in Carbon and Duchesne Counties, Utah. This NEPA analysis will
provide a basis for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to amend the
applicable land use plan per 43 CFR 1610 if necessary.

DATES: The 90-day public review and comment period of the DEIS will
commence on the date the Environmental Protection Agency publishes its
notice of availability in the Federal Register. Comments must be
submitted to the Price Field Office during this period to assure their
consideration. Public open house meetings will be held in Price,
Roosevelt, and in the Salt Lake City area to assist the public in its
review of the DEIS and to accept written comments. Notice of these
meetings will be publicized through various media, including the Utah
BLM Environmental Notification Bulletin Board, at least 15 days prior
to the meetings.

ADDRESSES: Address written comments to: Bureau of Land Management,
Price Field Office, 125 South 600 West, Price, Utah 84501, Attn: West
Tavaputs Plateau Natural Gas Full Field Development Plan DEIS, or
submit them electronically at www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/price/
energy/oil_gas/. Comments and information submitted on the DEIS,
including names, e-mail addresses, and street addresses of respondents,
will be available for public review and disclosure at the above
address. All comment submittals must include the commenter's name and
street address. Before including your address, phone number, e-mail
address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you
should be aware 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 your personal
identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we
will be able to do so.

FOR FURTHER INROMATION CONTACT: Brad Higdon, Environmental Coordinator,
Price Field Office at (435) 636-3613. The West Tavaputs Plateau Natural
Gas Full Field Development Plan DEIS is available online at
www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/fo/price/energy/oil_gas/ or at the Price
Field Office.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The DEIS evaluates a proposal by Bill
Barrett Corporation and other operators to develop up to 807 natural
gas wells on approximately 538 well pads within the 137,700 acre
project area. The development plan proposal also includes a network of
access roads, production facilities, and other operational infrastructure.
    To address potential effects on the multiple resources which make
up the affected environment, the BLM, in coordination with its
cooperating agencies, has developed five alternatives in the DEIS. The
alternatives include a No Action Alternative, the Proposed Action, a
Transportation Impact Reduction Alternative, a Conservation
Alternative, and an Agency Preferred Alternative, which includes
components from each of the former alternatives. The alternatives
incorporate best management practices for oil and gas development and
other measures necessary to adequately

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address impacts to transportation, public safety, cultural resources,
recreational opportunities, Wilderness Study Areas (WSA), non-WSA lands
with wilderness characteristics, areas proposed for designation as Areas
of Critical Environmental Concern, wildlife, Threatened and Endangered
Species, visual resources, air quality, and other relevant issues.
    If components of the Proposed Action conflict with the Price River
Management Framework Plan, the BLM must consider whether or not to
amend the plan as part of its decision on full field development. A
plan amendment would be necessary if the BLM, as part of its decision,
approves an action that does not conform to the plan. Therefore, the
DEIS discloses which full field development activities would not be in
conformance with the plan and identifies which land use plan decisions
would be amended.

Selma Sierra,
Utah State Director.
[FR Doc. E8-1760 Filed 1-31-08; 8:45 am]
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