MMS issues environmental assessment, finding of no significant impact for Beaufort - September 10, 2006

Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industrySeptember 2006

Vol. 11, No. 37

Week of September 10, 2006

MMS issues environmental assessment, finding of no significant impact for Beaufort

The Minerals Management Service has issued an environmental assessment and a finding of no new significant impact for proposed Beaufort Sea Sale 202. The sale will be the third of three for which an environmental impact statement was issued in February 2003.

MMS said in a Sept. 6 Federal Register notice that resource estimates and level of activities projected for proposed Sale 202 remain essentially the same as in the multiple-sale EIS. “No new significant impacts were identified for proposed Lease Sale 202 that were not already assessed in the multiple-sale EIS,” the agency said, therefore a supplemental EIS is not required.

Sale 202 will be held in Anchorage in March 2007. It is the last Alaska Region OCS sale in the agency’s current five-year plan.

The EA and finding are available on line at: www.mms.gov/alaska.

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