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February 2008

Vol. 13, No. 7 Week of February 17, 2008

State issues final Cook Inlet sale notice

The Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas has issued a sale notice for its 2008 Cook Inlet areawide oil and gas lease sale.

The division said Feb. 8 that bid opening will be at 9 a.m. May 21 in the Wilda Marston Theater in the Loussac Public Library in Anchorage.

The areawide sale area encompasses some 4 million acres divided into 815 tracts from 640 to 5,760 acres. The sale area is in the Matanuska and Susitna valleys, the Anchorage bowl, the western and southern Kenai Peninsula from Point Possession to Anchor Point, on the western shore of Cook Inlet from the Beluga River to Harriet Point and within Cook Inlet.

A 10-year best interest finding for Cook Inlet was prepared in 1999; a new finding is being drafted.

The division issued a call for new information in September for the 2008 areawide sale and on Feb. 4 issued a decision of substantial new information and published a supplement to the 1999 final finding of the director.

At the request of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, a new lessee advisory has been added advising lessees that all developments in the Point MacKenzie special use district must comply with Mat-Su Borough code and any exploration work on borough-owned tidelands or uplands in the area will require a land-use permit from the borough’s land management division.

The National Marine Fisheries Service developed specific recommendations relative to oil and gas premised on beluga whale habitat type and usage and the division said existing mitigation measures would be modified to include additional areas and a new mitigation measure added. The division also said a lease advisory will be added regarding the potential listing of the Cook Inlet beluga whale as an endangered species; a decision is expected under the Endangered Species Act in April.

The entire supplement and sale details are available on the division’s Web site at www.dog.dnr.state.ak.us/.

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