NPR-A south scoping meetings postponed

The Bureau of Land Management’s Alaska State Office has postponed scoping meetings for the southern portion of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

BLM’s Alaska State Director Henri Bisson said in a July 22 statement that attendance at scoping meetings held so far has been light because of subsistence gathering in Alaska. The meetings had been scheduled in July and early August, with the scoping period scheduled to end Aug. 26.

The scoping timeframe will be adjusted to accommodate the delay in the meetings; new meeting dates will be announced later.

The southern portion of NPR-A has 9.2 million acres of public land. The scoping meetings are for a plan to guide management of resources and programs in the planning area.