Proposed Amendment to the Integrated Activity Plan for the Northeast National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska

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The Bureau of Land Management announces the availability of the Draft Amendment to the Northeast National Petroleum Reserve--Alaska (NPR-A) Integrated Activity Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (IAP/ EIS). The planning area is roughly bounded by the Beaufort Sea to the North, the Ikpikpuk River to the west and the Colville River to the east and south of the planning area (Map 1-3). In November 2000, Congress passed and the President signed the Energy Policy and Conservation Act Amendments of 2000 (EPCA), which directed the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Secretaries of Energy and Agriculture, to conduct an inventory of oil and natural gas resources beneath federal lands and to identify the extent and nature of any restrictions or impediments to the development of these resources. In 2002, the President's National Energy Policy Development Group recommended that the President direct the Secretary of the Interior to consider additional environmentally responsible oil and gas development, based on sound science and the best available technology, through further lease sales in the National Petroleum Reserve--Alaska and that such consideration should include areas