Notice of Availability; Mosquito Creek Lake Proposed Planning Analysis/Environmental Assessment; DOI

Zusammenfassung

Notice is hereby given that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Milwaukee Field Office, in cooperation and coordination with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, has completed the Mosquito Creek Lake Proposed Planning Analysis/Environmental Assessment (PA/EA) for oil and gas leasing. The Proposed PA/EA serves as a companion document to the Mosquito Creek Lake Draft PA/EA released in April 1998. The Draft PA/EA detailed the potential impacts associated with the leasing and subsequent development of Federal oil and gas resources at the COE's Mosquito Creek Lake project, Trumbull County, Ohio. Based on the findings of the Draft PA/EA and the supplemental information/analyses included in the Proposed PA/EA, the BLM proposes to lease federally owned oil and gas resources underlying the Mosquito Creek Lake project area subject to the surface and subsurface use restrictions identified on pages 1-11 and 1-12 of the Draft PA/EA. Mitigation measures listed in Appendix A of the Proposed PA/EA would apply to all approved Federal drilling permits or agreements. The Proposed PA/EA may be protested by any person who participated in the planning pro