Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 26/10/1999

Jonah Field Environmental Assessment, Sublette County, WY

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) intends to prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) and to conduct public scoping to address a proposed modification of the Record of Decision (ROD) issued April 27, 1998, for the Jonah Field II Natural Gas Project Environmental Impact Statement (April 1998). In that decision, BLM approved development of the Jonah Field at one gas well per 80 acres. Project proponents, McMurry Oil Company and Amoco Production Company, have requested BLM approval of development of the field at one well per 40 acres. Should the scoping process or the EA identify the potential for significant impacts, BLM would deem the EA to be a draft supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Further scoping would not be conducted. However, the public will be notified through newspaper articles and a subsequent Federal Register notice if significant impacts are identified in the EA. BLM will also conduct a conformance review of the Pinedale Resource Management Plan (RMP) as part of the EA. Any needed changes in existing management or any new management actions to be prescribed for the area will be identified and, if necessary, the Pinedale RMP would be amended.