MMS extends draft EIS comment period
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The Minerals Management Service has extended the comment period for the draft environmental impact statement for Beaufort Sea and Chukchi Sea planning areas oil and gas lease sales 209, 212, 217 and 221.
Comments had been due March 16; MMS has extended the written comment period an additional two weeks, to March 30.
MMS announced the extension in the Federal Register March 4.
Also in the March 4 Federal Register was the official notice of the extension of the comment period on the draft proposed five-year 2010-15 outer continental shelf leasing program announced by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar Feb. 10.
Comments had been due March 23; the new closing date is Sept. 21.
—Petroleum News
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