Final Environmental Statement Supports Chukchi Sea Oil, Gas Lease Sale as Held

摘要

ANCHORAGE, Alaska-The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforce ment issued a final supplemental environmental impact statement Aug. 18 that supports a disputed Chukchi Sea oil and gas lease sale held in 2008. The supplemental impact study was conducted at the order of U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Beistline, who ruled July 21, 2010, that the BOEMRE's predecessor, the Minerals Management Service, had conducted Chukchi Sea Lease Sale 193 without adequate environ mental review (Native Village of Point Hope v. Salazar, DAlaska, No. 3:08-cv-4, 7/21/10).