Gulf of Mexico OCS, Oil and Gas Lease Sales: 2016 and 2017. Central Planning Area Lease Sales 241 and 247, Eastern Planning Area Lease Sale 226. Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement.

摘要

This Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) addresses three proposed Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas lease sales: Central Planning Area (CPA) Lease Sales 241 and 247 and Eastern Planning Area (EPA) Lease Sale 226, as scheduled in the Proposed Final Outer Continental Shelf Oil & Gas Leasing Program: 2012-2017 (Five-Year Program) (USDOI, BOEM, 2012a). This Supplemental EIS updates the baseline conditions and potential environmental effects of oil and natural gas leasing, exploration, development, and production in the CPA since publication of the Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales: 2012-2017; Western Planning Area Lease Sales 229, 233, 238, 246, and 248; Central Planning Area Lease Sales 227, 231, 235, 241, and 247, Final Environmental Impact Statement (2012-2017 WPA/CPA Multisale EIS) (USDOI, BOEM, 2012b); Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales: 2013-2014; Western Planning Area Lease Sale 233; Central Planning Area Lease Sale 231, Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (WPA 233/CPA 231 Supplemental EIS) (USDOI, BOEM, 2013a); and Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales: 2015-2017; Central Planning Area Lease Sales 235, 241, and 247, Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (CPA 235/241/247 Supplemental EIS) (USDOI, BOEM, 2014). This Supplemental EIS also updates the baseline conditions and potential environmental effects of oil and natural gas leasing, exploration, development, and production in the EPA since publication of the Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program: 2012-2017, Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (Five-Year Program EIS) (USDOI, BOEM, 2012c) and Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil and Gas Lease Sales: 2014 and 2016; Eastern Planning Area Lease Sales 225 and 226, Final Environmental Impact Statement (EPA 225/226 EIS) (USDOI, BOEM 2013b); and, due to the close proximity of the proposed EPA lease sale area to the CPA, incorporates by reference all of the relevant material in the EIS and Supplemental EISs that were prepared for the nearby or adjacent CPA and that are referenced above.