Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Mid-Atlantic Proposed Oil and Gas Lease Sale 220

This Notice serves to cancel scoping meetings and to postpone the comment period on scoping for Sale 220 until further notice. Three public scoping meetings that had been scheduled on May 12, 25, and 27, in the Federal Register (Vol. 75, No. 82, page 22623) to solicit information to assist MMS in preparing an EIS to evaluate potential environmental effects of proposed Lease Sale 220 are hereby cancelled. Also, the public scoping meeting scheduled for May 12, 2010, in Norfolk, Virginia, to solicit public input on both Sale 220 and the Geological & Geophysical Programmatic EIS on the Mid- and South Atlantic OCS (G&G PEIS) is hereby cancelled. This Notice does not affect the public scoping period for the G&G PEIS. The scoping period for that PEIS ends on May 17, 2010 (see 75 FR 16830). Pursuant to the regulations implementing the procedural provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq) (NEPA), MMS had reopened the scoping comment period on the EIS for proposed Lease Sale 220 for a period of 45 days from the date of the Federal Register notice on April 29, 2010. The closing date for scoping under that notice was to be June 14, 2010. The scoping period for Lease Sale 220 is now postponed until or unless we provide further notification.

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