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U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management

July 2019

September 2019 Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale Monticello Field Office DOI-BLM-UT-0000-2019-0003-OTHER NEPA -MtFO-EA

Monticello Field Office
365 North Main
PO Box 7
Monticello, UT 84535
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1

Purpose & Need ....................................................................................................................4

1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9

Project Location and Legal Description........................................................................................4 Introduction...................................................................................................................................4 Background...................................................................................................................................4 Purpose and Need .........................................................................................................................6 Decision to be Made .....................................................................................................................6 Plan Conformance Review............................................................................................................6 Relationship to Statutes, Regulations, Policies or Other Plans.....................................................9 Issues Identified ..........................................................................................................................10 Issue Statement Rationale for Not Further Discussing in Detail in the EA................................11
1.10 Public Comment Period ..............................................................................................................18

Chapter 2

Description of Alternatives.................................................................................................19
Introduction.................................................................................................................................19 Analysis Assumptions.................................................................................................................19

2.1 2.2
2.2.1

Reasonably Foreseeable Development Scenario ................................................................19
Alternative A – Proposed Action................................................................................................20 Alternative B – No Action ..........................................................................................................21 Other Alternatives Considered but Not Analyzed in Detail........................................................21

2.3 2.4 2.5
2.5.1 2.5.2

No Leasing Alternative (Designating the Parcels as Closed to Leasing)............................21 Deferring Specific Parcels from the Sale............................................................................21 Adding Stipulations Beyond those Required by the Management Plan .............................22 Affected Environment.........................................................................................................23

2.5.3
Chapter 3
3.1 3.2 3.3

Introduction.................................................................................................................................23 General Setting............................................................................................................................23 Resources/Issues Brought Forward for Analysis........................................................................25

3.3.1 3.3.1.1 3.3.1.2

Issue 1: What are the Potential Impacts to Air Quality.......................................................25
Affected Environment.....................................................................................................25 Environmental Consequences.........................................................................................28
Impacts of the Proposed Action.....................................................................................................28 Impacts of the No Alternative Action............................................................................................30

3.3.1.3

Required Design Features...............................................................................................30 Cumulative Impacts ........................................................................................................31
Issue 2: What are the Potential Impacts of Oil and Gas Leasing to Climate

3.3.1.4 3.3.2

Change/Greenhouse Gases? ...............................................................................................................34

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3.3.2.1 3.3.2.2

Affected Environment.....................................................................................................34 Environmental Consequences.........................................................................................36
Impacts of the Proposed Action.....................................................................................................36 Impacts of the No Alternative Action............................................................................................38

3.3.2.3

Required Design Features/Mitigation Measures.............................................................38 Cumulative Impacts ........................................................................................................39
Consultation and Coordination ...........................................................................................45

3.3.2.4
Chapter 4
4.1 4.2

Introduction.................................................................................................................................45 Persons, Groups, and Agencies Contacted/Consulted ................................................................45

4.2.1

Endangered Species Act of 1973 ........................................................................................45 National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966..........................................................45
Public Participation.....................................................................................................................50

4.2.2
4.3

4.4
4.3.1

Modifications Based on Public Comment and Internal Review .........................................50
Preparers .....................................................................................................................................51

Chapter 5

Appendices..........................................................................................................................52
Appendix A – Parcel List with Stipulations and Notices...................................................................53 Appendix B – Stipulations and Notices .............................................................................................70
Stipulation Summary Table ...........................................................................................................70 Notice Summary Table ..................................................................................................................81 Threatened and Endangered Species Notices ................................................................................89
Appendix C – Figures/Maps ..............................................................................................................97 Appendix D – Interdisciplinary Parcel Review Team Checklist......................................................100 Appendix E – References.................................................................................................................113 Appendix F – Acronyms/Abbreviations...........................................................................................117 Appendix G – Reasonable Foreseeable Development of Leases Scenario......................................119

5.1.1 5.1.2 5.1.3 5.1.4 5.1.5

Well Drilling and Completion Operations........................................................................119 Production Operations.......................................................................................................121 Produced Water Handling.................................................................................................121 Maintenance Operations ...................................................................................................122 Plugging and Abandonment..............................................................................................122
Appendix H – Comments and Responses ........................................................................................123

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List of Tables

Table 1. Issues Identified for Detailed Analysis.........................................................................................10 Table 2. Issues not included in Further Detail in the Environmental Assessment......................................12 Table 3. Leasing Category Acreages for Monticello Field Office..............................................................24 Table 4. Leasing Category Acreages by Parcel. .........................................................................................24 Table 5. AQI Index Summary Statistics by County....................................................................................26 Table 6. 2015-2017 Criteria Pollutant Design Values ................................................................................26 Table 7. 2014 Criteria Air Pollutant Emissions (tpy) by Source for San Juan County...............................27 Table 8. Triennial Inventory of HAPs (2014).............................................................................................27 Table 9. Emissions Inventory Estimate.......................................................................................................29 Table 10. Climate Trends............................................................................................................................35 Table 11. GHG Emission in Million Metric Tons (CO2e)..........................................................................36 Table 12. Single Well GHG Emissions Based on the Moab MLP FEIS Inventory....................................36 Table 13. Production of Oil and Gas for a Single Well and Associated GHG Combustion Emissions .....37 Table 14. Estimates Annual GHG Emissions from Existing and Reasonably Foreseeable Oil and Gas Wells...........................................................................................................................................................40 Table 15. Comparison of Total Annual Emissions with State and National Emissions .............................40 Table 16. Expected wells from Each Field Office RMP, and Corresponding GHG Emissions .................40 Table 17. Undeveloped Portion of RMP RFD Scenarios and Corresponding Potential GHG Emissions for Each Field Office........................................................................................................................................41 Table 18. List of Contacts and Findings. ....................................................................................................47 Table 19. Preparers of This EA...................................................................................................................51

List of Figures

Figure 1. ARMS predicted ozone design values with on the books controls for oil and gas emissions in the year 2021.....................................................................................................................................................32 Figure 2. ARMS predicted PM2.5 design values with on the books controls for oil and gas emissions in the year 2021...............................................................................................................................................33 Figure 3. Potential for climate change impacts for the Colorado Plateau...................................................43 Figure 4. Lease Sale Parcel Overview. .......................................................................................................98 Figure 5. Hovenweep Viewshed Analysis..................................................................................................99

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Environmental Assessment
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Chapter 1 Purpose & Need

1.1

Project Location and Legal Description

The preliminary parcel list contained 19 parcels covering 32,067.42 acres for the September 2019 Competitive Oil and Gas Lease Sale (lease sale) and are located on public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Monticello Field Office (MtFO). All 19 parcels were deferred from the March 2019 Sale (DOI-BLM-UT-Y020-2019-0004-DNA)1. The legal descriptions of the nominated parcels are in Appendix A.

1.2

Introduction

The Utah State Office (UTSO) has prepared this environmental assessment (EA) to disclose and analyze the environmental consequences for the selling of parcels and subsequent lease issuance to successful bidders from the lease sale. This EA is an issue-base, site specific analysis of potential impacts that could result from the implementation of a proposed action or alternative to the proposed action. The EA assists the BLM in project planning and ensures compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and in making a determination as to whether any significant impacts could result from the analyzed actions.2 This EA provides evidence for determining whether to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) or a statement of Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI). If the decision maker determines this project has significant impacts following the analysis in the EA, than an EIS would be prepared. If not, a Decision Record (DR) may be signed for the EA approving the selected alternative, either the proposed action or another alternative. A DR, including a FONSI statement, for this EA would document the reasons why implementation of the selected alternative would not result in significant environmental impacts (effects) beyond those already addressed in the governing land use plan (LUP) as amended (Section 1.6).

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    Volumina Jurassica, 2014, Xii (2): 181–196 Doi: 10.5604/17313708 .1130142 New data on small theropod dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Como Bluff, Wyoming, USA Sebastian G. DALMAN1 Key words: dinosaurs, Theropoda, Upper Jurassic, Morrison Formation, Como Bluff, Wyoming, western USA. Abstract. In 1879, Othniel C. Marsh and Arthur Lakes collected in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation Quarry 12 at Como Bluff, Wyoming, USA, several isolated axial and appendicular skeletal elements of small theropod dinosaurs. Since the discovery the specimens remained unnoticed for over a century. The skeletal remains of small theropods are rare at Como Bluff and throughout the Morrison Forma- tion. Their bones are delicately constructed, so they are not as well-preserved as the bones of large-bodied theropods. The bones of small theropods described here were found mixed with isolated crocodile teeth and turtle shells. Comparison of the skeletal materials with other known theropods from the Morrison Formation reveals that some of the bones belong to a very small juvenile Allosaurus fragilis and Tor­ vosaurus tanneri and also to a new ceratosaur taxon, here named Fosterovenator churei, whereas the other bones represent previously unidentified juvenile taxa of basal tetanuran and coelurid theropods. The discovery and description of these fossil materials is significant because they provide important information about the Upper Jurassic terrestrial fauna of Quarry 12, Como Bluff, Wyoming. The presence of previously unidentified theropod taxa in the Morrison Formation indicates that the diversity of basal tetanuran and coelurid theropods may have been much greater than previously expected. Although the fossil material here described is largely fragmentary, it is tenable that theropods of different clades co-existed in the same ecosystems at the same time and most likely competed for the same food sources.