Availability of a Plan of Operations and Environmental Assessment Proposed Drilling and Production Operations; Bright and Company, Padre Island National Seashore Kleberg County, TX

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

Availability of a Plan of Operations and Environmental Assessment

Proposed Drilling and Production Operations; Bright and Company, Padre

Island National Seashore Kleberg County, TX

The National Park Service has received from Bright and Company, a

Plan of Operations for exploratory drilling and production of the Dunn-

McCampbell No. 1 Gas Well at Padre Island National Seashore, Kleberg

County, Texas.

Pursuant to Sec. 9.52(b) of Title 36 of the Code of Federal

Regulations, Part 9, Subpart B (36 CFR 9B); Executive Order 11988,

Floodplain Management; and Executive Order 11990, Protection of

Wetlands, the Plan of Operations and Environmental Assessment are

available for public review and comment for a period of 60 days from

the publication date of this notice. Copies of these documents are

available from the Office of the Superintendent, Padre Island National

Seashore, 9405 South Padre Island Drive, Corpus Christi, Texas,

telephone 512-937-2621; or Ms. Victoria Barela, Division of

Environmental Coordination, National Park Service, Southwest Regional

Office, 1220 S. St. Francis Drive, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-0728,

telephone 505-988-6857.

Bright and Company has sited their proposed operations to avoid

impacts to wetlands, as much as possible, and has developed mitigation

measures to minimize unavoidable impacts. Bright and Company proposes

to compensate for direct lost of 0.4 acres of non-tidal wetlands by

restoring 0.8 acres of an abandoned oil and gas access road to its

original wind-tidal flat condition. The wetlands compensation project

is also located at Padre Island National Seashore.

Dated: July 11, 1994.

Mary R. Bradford,

Acting Regional Director, Southwest Region.

[FR Doc. 94-17818 Filed 7-21-94; 8:45 am]

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