MMS releases EA for GOM Lease Sale 190

By OGJ editors

HOUSTON, Nov. 5 -- The US Minerals Management Service (MMS), has released the environmental assessment (EA) for proposed Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Central Planning Area (CPA) Lease Sale 190, the second CPA lease sale scheduled in the 2002-07 OCS oil and gas leasing program.

MMS reexamined the potential environmental effects of the proposed action and its alternatives based on any information that was unavailable when the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on CPA Sales 185, 190, 194, 198, and 201 was completed in November 2002. It found no new significant impacts and determined that a supplemental EIS was not required.

The EA is available on MMS website at http://www.gomr.mms.gov.