The Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management today announced its intention to prepare a supplemental environmental impact statement for Cook Inlet Oil and Gas Lease Sale 258, in order to provide new analysis in response to a judicial remand from the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska. Upon completion of the supplemental EIS, DOI will issue a modified Record of Decision, which will result in the affirmation, modification, or vacatur of the previously awarded lease issued following Lease Sale 258, which was held in Dec. 2022.
