What is the proposed schedule of lease sales for the Gulf of Mexico Region and how does it differ from what was included in the proposed program?
In the Central and Western Gulf of Mexico Planning Areas, which remain the two areas of highest resource potential and interest, the PFP is the same as that of the PP. The program continues to schedule annual area wide lease sales–6 in the Central Gulf and 5 in the Western Gulf. As a result of the reconfiguration of some planning areas to follow new administrative lines, some of the areas formerly included in the Eastern and Western Gulf Planning Area are now part of the Central Gulf Planning Area. As in the PP, CGOM Sale 205 is expanded to include areas that would have been offered in Sale 201, which was cancelled as part of the Sale 200 litigation settlement of October 24, 2006 As a result of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESAct), Sale 224 is scheduled in the Eastern Gulf in 2008 in an area within the original Sale 181 area, west of the military mission line (86O 41’W), and more than 125 miles from Florida. The sale is not subject to OCS Lands Act (OCSLA) section 18. The
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