2007 - 2012 Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Updated July 2006)

This draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) analyzes potential environmental and socioeconomic impacts associated with the 2007-2012 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program. The analyses in this programmatic EIS adopt a broad regional perspective; more detailed and geographically focused analyses will be done as the Program progresses from the planning to the leasing to the exploration and development stages.

These MMS 2006-004 reports (chapters, appendices, figures and tables) are in Adobe Acrobat format. The Adobe Acrobat reader is a free PDF download for individual use.

   Volume 1

• Purpose And Need For The Proposed Action (320 KB PDF)
  Introduction through Chapter 1
   
• Alternatives Including the Proposed Action (327 KB PDF)
  Chapter  2
   
• Affected Environment (374 KB PDF)
  Chapter 3
   
• Environmental Consequences - Impacts of Alternative 1 (234 KB PDF)
  Chapter 4 A-B; Proposed Action

   Volume 2

• Environmental Consequences - Impact of Other Alternatives & Cumulative Case (1612 KB PDF)Chapter 4C
   
• Consultation & Preparers (39 KB PDF)
  Chapters 5 & 6
   
• Index (63 KB PDF)
  Chapter 7

   Appendices

•  Appendix A (95 KB PDF)
  Glossary
   
• Appendix B (63 KB PDF)
  Acronyms
   
• Appendix C (72 KB PDF)
  Mitigation Measures
   
• Appendix D – Federal Laws and Executive Orders (145 KB PDF)
   
• Appendix E (786 KB PDF)
  References

   Figures

• Figures II-1 through II-10 (5455 KB PDF)
   
• Figures III-1 through III-6 (6054 KB PDF)
   
• Figures III-7 through III-12 (6617 KB PDF)
   
• Figures III-13 through III-24 (6410 KB PDF)
   
• Figures III-25 through III-38 (6238 KB PDF)
   
• Figures III-39 through IV-1 (4421 KB PDF)

   Tables

• Tables III-1 through III-17 (3107 KB PDF)
   
• Tables III-18 through III-21 (2497 KB PDF)
   
• Tables III-22 through III-25 (2296 KB PDF)
   
• Tables III-26 through III-34 (733 KB PDF)
   
• Tables III-35 through III-45 (697 KB PDF)
   
• Tables III-46 through III-52 (771 KB PDF)
   
• Tables III-53 through III-56 (649 KB PDF)
   
• Tables III-57 through III-63 (264 KB PDF)
   
• Tables IV-1 through IV-28 (444 KB PDF)