30 C.F.R. § 250.270 What decisions will MMS make on the DPP or DOCD and within what timeframe?
Title 30 - Mineral Resources
(a) Timeframe. The Regional Supervisor will act on your deemed-submitted DPP or DOCD as follows: (1) The Regional Supervisor will make a decision within 60 calendar days after the latest of the day that: (i) The comment period provided in §267(a)(1), (a)(2), and (b) closes; (ii) The final EIS for a DPP is released or adopted; or (iii) The last amendment to your proposed DOCD is received by the Regional Supervisor. (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (a)(1) of this section, MMS will not approve your DPP or DOCD until either: (i) All affected States with approved CZMA programs concur, or have been conclusively presumed to concur, with your DPP or DOCD consistency certification under section 307(c)(3)(B)(i) and (ii) of the CZMA (16 U.S.C. 1456(c)(3)(B)(i) and (ii)); or (ii) The Secretary of Commerce has made a finding authorized by section 307(c)(3)(B)(iii) of the CZMA (16 U.S.C. 1456(c)(3)(B)(iii)) that each activity described in the DPP or DOCD is consistent with the objectives of the CZMA, or is otherwise necessary in the interest of national security. (b) MMS decision. By the deadline in paragraph (a) of this section, the Regional Supervisor will take one of the following actions:
Title 30: Mineral Resources
PART 250—OIL AND GAS AND SULPHUR OPERATIONS IN THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF
Subpart B—Plans and Information
Review and Decision Process for the DPP or DOCD
§ 250.270 What decisions will MMS make on the DPP or DOCD and within what timeframe?
------------------------------------------------------------------------ The regional supervisor will . . . If . . . And then . . .------------------------------------------------------------------------(1) Approve your DPP or DOCD It complies with all The Regional applicable Supervisor will requirements. notify you in writing of the decision and may require you to meet certain conditions, including those to provide monitoring information.(2) Require you to modify It fails to make The Regional your proposed DPP or DOCD. adequate provisions Supervisor will for safety, notify you in environmental writing of the protection, or decision and conservation of describe the natural resources modifications you or otherwise does must make to your not comply with the proposed DPP or lease, the Act, the DOCD to ensure it regulations complies with all prescribed under applicable the Act, or other requirements. Federal laws.(3) Disapprove your DPP or Any of the reasons (i) The Regional DOCD. in § 250.271 Supervisor will apply. notify you in writing of the decision and describe the reason(s) for disapproving your DPP or DOCD; and (ii) MMS may cancel your lease and compensate you under 43 U.S.C. 1351(h)(2)(C) and the implementing regulations in §§ 250.183, 250.184, and 250.185 and 30 CFR 256.77.------------------------------------------------------------------------
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