Decision Memo Completed

Chesapeake Energy Road Use Permit NFSR 964

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland Converse, Wyoming Douglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District

The Forest Service is proposing to authorize Chesapeake Energy to reconstruct and use approximately 10,113 ft of NFSR 964 to access three proposed oil wells in the Robbins Unit and one proposed well in the Cottonwood Unit.

Location

North of Bill, WY on Hwy 59 approximately 8.5 miles and west of Hwy 59

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
07/27/2011
2
Decision
10/2011 (Estimated)
3
Implementation
11/2011 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Categorical Exclusion32.2 (8), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(8)
Special AuthorityForest Service Energy Implementation Plan
Notice and Comment RegulationNot Subject to Regulations
Project ActivitySpecial Use Authorizations; Road Improvements/Construction
Chesapeake Energy Corporation, NFSR Road 964 ReconstructionDecision Signed Date: 10/11/2011
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsDouglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionSections 19, 20 and 21, T39N, R71W 6th PM
Special use managementRoad management