West Flower Garden Bank 

 Tract 41-29 



NWJsSW^NEJs; S^S^sNE^a; SEhmh; NE^sSW^s; NE%NW3sSW%; 



Exploration and development operations are permitted 

 within the circle outside above aliquots, with radius 

 of 20,064 feet around point P; located by X = 3,742,875, 



Y = 71,280 for East Flower Garden and X = 3,674,965, 



Y = 50,690 for West Flower Garden (Texas Lambert System). 



Operations in this zone are restricted as follows: Drill 

 cuttings and drilling muds must be disposed of by shunting 

 the material to the bottom through a downpipe that 

 terminates an appropriate distance from the bottom as 

 determined by the Supervisor; however, if the shunting 

 method is not adequate to protect the unique character 

 of the subject area, then the Supervisor will require 

 barging the material a minimum of ten miles from any 

 25 fathom isobath surrounding live reef-building coral 

 before disposal. Should barging be the method selected, 

 disposal sites must be approved by the Supervisor. 



No garbage, untreated sewage, or other solid waste shall 

 be disposed from vessels (work-boats, crew-boats, supply 

 boats, pipe-laying vessels) during exploration, 

 development and production operations within the area of 

 the bank described above for exploration and development 

 operations. No drilling permits will be issued by the 

 Supervisor until he has found that the lessee's explora- 

 tion and development plan filed under 30 CFR 250.34 is 

 adequate to insure that exploration and production 

 operations in the leased area will have minimum adverse 

 effect on the biotic community of high value reef sites 

 on the Flower Garden Banks. As a part of the development 

 plan, a reef monitoring program must be included. 



The monitoring program will be designed to assess the 

 affects of oil and gas exploration and development 

 operations on the viability of the coral reefs. The 

 development plan should indicate that the monitoring 

 program will be conducted by qualified independent 

 scientific personnel and that program personnel and 

 equipment will be available at the time of operations. 

 The monitoring team will submit its findings to the 

 Supervisor on an interim on-going basis, or immediately 

 in case of imminent danger to the reefs resulting 

 directly from drilling or other operations. 



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