Environmental Assessment C&E Operating, Inc. Proposal to Directionally Drill and Produce the Hankammer Well No. 1from a location outside the Neches Bottom/Jack Gore Baygall Unit, Big Thicket National Preserve, Hardin and Jasper Counties, Texas

In accordance with National Park Service (NPS) regulations for nonfederal oil and gas rights, C&E Operating, Inc. (C&E) has submitted an Application for Exemption (Application) to the NPS regulations found at 36 CFR 9B to directionally drill and produce the Hankammer Well No. 1 from a surface location outside the boundary of the Neches Bottom/Jack Gore Baygall Unit (Unit) of Big Thicket National Preserve (Preserve) in Hardin County, Texas, on privately-managed forest lands, to a bottomhole location under the Unit in Jasper County, Texas.

This Environmental Assessment (EA) evaluates two alternatives. Alternative A, No Action, evaluates baseline conditions in which the well would not be drilled; therefore, there would be no new impacts on the environment, but existing impacts would continue. Alternative B, Proposed Action, evaluates C&E’s proposal to directionally drill and produce the well. Due primarily to the use of directional drilling from a surface location 2,459 feet from the Unit, there would be no measurable effects on most Unit resources and values. Therefore, many topics, including most Unit resources and values, have been dismissed from further analysis in this EA. Under Alternative B, there would be short- to long-term, localized to widespread, negligible to moderate, adverse impacts on air quality in and outside the Unit. Impacts on Adjacent Landowners, Resources, and Uses, including cultural resources, geology and soils, lightscape management, natural soundscape, vegetation, and wildlife, would range from short- to long-term, negligible to moderate, beneficial and adverse, localized within 1500 feet of the activities occurring outside the Unit.

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