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Black Bear Natural Gas Development

PERMITTING DASHBOARD PROJECT POSTING DATE: OCTOBER 28, 2025

All dates below are specific to the schedule of the Environmental Review and Permitting processes for this project.

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Conventional Energy Production

SECTOR
Conventional Energy Production

Project Category

CATEGORY
Project Category FAST-41 Covered Projects

Department of Agriculture

LEAD AGENCY
Department of Agriculture, US Forest Service

Description:

The Black Bear Natural Gas Development Project is located in the Angelina National Forest in San Augustine County, Texas and includes up to four gas well pads, access roads to the well pads, a main trunk pipeline for the transportation of natural gas and gathering pipelines connecting the well pads. Each well pad will have up to eight proposed wells (total of 32 wells) that will be horizontally drilled into both private and U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) managed minerals with the intent of producing primarily natural gas.