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<br />.\ 28 'THE DENVER POSt Thu"..Au,.3D.1973
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<br />1Report May Signal Oil-
<br />b thaI unless the law is changed The Interior De-partm('nt said Developing the shale entails dene!' on how long it would take statement says. The famed deer
<br />) dig",og il up and "cooking" it 10 get ve,etation to sustain It- herd of the Pict'ance Creek.
<br />FRO MAG E "those (nondegradation ot air a new impact statement, draw-
<br />P 1 quality) requirements could ing on expt'rlenct' from the pro- under pressure to 900 degrees self o~ the spent shale without area, one of the .Iflr~~st in the
<br />, hmit 'he s'"'' ",,"I d",,- I.,ype <<>mmm',1 0'1 sh"e '0 ',I"" th, .;1. Sh"e with "peo"" m,"-mad, help. w.dd. w,""ld "" ",no',,,otly ,f-
<br />ion private lands w?uld reqUIre opment (of an air shale proto- operalion, also would be re- ~he ol!.r('m(l.~ed IS called "spent The prototype pro~ram could reeled wl~h pcrhaps.n much as
<br />;80me type of permIt or access1t leasing pr )" quired some years from now I shale. It will be large In vol- use underground saline waters, a 10 per Cl'n! reductIOn.
<br />l'acroS! public lands for utilities ype. ogram"d before' a d(>('ision could ~,ume than the original material. not potable water, for shale Thig will coincide with more
<br />(water, oil and gag pipelines, fnter~or expressed confl e~ce made on whether to proceed tal W.4.STE PROfiLf':"1 processing. There would be no hunter prf'ssure from the In.
<br />electric and telephone .....ires) that ~Ir and water .pollut~on development of a full-scale in-.I "Spent shale" poses a glgan. emuent. About JO.D?O .acre fed ere a sed human populatlo~.
<br />!and roads." ~ntros can be m~l with eXlst- dust roducing an estimated' tic .....aste disposal problem o!.-~'ater-::if--)If.ar would b~ Fishing ""ill also suffer, pn.
<br />I Those permits or access mg ted.1I1ology, a view also held one ~rtion barrels of oil per .....hich the statement says can .tequ}red lor a 5fJ,OOO barrel !! manly because of more people
<br />rights would require environ- by the JI1dustry. . day be solved by filling In canyons gay.planl in the area.
<br />Imenf~llmpa~t statements an~ The prototype ll'.a.~mg pro- The minimum royalty will be ~i.th the waste. By adding f~r. BIGGER REQUIR,EI\1E~T Most wildlife species will suf.
<br />Iffiet1lOg reqUIrements for envI' gram calls for utilizatIOn of $]6 million for each 1.5 billion hllzer and water, vegelalJon However a millIon barrels of fer and the sage grouse already
<br />if 0 n men t a I protection, the ~rom ,10,000. to 13.~ acres, barrels of oil. Unanticipated en- can be grown upon it. oil per day production would scarce in the area, is predicted
<br />lageney said. mdudlng utIlity ~r.fI(tors, for vironmental protection expenses The report said the develop. require _??7,~~~~~.~ to disappear.
<br />I "Operation on the private the SIX tracts. nlls IS about a will De credited against royalty ment of 11 single oil shale tract ~!!er for the Industry and ~s. In an assessment of economic
<br />lands Involving environmental tenth of one per ~nt of the payments under the program by surface disposal W()uld fill sociated dl"velopment. About imp act s , the environmental
<br />jconsiderations w 0 u I d (thus) known ?il shale-bearing lands in at the discretion of the sccr~ six canyons to a depth of 250 130,000 acre fe~ o!~'ater 'woUld statement projects that a single
<br />:have to be approved by the the region. tary of interior. feet, each one covenng some he consumed. The rest would SO,()oo'barrel.a.day plant will
<br />jdepartment," Interior asserted. I:'IlDUSTRY IXCENTIVE FIR.\IS INTF.RESTED 700 acres. be retumf'd to local waters. increase the populatIOn ~
<br />~t also said that. existing per- The progra~ is ~esigned to If bids are accepted, winning . Aoo.ut thrpe canyong would be "The. true water npeds for persons, 6,J~ of them rf'mam-
<br />Imlls or accesg nghts can be encourage pnvate mdustry to bidders ha\'e three years to filled If some of the waste shale shale disposal, revegelation are mg after Intllal constructIOn III
<br />Icanceled if developers on ~ri- jnv~st in and. d~velop shale de- prepare and submit develop. were rl'tumed 10 ~nderground }'et to be e.~tablished in large ~omplete and long term opera.
<br />lvate lands don't c~mpl~ WIth poSits by blddl~g on 2?-year ment plans. The plans will be mines, the report said. se~re opt'ratlOns; hence water tlOns are under way.
<br />ifederally Imposed stIpulations. lea.'ies. The highest bidders reveall'd at public hearings. The shale, howe~'er, contains estimates for these operations INCOME nOOST
<br />'COURT SUPPORT would also pay bonuses and ~lore than 20 firms have salt, and .....ater passing through could be subject to considerable WaJ:t' Income along will be
<br />! A. ~ecent U,s. Supr.eme Court royalties on shale p~uction. ~xpressed interest in the pro- it ~o.uld become salty: pol!uling error," the report n?tes. about $10 million a year.
<br />,deCISion upholds por~JOns ~r ~h.e The l~ase t~rms are deslgne~ to gram. eXlstmg water suppheg if al. . Some water for 011 pro~sslng The voluminous report Is
<br />!Clean Air Act barnng Slgmfl- penahze hrms not movmg The scale of even the proto- lowed to reach them. 1.'1 t'xpected to be taken from available from Bureau of Land
<br />ant deterioration of clean air within three years to produce type leasing program is indicat- SALT lNCREASE mine dpwalering operations. ~1,1nagl'ment officeg in Denver,
<br />: n rural areas. It was noted oil from shale. ed by recognition that the two Al maturity, such an Industry The re~)lm. frequt'ntJy notes Cheyenne, Sail Lake City., It
<br />, 5.120-acre tracts in Colorado's w 0 u I d use anywhere from that projections on environ. costs $Z8.75 per ~et. The first
<br />I' Piceance Basin contain 2.8 121,000 to 189,000 acre-feet of wa. menIal imparts actually ran be volume is $6.15 and contains the
<br />billion tons: of minable shale !e~_per . y'ea~ and would In- determined only by getting a oil most current aSl>essment of the
<br />capable of yielding 30 gallons crease the salt content of the shale program opt'rating and industry and program. Other
<br />or more per ton. Colorado River at Hoover Dam mon~tormg its requirements volumes. offer more details,
<br />The Utah and Wyoming tracts about_I! per cent. and Impactg. prf'paratlOn tf'chmques of the
<br />ave 714 million tong and 706 Dlsposalcotila hf' made to W!WLli"E PUESSURE report, transcripts: of pUblic
<br />million tons of shale respec- pr-event water-quality deterio- The ('ffects on wildlife ....iluld hearinJ:s held In 1m on the
<br />tively, of 30-gallon and 2l}. ration, th~ report says. be greater. from pe.opll' than dralt sl.1temenl and. pubhc COnl-
<br />gallon-per-ton yields. There IS, however, no evl. from the II1dustry Jlself, the ments made In wntmg.
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