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<br />Bureau of Land Management State Offices at Colorado State Bank Building,
<br />1600 Broadway, Denver, Colorado 80202: Federal Building, 124 South State,
<br />Salt Lake City, Utah: and Joseph C. O'Mahoney Federal Center, 2120 Capital
<br />Avenue, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001.
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<br />Cost is as follows:
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<br />Six volumes (complete set) $28.75. Volume I, $6.15: Volume II, $2.85:
<br />Volume 111,$5.90; Volume IV, $2.85; Volume V, $7.25: Volume VI, $3.75.
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<br />Inspection copies are available in the Library and the Office of the
<br />Oil Shale Coordinator, U. S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.,
<br />'and at depository libraries throughout the Nation.
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<br />Inspection copies also are available in the Office of the Deputy Oil Shale
<br />Coordinator, Room 237E, Building 56, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado
<br />80225: in Bureau of Land Management State Offices listed above: and the
<br />following Bureau of Land Management District Offices: Colorado, Canon City,
<br />Craig, Glenwood Springs, Grand Junction, Montrose; Utah, Vernal, Price, Monticello,
<br />Kanab, Richfield; Wyoming, Rock Springs, Rawlins, Casper, Lander, Pinedale, and
<br />Worland.
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<br />Background Synopsis
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<br />PROTOTYPE OIL SHALE LEASING PROGRAM
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<br />Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming
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<br />January 14, 1970 - Secretary Rickel approved establishment of an Oil Shale Task
<br />Force to formulate a possible leasing program for oil shale development. .
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<br />June 4, 1971 - President Nixon, in his first clean Energy Message to Congress,
<br />instructed the Secretary of the Interior to proceed with the development of an
<br />oil shale leasing program, "provided that environmental questions can be
<br />satisfactorily solved."
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<br />June 29, 1971 - Secretary of the Interior Rogers C. B. Morton announced plans
<br />for the proposed prototype oil shale leasing program and released a preliminary
<br />environmental statement, a program statement, and reports prepared by the States
<br />of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming concerning environmental costs'and problems of
<br />oil shale development. (Following that announcement, the Department of the
<br />Interior authorized informational core drilling at various sites in Colorado,
<br />Utah, and Wyoming. Twenty-eight core holes have been completed.)
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<br />Novemher 2, 1971 - The Department of the Interior requested nominations of tracts.
<br />Twenty individual tracts of oil shale lands were nominated.
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<br />April 25, 1972 - With the concurrence of Governors of the 3 States, the Department
<br />of the Interior announced selection of six of the nominated tracts proposed for
<br />leasing -- two each in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.
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