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• west-southwest of Meeker, and 29 miles east-southeast of Rangely, Colorado. Access to the Piceance Site vicinity is provided from Colorado Highway 64 to the north or from Colorado Highway 13 to the southeast by Piceance Creek Road (Rio Blanco County Road 5), which generally follows the east side of Piceance Creek. Access into the Piceance Site from Piceance Creek Road is provided by roads off Horse Draw Road (Figure 1-2). The Parachute Site will be located on private property in the Parachute Creek valley, most likely in Sections 34 and 35 of Township 6 South, Range 96 West of the Sixth PM, Garfield County, Colorado. The preferred Parachute Site is approximately 3 miles northwest of the town of Parachute. Due to a number factors, development of the Parachute Site may not be possible within the confines of the preferred location. If the facility is not ultimately developed on the preferred location, the facility would be located as near as possible to the existing infrastructure to minimize disturbance. The potential area for development of the Parachute Site and the preferred location for the site are identified in Figure 1-2. Access to the Parachute Site is provided by Interstate 70 and Garfield County Road 215 (Parachute Creek Road), which follows Parachute Creek north out of the town of Parachute (Figure 1- 2). The preferred Parachute Site includes a 4-mile-long dedicated rail spur south to an interstate rail connection near the town of Parachute. The Piceance Site and the Parachute Site will be connected by a pipeline corridor that • will run east-southeast from the Piceance Site for approximately 6 miles and then east and generally south along existing pipeline corridors for approximately 38 miles to the Parachute Site. 1.3 PIPELINE ROUTE, LAND OWNERSHIP, AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY The Yankee Gulch Project pipelines will be routed along an approximately 44-mile- long pipeline corridor. Impacts resulting from construction of the pipeline will be minimized by paralleling an existing pipeline corridor to the extent possible. It is anticipated that construction of the project pipeline will result in incremental disturbance of approximately 400 acres of land. The pipeline corridor crosses a combination of federally owned and privately owned lands. The majority of the pipeline corridor in the Piceance Creek Basin is on BLM lands administered by the White River Resource Area. Private land owners in the Piceance Creek Basin include Marathon Oil Company immediately south of the Piceance Site and individual landowners in Stewart Gulch (Township 3 South, Range 96 West). Project lands in the Parachute Creek Basin would include primarily private holdings of oil shale-related developments including Unocal, Exxon, and Chevron. AJI appropriate pipeline rights-of-way and other clearances will be obtained prior to pipeline and pipeline corridor construction. • Three alternate routes are currently under consideration for a short segment of the pipeline that must descend the steep bluffs from Davis Point down into the Amencan Soda, L.L.P. 1-2 Commercial Mine Plan August 18, 1996