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<br />YANKEE GULCH SODIUM MINERALS PROJECT <br />PIPELINE INFORMATION SUMMARY <br />1 <br />1.0 PROJECT PURPOSE AND NEED <br />American Soda, L.L.P. (American Soda) proposes a mining operation involving <br />t development of vertical solution mining wells for the extraction of bedded and <br />disseminated nahcolite. The project is known as the Yankee Gulch Sodium <br />Minerals Project (Yankee Gulch Project). The proposed mining development <br />' would occur on the Yankee Gulch Joint Venture Leases (the Piceance Site), <br />which are located in the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) White River <br />Resource Area near Meeker, Colorado, and are controlled by American Soda. <br />' Associated processing facilities would be located at the Piceance Site and in the <br />Parachute Creek valley near Parachute, Colorado (the Parachute Site). <br />' The two sites would be connected by a 44-mile-long pipeline corridor, which <br />would contain a sodium products pipeline rlrnning from the Piceance Site to the <br />Parachute Site and a parallel return water pipeline running from the Parachute <br />' Site to the Piceance Site. The pipeline corridor route is indicated on Figure 1-1. <br />This document describes the methods and materials to be used for construction <br />of the two Yankee Gulch Project pipelines. <br />American Soda intends to install the Yankee Gulch Project pipelines in full <br />accordance with regulatory and industry guidelines. American Soda has <br />' proposed a start date for construction and installation of the pipelines of no <br />earlier than January 1, 2000, and a completion date of November 1, 2000. <br />' 1.1 Proposed Pipeline Route <br />The proposed pipeline route and general land ownership along the route are <br />shown on Figure 1-2. Figures 1-3a through 1-3h show the pipeline route in more <br />detail, with topographic information. The pipeline route from the Piceance Site <br />' to the Parachute Site is described as follows. From the Piceance Site processing <br />facility, the pipeline travels southeast to Horse Draw, which it progresses down <br />to cross Piceance Creek at the existing Horse Draw/Marathon Oil Company road <br />' crossing (a distance of 2 miles). It then crosses Rio Blanco County Road 5 near <br />the mouth of Hatch Gulch. The pipeline follows Hatch Gulch southeast along <br />the valley floor until it meets an existing natural gas liquids (ngl) pipeline <br />t corridor (a distance of 4.5 miles), which it parallels due east to the Greasewood <br />Compressor Station (approximately 2 more miles). <br />' From the Greasewood Compressor Station, the Yankee Gulch Project pipeline <br />corridor parallels an existing three-party ngl corridor that includes pipelines <br />operated by Northwest Pipeline, Colorado Interstate Gas (CIG), and Barrett <br />Resources. This pipeline corridor trends southeast for approximately 2 miles <br />Pipeline Wormanon Summary I <br />YaNree GWch Sodium Minerals Proles <br />' American Soda, LLP. <br />