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.1 <br />Certified Mail <br />Mr. William B. Collister <br />Yankee Gulch Joint Venture <br />6320 East Fourth Avenue <br />Denver, Colorado 80220 <br />Dcar fNr. Collister: <br />~~ <br />~~DEN~ <br />~ i <br />CO-921 B(KP) <br />3520 <br />C-0118328 <br />C-0118329 <br />Sodium <br />DEC 18 1991 <br />This office received your letter of November 26, 1991, along with three executed <br />copies of each of the sodium preference right leases C-0118328, and C-0118329, <br />a xerox copy of the original Yankee Gulch Joint Venture Agreement, two copies of <br />the First Amendment to the Yankee Gulch Joint Venture Agreement, two copies of <br />the Statement of Corporate Qualifications, a S5,000 U.S. Treasury Bond for <br />C-0118328 and a S5,000 certified check for a cash bond for C-0118329. <br />You state in your letter that the acceptance of the leases is the result of the <br />deadline placed upon the applicant by the Bureau of Land Management (BLMI and <br />is based on reliance by the applicant that certain representations and statements <br />made to representatives of the applicant by BLM in a meeting held in the Colorado <br />State Office on July 22, 1991, would be applicable to the leases and the <br />operations thereunder. <br />We do not agree on certain points of your interpretation of the issues discussed at <br />the meeting on July 22, 1991. The following is our understanding of the issues: <br />1. The extent to which rubblization through vertical solution mining may occur will <br />be governed by Sec. 4, Part 1 of the leases. <br />J~13 1Q92 <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />BUREAU OF LAND bfANAGEDlENT <br />COIARADO STA7E OFFICE <br />2850 YOUNGFIEI~ 57AEET <br />LAKEN'OOD. COIARADO 80215-7076 <br />2. We agree, in principle, that removal of a discrete bed of nahcolite, followed by <br />subsidence or buckling to eliminate the void, would not impermissibly disturb the <br />oil shale. <br />