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Sec. 33, (alp; <br />• Sec. 34, lots 3 to 6, inclusive. <br />The area described contains 2379.60 acres, more or less. <br />Lease C-37474 <br />T.1S.. R.98W.. 6th P.M. <br />Sec. 16, NE1/4 NE1/4, W1/2 NE1/4, W1/2, and NW1/4 SE1/4; <br />Sec. 17, (all); <br />Sec. 20, NE1/4 NE1/4; <br />Sec. 21, NW1/4 NW1/4. <br />The area described contains 1200 acres. <br />The total area contained within the four sodium leases or mining unit is 8,222.6 <br />acres. <br />The location of the principle operation is: T.1 S., R.98W., Section 26. The access <br />road crosses portions of Sections 25, 26, 35 and 36 of T.1S., R.98W and Section <br />31, T.1S., R.97W. and Section 6, T.2S., R97W. Figure 2-1 shows the four <br />sodium lease tracts, plant site, access routes for right-of-ways for electrical power, <br />natural gas and monitoring road to the plant site, and water and production wells. <br />2.3 Leasehold Status <br />The sodium leases were issued July 1, 1971. Following exploration drilling and <br />bulk sampling by solution mining, permit applications to allow construction and <br />operation of a 3ton-per-hour (TPH) pilot solution mining facility were submitted on <br />October 4, 1983 and approved February 9, 1984. On May 2, 1986, an EA fora 6 <br />TPH pilot-scale operation was approved by the BLM. On November 20, 1987 the <br />. BLM approved the project plan for acommercial-scale (125,000 TPY) nahcolite <br />5 <br />