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IBLA 2007-213 <br />the issue was presented iri the State Director's decision, and the parties adopt self- <br />interested positions on the topic, the issue has not been. fully addressed by any party. <br />Moreover, our undertaking to. decide.the appropriate authority,for the capture of gob <br />vent gas would inappropriately supplant BLM's plain responsibility to investigate <br />legal options through research and consideration of-relevant facts: of record and data <br />pot.before us. Any decision by this Board, in the absence of a f dl record and the <br />benefit of such DW research and analysis, would be premature. We. thus take no <br />position on. the future of the technology at issue in this case or the sort of legal <br />arrangements 13LM will ultimately invoke to. address it. Once the technology becomes <br />freely available, it will be incumbent on BLM to address such. issues in. advance and <br />with its coal lessees tinder approved R2P2s. <br />Therefore, pursuant to the authority delegated to the Board -of Land Appeals <br />by the Secretary of the Interior, 43 C.F.R, § 4. 1, the decision appealed from is <br />reversed as discussed herein. <br />Lisa Hemmer <br />Administrative Judge <br />i concur: <br />JAI <br />Ge ey ail <br />AAdmird tiv edge <br />175 IBLA 23 <br />I U1 Z 'd FEU 'ON V181 10SA &01:7,1 R1)V.. '97. 'Nnr <br />_ .___- --- .- . VV4 ofr'QT Qnnzi/.zion