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IBLA 2007-213 <br />BLM issued a January 5, 2007, Notice of Competitive Lease Sale, offering for <br />competitive bidding the three leases at issue along with dozens of MLA leases. <br />Vessels Ex. T. Unlike the other MLA leases offering the right to explore for, mine for, <br />drill for, and develop oil and gas deposits under the standard MLA form lease, the <br />three lease parcels UTU0207-124, -125, and -126 were identified in the Notice as "for <br />Mine Vent gas only." Id. at 26-27. As no document regarding the January 5, 2007, <br />Notice contains a copy of the lease form offered for the three leases or the <br />stipulations to be attached, we presume that the stipulations finally attached to the <br />"Aberdeen Coal Mine Oil and Gas Leases" as issued were the ones also offered to the <br />public. The stipulations read in relevant part, as follows: <br />1. This lease is issued granting the exclusive right for the surface capture <br />of ventilated mitre vent gas, known also as mine vent gas, from the <br />Aberdeen Coal Mine, Carbon County, Utah, and far no other purpose. <br />The mine vent gas is produced as a waste product from the mining of <br />coal, exhausted through ventilation wells designed spedfically for that <br />purpose, and vented to the atmosphere to remove hazardous, <br />potentially explosive gases from the Aberdeen mine. The lessee shall <br />have the right to remove, utilize, and dispose of all the mine vent gas <br />gathered at the discharge point of the wells drilled and constructed by <br />the mining company, to transport the mine vent gas from the discharge <br />point through the lessee's gathering.system to a facility where the mine <br />vent gays can be cleaned, scrubbed, pressurized, and placed into <br />marketable condition, and to sell the marketable products. <br />2. This lease does not grant the right to drill for, mine, extract, remove <br />and dispose of all the out and gas (including helium) in all the lands <br />herein described. <br />3. This lease shall be issued and become effective only uitder the <br />completion of an explicit agreement with the mine operators. <br />4. This tease shall not be issued for a specific period of time but shall <br />remain in force solely at the discretion of the mining company. Upon <br />mine closure the mining compan44 y,, ,is responsible for plugging the wells <br />1 '?'nvz dcs~°ccc ?Tra}?rtfi8--t? he-p-p.lt"bln <br />permits... . <br />5. Mine vent gas venting is solely at the discretion of the Aberdeen mine <br />operator and may be stopped or altered at any time for mine safety, <br />a (...continued) <br />Oil, Gas and Mining. Id <br />175 IBLA 16 <br />1Z/6 'd £££L 'ON VIE I1so Wd40: Z! 8'00Z 'W 'W <br />it