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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 Januaiy 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 caprw-e <br />of ventilated mitre vent gas, known also as mine vent gas, from the <br />Aberdeen Coal Mine, Carbon County, Utah, and for 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 specifically for that <br />purpose, and vented to the atmosphere to remove hazardous, <br />potentially explosive gases from the Aberdeen aline. 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 drift for, mine, extract, t•emove <br />and dispose of all the oil and gas (including helium) in all the lands <br />herein described. <br />3. This lease shall be issued and become effective only under the <br />completion of an explicit agreement with the mine operators. <br />4. This lease shaft 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 />r?the wells <br />mine closure the mining company ?GGW __J '"r isnresponsible forplugging <br />in-amnv rrdaa ae?Ana-s ihv te;z?ptica l <br />permits, .. . <br />5. Mine vent gas venting is solely at the discretion of the Aberdeen mitre <br />operator and may be stopped or altered at any time for mine safety, <br />a (...continued) <br />Oil, Gas and MIning. Id <br />1751BLA 16 <br />lZ/6 'd fUt 'ON VIE 105(1 Nd90:Zt 860Z '91 'W <br />VV.1 oc : er onnz i» ion <br />'''