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• ATTACHMENT <br />to <br />CLASS V PERMIT <br />UNDERGROUND INJECTION CONTROL <br />American Shale Oil, LLC <br />The following was prepared in accordance with the information provided to <br />American Shale Oil, LLC by Region 8 via electronic mail on June 2, 2009 <br />1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS <br />American Shale Oil, LLC is in the business of oil shale development through its <br />Research, Development, and Demonstration (RD&D) Lease with the Bureau of Land <br />Management (BLM). <br />Pursuant to the Energy Act of 2005 and Section 21 of the Minerals Leasing Act (1920, as <br />amended, 30 USC 241), the BLM solicited research, development, and demonstration <br />(RD&D) proposals to demonstrate technologies for unlocking the energy now trapped in <br />oil shale deposits and to nominate lands to be leased for a potential subsequent <br />commercial project. Each 160-acre RD&D lease application was to include a request for <br />an additional 4960 acres to be reserved for a preference-right commercial lease area. As <br />established under the Act, BLM would non-competitively convert the preference-right <br />• acreage into a commercial oil shale lease for fair market value upon successful <br />demonstration of an environmentally sound and economically viable shale oil recovery <br />technology. <br />Ultimately, of the 20 nominations received, six were accepted, including the one <br />proposed by E.G.L. Resources, Inc. The BLM issued the Oil Shale RD&D Lease COC <br />69169 effective on January 1, 2007. E.G.L. Resources, Inc. assigned the lease to E.G.L. <br />Oil Shale, LLC (EGL). E.G.L. Oil Shale, LLC, formally changed its name to American <br />Shale Oil, L.L.C. (AMSO) on May 12, 2009, and AMSO is the current lease holder and <br />lease operator. <br />2. TYPE & DESCRIPTION OF INJECTION WELL <br />AMSO's research and development work to date, and its desire to avoid impacts to <br />aquifers rather than to remediate contaminated aquifers, identified a unique opportunity. <br />AMSO will conduct its Pilot Test retort in the R1 oil shale zone, shown in Figure 2-1. <br />The R1 zone lies well below the aquifers and is isolated from those overlying aquifers by <br />multiple confining layers of oil shale, including nahcolitic oil shale. The R1 zone is <br />further confined below by multiple layers of oil shale and the Wasatch Formation. <br />AMSO will conduct its Pilot Test to evaluate its Conduction, Convection, Reflux <br />(CCRTM) shale oil recovery process. The Pilot Test will consist of 1) a single heater- <br />producer well, and 2) surface facilities for processing the produced oil, water, and gas <br />2