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Show Oil shale panel meets The Interior Department's Oil Shale Environmental Advisory Panel met in Vernal, at the Elk's Lodge, 35 North 300 West, on September 25 and 26. A morning trip to the two prototype oil shale lease tracts known as the White River Shale Project preceded the formal panel meeting beginning at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 25. Development work on these tracts is suspended pending resolution of litigation over title which is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. The panel was reactivated last spring and many of the members have not visited Utah's oil shale country previously. The meeting continued Wednesday, ending by 4 p.m. The panel reviewed plans for an airstrip in the Piceance tsasin oi Colorado and was briefed on the Upper Colorado Environmental Plant Center at Meeker, Colorado, by Ellis Sedgely and Wendell Hassel of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. The panel also heard reports from the U.S. Geological Survey Area Oil Shale Supervisor Pete Rutledge and the Bureau of Land Management District Managers Marvin Pearson, Craig, and Lloyd Ferguson, Vernal, and from various workgroups of the panel. |