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Show Oil shale panel to meet March 3 The Oil Shale Environmental Advisory Panel (OSEPA) will meet at Lakewood, Colo., Thursday, March 3. the meeting will be the first one of 1983 for the 3o-member advisory group which was established in 1974 for the Interior Department. The White River Shale Oil Project in Utah now under active development and the Cathedral Bluffs Shale Oil Project in Colorado are under consideration for financial assistance from the U.S. Synthetic Syn-thetic Fuels Corporation. Cathedral Bluffs is currently preparing a revised development plan. The third prototype project, Rio Blanco Oil Shale Company in Colorado, was granted a suspension in 1982 pending authority for off-tract disposal. Limited authority for that purpose pur-pose was enacted by the last U.S. Congress Con-gress in December 1982. The Panel will be reviewing the status and progress of the three prototype oil shale projects, socioeconomic monitoring monitor-ing reports of the White River Shale Project, Pro-ject, and in interim monitoring plan for the Rio Blanco Shale Project. The Panel will also hear reports from Eric Hoffman, the Acting Chief of Interior's In-terior's Oil Shale Office in Grand Junction, Junc-tion, and the U.S. Brueau of Land Management District Managers Lee Carie, Craig, Colorado, and Lloyd Ferguson, Vernal, and from various workgroups of the Panel. |