Show Oil Shale Hearing f To be Held Today The Interior Department is holding a a hearing here today Thursday on the environmental aspects of a proposal to make two tracts of land in Uintah County available for oil shale development development development develop develop- ment by private industry THE GOVERNMENT plans to sell leases for six tracts two in each state of Utah Colorado and Wyoming each about acres to encourage private companies to develop an economically feasible commercial process for extractIng extracting extrac extrac- ting Ling and refining vast deposits of oil bearing shale The leases would require the developers develop develop- ers to pay the federal government on any production The environmental impact statement hearing haring will begin at am a.m. at the Vernal Junior High School auditorium The hearing will be conducted by the Interior In In- tenor Oil Shale Task Force representative tive ORAL STATEMENTS at the hearing will be lie limited to a period of oI ten minutes minu minutes tes to the extent that time Ume Is available after lifter presentation of oral statements by those who have given advance notice Deadline for fer written statements submissions submissions sub sub- missions is October 23 23 ft |