Show Oil shale pane panel l visits Utah Yeah tracts discusses future Members of the National Oil Shale Environmental Advisory Panel held their third meeting in Vernal Wednesday and Thursday of last week making site on-site inspections of Utah oil shale tracts and listening ng to representatives of the leasing companies explain their development plans TilE THE GROUP toured the tracts south of the White Wrote River Riverby Riverby Riverby by bus Wednesday morning and then returned to listen to introductory remarks by William L L. L Rogers chairman of the panel Presentations were given by bythe bythe bythe the State of Utah Uintah County BUI officials and lessees of the two tracts Thursday the panel group listened to recommendations from temporary working groups and panel adoption of guidelines Dr Glen Fulcher talked on surface disturbances and rehabilitation Dr Joseph Cover HEW talked on socioeconomic aspects and Richard talked on wildlife Other topics included air quality water supply and quality and archeology and historic sites They were all treated by specialists in these fields TilE THE VERNAL Area Chamber of Commerce served a lunch at the White River bridge Wednesday and hosted a cocktail hour that evening The leasing oil company officials expressed optimism Inthe in inthe inthe the Utah oil shale tracts The problems relative to mining the shale are much easier in Utah than in Colorado it was pointed out Oil officials have changed their views about not building a community at the mine site Because of the distance from the nearest community ty of any size it is now the thinking to build a community at the oil shale site to serve the working employees AN ENGINEERING firm known as Engineers has been given the contract of preparing the line base environmental study it was told at the panel meetings A Vernal off office ice will be established and the engineers will be readily accessible in this area If U an equal amount of private land is joined in the oil shale production two barrel a aday aday aday day plants could be built in the area five miles south of Bonanza it was explained by bythe bythe bythe the officials TEMPERATURES Hi lii Lo a June 10 84 41 June Junell 11 83 45 June 12 88 50 June 13 90 51 June 14 94 50 June 15 97 54 June 16 91 61 June 17 91 48 |