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Show BLM awards $125,752 in bids for oil, gas lease rights The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) received a total of $125,752.50 in bonus bids for Federal oil and gas lease rights on 12 parcels involving over 10,867 acres of land in Utah during an oral auction held on November 27, 2000, in Salt Lake City, Utah. In addition to the bonus bids, the sale netted $16,306.50 in first year rentals and $900 in administrative fees, for a grand total of $142,959 in revenues from this lease sale. The State of Utah will receive 50 percent of all monies collected on the leases from this sale, in addition to any rentals paid per acre annually for the life ofthe leases (up to 10 years) or any royalties paid to the U.S. Government if a lease becomes productive. A total of 31 parcels was of fered, totaling 27,948.58 acres of land under the jurisdiction of the BLM and U.S. Forest Service. One of the parcels is lo- cated in the Uinta National Forest, located in Juab County. Bids ranged from the minimum of $2 per acre to $50 per acre and averaged $11.57 per acre. Miller, Dyer & Co., LLC, Denver, Colorado, submitted the highest total bid in the amount of $47,531 for a 1,638-acr-e parcel, located approximately 20 miles south of Moab. Wasatch Oil & Gas, LLC, Farmington, New Mexico, submitted the high per acre bid of $50 for a 80-ac- re tract for a total of $4,000, located approximately 50 miles east of Price. Dorothy Jones, Salt Lake City, Utah, submitted a $29,831 bid for a 1,296-acr-e parcel, located approximately 30 miles southeast THE SAN JUAN RECORD Wednesday, January 3, 2001 Page 5 of Moab, and Ballard Petroleum, LLC submitted a $23,605.50 bid for a 1,522-acr- e parcel, located approximately 15 miles south of Monticello. Parcels not sold at the auction are available for noncompetitive filings on the day following the sale. On the day following the sale, the BLM received 13 noncompetitive offers covering 10 parcels. Both competitive and noncompetitive leases are issued for a ten-yeterm and require yearly rental of $1.50 per acre for the first five years and $2 per acre thereafter. More information concerning the sale is available from the BLM State Office Public Room, 324 South State Street, 4th Floor, P.O. Box 45155, Salt Lake City, Utah 84145-015- 5 or (801) telephone ar This is beautiful except for the crowds, the noise and that neon sign 539-400- 1. June: Wilderness issues continue to dominate local news New Superintendent at Arches National Park "91 was a hail of a game " relationship between the two agencies, providing a career . development opportunity for Arches includes and Rock Smith, and providing a Canyonlands National Parks forum for the exchange of and Hovenweep and Natural ideas between Utah State Bridges National Monuments. Parks and the NPS concerning veteran of park management. Through Smith, a the Utah State Park system has the Division of Parks and Recbeen the manager at Dead reation, DNR manages a netHorse Point for the past 15 work of 44 state parks years. Other assignments have throughout the state. With 13 included This is the Place State NPS units in Utah, its natuPark in Salt Lake City and ral for the two agencies to seek Steinaker State Park near Ver- ways to share ideas, people nal. Smith was bom and raised and resources for the betterin Salt Lake City and is a ment of both systems. This is not the first time that graduate of Utah State University. Smith resides in Moab the two agencies have particiwith his wife Sherrie and their pated in an IPA agreement. In two children. August 1998 Marty Ott, then Both the NPS and the DNR the Utah State Cooidinator for are excited about the personnel the NPS, began a two-yeexchange and hope that it will stint as the Deputy Director of be one of many more to come. the DNR. Afterwards, Ott as- October: Monticello wins memorable football game in hail storm The benefits of the exchange in- sumed the superintendency of clude fostering a closer working Zion National Park. Karen Wade, Intermountain Banta, Superintendent of the Regional Director of the Na- Southeast Utah group of the tional Park Service (NPS) and National Park Service, which Kathleen Clarke, Executive Director of the Utah State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) have signed an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Agreement that will send Jay Rockford Rock Smith, of Utah State Parks to the top post ofArches National Park for a two-yeperiod. ar Smith, currently the park manager for Dead Horse Point State Park will assume the superintendency at Arches. Under the terms of the agreement, Smith will continue as a State of Utah employee but will be assigned to the NPS. 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