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Show PANGUTCII • PANCUITCIILAKE • HATCH • BRYCK • TROPIC • ANTIMONY • HENUIEVILLK • CANNONVIUJC • ESCAIAVIT; • BOULDER • Di CK CREEK Thursday, November 30, 2006 • Issue # 88 COMMUNITY IMPACT BOARD APPROVES $683,673 FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES The Utah. Permanent Community Impact Fund Board (CIB) met Thursday, November 2, and approved $613,673 in grants and low-interest loans to provide supplemental assistance for three rural communities. Additionally, the Board met with critical health and safety concerns for Wayne County by awarding a $70,000 grant for the purchase of a new ambulance. The Board will be considering grants and loans totaling $69.3 million for rural communities at its December meeting. The Board awarded the following: Thompson Springs Special Service District - $55,000 as a supplemental grant to complete phase II of the culinary water project, including purchase and installment of a new storage tank and additional pipe replacement Green River City - $98,673 as a supplemental grant to complete culinary water project involving the cost to open cut the river and to directional bore a new line across the river Five County Region - Town of Tropic - $380,000 grant and a $80,000 loan at 0% for 25 years as supplemental funds to complete culinary water improvements, including bringing the well into bounds with state standards by installation of a polishing filter and additional pipeline Six County Region (Central Utah) - Wayne County - $70,000 grant to assist in the purchase of a new Emergency Services ambulance The Community Impact Board is a program of the Utah Division of Housing and Community Development, a division of the Utah Department of Community and Culture. It assists state and local agencies and entities that are impacted by mineral resource development on federal land through grants and low-interest loans for the planning, construction, and maintenance of public facilities. The funds also help community agencies provide public services. WEATHER TTiu Nov 30 0 Ed Dec 1 0 3 9 VI3° Sal Dec 2 0 39 San Dec 3 0 SuHfiV 3 8 •/is° Mon Dec 4 0 Sunny •12 V15* TUB 0 SUITif « Dec 5 Dec 6 Sunnj 30 L««m H o * Cold AFf«<*» 10% 8IOTS»K3BB 39°F •'•-- '.vi^y ^ v ; > ; >•• • : io% W|BMBBi3B o F BLM QUARTERLY OIL AND GAS LEASE SALE NETS $15 MILLION BLM Utah's quarterly oil and gas lease sale netted $15 million dollars today. The agency offered 255 parcels encompassing 334,400 acres and sold 186 parcels encompassing 215,100 acres at a competitive auction (65 percent). Lands not leased will be available non-competitively for the next two years. Seventy bidders registered for the auction. The most spirited bidding was seen in lands under the jurisdiction by the BLM Vernal and Price Field Offices. A parcel in Duschene County commanded the high bid at just over a million dollars ($1,050 an acre for a 1,000 acre parcel, by Lonetree Energy and Associates of Denver). The average bid at the sale was $70 an acre. Notably, bidding on parcels in southeastern Utah were also higher than in previous sales. BLM Deputy State Director oftandsand Minerals Kent Hoffman said that the lease sale is in-step with a trend of increased oil and gas lea'sing and development in the state. "Market demand is driving interest in developing additional oil and gas reserves in Utah. While production from existing wells is on the decline, leasing and exploration is essential to maintain production levels," he said. Currently, Utah is a net exporter of natural gas; however, the state must rely on some outside resources to meet crude oil demands. Leasing of public lands enables the exploration and discovery of new reserves. Once the rights to the mineral resources are secured, companies will do exploratory studies to determine if oil and gas development is viable. If development occurs, BLM reviews all proposals to ensure that impacts to other resources are mitigated if possible and all environmental laws are followed. The revenues from this lease sale exceeded all other lease sales in 2005 and 2006 except for the May 2006 Sale which netted $54 million dollars. Lease sales over the last two years have ranged from $3 million to $13.5 million. BLM Utah conducts quarterly oil and gas lease sales in accordance with the Notice to Readers: Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Reform Act (1987) and the Mineral LeasMy apologies for last weeks INSIDER not being ing Act. Lease parcels are made up of lands that have been determined to be open in your boxes until Saturfor leasing through BLM's land use planning process, and are either nominated or day. The Provo Post Office requested by the public. Half of the royalties from mineral development and leasmisplaced them. Nice, eh? ing goes back to the States. Thanks to Joe at Joe's The BLM, an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior, manages more Market for bringing this to land - 261 million surface acres - than any other Federal agency. Most of this my attention! Please call us, if you papublic land is located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The Bureau, with a pers are not there by Tlturs- budget of about $1.8 billion, also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface days. Thanks again! mineral estate throughout the nation. Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees. Swedish Proverb BOXqOLDER ^9k. 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