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Show Wayne,Garfield EIS Tar Sand Hearing j Public meetings will be held at three locations in Utah,and Colorado on a proposal that could make possible the recovery of bitumen from up to 66,000 acres of an area known as the Tar Sand Triangle in Wayne and Garfield counties In southern Utah. Tuesday, August 21, BLM Area Office, Hanksville. Thursday, August 23, 13th floor conference room, University Club Building, 136 East South Temple, Salt Lake City. Tuesday, August 28, Foothills Ramada Inn, 6th and Simms Streets, Lakewood, Colorado. About half of the potential development could be within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The remaining lands are ad-ministered by the Bureau of Land Management and the State of Utah. Liquified bitumen is a tar-like material that can be refined into a variety of hydrocarbon products, including petroleum and lubricants. In announcing the public meetings, the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management also invited public review and comment on a draft Environmental Impact Statement that discusses the proposal in depth. The statement examines five alternatives, all of them based on a, proposal by IS oil and gas lessees to convert each lease to a combined hydrocarbon lease. If fully developed the properties could support extraction activity over a period of loo years or more, as projected in their proposal. Oral and written comments are invited at these meetings. Written comments are welcome at any time before October 16, 1984. They should be directed to Robert Kasparek, National Park Service, 655 Parfet Street, P.O. Box 25287, Lakewood, Colorado 80225. |