!!! BLM Offers Additional Time for Comment on Oil Shale Study !!!

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http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/info/newsroom/2008/March/NR_080320.html

March 20, 2008

Contact: Heather Feeney, 202-452-5031

BLM Offers Additional Time for Comment on Oil Shale Study

The Bureau of Land Management announced today that it will accept public comment on the Oil Shale-Tar Sands Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for an additional 30 days.

The agency received several requests for additional time for public comment on the document, which it began developing more than two years ago to meet requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The 90-day public comment period that BLM planning regulations require for environmental impact statements closes today, March 20, 2008.

Local governments including the Cities of Rifle, Colo., and Grand Junction, Colo., the Town of Silt, Colo., and Eagle and Pitkin Counties as well as others wrote to request additional time to comment on the proposed allocation of BLM-managed lands for future oil shale or tar sands leasing.

“Offering an additional 30 days for interested citizens to comment is another in a series of actions we feel are important in working with States and local communities on developing federal oil shale resources while also meeting the direction Congress has provided,” said BLM Director James Caswell, “This includes revisions made last August to the PEIS work schedule and the document itself, which we made in response to comments from federal, state and local governments.”

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