[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 241 (Thursday, December 16, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75339-75340]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-27533]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management


Potential for Oil Shale Development, Extension of Public Comment 
Period

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Interior.

ACTION: Notice of extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: The BLM published a Federal Register on November 22, 2004 
seeking public input on the terms to be included in leases of small 
tracts for oil shale research and development within the Piceance Creek 
Basin, northwestern Colorado; the Uinta Basin, southeastern Utah: and 
the Green River and Washakie Basins, western Wyoming. BLM received a 
request to extend the

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comment period and have agreed to extend the period to January 31, 
2005.

DATES: Please send your comments no later than January 31, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Please hand-deliver written comments: To Nick Douglas, Suite 
700, 1620 L Street, NW., Washington, DC. This is also the FedEx 
address. Mail written comments to BLM (Attention: Nick Douglas), 
Minerals, Realty and Resource Protection, Mail Stop: LS 700, 1849 C 
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20240. Electronic Mail: You may send 
comments through the Internet to BLM at: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nick Douglas, Senior Policy Advisor, 
Minerals, Realty and Resource Protection, Bureau of Land Management, 
Mail Stop: LS 700, 1849 C Street, NW., Washington, DC 20240 at (202) 
452-0374.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: BLM published a Notice of Request for 
Comments on Potential for Oil Shale Development on November 22, 2004; 
see 69 FR 67935. The purpose of this notice is to extend the comment 
period from December 22, 2004 to January 31, 2005. The United States 
holds over 50 percent of the world's oil shale resources, which contain 
2.6 trillion barrels of oil. These resources include the oil shale 
deposits in the Green River formation in the Western United States.

    Dated: December 9, 2004.
Thomas P. Lonnie,
Assistant Director, Minerals Realty, and Resource Protection.
[FR Doc. 04-27533 Filed 12-15-04; 8:45 am]
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