Prototype oil shale leasing program. Volume III. Description of selected tracts and potential environmental impacts

Technical Report · Wed Aug 29 04:00:00 EDT 1973

OSTI ID:7318265

This action would make available for private development up to six leases of public oil shale lands of not more than 5,120 acres each. Two tracts are located in each of the States of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. Oil shale development would produce both direct and indirect changes in the environment of the oil shale region in each of the three States where commercial quantities of oil shale resources exist. Impacts would include those on the land itself, on water resources and air quality, on fish and wildlife habitat, on grazing and agricultural activities, on recreation and aesthetic values, and on the existing social and economic patterns as well as others. The environmental impacts from both prototype development at a level of 250,000 barrels per day of shale oil and an industry producing a possible 1 million barrels per day by 1985 are assessed for their anticipated direct, indirect and cumulative effects. Volume III examines the specific action under consideration. Its focus is on the specific environmental impacts of prototype development on public lands which, when combined, could support a production potential of about 250,000 barrels per day. (GRA)

• Research Organization: Department of the Interior, Washington, DC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7318265
• Report Number(s): EIS-AA-73-1423-F-3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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04 OIL SHALES AND TAR SANDS
041000* -- Oil Shales & Tar Sands-- Environmental Aspects
BITUMINOUS MATERIALS
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
COLORADO
ENERGY SOURCES
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
LAND LEASING
LEASING
MINERAL OILS
MINING
NORTH AMERICA
OIL SHALE MINING
OIL SHALES
OILS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PRODUCTION
PUBLIC LANDS
ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION
SHALE OIL
SYNTHETIC FUELS
SYNTHETIC PETROLEUM
USA
UTAH
WYOMING