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US House votes to delay oil shale leasing, development

07/09/2007
The US House voted June 27 to delay for at least a year oil shale leasing and development required under the 2005 Energy Policy Act (EPACT). It adopted an amendment proposed by Rep. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) to the US Department of Interior’s fiscal 2008 budget that would bar the Bureau of Land Management from issuing any final regulations for commercial-scale oil shale leasing and from offering any commercial-scale oil shale leases.Udall said EPACT currently requires BLM to issue the regulations and to move to leasing “on a crash basis and under a tight deadline.” He proposed a similar amendment 2 weeks earlier as the Energy and Natural Resources Committee marked up HR 2337,...
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