BLM seeks comments on EA for February Southeastern Utah lease sale

The US Bureau of Land Management’s Utah Canyon Country District is seeking public comments on an environmental assessment it prepared for its plan to offer 6,741 acres of southeastern Utah land it administers at a February 2017 oil and gas lease sale.

Nick Snow

Sept. 28, 2016

The EA addresses issues raised during internal and external scoping such as air quality, wildlife, and the Old Spanish Historic Trail, BLM’s Moab and Monticello field offices said in their joint announcement. Comments will be accepted until 4:30 p.m. local time on Oct. 17, they indicated.

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Nick Snow

NICK SNOW covered oil and gas in Washington for more than 30 years. He worked in several capacities for The Oil Daily and was founding editor of Petroleum Finance Week before joining OGJ as its Washington correspondent in September 2005 and becoming its full-time Washington editor in October 2007. He retired from OGJ in January 2020.