The U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) extended the public comment period for its Oil Shale and Tar Sands Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) by 30 days to Monday, April 21, 2008.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-58) mandated a programmatic EIS for oil shale and tar sands. According to the BLM, “[T]he planning area for the oil shale resources is the Piceance and Washakie Basins in Colorado, the Uinta Basin in Utah, and the Green River and Washakie Basins in Wyoming. For the tar sands resources, the planning area is certain sedimentary provinces in the Colorado Plateau in Utah.”
More information can be found at the Oil Shale and Tar Sands Programmatic EIS Information Center [http://ostseis.anl.gov/index.cfm] .
Comments by individuals and organizations may be submitted online [http://ostseis.anl.gov/involve/comments/index.cfm] or by post [http://ostseis.anl.gov/involve/index.cfm].