WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- Bureau of Land Management has issued a notice called: Intent To Prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Southern Ute Mancos Shale Development, La Plata County, CO.
The notice was published in the Federal Register on Sept. 4 by Thomas Heinlein, BLM Colorado Acting State Director.
Summary: In compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended, as well as the U.S. Department of the Interior regulations and handbook implementing NEPA, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Tres Rios Field Office and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe (Tribe), each acting as a joint lead agency, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, acting as a Cooperating Agency, intend to prepare a Programmatic Envir...