Lease Parcel/Priority Study Curtailed Status Final Report. Naval Oil Shale Reserves Management Support and Systems Engineering Project

摘要

Subtask 1 to define guidelines/policies and evaluation criteria was completed essentially as planned. Under that subtask, a set of issues was developed, evaluated, and used to formulate relevant guidelines/policies and evaluation criteria with which to bound the overall task effort. Subtask 2, consisting of the development of candidate parceling options, also was completed according to the original task plan. Parceling options were identified, offering a wide range of phasing possibilities with which to mitigate potential socioeconomic impacts. In addition, potential environmental impacts could be controlled by limited leasing of available tracts. The Subtask 3 analysis and evaluation of parceling options were not fully completed. Work on technical limitations and tradeoffs was partially completed, as was the evaluation of socioeconomic impacts. The evaluation of environmental impacts and the cost/benefit analyses were not yet initiated when the curtailment decision was announced. Also, Subtasks 4 and 5, scheduled to begin after the curtailment decision, had not been started. Those efforts all were deleted in accordance with the curtailment directive. A detailed description of the work performed under Subtasks 1 and 2 is given in Section 2, Guidelines, Policies, and Evaluation Criteria. The technical accomplishments of work performed under Subtask 3 are discussed in Section 3, Technical Accomplishments. Finally, the prospects for NOSR 1 oil shale leasing - based on the results obtained - are presented in Section 4, Outlook. 14 references, 28 figures, 32 tables. (ERA citation 10:001929)