Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement and Possible Land Use Plan Amendments for Allocation of Oil Shale and Tar Sands Resources on Lands Administered by the Bureau of Land Management in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. Volume 4: Chapters 7, 8 and 9 and Appendices A-J

摘要

An NOI to prepare a PEIS and possible land use plan amendments for allocation of oil shale and tar sands resources on lands administered by the BLM Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming was published in the Federal Register on April 14, 2011 (BLM 2011). The NOI articulated a preliminary purpose and need for the proposed action of amending land use plans, identified planning criteria, initiated the public scoping process, and invited interested members of the public to provide comments on the scope and objectives of the PEIS, including identification of issues and alternatives that should be considered in the PEIS analyses.