Lease UTU92677
Parcel UT1217 - 044

UPDATE 12/06/2017

Due erosion of the Green River, the legal description and acreage has changed:

Adjusted:
UTU92677 (UT1217-044)
T. 9 S., R. 19 E., SLM
Sec. 14: Lots 1-3, NW, N2SW;
Sec. 15: All.

EXCEPTING those portions of lots 1, 2, and 3 of section 14 now falling within the bed of the Green River (erosion), more particularly described as follows:
COMMENCING at the meander corner of sections 11 and 14, on the right bank of the Green River, marked with an iron post, 1 inch diameter, with brass cap marked as described in the official record of the 1910 survey and the 1991 resurvey; THENCE, South 9° 17’ 10” West, a distance of 4.940 chains, to the POINT OF BEGINNING, not monumented; THENCE, South 2° 36’ 52” West, a distance of 3.227 chains; THENCE, South 0° 03’ 32” West, a distance of 9.197 chains; THENCE, South 8° 03’ 40” West, a distance of 9.998 chains; THENCE, South 16° 56’ 59” East, a distance of 10.993 chains; THENCE, South 17° 57’ 01” East, a distance of 4.997 chains; THENCE, South 8° 33’ 40” West, a distance of 7.998 chains; THENCE, South 17° 12’ 34” East, a distance of 6.220 chains; THENCE, North 89° 51’ 10” West, a distance of 7.859 chains; THENCE, North 22° 27’ 50” West, a distance of 4.215 chains; THENCE, North 33° 07’ 48” West, a distance of 1.992 chains; THENCE, North 20° 12’ 04” West, a distance of 3.557 chains; THENCE, North 0° 21’ 36” West, a distance of 8.395 chains; THENCE, North 16° 55’ 02” East, a distance of 2.203 chains; THENCE, North 8° 51’ 37” East, a distance of 9.924 chains; THENCE, North 0° 25’ 55” West, a distance of 5.830 chains; THENCE, North 15° 52’ 43” East, a distance of 7.141 chains; THENCE, North 22° 24’ 56” East, a distance of 10.289 chains to the POINT OF BEGINNING.

BASIS OF BEARINGS: Section line between sections 11 and 14, bearing EAST, as shown on the official survey plat of this township approved June 14, 1993, referenced to the true meridian.

The area of erosion described by metes-and-bounds in this description contains 32.75 acres and is used to reduce acreage for Federal interest mineral leasing purposes.

The area described by legal subdivisions contains 952.05 acres, according to the official plat of the survey of the said land, on file with the BLM.

The total area described contains 919.30 acres.

919.30 Acres
Uintah County, Utah
Vernal Field Office

All bidding and lease sale on BLM parcels listed on this website shall be subject to the statutes, administrative rules and regulations of the BLM per the authority of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 as amended and the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands of 1947, as amended.

A lease issued as a result of this sale will have a primary term of 10 years. It will continue beyond its primary term as long as oil or gas in paying quantities is produced on or for the benefit of the lease. Advance rental at $1.50 per acre for the first 5 years ($2 per acre after that) is due on or before the anniversary date each year until production begins. Once a lease is producing, you must pay a royalty of 12.5 percent of the value or the amount of production removed or sold from the lease. You will find other lease terms on our standard lease form (Form 3100-11, October 2008).

Stipulations are part of the lease and supersede any inconsistent provisions of the lease form. Some parcels are subject to surface use stipulations. They are requirements or restrictions on how you conduct operations. They become part of the lease and supersede any inconsistent provisions in the lease form. The stipulations can be found by clicking here.

This lease may be found to contain historic properties and/or resources protected under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), American Indian Religious Freedom Act, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, E.O. 13007, or other statutes and executive orders. The BLM will not approve any ground disturbing activities that may affect any such properties or resources until it completes its obligations under applicable requirements of the NHPA and other authorities. The BLM may require modification to exploration or development proposals to protect such properties, or disapprove any activity that is likely to result in adverse effects that cannot be successfully avoided, minimized or mitigated.

The lease area may now or hereafter contain plants, animals or their habitats determined to be threatened, endangered, or other special status species. BLM may recommend modifications to exploration and development proposals to further its conservation and management objective to avoid BLM-approved activity that would contribute to a need to list such species or their habitat. BLM may require modifications to or disapprove proposed activity that is likely to result in jeopardy to the continued existence of a proposed or listed threatened or endangered species or result in the destruction or adverse modification of a designated or proposed critical habitat. BLM will not approve any ground-disturbing activity until it completes its obligations under applicable requirements of the Endangered Species Act as amended, 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq. including completion of any required procedure for conference or consultation.

Provisions of the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA) of 1920, as amended by the Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 1976, affect an entity’s qualifications to obtain an oil and gas lease. Section 2(a)(2)(A) of the MLA, 30 U.S.C. 201(a)(2)(A), requires that any entity that holds and has held a Federal Coal Lease for 10 years beginning on or after August 4, 1976, and which is not producing coal in commercial quantities from each such lease, cannot qualify for the issuance of any other lease granted under the MLA. Compliance by coal lessees with Section 2(a)(2)(A) is explained in 43 CFR 3472.

In accordance with the terms of this oil and gas lease with respect to compliance by the initial lessee with qualifications concerning Federal coal lease holdings, all assignees and transferees are hereby notified that this oil and gas lease is subject to cancellation if: (1) the initial lessee as assignor or as transferor has falsely certified compliance with Section 2(a)(2)(A) because of a denial or disapproval by a State Office of a pending coal action, i.e., arms-length assignment, relinquishment, or logical mining unit, the initial lessee as assignor or as transferor is no longer in compliance with Section 2(a)(2)(A). The assignee or transferee does not qualify as a bona fide purchaser and, thus, has no rights to bona fide purchaser protection in the event of cancellation of this lease due to noncompliance with Section 2(a)(2)(A).

Information regarding assignor or transferor compliance with Section 2(a)(2)(A) is contained in the lease case file as well as in other Bureau of Land Management records available through the State Office issuing this lease.

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A 1.5% Buyer Premium, calculated as 1.5% of the total bonus, will be added to the cost of this lease.