Interior Deputy Secretary David Hayes to Hold Utah Listening Session in Oil and Gas Lease Review

05/22/2009
Last edited 09/29/2021

ON TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2009, Deputy Secretary of the Interior David J. Hayes, Bureau of Land Management Acting Director Mike Pool, and National Park Service Acting Director Dan Wenk will hold a listening session in Vernal, Utah, to gather community input for a review of 77 parcels that the Department of the Interior withdrew from the December 19, 2008 oil and gas lease sale on lands covered by the Bureau of Land Management's Vernal, Moab and Price Resource Management Plans.

Who: Deputy Secretary of the Interior David J. Hayes, BLM Acting Director Mike Pool, NPS Acting Director Dan Wenk
What: Community Listening Session to Gather Input for Review of 77 Oil and Gas Lease Parcels
When: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Mountain Daylight Time, Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Where: Western Park Museum, 302 East 200 South, Vernal, Utah.
Contact: Megan Crandall, BLM Utah State Office, (801) 539-4061

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