Environmental Assessment Completed

Platte Petroleum Environmental Assessment

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest Summit, Utah Evanston-Mountain View RD

Burnett Oil Company has submitted an application for permit to drill a test well. The Forest Service will analyze impacts on surface resources. The Bureau of Land Management will be a cooperating agency and will analyze subsurface impacts

Location

The proposed action is located within northern Utah near the Wyoming border. The nearest town is Mountain View, Wyoming which is approximately 24 air miles northeast of the project area.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
09/26/2014
2
Comment Period
12/22/2015
3
Objection Period Start
04/01/2016
4
Decision
08/2016 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
08/2016 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivityNatural Gas; Oil; Road Improvements/Construction
Platte Petroleum Environmental AssessmentDecision Signed Date: 08/18/2016
ForestsUinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest
DistrictsEvanston-Mountain View RD
Legal Land DescriptionSoutheast quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 3, Township 2 North, Range 13 East, Salt Lake Meridian
Minerals and geologyRoad management