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Final Environmental Assessment with comments/responses
Preliminary Environmental Assessment
Figure 1 Project Area Boundaries (590 KB)
Figure 2 Site 1 - Oil Shale Test Site (560 KB)
Figure 3 Site 1 - Oil Shale Test Site Operation Plan Layout (620 KB)
Figure 6 Site 2 - Nahcolite Test Site (560 KB)
Figure 7 Site 3 - Advanced Heater Test Site (570 KB) Figure 8 Site 3 - Advanced Heater Test Site Operation Plan (530 KB)
Figure 9 Process Water Management (135 KB)
Figure 10 USGS Surface Water and Groundwater Locations near the Test Sites (680 KB)
Figure 11 Daily Streamflow Hydrograph for Corral Gulch and Yellow Creek (330 KB)
Figure 12 Geohydrology Monitoring Wells, Piceance (640 KB)
Figure 13 General Stratigraphic Column for the Three Test Sites (110 KB)
Figure 14 Stratigraphic and Hydrostratigraphic Units and Group (250 KB)
Figure 15 Conceptual Regional Hydrostratigraphic Cross-Section (180 KB)
Figure 16 Regional Potentiometric Surface Map for the "Upper Aquifer" of USGS (1.0 MB)
Figure 17 Regional Potentiometric Surface Map for the "Lowerr Aquifer" of USGS (130 KB)
Figure 18 Permitted Gas and Water Wells Within 5 Miles of the Shell Leases (640 KB)
Figure 19 Conceptual Diagram Showing Dewatering and Reclamation Groundwater Use (500KB)
Figure 20 Surface Water Hydrology Map (490 KB)
Figure 21 Vegetation Communities and Wildlife Habitats, Site 1 - Oil Shale Test Site (500 KB)
Figure 22 Vegetation Communities and Wildlife Habitats, Site 2 - Nahcolite Test Site (500 KB)
Figure 23 Vegetation Communities and Wildlife Habitats, Site 3 - Advanced Heater Test Site (100 KB)
Appendix A Selections From Plan of Operation Oil Shale Test Project (340 KB)
Appendix B Selections From 2nd Generation ICP Project - Plan of Operation (400 KB)
Appendix C Selections From E-ICP Test Project (460 KB)