Geothermal Lease Sale Known Geothermal Resource Area (KGRA)

Identified available acreage within KGRAs for lease sale

Public requests for the sale were also received.

Last competitive sale, 1988

Crater Springs

Cove Fort-Sulphurdale

Roosevelt Hot Springs

Lease Sale Process Configured lands into parcels and

prepared a preliminary list of lands for the sale including leases stipulations. Twenty one (21) parcels were developed.

Lease Sale Process Sent parcels to BLM Field Offices and

U.S. Forest Service for environmental review and NEPA compliance record.

Prepared final sale list after environmental review. Three (3) Forest Service parcels were removed for further NEPA compliance work. Eighteen (18) parcels containing 33,877. acres remained for sale.

Lease Sale Process Final Sale list including stipulations was

posted October 24, 2003.

Of the eighteen (18) parcels, nine (9) were in the Roosevelt Hot Springs KGRA, five (5) were in the Cove Fort - Sulphurdale KGRA, three (3) were in the Crater Springs KGRA, and one (1) was in the Thermo Hot Springs KGRA.

Lease Sale Process A protest was received on the

inclusion of the three parcels in the Crater Springs KGRA.

The Competitive sale (sealed bid) was held December 9, 2003.

Results of Lease Sale Four of the eighteen available

parcels received bids. One parcel was located in the Cove Fort – Sulphurdale KGRA and the remaining three parcels were within the Roosevelt Hot Springs KGRA.

Total acreage leased was 6585 acres of the 33,877 acres available.

Interpretation What does it all mean?

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