Government & Regulatory
US Oil Sands Wins DEP Support for Uinta Basin Project
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US Oil Sands Inc. reported that the Utah Department of Environmental Quality's Water Quality Board voted to support the Company's permit-by-rule as previously issued by their Division of Water Quality on March 4, 2008 .
The hearing, which was initiated in April 2011 through a Request for Agency Action filed by a Utah-based environmental organization against the Utah Division of Water Quality, claimed that the Division improperly issued a permit-by-rule to the Company. The final decision upholding the issuance of the permit was published November 1, 2012 by the chairman of the Water Quality Board.
On January 14, 2013, the Board of Directors of the Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining (DOGM) voted to support DOGM's previous approval of the Company's Notice of Intention to Commence Large…
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