Valar Watch · Fact csite-018

Fact csite-018

newrecordconfirmed Valar first appears on a public Trust Lands agenda on Aug 10, 2026, four months after the lease was mapped

2026-08-10 · csite-018 · Utah Trust Lands Administration, Valar Atomics

The Trust Lands board's 2026 agendas and packets for 22 January, 5 and 19 February, 19 March, 16 April, 21 May and 18 June do not mention Valar, SULA 2095, Section 16 or Wellington (text layers searched). They do name other applicants in agenda titles (for example 'with ST Oil Utah, LLC' in January), and the 16 April agenda includes a closed session on possible sales of unnamed trust assets. The lease map was produced on 9 April 2026 (mine-048) and the state RDCC review notice, which did not name Valar, ran from 20 April (csite-032). Valar's name first appears in the notice for the 20 August meeting, posted 10 August (orig-044, mine-014); the board voted on 17 September (mine-011). The board's notice list shows no board meeting in July.

In plain termsFrom the state's side, the first public record naming Valar for this site dates from August 2026. The lease had been mapped in April, posted for state review in April without Valar's name or the word nuclear (csite-032), and discussed by committees in July, but the first public agenda naming Valar came out ten days before the August hearing and about five weeks before the vote. That is within the law's notice rules (csite-016), but it is a short window for people in Carbon County to learn of it, with the hearings held in Salt Lake City (online participation was offered).

Trust Lands Administration Board of Trustees Meeting, April 16, 2026 (notice and packet) (Utah Public Notice Website, 2026-04-16) primary government
Trust Lands Administration Board of Trustees Meeting, January 22, 2026 (notice and packet) (Utah Public Notice Website, 2026-01-22) primary government “with ST Oil Utah, LLC”
Board of Trustees Meeting Agenda Thursday, August 20, 2026 (Utah Trust Lands Administration (Utah Public Notice Website), 2026-08-20) primary government “located in Carbon County, Utah (640 +/- acres) with Valar Atomics”
Trust Lands Administration Board of Trustees Meeting, August 20, 2026 (notice; posted August 10, 2026 10:18 AM) (Utah Public Notice Website, 2026-08-10) primary government “with Valar Atomics, by Bryan Torgerson, Assistant Managing Director”

verified 2026-09-29: Holds. Re-read 2026-09-29: the seven 2026 board notices before August (1051443, 1055725, 1058357, 1064897, 1070913, 1079621, 1087073) and all 48 attached PDFs by text layer, plus OCR of the seven attachments with little or no text layer: no Valar, SULA 2095, Section 16 or Wellington. Notice 1100659 posted 10 Aug 2026 10:18 AM. Quotes exact.

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