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Fact mine-048

newrecordconfirmed The state's lease map for SULA 2095 was produced on 9 April 2026, four months before the bid deadline
2026-04-09 · mine-048 · Utah Trust Lands Administration, Valar Atomics

The 'Special Use Lease Agreement No. 2095' map attached to both Trust Lands board packets (August packet p. 35, September packet p. 29) outlines the 480-acre N1/2 and SW1/4 of Sec. 16, T14S R11E, and its footer reads 'Produced: April 09, 2026'. So by 9 April 2026 Trust Lands had given the lease a number and mapped its area. That is about four months before the 7 August 2026 deadline in the agency's public notice, which named no applicant and no use (mine-012), and about eleven weeks before the Carbon County Commission's 29 June support letter (mine-013). The records read do not show when Valar's application was filed or when the public notice was first posted.

In plain termsA map's 'produced' date is the day the state made it. This one shows the state was already preparing this particular lease, under its lease number, by early April 2026. The public notice inviting competing offers came later and did not say who had applied or what the land was for. When the application arrived and when the notice first ran are in Trust Lands' files, which a records request can get.
verified 2026-09-29: Found during verification 2026-09-29: map footers read from both packets (rendered at 250 dpi; the September one checked by eye, the August one by text layer).

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