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Fact mine-049

newrecordconfirmed Other federal cases near the lease: a pending PacifiCorp power line crosses its township; oil and gas roads lie north
2026-04-06 · mine-049 · PacifiCorp, Urban Oil & Gas Group LLC, Bureau of Land Management

BLM's public rights-of-way layer (queried 29 September 2026) shows PacifiCorp as applicant on a pending 'Power Transmission Line' case, UTUT106794107 (created 6 April 2026; 14,262 acres of mapped legal area), whose legal description runs from T13S R10E in Carbon County south-east through Emery County to T25S R21E. It includes parts of sections 19, 29, 30, 34 and 35 of T14S R11E, the township that holds Section 16 (approved for leasing to Valar); those sections' centres lie roughly 2 to 4 miles from the centre of Section 16. In the township directly north (T13S R11E) and in T13S R10E, Urban Oil & Gas Group LLC has eight road, pipeline and water-facility rights-of-way whose records were created in August 2026 (seven 'Authorized', one road 'Pending'). The other new Carbon County cases since June 2025 are a PacifiCorp distribution line (T13S R7E), a Price City water facility (T12S R9E) and a Union Pacific communications site (T13S R10E). No record read links any of these to Valar.

In plain termsSurvey stakes north of Wellington could belong to projects other than Valar's. A power company has a pending application for a long transmission line that passes a few miles from the square mile approved for leasing to Valar, and an oil and gas operator has new road and pipeline permits just to the north. The posted RW 453 notice names Valar (fld-002); these cases are other activity in the area.
verified 2026-09-29: Found during verification 2026-09-29 (query of all Carbon and Emery rights-of-way and lease cases created since 1 June 2025; legal descriptions read in full). Section distances from the standard one-mile survey grid. Updated 2026-09-29 by Claude for the RW 453 notice (fld-002). Correction 2026-09-29 (wording review): lease wording now 'approved leasing'.

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