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Pausing with current and past honorees during the Permian Basin Petroleum Association's
2017 Top Hand Award Banquet are, from left, PBPA President Ben Shepperd, Clayton
Williams Jr., Tim Leach, Ted Collins Jr., Rosalind Redfern Grover, Curtis Mewbourne, Mack
Chase, Arlen Edgar and PBPA Chairman Clint Walker. This year's event, held Jan. 19 at the
Petroleum Club of Midland, honored Chase of Mack Energy Corporation. According to
PBPA, the Top Hand Award is its highest honor, and is bestowed each January to
recognize contributions to the Permian Basin oil and gas industry and community involvement. The association lauds Chase for exemplifying those qualities in Southeast
New Mexico as a prominent industry advocate and pioneer who also has enhanced and
promoted education through scholarships and academic programs in a number of New
Mexico communities.

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development and demonstration
(RD&D) lease to a commercial oil shale
lease.
In its rule, which may be accessed
through its website at www.blm.gov,
BLM recalls that in 2008 it promulgated
regulations for oil shale exploration,
leasing and operations pursuant to the
Energy Policy Act of 2005. In a
settlement to a lawsuit filed by
environmental groups, then Interior
Secretary Ken Salazar agreed in 2011 to
propose amendments to the oil shale
regulations, which were released by
BLM in March 2013.
This final rule, the agency continues,
"makes explicit the BLM's discretion to
deny converting an RD&D lease to a
commercial lease, or to withhold
approval of a plan of development,
based on impacts to the environment or
natural resources. The amendments
require plans of development to include
plans to protect water resources, an
airshed review based on reasonably
available data, an integrated waste
management plan, and an



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