Concerns over fluctuating oil prices and declining petroleum production worldwide have revived interest in oil shale as a potential resource. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-58) identified oil shale as a strategically important domestic resource and directed the Department of the Interior to promote commercial development. Oil shale development would require significant amounts of water, however, and water supply in the Colorado River Basin, where several oil shale reserves are located, is limited. This report will provide a brief overview of water rights in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, including changes that may be made to currently held water rights and the possibility for abandonment of unused water rights.

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over diamond-drilling projects in Salt Lake County. The geology, physical features, and history of the mines are presented. This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Floodlights bathe the wreckage of a United Airlines 727 jetliner which crashed on landing at Salt Lake City and burst into flames."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Only the tail section of a DC-3 charter plane remains after a crash near Salt Lake City Saturday in which 13 persons died."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A charred hulk with wings was all that remained of a United Air Lines Boeing 727 jetliner after a fiery Salt Lake City crash Thursday night."

Interview with Warren D. Crumbling, Army veteran, special agent, and member of the White House Security Detail for President Lyndon B. Johnson. The interview includes Crumbling's personal experiences about education and employment before entering the military, basic training, various assignments, and being appointed to the White House Security Detail at President Lyndon B. Johnson's LBJ Ranch. Additionally, Crumbling talks about relations between the military and civilian law enforcement authorities in San Antonio during World War II, his marriage, his fourth enlistment and assignment to Kobe, Japan, various stateside assignments, his retirement from the Army, President and Mrs. Johnson, and his retirement from the Secret Service.

Interview with Army Air Forces veteran Wilbur H. Ford. The interview includes Ford's personal experiences about being a B-17 pilot in the European Theater during World War II, training, transferring to the Army Air Force from the Army, flight training, B-17 transition training, and crew training. Ford also talks about his assignment to the 401st Bomb Group, enemy flak, the highlights of his nine missions over Germany, battle damage to his plane, the Dresden raid, returning to the States, and transition training in B-29s for transfer to the Pacific Theater.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Future Vision chairman Max Jones, left, and Phil Cooke discuss the packaging of their video tape "Aids...What You Need to Know."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Senators arrive at state capitol for water hearing."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Sen. Frank E. Moss, Utah"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "An angry judge and a rumbling elevator meet headon here Friday under a threat that "the whole Postoffice Department" will be arrested unless the offending lift is silenced while court is in session."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Hot dog highjinks are performed on the NBC Go! show Saturday morning. This scene was filmed at Park City West, Utah."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "In the last five years, more and more dancers are getting married," says lanky, blond Tom Rudd of Salt Lake City, Utah. "And it seems that dancers are marrying dancers."

From introduction: Preliminary field data have been assembled as a background for laboratory investigations directed toward interpretation of alteration features in the East Slope area. Such data constitute one of several units which should improve our understanding of the pattern of uranium distribution.

Several relatively small copper-uranium deposits have been found in southwestern Utah along the contact of the Shinarump and Moenkopi formations of Triassic age, at least from the San Rafael Swell area of Emery County, southward through central and eastern Garfield County, southwestward into western Kane County, and westward into the southern part of Washington County.

From abstract: These results demonstrate that the self-potential method is not satisfactory for locating and delineating sulfide-bearing uranium ore bodies under conditions similar to those in the Happy Jack area.

This is a photogeologic map scale 1:24,000 of Grand County in Utah.

From abstract: The purpose of the survey was twofold: to determine the trend of the Hideout Channel across Deer Flat and to delineate fractures cutting through the ore deposit at the Hideout mine.

Photogeologic map scale 1:24,000 of San Juan County in Utah.

From abstract: A refraction seismic survey was made on Holiday Mesa, San Juan County, Utah, between May 21 and June 11, 1954, prior to an exploratory drilling program made by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to delineate channel trends in the area.

This is a photo-geologic map, scale 1:24,000, of Stinking Spring Creek in Emery County, Utah.

This is a photo-geologic map, scale 1:24,000, of Stinking Spring Creek-4 in Emery County, Utah.

This is a scale 1:24,000 photogeologic map of Elk Ridge-16 Quadrangle in San Juan County, Utah.