The Branch of Minerals Adjudication Leasing is responsible for the adjudication, administration, and maintenance of oil and gas, combined hydrocarbon, coal, geothermal steam, and solid non-energy lease authorizations approved on federally-owned mineral estate; and the Mining Law Adjudication Unit is responsible for the recordation and adjudication of mining claim instruments filed with BLM under the 1872 Mining Law.
 

The BLM Utah administers approximately 22.9 million acres of Public Lands and another 9.7 million acres of subsurface minerals estate lands in Utah.  Revenues from Mineral Leasing operations in Utah amount to over $74 million annually.  Oil and gas development accounts for $32 million.  The Branch of Minerals Adjudication consist of both Solids and Fluids Mineral Leasing and Mining Law Administration.  Utah BLM has one of the most diverse mineral programs in the Bureau with leasing and production in more different commodities than most other BLM states.  This diversity increases the complexity of managing the regulatory and adjudicative processes which are based on many different laws, regulations and policies which are commodity specific.  Utah is the only state with a gilsonite leasing and production program and we are the only BLM state to have a Combined Hydrocarbon Leasing Program (Tar Sands).  We have several unique issues or those shared by only a couple of other  states such as tar sands, oil shale mining claims and oil shale reserves.

Call the Information Access Center at 801-539-4001 for general information on locatable or leasable minerals.

Utah State Office Address:
    324 South State Street
    PO Box 45155
    Salt Lake City, Utah 84145-0155

Directory
Kent Hoffman - Deputy State Director of Lands and Minerals  

Terry Catlin- 
Acting Chief, Branch of Fluid Minerals 
         801-539-4122

Mining Law Land Law Examiners: 
     Opie Abeyta        801-539-4123
     Rita Stelmach      801-539-4121
Mining Law Legal Instruments Examiner (TDD)     
     Dian Harvey        801-539-4190
Mineral Leasing Land Law Examiners:
     Mary Higgins       801-539-4112
     Connie Seare      801-539-4111
     Judy Nordstrom   801-539-4108

 
Minerals Adjudication Webmaster: 
Judy Nordstrom