Cecil Thompson, Moab, Utah, Uranium History Series

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CECIL THOMPSON #1 political influence has anything to do with our decision. But, of course, you always finally get down to judgement things. I'd say you make some bad decisions and you've got some good ones. SG: What are some of these other boards that you've been on? CT: Well, I've been on, say, the oil and gas commission, as an example. And they have the problems of deciding the spacing and things of that sort. And then you've got the community pressure right down here at the Aneth oil field drilling. ---?--- not too far from mining, and of course, Monticello. And the density of the spacing determines how much money's going to be spent in the area. If you, say, drill on forty-acre spaces, why, there's going to be twice as much if you have it on eighty, or if you have it on a hundred and sixty acres, it's going to be four times less. So you get strong community pressures to make it on a smaller spaces so they'll spend more money on the area. So those are things that I'd say are pressured. I don't think that you're necessarily influenced, but you are pressured to make those kind of decisions against, say, they have outside people that would come in and testify that one well will drill a certain acreage. That's the permeability and 41