The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is completing an exchange of land with Castle Rock Land and Livestock Company, a Utah general partnership; and Skull Valley Company, Ltd, a Utah limited partnership. The exchange would be pursuant to Section 206 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1716), as amended. The primary purpose for the exchange is to consolidate scattered land ownership patterns in and around the Skull Valley area of Tooele County, Utah. In the Skull Valley Land Exchange, BLM will acquire 11,586.32 acres (33 parcels) of non-Federal land in exchange for 12,603.27 acres (33 parcels) of Federal land. The United States will acquire lands within the congressionally-designated Cedar Mountains Wilderness; lands within two wild horse habitat management areas; lands that provide crucial mule deer and elk range; an important historic site associated with the Pony Express Trail; and a water right to a spring that is important to the wild horse herds and wildlife. The exchange will include all the available surface and minerals on both the Federal lands and the non-Federal lands except for those held by the State of Utah. Both the Federal and non-Federal lands would be conveyed subject to valid and existing rights and encumbrances of record. The original notification of the Skull Valley Land Exchange proposal and Environmental Assessment Number DOI-BLM-UT-W010-2009-0026-EA was posted on the Environmental Notification Bulletin Board on September 29, 2009. The West Desert District Manager signed and posted the Decision Record (DR), Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI), and Notice of Decision (NOD) on July 30, 2018. A protest period begins on August 1 and runs through September 14, 2018. Information on filing a protest can be found in the Notice of Decision attached to this website.

Multiple townships and sections in the Skull Valley area of Tooele County, Utah.