Valar first appears on a public Trust Lands agenda on Aug 10, 2026, for the full board's initial consideration of the lease, four months after it was mapped

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2026-08-10 · csite-018 · Utah Trust Lands Administration, Valar Atomics

The Trust Lands board's 2026 agendas and packets for 22 January, 5 and 19 February, 19 March, 16 April, 21 May and 18 June do not mention Valar, SULA 2095, Section 16 or Wellington. They do name other applicants in agenda titles (for example 'with ST Oil Utah, LLC' in January), and the 16 April agenda lists a closed session, citing Utah Code 53C-1-201(8)(a)(i), on market conditions for possible sales of unnamed trust assets; no link between it and this lease was found in the records read. The lease map was produced on 9 April 2026 (mine-048) and the state RDCC review notice, which did not name Valar, ran from 20 April (csite-032). Valar's name first appears in the notice for the 20 August meeting, posted 10 August (mine-014); the board voted on 17 September (mine-011). The board's notice list shows no board meeting in July.

In plain termsFrom the state's side, the first public record found naming Valar for this site dates from August 2026. The lease had been mapped in April, posted for state review in April without Valar's name or the word nuclear (csite-032), and discussed by committees in July, but the first public agenda naming Valar came out ten days before the August hearing and about five weeks before the vote. That is within the law's notice rules (csite-016); the hearings were held in Salt Lake City, with online participation offered. The board's memo says the committee suggested a discussion at the August meeting and a possible vote in September because its members 'wanted to ensure the full board had ample time to evaluate the proposal and that stakeholders were informed'.

Trust Lands Administration Board of Trustees Meeting, April 16, 2026 (notice and packet) (Utah Public Notice Website, 2026-04-16) primary government
Trust Lands Administration Board of Trustees Meeting, January 22, 2026 (notice and packet) (Utah Public Notice Website, 2026-01-22) primary government “with ST Oil Utah, LLC”
Board of Trustees Meeting Agenda Thursday, August 20, 2026 (Utah Trust Lands Administration (Utah Public Notice Website), 2026-08-20) primary government “located in Carbon County, Utah (640 +/- acres) with Valar Atomics”
Trust Lands Administration Board of Trustees Meeting, August 20, 2026 (notice; posted August 10, 2026 10:18 AM) (Utah Public Notice Website, 2026-08-10) primary government “with Valar Atomics, by Bryan Torgerson, Assistant Managing Director”
09.17.2026 TLA Board Packet (Item 10A memorandum, 'Board Committee and Board Discussion', p. 25) (Utah Trust Lands Administration (Utah Public Notice Website)) primary government “wanted to ensure the full board had ample time to evaluate the proposal and that stakeholders were informed”

verified 2026-10-02: Holds. Re-read in late September 2026: the seven 2026 board notices before August (1051443, 1055725, 1058357, 1064897, 1070913, 1079621, 1087073) and the text of all 48 attached PDFs, plus the seven scanned attachments: no Valar, SULA 2095, Section 16 or Wellington. Notice 1100659 posted 10 Aug 2026 10:18 AM. Quotes exact.

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