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HomeMy WebLinkAbout952660EASEMENT AGREEMENT WESTERN WYOMING RANGE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, (WWRLP), a Wyoming limited partnership, an 80.43478% owner, whose mailing address is P.O. Box 336, Lyman, WY 82937 and BROADBENT LAND AND RESOURCES, LLC, a Utah limited liability company, an undivided 19.56522% owner, whose mailing address is P.O. Box 734, Evanston, WY 82931, as tenants in common, GRANTOR, do hereby grant to Questar Overthurst Pipeline Company, a Utah Corporation, whose mailing address is 180 East 100 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84111, GRANTEE, its successors and assigns, for the sum of eight thousand nine dollars ($8,009.00), and other good and valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, an easement thirty (30) feet in width to lay, construct, maintain, operate, repair, protect, remove and replace one (1) twenty inch (20 outside diameter natural gas pipeline, including valves and ancillary facilities through and under the lands situated in the County of Lincoln, State of Wyoming, described in Exhibit "PR- 01 -A attached hereto and made a part hereof; approximately 70.09 rods. During the temporary period of initially laying the pipeline, Grantee may use an additional width of forty (40') feet or a total width of seventy (70') feet including the easement herein described on Exhibit "PR- 01 -A All of the disturbed areas shall be subject to the reclamation program as described on pages 3 and 4 of this agreement. RESERVING, however, to Grantor, its successors and assigns, the right to the use of the said premises for any purpose including but not limited to, construction and maintenance of roads, highways, pipelines and telephone, telegraph and other electric power poles and wire lines, over, under and across (but in such a way as will not unreasonably interfere with) said pipeline of Grantee on the premises described in Exhibit "PR -01 it being understood that the right so reserved by Grantor, its successors and assigns, is retained along with the general right of Grantor, its successors and assigns, to the use of said premises for any purposes. Regardless of the preceding paragraph, Grantor shalt not build, nor permit to be built, any permanent building or other permanent structure requiring a foundation, closer than fifteen (15') feet on either side of the centerline of the pipeline. If, in the future, Grantor desires to develop its land and any taw, ordinance, rule or regulation of any federal, state or local government agency shall require further setback than fifteen (15') feet, Grantee shall pay, as additional compensation, an amount equal to the fair market value for the interest in the lands which could otherwise be developed. This easement is made subject to all outstanding leases and other outstanding rights, including, but not limited to, those for highways and other roadways and right -of- ways for irrigation ditches, pipelines, pole and wire lines and the right of renewals and extensions of the same, and subject also to all conditions, limitations, restrictions, 1 00 363 RECEIVED 3/25/2010 at 10:36 AM RECEIVING 952660 BOOK: 744 PAGE: 363 JEANNE WAGNER LINCOLN COUNTY CLERK, KEMMERER, WY 2 00i 64 encumbrances, reservations or interests of any person which may affect the said land, whether recorded or unrecorded. The grant of the easement herein made is subject to all rights of the owners of the mineral estate and on the express condition that Grantor, its successors and assigns, shall not be liable to Grantee, its successors or assigns, for any damage occurring to the installations made or to be made by Grantee upon the lands herein granted in easement or for any other damage whatsoever occasioned by subsidence of the surface of said lands as a result of mining underneath the same or resulting in any other way from the removal of coal or any other minerals in or underlying the lands described in Exhibit "PR- 01 Grantee, for itself, its successors or assigns, by the acceptance of this easement, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Grantor, its officers, agents, employees, successors or assigns, against and from any and all liability, toss, damage, claims, demands, actions, cause of action, costs and expenses of whatsoever nature, including Court costs and attorneys fees, which may result from property damage and personal injury to or death of persons whomsoever, including the pipeline of Grantee, when such personal injury, death, loss, destruction, or damage, howsoever caused, grows out of or arises in any way because of, the existence of said pipeline or the construction, operation, maintenance, repair, renewal, reconstruction, removal or use of said pipeline or any part thereof or to the contents therein and therefrom, provided, however that said loss, damage, or injury does not arise out of or result from the negligence of the Grantor, its officers, agents, employees, successors or assigns. Grantee shall surrender and terminate this easement if construction of this pipeline has not begun within one (1) year from the date of this easement agreement. It is expressly made a condition of this easement that if Grantee, its successors or assigns, shall elect to abandon the premises of Grantor in the locations described in Exhibit "PR- 01 -A or any portion of said premises for the stated purposes of this easement, then and in that event, all the rights herein granted shall cease and terminate with respect to the premises so abandoned, and the title to said premises shall be freed from the burden of said easement. In the event that gas does not move in the pipeline for a period of two years then Grantee shall notify Grantor and either: 1. Notify Grantor that the facilities will be abandoned along with a schedule for timely abandonment, or; 2. Notify Grantor that the line will not be abandoned and pay grantor four dollars ($4.00) per rod for the length of the easement for all subsequent years in which gas does not flow in the pipeline. Such payment will be due January 31S of the year 0009365 following the year of zero flow. Accordingly, no money would be due under this provision until three years of no flow have occurred. After the fourth year of no flow, the fee shall be adjusted annually from the basis of the preceding year's annual fee to reflect the increase or decrease, if any, in the Consumer Price Index, All Urban Consumers (C.P.I. U) for all items, U.S. City average. Said adjustments and payments to be made on January 31S of each year until this easement terminates as provided herein. If the surface facilities or any portion thereof are so abandoned, and Grantee fails to commence good faith efforts to remove the surface facilities, excepting the pipeline, so abandoned and restore the portion of the land described in Exhibit "PR -01 -A" to which the abandoned facilities are appurtenant to its original condition within ninety (90) days after receipt of written notice from Grantor to Grantee, Grantor may remove the facilities for the account of Grantee, and Grantee shall reimburse the Grantor for all reasonable expense incurred in the removal of the facilities within thirty (30) days from receipt of the amount thereof. All the terms, conditions and stipulations herein expressed with reference to said pipeline on the lands described in Exhibit "PR -01 -A" shall, so far as the pipeline remains on said land, apply to the pipeline as modified, changed, relocated, altered or encased within the contemplation of the preceding paragraph. The Grantee shall use such methods of weed control on the easement as are reasonably necessary to control the growth of hatogeton and similar weeds until such time as the re- seeding program produces a stand of native grasses on the easement. Should Grantee fail to comply within ninety (90) days after receipt of written request from Grantor to Grantee, with the weed control requirements of this paragraph, and after written notice to Grantee, Grantor may provide for weed control on the area so disturbed in accordance with this paragraph and Grantee shall pay to Grantor within thirty (30) days from receipt thereof, all reasonable costs associated therewith. Grantee agrees that all of the surface area of the easement disturbed in the exercise of the rights granted hereunder shall be reseeded at the rate of 16 lbs /acre when drilled and 32 tbs /acre when broadcast with the following mixture: lbs. /acre PLS 3 lbs. /acre 3 lbs. /acre 3 lbs. /acre 2 lbs. /acre 2 lbs. /acre 1 lb. /acre 1 lb. /acre Common Name Western wheatgrass Indian ricegrass Thickspike wheatgrass Slender wheatgrass Fourwing saltbush Gardners saltbush Trident saltbush 3 Scientific Name Agropyron smithii Oryzopsis hymenoides Agropyron dasystachyum Agropyron trachycaulum Atriplex canescens Atriplex gardnerii Atriplex tridentate 1 lb. /acre Winterfat Eurotia Janata Grantee agrees to seed the easement as many times as required to obtain a successful stand of the above species throughout the entire easement. Only seed certified to be ninety -five percent (95 pure and with a germination percentage of eighty -five percent (85 will be used. Grantee will furnish the certification to the Grantor prior to the seeding operation. Should Grantee fail to comply with the reseeding requirements of this paragraph, within ninety (90) days after receipt of written request from Grantor to Grantee, Grantor may reseed the area so disturbed in accordance with this paragraph and Grantee shall pay to Grantor, within 30 days from receipt thereof, all costs associated therewith. In addition to the above, Grantee shall locate and flag the vegetative transects established by WWRLP, in order to prevent disturbance of these permanent transects and shall pay to WWRLP, on termination hereof, the actual charges and expenses WWRLP incurs in hiring a consultant to monitor Grantee's work in or near any vegetative transect area previously established by WWRLP on the lands subject to this easement agreement. Grantee shalt comply with all federal, state, and local laws, rules and regulations concerning the design, construction, operation, maintenance, safety and environmental considerations as they deal with or affect the pipeline of the type and nature intended to be place in the easement herein granted. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this document this f, day of Feb trip 2010. ATTEST Secretary WESTERN WYOMING RANGE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP By: e President 006366 BY: WESTERN WYOMING OPERATING, INC., Its General Partner 4 My Commission Expires: SUSAN TOOMER NOTARY PUBLIC COUNTY OF UINTA BROAD: ►T LAND AND RESOURCES, LLC QUESTAR OVERTHRUST PIPELINE COMPANY MY COMMISSION EXPIRES JULY 20, 2012 0367 By9 \i Ronald Jorgensen, General Manager Engineering Project Manage ent STATE OF WYOMING )ss. COUNTY OF UINTA On this e 4 'day of 2010, before me personally appeared D. Jud Redden and Carl Larson, to me personally known, who being by me duly sworn, did say that they are the Vice President and Secretary, of the Western Wyoming Operating, Inc., general partner, and that the seal affixed to said instrument is the corporate seal of said corporation, and that said instrument was signed and seated on behalf of said corporation by authority of its Board of Directors and said D. Jud Redden and Carl Larson acknowledged said instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation. 5 STATE OF WYOMING Notary Public STATE OF (4 V0 A/6- )ss. COUNTY OF IAI ArrA- The f regoi n L c'C) u l•�� My,rr'omrflt iron Expires: 1,27-,7 p 13 STATE OF (&,,4 COUNTY OF WI- La-k My Commission Expires: instrument was acknowledged before me by ,.IQSQ k5 Manager of Broadbent Land and Resources, LLC, this /Z 2010. )ss. F: \Western Wyoming Range \Questar Overthrust Pipeline Easement 02- 23- 10.wpd 0 1 614 NOTARY PUBLIC The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me by lira a 5o ex\ her-lot Po 14, of Questar Overthrust P'peline Company this `1 da of kxr. 4 2010. P Y 6 Notary Public DEANNA BRUNETTE Notary Public State of Utah My Commission Expires on: April 22, 2013 Comm. Numbers 570294 00a368 Iv FOUND SAND STONE 23 24 SCRIBE N89'28'S1 „E WITH '49 "E 1078.67 2656.50' (M) 2628.27' (M) 26 25 (TIE) FOUND STONE WITH NOTCHES 26 25 35 36 E..k•5arld. ssadala9.m. I'luis'8w,l B19wm6Stln 1" PRINTED 2/9 /2010 FOR oA1c PREUMINARY 0 DESIGN DEVELOPMENT 0 BIDDING 0 CONSTRUCTION X APPROVAL 0 AS BUILT 0 REVISION N 32'45'46" E 63.30' S 5714'14" E 8.25' N 32'45'46" E 12.84' A No REMSEO NGlrt -OF -WAY M01H S 4755'23" W 975.96' (TIE) P.O.B. SEE'DETAIL JL -90 INTERCONNECT SITE N 5714'14" W 1072.05' OWNERSHIP WESTERN WYOMING RANGE L E G A L D E S C R I P T I O N A STRIP OF LANG 30.00 FEET IN WIDTH, SITUATED IN THE NORTH HALF OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 25, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 115 WEST, 6TH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, LINCOLN COUNTY, WYOMING: BEING 15.00 FEET LEFT AND 15.00 RIGHT OF THE DESCRIBED CENTERLINE, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NORTH QUARTER CORNER OF SECTION 25, T 20 N, R 115 W, 6TH P.M., A FOUND SAND STONE WITH SCRIBE; THENCE SOUTH 47' 55' 23" WEST A DISTANCE OF 975.96 FEET TO THE CENTERLINE OF A 30.00 FOOT EASEMENT FOR THE TL-90 EXTENSION PIPELINE, SAID POINT ALSO UES ON AN EXISTING TEE IN THE JL -90 INTERCONNECT SITE, SAID POINT BEING THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE ALONG THE SAID CENTERUNE THE FOLLOWING (4) FOUR COURSES: 1. NORTH 32' 45' 46" EAST A DISTANCE OF 12.84 FEET, 2. SOUTH 57' 14' 14" EAST A DISTANCE OF 8.25 FEET, 3. NORTH 32' 45' 46" EAST A DISTANCE OF 63.30 FEET. 4. NORTH 57' 14' 14" WEST A DISTANCE OF 1072.05 FEET TO THE POINT OF TERMINUS OF SAID CENTERLINE, LYING ON THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER R SECTION 25, SAID POINT LIES NORTH 89' 28' 51" EAST ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF THE SAID NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 25, A DISTANCE OF 1078.67 FEET FROM THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SECTION 25, T 20 N, R 115 W, 6TH P.M. A FOUND STONE WITH NOTCHES. THE TOTAL LENGTH OF A GAS PIPELINE RIGHT —OF —WAY ACROSS THE WESTERN WYOMING RANGE LAND, AS DESCRIBED ABOVE IS 1156.44 FEET OR 70.09 RODS OR 0.22 MILES IN LENGTH AND CONTAINS 34,693 SO FT OR 0.80 ACRES MORE OR LESS. C E R T I F I C A T E O F SURVEYOR STATE OF WYOMING COUNTY OF UINTA I, DALE E. PETERSON OF EVANSTON, WYOMING HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS PLAT OF THE EASEMENT FOR THE TL -90 EXTENSION BY KURT OR BAN IN AUGUST, FROM AND NOTES TAKEN THE CT LO A CATION OF E�PROPOSEDOCENTERLINE E O FON THE PIPELINE. OE 25 DETAIL 000369 24 19 25 30 FOUND 1944 3.5" GLO BRASS CAP 25 30 0 0 0 E0 0 0 O 0 G-1 0 36 31 SECTION 25 TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH RANGE 115 WEST LINCOLN COUNTY S U R V E Y O R S N A R R A T I V E THE PURPOSE OF NEW GAS PIPELNE TL 90 EXTENSION PROJECT, LOCATED PERMANENT IN EASEMENT FOR THE WYOMING.CONSTRUCTIR OF A >mc TL -90 EXTENSION PIPELINE PIPELINE EASEMENT FOR WESTERN WYOMING RANGE SURVEY PLAT E '1 RMSIOq 2