Notice of Federal Competitive Coal Lease Sale, Utah, 28002-28003 [2015-11845]
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Authority: This notice is published in
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Council on Environmental Quality
regulations (40 CFR part 1500 et seq.) and the
Department of the Interior Regulations (43
CFR part 46) implementing the procedural
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Manual.
Dated: May 1, 2015.
Kevin Washburn,
Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLNVC02000 L57000000.BX0000; 241A;
MO# 4500077944]
Notice of Temporary Closures of
Public Land in Washoe County,
Nevada
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
As authorized under the
provisions of the Federal Land Policy
and Management Act of 1976 and
relevant regulations, certain public land
near Stead, Nevada, will be temporarily
closed to all public use to provide for
public safety during the 2015 Reno Air
Racing Association Pylon Racing
Seminar and the Reno National
Championship Air Races.
DATES: Temporary closure periods are
June 17 through June 20, 2015, and
September 16 through September 20,
2015.
SUMMARY:
Mount Diablo Meridian
T. 21 N., R. 19 E.,
Sec. 8, E1⁄2E1⁄2, NW1⁄4NE1⁄4;
Sec. 16, SW1⁄4SW1⁄4NE1⁄4, NW1⁄4,
W1⁄2SE1⁄4.
The area described contains 450 acres,
more or less, in Washoe County, Nevada.
The closure notice and map of the
closure area will be posted at the BLM
Carson City District Office, 5665 Morgan
Mill Road, Carson City, Nevada and on
the BLM Web site: https://www.blm.gov/
nv/st/en/fo/carsoncity_field.html. Roads
leading into the public lands under the
closure will be posted to notify the
public of the closure. Under the
authority of Section 303(a) of the
Federal Lands Policy and Management
Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1733(a)), 43 CFR
8360.9–7 and 43 CFR 8364.1, the Bureau
of Land Management will enforce the
following rules in the area described
above: All public use, whether
motorized, on foot, or otherwise, is
prohibited.
Exceptions: Closure restrictions do
not apply to event officials, medical and
rescue personnel, law enforcement, and
agency personnel monitoring the events.
Penalties: Any person who fails to
comply with the closure orders is
subject to arrest and, upon conviction,
may be fined not more than $1,000 and/
or imprisonment for not more than 12
months under 43 CFR 8360.0–7.
Violations may also be subject to the
provisions of Title 18, U.S.C. 3571 and
3581.
Authority: 43 CFR 8360.0–7 and 8364.1.
Leon Thomas,
Field Manager, Sierra Front Field Office.
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This coal
lease sale is being held in response to
a lease by application (LBA) submitted
by Canyon Fuel Company, LLC. to the
BLM on March 18, 1998. The successful
bidder must pay to the BLM the cost
BLM incurs regarding the publishing of
this sale notice. If there is no successful
bidder, the applicant will be responsible
for all publishing costs.
The coal resources to be offered
consist of all reserves recoverable by
underground methods available in the
following-described lands located in
Sanpete County, Utah, approximately 10
miles southeast of Scofield, Utah, under
both private and public surface.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Bureau of Land Management
[15X L1109AF LLUT920000
L13200000.EL0000, UTU–77114]
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Leon Thomas, 775–885–6000, email:
l70thoma@blm.gov. Persons who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339
to contact the above individual during
normal business hours. The FIRS is
available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
to leave a message or question with the
above individual. You will receive a
reply during normal business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
closure applies to all public use,
including pedestrian use and vehicles.
The public lands affected by this closure
are described as follows:
the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as
amended and supplemented.
DATES: The lease sale will be held at
1:00 p.m. on June 17, 2015. Sealed bids
must be sent by certified mail, return
receipt requested, to the Collections
Officer, BLM Utah State Office or be
hand delivered to the public room
Contact Representatives, BLM Utah
State Office at the address indicated
below, and must be received on or
before 10:00 a.m. on June 17, 2015. Any
bid received after the time specified will
not be considered and will be returned.
The BLM public room Contact
Representative will issue a receipt for
each hand-delivered sealed bid. The
outside of the sealed envelope
containing the bid must clearly state
that the envelope contains a bid for Coal
Lease Sale UTU–77114 and is not to be
opened before the date and hour of the
sale.
ADDRESSES: The lease sale will be held
in the Monument Conference Room at
the following address: BLM-Utah State
Office, Suite 500, 440 West 200 South,
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101. Sealed bids
can be hand delivered to the BLM
public room Contact Representative or
mailed to the Collections Officer, BLM
Utah State Office, at the address given
above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Contact Jeff McKenzie, 440 West 200
South, Suite 500 Salt Lake City, Utah
84101–1345 or telephone 801–539–
4038. Persons who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339
to leave a message or question for the
above individual. The FIRS is available
24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Replies
are provided during normal business
hours.
Notice of Federal Competitive Coal
Lease Sale, Utah
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
the United States Department of the
Interior, Bureau of Land Management
(BLM) Utah State Office will offer
certain coal resources described below
as the Flat Canyon Tract (UTU–77114)
in Sanpete County, Utah, for
competitive sale by sealed bid, in
accordance with the Federal regulations
for competitive lease sale notices and
SUMMARY:
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T. 13 S., R.6 E.,
Sec. 21, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, E1/2NE1/4,
and E1/2SE1/4;
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Sec. 28, lots 1 to 8, inclusive, S1/2NW1/
4, and SW1/4;
Sec. 33, NE1/4, E1/2NW1/4, NW1/4NW1/
4, E1/2SW1/4, SW1/4SW1/4, and SE1/4.
T. 14 S., R. 6 E.,
Sec. 4;
Sec. 5.
Containing approximately 2,692.16 acres.
The tract is adjacent to the Skyline
mine which contains other federal coal
leases. The coal beds contained in this
tract are under an average of 1,700 feet
cover from the surface. The coal in the
Flat Canyon tract has two economical
coal beds; the Lower O’Conner B and
the Flat Canyon beds. The minable
portions of these coal beds are
approximately 6 to 14 feet in thickness.
The tract contains approximately 42
million tons of recoverable high-volatile
B bituminous coal. The coal quality is
based on an ‘‘as received basis’’ as
follows: 12,400 Btu/lb., 5.80 percent
moisture, 7.1 percent ash, 42.8 percent
volatile matter, 43.8 percent fixed
carbon and 0.50 percent sulfur.
The tract will be leased to the
qualified bidder of the highest cash
amount provided that the high bid meet
or exceeds the BLM’s estimate of the fair
market value (FMV) of the tract. The
minimum bid for the tract is $100 per
acre or fraction thereof. No bid that is
less than $100 per acre, or fraction
thereof, will be considered. The
minimum bid is not intended to
represent FMV. The FMV of the tract
will be determined by the Authorized
Officer after the sale.
The BLM held a public hearing and
requested comments on the
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
and the FMV of the Dry Canyon Tract
on June 21, 2001. The BLM/U.S. Forest
Service (USFS) prepared a Final
Environmental Impact Statement and a
Record of Decision on January 3, 2002.
No appeals of the BLM decision to lease
were filed during the appeal period. The
USFS issued consent to lease on
February 4, 2013. On December 24,
2014, the Governor of the State of Utah
recommended proceeding with this
lease sale.
The lease that may be issued as a
result of this offering will provide for
payment of an annual rental of $3 per
acre or fraction thereof, and a royalty of
8 percent of the value of the coal
produced by underground mining
methods. The value of the coal will be
determined in accordance with 30 CFR
1206.250.
The detailed statement for the offered
tract, including bidding instructions and
sales procedures under 43 CFR 3422.3–
2, and the terms and conditions of the
proposed coal lease, is available from
the BLM-Public Room, Utah State
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Office, Suite 500, 440 West 200 South,
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101. Case file
documents, UTU–77114, are available
for inspection during normal business
hours in the BLM-Public Room, Suite
500.
Approved:
Jenna Whitlock,
Acting State Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Natural Resources Revenue
[Docket No. ONRR–2011–0020; DS63610000
DR2PS0000.CH7000 156D0102R2]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Royalty and Production
Reporting––OMB Control Number
1012–0004; Comment Request
Office of Natural Resources
Revenue (ONRR), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of extension.
AGENCY:
To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), ONRR is inviting comments on a
collection of information request that
we will submit to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval of the paperwork
requirements in the regulations under
title 30, Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR), parts 1210 and 1212. There are
three forms associated with this
information collection.
DATES: Submit written comments on or
before July 14, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on this ICR to ONRR by using one of the
following three methods (please
reference ‘‘ICR 1012–0004’’ in your
comments):
1. Electronically go to https://
www.regulations.gov. In the entry titled
‘‘Enter Keyword or ID,’’ enter ‘‘ONRR–
2011–0020’’ and then click ‘‘Search.’’
Follow the instructions to submit public
comments. ONRR will post all
comments.
2. Mail comments to Mr. Luis Aguilar,
Regulatory Specialist, ONRR, P.O. Box
25165, MS 61030A, Denver, Colorado
80225–0165.
3. Hand-carry or mail comments,
using an overnight courier service, to
ONRR. Our courier address is Building
85, Room A–614, Denver Federal
Center, West 6th Ave. and Kipling St.,
Denver, Colorado 80225.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions on technical issues, contact
Lee-Ann Martin, Reporting and Solid
Minerals Services, ONRR, telephone
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(303) 231–3313, or email
leeann.martin@onrr.gov. For other
questions, contact Mr. Luis Aguilar,
telephone (303) 231–3418, or email
luis.aguilar@onrr.gov. You may also
contact Mr. Aguilar to obtain copies, at
no cost, of (1) the ICR, (2) any associated
form, and (3) the regulations that require
us to collect the information.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
The Secretary of the United States
Department of the Interior is responsible
for collecting royalties from lessees who
produce minerals from leased Federal
and Indian lands and the OuterContinental Shelf (OCS). The Secretary’s
responsibility, under various laws, is to
manage mineral resource production
from Federal and Indian lands and the
OCS, collect the royalties and other
mineral revenues due, and distribute the
funds collected under those laws. ONRR
performs the royalty management
functions for the Secretary.
We have posted those laws pertaining
to mineral leases on Federal and Indian
lands and the OCS at https://
www.onrr.gov/Laws_R_D/PubLaws/
default.htm.
The Secretary also has a trust
responsibility to manage Indian lands
and seek advice and information from
Indian beneficiaries. ONRR performs the
minerals revenue management functions
and assists the Secretary in carrying out
the Department’s trust responsibility for
Indian lands. When a company or an
individual enters into a lease to explore,
develop, produce, and dispose of
minerals from Federal or Indian lands,
that company or individual agrees to
pay the lessor a share in an amount or
value of production from the leased
lands. The lessee, or his designee, is
required to report various kinds of
information to the lessor relative to the
disposition of the leased minerals.
The ONRR financial accounting
system is an integrated computer system
that includes royalty, rental, bonus, and
other payments; sales volumes and
values; and royalty values as submitted
by reporters. In the system, ONRR
compares production volumes with
royalty volumes to verify that reporters
reported and paid proper royalties for
the minerals produced. Additionally,
we share the data electronically with the
Bureau of Safety and Environmental
Enforcement, Bureau of Land
Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs,
and Tribal and State governments so
they can perform their lease
management responsibilities.
We use the information collected in
this ICR to ensure that royalty is
appropriately paid, based on accurate
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[15X L1109AF LLUT920000 L13200000.EL0000, UTU-77114]
Notice of Federal Competitive Coal Lease Sale, Utah
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the United States Department of
the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah State Office will
offer certain coal resources described below as the Flat Canyon Tract
(UTU-77114) in Sanpete County, Utah, for competitive sale by sealed
bid, in accordance with the Federal regulations for competitive lease
sale notices and the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as amended and
supplemented.
DATES: The lease sale will be held at 1:00 p.m. on June 17, 2015.
Sealed bids must be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested,
to the Collections Officer, BLM Utah State Office or be hand delivered
to the public room Contact Representatives, BLM Utah State Office at
the address indicated below, and must be received on or before 10:00
a.m. on June 17, 2015. Any bid received after the time specified will
not be considered and will be returned.
The BLM public room Contact Representative will issue a receipt for
each hand-delivered sealed bid. The outside of the sealed envelope
containing the bid must clearly state that the envelope contains a bid
for Coal Lease Sale UTU-77114 and is not to be opened before the date
and hour of the sale.
ADDRESSES: The lease sale will be held in the Monument Conference Room
at the following address: BLM-Utah State Office, Suite 500, 440 West
200 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101. Sealed bids can be hand
delivered to the BLM public room Contact Representative or mailed to
the Collections Officer, BLM Utah State Office, at the address given
above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Contact Jeff McKenzie, 440 West 200
South, Suite 500 Salt Lake City, Utah 84101-1345 or telephone 801-539-
4038. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD)
may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339
to leave a message or question for the above individual. The FIRS is
available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Replies are provided during
normal business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This coal lease sale is being held in
response to a lease by application (LBA) submitted by Canyon Fuel
Company, LLC. to the BLM on March 18, 1998. The successful bidder must
pay to the BLM the cost BLM incurs regarding the publishing of this
sale notice. If there is no successful bidder, the applicant will be
responsible for all publishing costs.
The coal resources to be offered consist of all reserves
recoverable by underground methods available in the following-described
lands located in Sanpete County, Utah, approximately 10 miles southeast
of Scofield, Utah, under both private and public surface.
Salt Lake Meridian
T. 13 S., R.6 E.,
Sec. 21, lots 1 to 4, inclusive, E1/2NE1/4, and E1/2SE1/4;
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Sec. 28, lots 1 to 8, inclusive, S1/2NW1/4, and SW1/4;
Sec. 33, NE1/4, E1/2NW1/4, NW1/4NW1/4, E1/2SW1/4, SW1/4SW1/4,
and SE1/4.
T. 14 S., R. 6 E.,
Sec. 4;
Sec. 5.
Containing approximately 2,692.16 acres.
The tract is adjacent to the Skyline mine which contains other
federal coal leases. The coal beds contained in this tract are under an
average of 1,700 feet cover from the surface. The coal in the Flat
Canyon tract has two economical coal beds; the Lower O'Conner B and the
Flat Canyon beds. The minable portions of these coal beds are
approximately 6 to 14 feet in thickness. The tract contains
approximately 42 million tons of recoverable high-volatile B bituminous
coal. The coal quality is based on an ``as received basis'' as follows:
12,400 Btu/lb., 5.80 percent moisture, 7.1 percent ash, 42.8 percent
volatile matter, 43.8 percent fixed carbon and 0.50 percent sulfur.
The tract will be leased to the qualified bidder of the highest
cash amount provided that the high bid meet or exceeds the BLM's
estimate of the fair market value (FMV) of the tract. The minimum bid
for the tract is $100 per acre or fraction thereof. No bid that is less
than $100 per acre, or fraction thereof, will be considered. The
minimum bid is not intended to represent FMV. The FMV of the tract will
be determined by the Authorized Officer after the sale.
The BLM held a public hearing and requested comments on the
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and the FMV of the Dry Canyon
Tract on June 21, 2001. The BLM/U.S. Forest Service (USFS) prepared a
Final Environmental Impact Statement and a Record of Decision on
January 3, 2002. No appeals of the BLM decision to lease were filed
during the appeal period. The USFS issued consent to lease on February
4, 2013. On December 24, 2014, the Governor of the State of Utah
recommended proceeding with this lease sale.
The lease that may be issued as a result of this offering will
provide for payment of an annual rental of $3 per acre or fraction
thereof, and a royalty of 8 percent of the value of the coal produced
by underground mining methods. The value of the coal will be determined
in accordance with 30 CFR 1206.250.
The detailed statement for the offered tract, including bidding
instructions and sales procedures under 43 CFR 3422.3-2, and the terms
and conditions of the proposed coal lease, is available from the BLM-
Public Room, Utah State Office, Suite 500, 440 West 200 South, Salt
Lake City, Utah 84101. Case file documents, UTU-77114, are available
for inspection during normal business hours in the BLM-Public Room,
Suite 500.
Approved:
Jenna Whitlock,
Acting State Director.
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