Notice of Invitation for Coal Exploration License Application, Wyoming, 47826-47827 [E6-13633]
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coal reserves in the lands described
below in Oliver County, North Dakota,
hereinafter described as Federal coal
lease application (LBA) NDM 95104 for
competitive lease by sealed bid in
accordance with the provisions for
competitive lease sales in 43 CFR
22.2(a), and the Mineral Leasing Act of
1920, as amended and supplemented
(30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.).
DATES: The lease sale will be held at 11
a.m., Tuesday, September 12, 2006.
Sealed bids must be sent by certified
mail, return receipt requested, or be
hand delivered to the address indicated
below, and must be received on or
before 10 a.m., September 12, 2006.
ADDRESSES: The lease sale will be held
in the BLM Montana State Office, 920
Conference Room, 5001 Southgate
Drive, Billings, Montana 59101–4669.
Sealed bids clearly marked ‘‘Sealed Bid
for NDM 95104 Coal Sale-Not to be
opened before 11 a.m., Tuesday,
September 12, 2006’’ must be submitted
to the Cashier, BLM Montana State
Office, at the address given above. The
cashier will issue a receipt for each
hand delivered sealed bid.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Connie Schaff, Land Law Examiner, or
Rebecca Spurgin, Coal Coordinator, at
406–896–5060 or 406–896–5080,
respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This sale
is being held in response to a LBA filed
by The BNI Coal, Ltd on September 29,
2005. All coal LBAs submitted to BLM
for processing prior to November 7,
2005 are not subject to cost recovery on
a case-by-case basis (See 43 CFR
3000.10(d)(1), 70 FR 58872, October 7,
2005). The Federal coal resource to be
offered consists of all recoverable
reserves in the following described
lands:
estimate of fair market value (FMV). No
bid that is less than $100 per acre, or
fraction thereof, will be considered. The
DOI has established a minimum bid of
$100 per acre or fraction thereof for
Federal coal tracts. The minimum bid is
not intended to represent FMV. The
FMV will be determined by the
Authorized Officer after the sale. In the
event identical high sealed bids are
received, the tying high bidders will be
requested to submit follow-up bids until
a high bid is received. All tie-breaking
sealed-bids must be submitted within 15
minutes following the Sale Official’s
announcement at the sale that identical
high bids have been received.
A lease 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 payable to the
United States of 12.5 percent of the
value of coal mined by surface methods
and 8.0 percent of the value of coal
mined by underground methods. The
value of the coal will be determined in
accordance with 30 CFR 206.250.
Bidding instructions for the tracts
offered and the terms and conditions of
the proposed coal lease are included in
the Detailed Statement of Lease Sale.
Copies of the Detailed Statement and
the proposed coal lease are available at
the Montana State Office at the address
given above. Casefile NDM 95104 is
available for inspection at the Montana
State Office during normal business
hours at the address above.
Dated: July 12, 2006.
Glenwood F. Kerestes,
Acting Chief, Branch of Solid Minerals.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
T. 142 N., R. 84 W., 5th P. M.
Sec. 28: W1⁄2.
Bureau of Land Management
Containing approximately 320 acres in
Oliver County, North Dakota.
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The LBA’s total recoverable coal
reserves are estimated to be 8.3 million
tons (averaging 15.3 feet in thickness)
and the average overburden depth is 100
feet.
The estimated coal quality on an asreceived basis is as follows:
BTU ......................................
Volatile Matter ....................
Fixed Carbon .......................
Moisture ..............................
Sulfur Content .....................
Ash Content ........................
6,765 BTU/lb.
25.73 %
28.72 %
38.46 %
0.91 %
7.09 %
The tracts will be leased to the
qualified bidder of the highest cash
amount, provided that the high bid
meets or exceeds the BLM’s pre-sale
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Notice of Invitation for Coal
Exploration License Application,
Wyoming
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Invitation for Coal
Exploration License Application, Jacobs
Ranch Coal Company, WYW172929,
Wyoming.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 2(b) of the
Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as
amended by section 4 of the Federal
Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 1976,
90 Stat. 1083, 30 U.S.C. 201(b), and to
the regulations adopted as 43 Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR) 3410, all
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interested qualified parties, as provided
in 43 CFR 3472.1, are hereby invited to
participate with Jacobs Ranch Coal
Company on a pro rata cost sharing
basis in a program for the exploration of
coal deposits owned by the United
States of America in the followingdescribed lands in Campbell County,
Wyoming:
T. 44 N., R. 70 W., 6th P.M., Wyoming,
Sec. 21: Lots 1 through 16;
T. 43 N., R. 71 W., 6th P.M., Wyoming,
Sec. 3: Lots 2, 5 through 19;
Sec. 4: Lots 5 through 20;
Sec. 5: Lots 5 through 20;
Sec. 6: Lots 8, 15, 16, 23;
T. 44 N., R. 71 W., 6th P.M., Wyoming,
Sec. 15: Lots 9 through 16;
Sec. 20: Lots 9, 10, 14, 15;
Sec. 21: Lots 1 through 16;
Sec. 22: Lots 1 through 16;
Sec. 27: Lots 1 through 16;
Sec. 28: Lots 1 through 16;
Sec. 29: Lots 1 through 15, SE1⁄4SE1⁄4,
Sec. 30: Lots 5, 12, 13, 20;
Sec. 31: Lots 5, 12, 13, 20;
Sec. 32: Lots 1 through 15, SW1⁄4SE1⁄4;
Sec. 33: Lots 1 through 15, NE1⁄4SE1⁄4;
Sec. 34: Lots 1 through 16;
Containing 9,260.58 acres, more or less.
Any party electing to participate
in this exploration program must send
written notice to both the Bureau of
Land Management and Jacobs Ranch
Coal Company, as provided in the
ADDRESSES section below, no later than
thirty days after publication of this
invitation in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the exploration
plan are available for review during
normal business hours in the following
offices (serialized under number
WYW172929): Bureau of Land
Management, Wyoming State Office,
5353 Yellowstone Road, P.O. Box 1828,
Cheyenne, WY 82003; and, Bureau of
Land Management, Casper Field Office,
2987 Prospector Drive, Casper, WY
82604. The written notice should be
sent to the following addresses: Jacobs
Ranch Coal Company, c/o Rio Tinto
Energy America, Attn: Tom Suchomel,
Caller Box 3009, Gillette, WY 82717,
and the Bureau of Land Management,
Wyoming State Office, Branch of Solid
Minerals, Attn: Mavis Love, P.O. Box
1828, Cheyenne, WY 82003.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: All of the
coal in the above-described land
consists of unleased Federal coal within
the Powder River Basin Known Coal
Leasing Area. The purpose of the
exploration program is to obtain
supplemental geotechnical data from
two previous drilling programs and to
assist with the planning of future
expansions to the Jacobs Ranch Mine.
This notice of invitation will be
published in The News-Record of
Gillette, WY, once each week for two
DATES:
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consecutive weeks beginning the week
of August 14, 2006, and in the Federal
Register.
The foregoing is published in the
Federal Register pursuant to 43 CFR
3410.2–1(c)(1).
Dated: July 28, 2006.
Alan Rabinoff,
Deputy State Director, Minerals and Lands.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Plans of Operations and
Environmental Assessments for
Continuing Operations for Chesapeake
Operating, Inc., and Pantera Energy
Company, Lake Meredith National
Recreation Area, Texas
National Park Service,
Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of Plans of
Operations and Environmental
Assessments for a 30-day Public Review
at Lake Meredith National Recreation
Area.
AGENCY:
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given in
accordance with Section 9.52(b) of Title
36 of the Code of Federal Regulations,
Part 9, Subpart B, of a Plan of
Operations submitted by Chesapeake
Operating, Inc., for continuing
operations of the J.T. Sneed 103, H.I.
Lea 101, and H.I. Lea R–1 natural gas
wells and a Plan of Operations
submitted by Pantera Energy Company
for continuing operations of the Barnes
State #1 and the Barnes State #1R
natural gas wells in Lake Meredith
National Recreation Area, Moore and
Potter Counties, Texas. Additionally,
the NPS has prepared Environmental
Assessments for both of these proposals.
DATES: The above documents are
available for public review and
comment through September 18, 2006.
ADDRESSES: The Plans of Operations and
Environmental Assessments are
available for public review and
comment in the Office of the
Superintendent, Karren Brown, Lake
Meredith National Recreation Area, 419
E. Broadway, Fritch, Texas. The
documents are also available at the
Planning, Environment and Public
Comment Web site at https://
parkplanning.gov.
Ms.
Arlene Wimer, Environmental
Protection Specialist, Division of
Resource Management, Lake Meredith
National Recreation Area, P.O. Box
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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1460, Fritch, Texas 79036, Telephone:
806–865–3874, ext. 35, e-mail at
Arlene_Wimer@nps.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: If you
wish to comment on the environmental
assessment, you may mail comments to
the name and address above or post
comments online at https://
parkplanning.nps.gov/. This
environmental assessment will be on
public review for 30 days. Our practice
is to make comments, including names,
home addresses, home phone numbers,
and e-mail addresses of respondents,
available for public review. Individual
respondents may request that we
withhold their names and/or home
addresses, etc., but if you wish us to
consider withholding this information
you must state this prominently at the
beginning of your comments. In
addition, you must present a rationale
for withholding this information. This
rationale must demonstrate that
disclosure would constitute a clearly
unwarranted invasion of privacy.
Unsupported assertions will not meet
this burden. In the absence of
exceptional, documentable
circumstances, this information will be
released. We will always make
submissions from organizations or
businesses, and from individuals
identifying themselves as
representatives of or officials of
organizations or businesses, available
for public inspection in their entirety.
Dated: July 17, 2006.
Karren Brown,
Superintendent, Lake Meredith National
Recreation Area.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
Department of the Interior, National
Park Service, Western Archeological
and Conservation Center, Tucson, AZ;
Correction
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice; correction.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, Sec (5), of
the completion of an inventory of
human remains and associated funerary
objects in the possession of the U.S.
Department of the Interior, National
Park Service, Western Archeological
and Conservation Center, Tucson, AZ.
The human remains and cultural items
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were removed from sites along the
Transwestern Pipeline Project in
Arizona and New Mexico.
This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations
in this notice are the sole responsibility
of the Chief, Museum Collections
Repository, Western Archeological and
Conservation Center.
This notice corrects the number of
human remains and associated funerary
objects reported in a notice of inventory
completion published in the Federal
Register on January 8, 2002. The error
was identified by tribal representatives
during consultation regarding
repatriation of the Native American
human remains and associated funerary
objects identified in the published
notice.
In the Federal Register of January 8,
2002, FR Doc. 02–384, page 914, the
following corrections are madeThe fourth paragraph is corrected by
substituting the following paragraph:
In 1959–1960, human remains
representing 14 individuals were
recovered from 4 sites during legally
authorized excavations under the
direction of National Park Service
archeologist Wesley L. Bliss. The four
sites were located along a linear transect
through Cibola and McKinley Counties,
NM, and Apache County, AZ, as part of
the Transwestern Pipeline Project. No
known individuals were identified.
The fifth paragraph is corrected by
substituting the following paragraph:
Human remains representing two
individuals were recovered from the
TRW PPL L-WR–32 site. The four
associated funerary objects are a Puerco
black-on-white bowl, a bowl and one
box of sherds of the White Mound
black-on white ceramic type, and an
Escavada black-on-white seed jar.
Diagnostic artifacts found associated
with the burials indicate that the human
remains were buried during the
Basketmaker III-Pueblo I phases (A.D.
500–950).
The seventh paragraph is corrected by
substituting the following paragraph:
Human remains representing two
individuals were recovered from the
TRW PPL L-WR–43 site. The one
associated funerary object is a Puerco
black-on-red bowl. The diagnostic
artifact found associated with the
burials indicates that the human
remains were buried during the Pueblo
III phase (A.D. 1250–1300).
The tenth paragraph is corrected by
substituting the following paragraph:
The manager of the Western
Archeological and Conservation Center
has determined that, pursuant to 25
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[WY-920-1320-EL, WYW172929]
Notice of Invitation for Coal Exploration License Application,
Wyoming
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Invitation for Coal Exploration License Application,
Jacobs Ranch Coal Company, WYW172929, Wyoming.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 2(b) of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920,
as amended by section 4 of the Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act of
1976, 90 Stat. 1083, 30 U.S.C. 201(b), and to the regulations adopted
as 43 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 3410, all interested qualified
parties, as provided in 43 CFR 3472.1, are hereby invited to
participate with Jacobs Ranch Coal Company on a pro rata cost sharing
basis in a program for the exploration of coal deposits owned by the
United States of America in the following-described lands in Campbell
County, Wyoming:
T. 44 N., R. 70 W., 6th P.M., Wyoming,
Sec. 21: Lots 1 through 16;
T. 43 N., R. 71 W., 6th P.M., Wyoming,
Sec. 3: Lots 2, 5 through 19;
Sec. 4: Lots 5 through 20;
Sec. 5: Lots 5 through 20;
Sec. 6: Lots 8, 15, 16, 23;
T. 44 N., R. 71 W., 6th P.M., Wyoming,
Sec. 15: Lots 9 through 16;
Sec. 20: Lots 9, 10, 14, 15;
Sec. 21: Lots 1 through 16;
Sec. 22: Lots 1 through 16;
Sec. 27: Lots 1 through 16;
Sec. 28: Lots 1 through 16;
Sec. 29: Lots 1 through 15, SE\1/4\SE\1/4\,
Sec. 30: Lots 5, 12, 13, 20;
Sec. 31: Lots 5, 12, 13, 20;
Sec. 32: Lots 1 through 15, SW\1/4\SE\1/4\;
Sec. 33: Lots 1 through 15, NE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
Sec. 34: Lots 1 through 16;
Containing 9,260.58 acres, more or less.
DATES: Any party electing to participate in this exploration program
must send written notice to both the Bureau of Land Management and
Jacobs Ranch Coal Company, as provided in the ADDRESSES section below,
no later than thirty days after publication of this invitation in the
Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the exploration plan are available for review
during normal business hours in the following offices (serialized under
number WYW172929): Bureau of Land Management, Wyoming State Office,
5353 Yellowstone Road, P.O. Box 1828, Cheyenne, WY 82003; and, Bureau
of Land Management, Casper Field Office, 2987 Prospector Drive, Casper,
WY 82604. The written notice should be sent to the following addresses:
Jacobs Ranch Coal Company, c/o Rio Tinto Energy America, Attn: Tom
Suchomel, Caller Box 3009, Gillette, WY 82717, and the Bureau of Land
Management, Wyoming State Office, Branch of Solid Minerals, Attn: Mavis
Love, P.O. Box 1828, Cheyenne, WY 82003.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: All of the coal in the above-described land
consists of unleased Federal coal within the Powder River Basin Known
Coal Leasing Area. The purpose of the exploration program is to obtain
supplemental geotechnical data from two previous drilling programs and
to assist with the planning of future expansions to the Jacobs Ranch
Mine. This notice of invitation will be published in The News-Record of
Gillette, WY, once each week for two
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consecutive weeks beginning the week of August 14, 2006, and in the
Federal Register.
The foregoing is published in the Federal Register pursuant to 43
CFR 3410.2-1(c)(1).
Dated: July 28, 2006.
Alan Rabinoff,
Deputy State Director, Minerals and Lands.
[FR Doc. E6-13633 Filed 8-17-06; 8:45 am]
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