Notice of Competitive Coal Lease Sale, Wyoming, 64099-64100 [2011-26744]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLORB07000.L17100000.PH0000; HAG11–
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Call for Nominations for Steens
Mountain Advisory Council
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Advisory Council Call
for Nominations.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) requests public
nominations for five persons to serve on
the Steens Mountain Advisory Council.
Citizens who serve on this council
provide advice and recommendations to
the BLM on land use planning and
management of the Steens Mountain
Cooperative Management and Protection
Area. The BLM will accept public
nominations for 30 days after the
publication of this notice.
DATES: All nominations must be
received no later than November 16,
2011.
SUMMARY:
Send completed Advisory
Council nominations to BLM Burns
District Office, 28910 Highway 20 West,
Hines, Oregon 97738–9424. Nomination
forms are also available at the BLM
Burns District Office.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tara
Martinak, Public Affairs Specialist, BLM
Burns District Office, 28910 Highway 20
West, Hines, Oregon 97738–9424, 541–
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person with expertise and interest in
wild-horse management on Steens
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The Steens Mountain Advisory
Council was initiated on August 14,
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Cooperative Management and Protection
Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–399). The
Steens Mountain Advisory Council
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advice to the BLM and formulates
recommendations to the BLM regarding
new and unique approaches to
management of the land within the
bounds of the Steens Mountain
Cooperative Management and Protection
Area; and regarding cooperative
programs and incentives for landscape
management that meet human needs
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Michael Mottice,
Associate State Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLWY922000–L13200000–EL0000;
WYW174596]
Notice of Competitive Coal Lease Sale,
Wyoming
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of competitive coal lease
sale.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
certain coal resources in the South
Hilight Field Coal Tract described below
in Campbell County, Wyoming, will be
offered for competitive lease by sealed
bid in accordance with the provisions of
the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as
amended.
DATES: The lease sale will be held at 10
a.m. on Wednesday, December 14, 2011.
Sealed bids must be submitted on or
before 4 p.m. on Tuesday, December 13,
2011.
ADDRESSES: The lease sale will be held
in the First Floor Conference Room
(Room 107) of the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) Wyoming State
Office, 5353 Yellowstone Road, P.O.
Box 1828, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003.
Sealed bids must be submitted to the
Cashier, BLM Wyoming State Office, at
the address given above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mavis Love, Land Law Examiner, or
Kathy Muller Ogle, Coal Coordinator, at
307–775–6258, and 307–775–6206,
respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This coal
lease sale is being held in response to
a lease by application (LBA) filed by
Ark Land Company, St. Louis, Missouri.
The coal resource to be offered consists
of all reserves recoverable by surface
mining methods in the following
described lands located 2 to 5 miles
south of State Highway 450 and east of
the Burlington Northern/Union Pacific
main line railroad.
SUMMARY:
T. 43 N., R. 71 W., 6th Principal Meridian
Sec. 23, lots 1 through 16 inclusive;
Sec. 26, lots 1 through 16 inclusive;
Sec. 35, lots 1 through 16, inclusive.
Containing 1,976.69 acres, more or less, in
Campbell County, Wyoming.
The tract is adjacent to the southern
and western lease boundary of the Black
Thunder Mine. The tract is adjacent to
Federal leases to the east and north
controlled by the Black Thunder mine
as well as an adjacent State of Wyoming
lease also controlled by the Black
Thunder mine. It is adjacent to
additional unleased Federal coal to the
west and south.
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Most of the acreage offered has been
determined to be suitable for mining.
The acreage coincident with the main
line railroad right-of-way along the
western boundary of the tract is not
suitable for mining. Features such as
utilities and pipelines can be moved to
permit coal recovery. In addition,
numerous producing coal bed natural
gas wells have been drilled on the tract.
The estimate of the bonus value of the
coal lease will include consideration of
the future production from these wells
and the successful coal lessee’s
interaction with gas producers regarding
any pre-existing rights of such
producers. An economic analysis of this
future income stream will consider
reasonable compensation for lost
production when the wells are bought
out since mining will eliminate the gas
reservoir. Some of the surface estate of
the tract is owned by Thunder Basin
Coal Company, but most of the surface
is part of the Thunder Basin National
Grassland managed by the United States
Forest Service.
The tract contains surface mineable
coal reserves in the Wyodak-Anderson
coal zone currently being recovered in
the adjacent, existing mine. On the LBA
tract, there are generally two recoverable
seams, the shallower Upper Wyodak
and the deeper Middle Wyodak. The
Upper Wyodak is found in the northern
third of the LBA and averages about 13
feet thick. The Middle Wyodak is the
primary coal seam and is continuous
over the entire LBA. It varies from 67
feet to 75 feet thick. The interburden
between the Upper and Middle Wyodak
seams varies in thickness from 41 feet
to 118 feet. There are up to three thin
seams that split from the bottom of the
Middle Wyodak which are generally
mineable only when they are merged
with the Middle Wyodak seam.
Overburden depths to the top of the
Upper Wyodak seam range from about
170 feet to 400 feet on the LBA.
The tract contains an estimated
222,676,000 tons of mineable coal. This
estimate of mineable reserves includes
both of the seams mentioned above but
does not include any tonnage from
localized seams or splits containing less
than 5 feet of coal. The estimated
reserve excludes coal within and along
the railroad right-of-way as required by
typical mining practices. The total
mineable stripping ratio of the coal in
bank cubic yards per ton is
approximately 4.2:1. Potential bidders
for the LBA should consider the
recovery rate expected from thick seam
and multiple seam mining.
The South Hilight Field LBA coal is
ranked as subbituminous C. The overall
average quality on an as-received basis
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is 9,011 British Thermal Units per
pound containing approximately 0.27
percent sulfur. These quality averages
place the coal reserves at the high end
of the range of coal quality currently
being mined in the Wyoming portion of
the Powder River Basin.
The tract will be leased to the
qualified bidder of the highest cash
amount provided that the high bid
meets or exceeds the BLM’s estimate of
the fair market value 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 bids
should be sent by certified mail, return
receipt requested, or be hand delivered.
The BLM Wyoming State Office Cashier
will issue a receipt for each handdelivered bid. Bids received after 4 p.m.
local time, on Tuesday, December 13,
2011, will not be considered. The
minimum bid is not intended to
represent fair market value. The fair
market value of the tract will be
determined by the Authorized Officer
after the sale. The 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
payment to the United States of 12.5
percent of the value of coal produced by
surface mining methods. No coal is to be
mined by underground methods since
the only coal resources to be offered are
those coal resources recoverable by
surface mining methods. The value of
the coal will be determined in
accordance with 30 CFR 206.250.
This LBA was initiated before the
case-by-case cost recovery fees at 43
CFR 3473.2(f) became effective.
Therefore, case-by-case processing fees
are not applicable to this lease sale. See
43 CFR 3000.10(d).
Bidding instructions for the LBA tract
offered and the terms and conditions of
the proposed coal lease are available
from the BLM Wyoming State Office at
the address above. Case file documents,
WYW174596, are available for
inspection at the BLM Wyoming State
Office.
Donald A. Simpson,
State Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Notice of Availability of Record of
Decision for the Little Snake Resource
Management Plan/Environmental
Impact Statement
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) announces the
availability of the Record of Decision
(ROD)/Approved Resource Management
Plan (RMP) for the Little Snake Field
Office located in northwest Colorado.
The Colorado State Director signed the
ROD in October 2011, which constitutes
the final decision of the BLM and makes
the Approved RMP effective
immediately.
SUMMARY:
Copies of the ROD/
Approved RMP are available upon
request from the Little Snake Field
Office, Bureau of Land Management,
455 Emerson St., Craig, Colorado 81625
or at the following Web site: https://
www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/lsfo/plans/
rmp_revision.html. Copies of the ROD
are also available for public inspection
at the following location: Bureau of
Land Management, Colorado State
Office, 2850 Youngfield Street,
Lakewood, Colorado 80215.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information contact Matt
Anderson, Associate Field Manager/
RMP Project Manager, Little Snake Field
Office, telephone (970) 826–5000, at the
address above, or e-mail:
m40ander@blm.gov. Persons who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at (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: The
planning area is located in northwest
Colorado in Moffat, Routt, and Rio
Blanco counties. The plan provides
management decisions on
approximately 1.3 million acres of BLMadministered public lands and 1.1
million acres of BLM-administered
subsurface mineral estate.
The Little Snake Field Office has
worked extensively with interested and
affected groups, individuals and
cooperating agencies to develop the
ROD/RMP. Cooperating agencies
ADDRESSES:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLWY922000-L13200000-EL0000; WYW174596]
Notice of Competitive Coal Lease Sale, Wyoming
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of competitive coal lease sale.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that certain coal resources in the
South Hilight Field Coal Tract described below in Campbell County,
Wyoming, will be offered for competitive lease by sealed bid in
accordance with the provisions of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as
amended.
DATES: The lease sale will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, December
14, 2011. Sealed bids must be submitted on or before 4 p.m. on Tuesday,
December 13, 2011.
ADDRESSES: The lease sale will be held in the First Floor Conference
Room (Room 107) of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wyoming State
Office, 5353 Yellowstone Road, P.O. Box 1828, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003.
Sealed bids must be submitted to the Cashier, BLM Wyoming State Office,
at the address given above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mavis Love, Land Law Examiner, or
Kathy Muller Ogle, Coal Coordinator, at 307-775-6258, and 307-775-6206,
respectively.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This coal lease sale is being held in
response to a lease by application (LBA) filed by Ark Land Company, St.
Louis, Missouri. The coal resource to be offered consists of all
reserves recoverable by surface mining methods in the following
described lands located 2 to 5 miles south of State Highway 450 and
east of the Burlington Northern/Union Pacific main line railroad.
T. 43 N., R. 71 W., 6th Principal Meridian
Sec. 23, lots 1 through 16 inclusive;
Sec. 26, lots 1 through 16 inclusive;
Sec. 35, lots 1 through 16, inclusive.
Containing 1,976.69 acres, more or less, in Campbell County,
Wyoming.
The tract is adjacent to the southern and western lease boundary of
the Black Thunder Mine. The tract is adjacent to Federal leases to the
east and north controlled by the Black Thunder mine as well as an
adjacent State of Wyoming lease also controlled by the Black Thunder
mine. It is adjacent to additional unleased Federal coal to the west
and south.
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Most of the acreage offered has been determined to be suitable for
mining. The acreage coincident with the main line railroad right-of-way
along the western boundary of the tract is not suitable for mining.
Features such as utilities and pipelines can be moved to permit coal
recovery. In addition, numerous producing coal bed natural gas wells
have been drilled on the tract. The estimate of the bonus value of the
coal lease will include consideration of the future production from
these wells and the successful coal lessee's interaction with gas
producers regarding any pre-existing rights of such producers. An
economic analysis of this future income stream will consider reasonable
compensation for lost production when the wells are bought out since
mining will eliminate the gas reservoir. Some of the surface estate of
the tract is owned by Thunder Basin Coal Company, but most of the
surface is part of the Thunder Basin National Grassland managed by the
United States Forest Service.
The tract contains surface mineable coal reserves in the Wyodak-
Anderson coal zone currently being recovered in the adjacent, existing
mine. On the LBA tract, there are generally two recoverable seams, the
shallower Upper Wyodak and the deeper Middle Wyodak. The Upper Wyodak
is found in the northern third of the LBA and averages about 13 feet
thick. The Middle Wyodak is the primary coal seam and is continuous
over the entire LBA. It varies from 67 feet to 75 feet thick. The
interburden between the Upper and Middle Wyodak seams varies in
thickness from 41 feet to 118 feet. There are up to three thin seams
that split from the bottom of the Middle Wyodak which are generally
mineable only when they are merged with the Middle Wyodak seam.
Overburden depths to the top of the Upper Wyodak seam range from about
170 feet to 400 feet on the LBA.
The tract contains an estimated 222,676,000 tons of mineable coal.
This estimate of mineable reserves includes both of the seams mentioned
above but does not include any tonnage from localized seams or splits
containing less than 5 feet of coal. The estimated reserve excludes
coal within and along the railroad right-of-way as required by typical
mining practices. The total mineable stripping ratio of the coal in
bank cubic yards per ton is approximately 4.2:1. Potential bidders for
the LBA should consider the recovery rate expected from thick seam and
multiple seam mining.
The South Hilight Field LBA coal is ranked as subbituminous C. The
overall average quality on an as-received basis is 9,011 British
Thermal Units per pound containing approximately 0.27 percent sulfur.
These quality averages place the coal reserves at the high end of the
range of coal quality currently being mined in the Wyoming portion of
the Powder River Basin.
The tract will be leased to the qualified bidder of the highest
cash amount provided that the high bid meets or exceeds the BLM's
estimate of the fair market value 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 bids should
be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, or be hand
delivered. The BLM Wyoming State Office Cashier will issue a receipt
for each hand-delivered bid. Bids received after 4 p.m. local time, on
Tuesday, December 13, 2011, will not be considered. The minimum bid is
not intended to represent fair market value. The fair market value of
the tract will be determined by the Authorized Officer after the sale.
The 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
payment to the United States of 12.5 percent of the value of coal
produced by surface mining methods. No coal is to be mined by
underground methods since the only coal resources to be offered are
those coal resources recoverable by surface mining methods. The value
of the coal will be determined in accordance with 30 CFR 206.250.
This LBA was initiated before the case-by-case cost recovery fees
at 43 CFR 3473.2(f) became effective. Therefore, case-by-case
processing fees are not applicable to this lease sale. See 43 CFR
3000.10(d).
Bidding instructions for the LBA tract offered and the terms and
conditions of the proposed coal lease are available from the BLM
Wyoming State Office at the address above. Case file documents,
WYW174596, are available for inspection at the BLM Wyoming State
Office.
Donald A. Simpson,
State Director.
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