Notice of Competitive Coal Lease Sale, Wyoming, 3790-3791 [2012-1296]
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Sarah Wheeler, Idaho Falls District
Office, BLM, 1405 Hollipark Drive,
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David Abrams, Butte Field Office,
BLM, 106 North Parkmont, Butte,
Montana 59701, (406) 533–7617.
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Office, BLM, 1800 Marquess St., Las
Cruces, New Mexico 88005, (575) 525–
4338.
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Notice is hereby given that
certain coal resources in the South
Porcupine 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.
SUMMARY:
The lease sale will be held at 10
a.m. on Wednesday, February 29, 2012.
Sealed bids must be submitted on or
before 4 p.m. on Tuesday, February 28,
2012.
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
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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.
This coal
lease sale is being held in response to
a lease by application (LBA) filed by
BTU Western Resources, Inc., Gillette,
Wyoming. The coal resource to be
offered consists of all reserves
recoverable by surface mining methods
in the following-described lands located
approximately 1 to 4 miles north of the
Campbell/Converse county line,
adjacent and up to 2 miles east of the
main line railroad, and adjacent to the
western and northern lease boundary of
the North Antelope Rochelle Mine.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
T. 41 N., R. 70 W., 6th Principal Meridian
Sec. 7, lots 7 through 10 inclusive and lots
15 through 18 inclusive;
Sec. 18, lots 6 through 11 inclusive and
lots 14 through 19 inclusive;
T. 41 N., R. 71 W., 6th Principal Meridian
Sec. 1, lots 5 through 20 inclusive;
Sec. 12, lots 1 through 16 inclusive;
Sec. 13, lots 1 through 16 inclusive;
Sec. 14, lots 1, 2, 8, 9, 16, and 18;
Sec. 23, lots 1 and 17; and
Sec. 24, lots 2 through 4 inclusive and lots
17, 19, and 21.
Containing 3,243.03 acres, more or less, in
Campbell County, Wyoming.
The LBA tract is adjacent to Federal
leases to the east and south as well as
a State of Wyoming lease to the north,
all controlled by the North Antelope
Rochelle Mine. It is also adjacent to
Federal leases to the west across the
mainline railroad, which is part of
Cloud Peak Energy Resources, LLC’s
Antelope Mine. It is adjacent to
additional unleased Federal coal to the
west.
Most of the acreage offered has been
determined to be suitable for mining
except for the mainline railroad right-ofway along the western boundary of the
LBA. Features such as roads, utilities,
and pipelines can be moved to permit
coal recovery. In addition, a producing
gas well is located on the LBA as well
as several coal bed natural gas wells.
The estimate of the bonus value of the
coal lease will include consideration of
the future production from these wells.
An economic analysis of this future
income stream will consider reasonable
compensation to the gas lessee for lost
production of the natural gas when the
wells are bought out by the coal lessee.
Approximately half of the surface estate
of the tract is within the Thunder Basin
National Grasslands and managed by
the U.S. Forest Service. Most of the
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other half of the surface estate is owned
by various private entities with a small
amount owned by a Peabody Energy
Corporation subsidiary.
The tract contains surface mineable
coal reserves in the Wyodak-Anderson
coal zone currently being recovered in
the adjacent, existing mines. On the
LBA tract, there are two mineable
seams, the Wyodak-Anderson 1
(Anderson) and the Wyodak-Anderson 2
(Canyon), located in the southern
portion of the LBA that merge into a
single seam in the northern portion. The
total coal thickness averages about 77
feet with the shallower Anderson seam
slightly thicker than the deeper Canyon
seam where two seams occur. The two
seams can be separated by as much as
80 feet of interburden. Overburden
depths to the Anderson range from
about 160 to 460 feet thick.
The tract contains an estimated
401,830,508 tons of mineable coal. This
estimate of mineable reserves includes
the two seams mentioned above but
does not include any tonnage from
localized seams or splits containing less
than 5 feet of coal. It does not include
the adjacent State of Wyoming coal
although these reserves are expected to
be recovered in conjunction with the
LBA tract. It also 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 4.8:1. Potential bidders
for the LBA tract should consider the
recovery rate expected from thick and
multiple seam mining.
The South Porcupine LBA coal is
ranked as subbituminous C. The overall
average quality on an as-received basis
is 8,905 British Thermal Units per
pound containing about 0.20 percent
sulfur. These quality averages place the
coal reserves near the high end of the
range of coal quality currently being
mined in the Wyoming portion of the
Powder River Basin.
The tract in this lease offering
contains split estate lands. There are
qualified surface owners as defined in
the regulations at 43 CFR 3400.0–5(gg).
Consent granted by the qualified surface
owners has been filed with and verified
by the BLM. The LBA tract lands
included in the consent are:
T. 41 N., R. 71 W., 6th Principal Meridian
Sec. 13, lots 12 through 14 inclusive;
Sec. 14, lots 1, 2, 8, and 18; and
Sec. 24, lots 3, 4, 17, 19, and 21.
Containing 396.79 acres, more or less, in
Campbell County, Wyoming.
percent (3%) of the gross realization of
all coal mined and sold from the Subject
Property.’’
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 (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 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, February 28,
2012, will not 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 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 payment to the United States
of 12.5 percent of the value of coal
produced by surface mining methods.
The value of the coal will be determined
in accordance with 30 CFR 1206.250.
Pursuant to the regulation at 43 CFR
3473.2(f), the applicant for the South
Porcupine Tract, BTU Western
Resources, Inc., has paid a total case-bycase cost recovery processing fee in the
amount of $83,694. The successful
bidder for the South Porcupine Tract, if
someone other than the applicant, must
pay to the BLM the $83,694 previously
paid by BTU Western Resources, Inc.
Additionally, the successful bidder
must pay all processing costs the BLM
will incur after the date this sale notice
is published in the Federal Register,
which are estimated to be $10,000.
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,
WYW176095, are available for
inspection at the BLM Wyoming State
Office.
Donald A. Simpson,
State Director.
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The purchase price of the consent as
stated in the consent documents is
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
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Idaho: Filing of Plats of Survey
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of filing of plats of
surveys.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) has officially filed
the plats of survey of the lands
described below in the BLM Idaho State
Office, Boise, Idaho, effective 9 a.m., on
the dates specified.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Bureau of Land Management, 1387
South Vinnell Way, Boise, Idaho,
83709–1657.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: These
surveys were executed at the request of
the Bureau of Land Management to meet
their administrative needs. The lands
surveyed are:
The plat representing the dependent
resurvey of portions of the Fourth
Standard Parallel North (south
boundary), east boundary, subdivisional
lines, and 1894 left bank meanders of
the North Fork of the Payette River in
section 36, and the subdivision of
section 36, the survey of the 2006–2009
left bank meanders of the North Fork of
the Payette River in section 36, and the
survey of a 2006–2009 partition line in
section 36, Township 18 North, Range 2
East, Boise Meridian, Idaho, Group
Number 1238, was accepted December
7, 2011.
The plat representing the dependent
resurvey of a portion of the west
boundary, a portion of the subdivisional
lines, a portion of the subdivision of
section 18, the original 1891 left bank
meanders of the Salmon River in
sections 7 and 18 and the original 1891
right bank meanders of the Salmon
River in section 7, Township 23 North,
Range 22 East, of the Boise Meridian,
Idaho, Group Number 1325, was
accepted December 14, 2011.
This survey was executed at the
request of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
to meet their administrative needs. The
lands surveyed are:
The plat representing the dependent
resurvey of a portion of the east
boundary, and the subdivisional lines,
and the subdivision of section 36,
Township 36 North, Range 1 East, of the
Boise Meridian, Idaho, Group Number
1319, was accepted November 3, 2011.
This survey was executed at the
request of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife
Service to meet certain administrative
and management purposes.
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLWY922000-L13200000-EL0000; WYW176095]
Notice of Competitive Coal Lease Sale, Wyoming
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that certain coal resources in the
South Porcupine 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, February
29, 2012. Sealed bids must be submitted on or before 4 p.m. on Tuesday,
February 28, 2012.
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 BTU Western
Resources, Inc., Gillette, Wyoming. The coal resource to be offered
consists of all reserves recoverable by surface mining methods in the
following-described lands located approximately 1 to 4 miles north of
the Campbell/Converse county line, adjacent and up to 2 miles east of
the main line railroad, and adjacent to the western and northern lease
boundary of the North Antelope Rochelle Mine.
T. 41 N., R. 70 W., 6th Principal Meridian
Sec. 7, lots 7 through 10 inclusive and lots 15 through 18
inclusive;
Sec. 18, lots 6 through 11 inclusive and lots 14 through 19
inclusive;
T. 41 N., R. 71 W., 6th Principal Meridian
Sec. 1, lots 5 through 20 inclusive;
Sec. 12, lots 1 through 16 inclusive;
Sec. 13, lots 1 through 16 inclusive;
Sec. 14, lots 1, 2, 8, 9, 16, and 18;
Sec. 23, lots 1 and 17; and
Sec. 24, lots 2 through 4 inclusive and lots 17, 19, and 21.
Containing 3,243.03 acres, more or less, in Campbell County,
Wyoming.
The LBA tract is adjacent to Federal leases to the east and south
as well as a State of Wyoming lease to the north, all controlled by the
North Antelope Rochelle Mine. It is also adjacent to Federal leases to
the west across the mainline railroad, which is part of Cloud Peak
Energy Resources, LLC's Antelope Mine. It is adjacent to additional
unleased Federal coal to the west.
Most of the acreage offered has been determined to be suitable for
mining except for the mainline railroad right-of-way along the western
boundary of the LBA. Features such as roads, utilities, and pipelines
can be moved to permit coal recovery. In addition, a producing gas well
is located on the LBA as well as several coal bed natural gas wells.
The estimate of the bonus value of the coal lease will include
consideration of the future production from these wells. An economic
analysis of this future income stream will consider reasonable
compensation to the gas lessee for lost production of the natural gas
when the wells are bought out by the coal lessee. Approximately half of
the surface estate of the tract is within the Thunder Basin National
Grasslands and managed by the U.S. Forest Service. Most of the
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other half of the surface estate is owned by various private entities
with a small amount owned by a Peabody Energy Corporation subsidiary.
The tract contains surface mineable coal reserves in the Wyodak-
Anderson coal zone currently being recovered in the adjacent, existing
mines. On the LBA tract, there are two mineable seams, the Wyodak-
Anderson 1 (Anderson) and the Wyodak-Anderson 2 (Canyon), located in
the southern portion of the LBA that merge into a single seam in the
northern portion. The total coal thickness averages about 77 feet with
the shallower Anderson seam slightly thicker than the deeper Canyon
seam where two seams occur. The two seams can be separated by as much
as 80 feet of interburden. Overburden depths to the Anderson range from
about 160 to 460 feet thick.
The tract contains an estimated 401,830,508 tons of mineable coal.
This estimate of mineable reserves includes the two seams mentioned
above but does not include any tonnage from localized seams or splits
containing less than 5 feet of coal. It does not include the adjacent
State of Wyoming coal although these reserves are expected to be
recovered in conjunction with the LBA tract. It also 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 4.8:1. Potential bidders for
the LBA tract should consider the recovery rate expected from thick and
multiple seam mining.
The South Porcupine LBA coal is ranked as subbituminous C. The
overall average quality on an as-received basis is 8,905 British
Thermal Units per pound containing about 0.20 percent sulfur. These
quality averages place the coal reserves near the high end of the range
of coal quality currently being mined in the Wyoming portion of the
Powder River Basin.
The tract in this lease offering contains split estate lands. There
are qualified surface owners as defined in the regulations at 43 CFR
3400.0-5(gg). Consent granted by the qualified surface owners has been
filed with and verified by the BLM. The LBA tract lands included in the
consent are:
T. 41 N., R. 71 W., 6th Principal Meridian
Sec. 13, lots 12 through 14 inclusive;
Sec. 14, lots 1, 2, 8, and 18; and
Sec. 24, lots 3, 4, 17, 19, and 21.
Containing 396.79 acres, more or less, in Campbell County,
Wyoming.
The purchase price of the consent as stated in the consent
documents is ``* * * an overriding royalty of three percent (3%) of the
gross realization of all coal mined and sold from the Subject
Property.''
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 (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 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, February 28, 2012, will not 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 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 payment to
the United States of 12.5 percent of the value of coal produced by
surface mining methods. The value of the coal will be determined in
accordance with 30 CFR 1206.250.
Pursuant to the regulation at 43 CFR 3473.2(f), the applicant for
the South Porcupine Tract, BTU Western Resources, Inc., has paid a
total case-by-case cost recovery processing fee in the amount of
$83,694. The successful bidder for the South Porcupine Tract, if
someone other than the applicant, must pay to the BLM the $83,694
previously paid by BTU Western Resources, Inc. Additionally, the
successful bidder must pay all processing costs the BLM will incur
after the date this sale notice is published in the Federal Register,
which are estimated to be $10,000.
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,
WYW176095, are available for inspection at the BLM Wyoming State
Office.
Donald A. Simpson,
State Director.
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