Notice of Competitive Coal Lease Sale ALES-55199, Alabama, 13417-13418 [2016-05642]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 49 / Monday, March 14, 2016 / Notices (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: The twelve member San Juan Islands MAC was chartered to provide information and advice regarding the development of the San Juan Islands National Monument’s RMP. Members represent an array of stakeholder interests in the land and resources from within the local area and statewide. All advisory committee meetings are open to the public. At 2:30 p.m. members of the public will have the opportunity to make comments to the MAC during a one-hour public comment period. Persons wishing to make comments during the public comment period should register in person with the BLM by 2 p.m. that meeting day, at the meeting location. Depending on the number of persons wishing to comment, the length of comments may be limited. The public may send written comments to the MAC at San Juan Islands National Monument, Attn. MAC, P.O. Box 3, 37 Washburn Ave., Lopez Island, Washington 98261. The BLM appreciates all comments. Linda Clark, Spokane District Manager. [FR Doc. 2016–05691 Filed 3–11–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310–33–P Huntsville Meridian, Alabama T. 15 S., R. 4 W., Sec. 24, SW1/4NW1/4, N1/2SW1/4, and SE1/4SW1/4. The areas described aggregate 160 acres. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Land Management [LLES93000–L13200000–GAOOO0– 241AOO, ALES–55199] Notice of Competitive Coal Lease Sale ALES–55199, Alabama Bureau of Land Management, Interior. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: Notice is hereby given that certain Federal coal reserves in the Narley Mine Coal Tract described below in Jefferson County, Alabama, will be offered for competitive sale 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 1 p.m. Central Time (CT) on April 14, 2016. Sealed bids must be submitted on or before 10 a.m. CT on April 14, 2016. Any bid received after the time specified will not be considered. jstallworth on DSK7TPTVN1PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 14:27 Mar 11, 2016 Jkt 238001 The lease sale will be held at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Southeastern States District Office located at 411 Briarwood Drive, Suite 404, Jackson, MS 39206. Sealed bids must be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, or handdelivered to the Cashier, BLM Southeastern States Office, at the address given above. The outside of the sealed envelope containing the bid must be clearly marked ‘‘Sealed Bid for Coal Lease Sale ALES–55199—Not to be opened before 10 a.m. on April 14, 2016.’’ The Cashier will issue a receipt for each hand-delivered bid. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Randall Mills, BLM Mining Engineer, 601–977–5437, or by email to ramills@ 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 coal lease sale is being held in response to a lease by application (LBA) filed by Best Coal Company. The Federal coal reserves to be offered consist of all reserves recoverable by surface mining methods in the following described lands located approximately 5 miles north of Mt Olive, Alabama, in Jefferson County, Alabama: ADDRESSES: The Narley Mine Coal Tract contains three minable coal beds known as the New Castle, Mary Lee, and Blue Creek seams of the Mary Lee coal group. The seams are under private surface lands. The minable portions of these coal beds for this tract are approximately 4 to 5 feet in thickness. The tract contains approximately 671,500 tons of recoverable high-volatile bituminous coal. The estimated average coal quality on an ‘‘as received basis’’ is as follows: 12,500 ...... British Thermal Unit (Btu/lb). 3.50 .......... Percent moisture.* 12.00 ........ Percent ash. 34 ............. Percent volatile matter. 50.50 ........ Percent fixed carbon. 1.50 .......... Percent sulfur. * Estimated as received moisture; also used for calculating as received from dry basis. 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 PO 00000 Frm 00108 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 13417 the fair market value (FMV) of the tract or the minimum bid established by regulation of $100 per acre or fraction thereof, whichever is larger. No bid that is less than $100 per acre, or fraction thereof, will be considered. The FMV will be determined by the authorized officer prior to the sale. If identical high bids are received, the tying high bidders will be requested to submit follow-up sealed 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. 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 121⁄2 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 Narley Coal Tract has paid a total case-by-case cost recovery processing fee in the amount of $30,630. The successful bidder for the Narley Coal Tract, if someone other than the applicant, must pay to the BLM the full amount previously paid by Best Coal Company. 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 $2,000. Bidding instructions for the LBA tract offered and the terms and conditions of the proposed coal lease are included in the Detailed Statement of Lease Sale and available from the BLM Southeastern States Office at the address above. All case file documents, number ALES– 55199, and written comments submitted by the public on FMV or royalty rates, except those portions protected as trade secrets and commercial or financial information under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4), are available for public inspection in the Public Room of the BLM Southeastern States Office at the address above. The actions announced by this notice are consistent with Secretarial Order 3338, which allows the sale and issuance of new thermal coal leases by application under pending applications for which the environmental analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act has been completed and a Decision Record has been issued by the BLM. The BLM completed an Environmental Assessment for this coal lease sale following a public hearing on November 20, 2014, and issued a Decision Record and a Finding of No E:\FR\FM\14MRN1.SGM 14MRN1 13418 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 49 / Monday, March 14, 2016 / Notices Significant Impact on February 16, 2015. Ann DeBlasi, Acting State Director. [FR Doc. 2016–05642 Filed 3–11–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310–GJ–P DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Indian Gaming Commission Notice of Availability of a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Jamul Indian Village Proposed Gaming Management Agreement, San Diego County, California National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC), Interior. AGENCY: ACTION: Notice of Availability (NOA). In accordance with Section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the NIGC, in cooperation with the Jamul Indian Village has prepared a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (Draft SEIS) for the proposed Gaming Management Agreement (GMA) between the Jamul Indian Village (JIV) and San Diego Gaming Ventures (SDGV). If approved, the GMA would allow SDGV to assume responsibility for operation and management of the JIV Gaming Facility located in San Diego County, California. The Draft SEIS addresses the effects of GMA approval and the No Action Alternative, which assumes no GMA, is approved. The SEIS also updates the environmental baseline given the time that has passed and the changes that have been made to the scope of the Proposed Action, which was originally addressed in the 2003 Final EIS. SUMMARY: For further information or to request a copy of the Draft SEIS, please contact: John R. Hay, Associate General Counsel, National Indian Gaming Commission Office of the General Counsel 1849 C Street NW., Mail Stop #1621, Washington, DC 20240 Phone: 202–632– 7003: Facsimile: 202–632–7066: email: John_Hay@nigc.gov. Availability of the Draft SEIS: The Draft SEIS is available for public review at the following locations: —The Rancho San Diego Public Library, 11555 Via Rancho San Diego, El Cajon, CA 92019, telephone (619) 660–5370; and —The Jamul Indian Village Tribal Office, 14191 #16 Highway 94, Jamul, CA 91935, telephone (619) 669–4785. jstallworth on DSK7TPTVN1PROD with NOTICES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: VerDate Sep<11>2014 14:27 Mar 11, 2016 Jkt 238001 Copies of the Draft SEIS will also be available for download from the Tribe’s Web site www.jamulindianvillage.com. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The JIV Reservation is located in the unincorporated portion of southwestern San Diego County approximately one mile south of the community of Jamul on approximately six-acres of land held in federal trust. State Route 94 (SR–94) provides regional access to the JIV from downtown San Diego, which is located approximately 20 miles to the west where it intersects with Highway 5. Local access to the JIV is provided directly from SR–94 via Daisy Drive. From the JIV, SR–94 travels briefly north and then west to Downtown San Diego, passing through the unincorporated communities of Jamul, Casa de Oro, Spring Valley and Lemon Grove. In 2000, JIV proposed a fee-to-trust land acquisition, construction and operation of a gaming complex and approval of a gaming development and management agreement for operation of the JIV Gaming Facility. The proposal was evaluated in a Final EIS prepared in 2003. Since that time, several major items have been removed from JIV’s overall development program and the Gaming Facility has been redesigned to fit entirely within the existing JIV Reservation. All environmental effects of the Gaming Facility redesign have been evaluated through preparation of a Final Tribal Environmental Evaluation, which was prepared in accordance with the 1999 Tribal/State Compact. No action is before the BIA due to no feeto-trust component of the JIV proposal. An action from the NIGC is required; specifically, approval or disapproval of the GMA. That approval or disapproval is the Proposed Action evaluated in the Draft SEIS. In addition to the Proposed Action, the Draft SEIS addresses the No Action Alternative, which assumes no approval of the GMA between JIV and SDGV. Under the No Project scenario, JIV would assume operation and management responsibilities of the Jamul Gaming Facility. The NIGC may, in its Record of Decision, select the No Project Alternative rather than the Proposed Action. This Draft SEIS updates environmental conditions in the affected area given the amount of time that has passed since the 2003 Final EIS. Environmental issues addressed within the Draft SEIS include land resources, water resources, air quality, biological resources, cultural/paleontological resources, socioeconomic conditions, transportation, land use, public services, PO 00000 Frm 00109 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 9990 hazardous materials, noise, and visual resources. The Draft SEIS examines the direct, indirect, and cumulative effects of each alternative on these resources. The NIGC published a Notice of Intent (NOI) in the Federal Register on April 10, 2013, describing the Proposed Action, announcing the NIGC’s intent to prepare a Draft SEIS for the Proposed Action, and inviting comments. The Draft SEIS is made available to federal, Tribal, state, and local agencies and other interested parties for review and comment. Submittal of Written Comments: You may mail, email, hand-carry or telefax written comments to NIGC, Attn: John Hay, Associate General Counsel, c/o Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street NW., Mail Stop #1621, Washington, DC 20240 email: John_Hay@nigc.gov. Please include your name, return address, and the caption: ‘‘Draft SEIS Comments, Jamul Indian Village,’’ on the first page of your written comments. In order to be fully considered, written comments on the Draft SEIS must be postmarked by April 28, 2016. Commenting individuals may request confidentiality. If you wish us to withhold your name and/or address from public review or from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, you must state this prominently at the beginning of your written comments. Such requests will be honored to the extent allowed by law. Anonymous comments will not, however, be considered. All submissions from organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or businesses, will be made available to public in their entirety. Authority: This notice is published in accordance with 25 U.S.C. 2711, section 1503.1 of the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 through 1508), and the Department of the Interior regulations (43 CFR part 46), implementing the procedural requirements of NEPA, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). Dated: March 8, 2016. Shannon O’Loughlin, Chief of Staff. [FR Doc. 2016–05604 Filed 3–11–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7565–01–P E:\FR\FM\14MRN1.SGM 14MRN1

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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 49 (Monday, March 14, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13417-13418]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-05642]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLES93000-L13200000-GAOOO0-241AOO, ALES-55199]


Notice of Competitive Coal Lease Sale ALES-55199, Alabama

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that certain Federal coal reserves in 
the Narley Mine Coal Tract described below in Jefferson County, 
Alabama, will be offered for competitive sale 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 1 p.m. Central Time (CT) on April 
14, 2016. Sealed bids must be submitted on or before 10 a.m. CT on 
April 14, 2016. Any bid received after the time specified will not be 
considered.

ADDRESSES: The lease sale will be held at the Bureau of Land Management 
(BLM) Southeastern States District Office located at 411 Briarwood 
Drive, Suite 404, Jackson, MS 39206. Sealed bids must be sent by 
certified mail, return receipt requested, or hand-delivered to the 
Cashier, BLM Southeastern States Office, at the address given above. 
The outside of the sealed envelope containing the bid must be clearly 
marked ``Sealed Bid for Coal Lease Sale ALES-55199--Not to be opened 
before 10 a.m. on April 14, 2016.'' The Cashier will issue a receipt 
for each hand-delivered bid.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Randall Mills, BLM Mining Engineer, 
601-977-5437, or by email to ramills@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 coal lease sale is being held in 
response to a lease by application (LBA) filed by Best Coal Company. 
The Federal coal reserves to be offered consist of all reserves 
recoverable by surface mining methods in the following described lands 
located approximately 5 miles north of Mt Olive, Alabama, in Jefferson 
County, Alabama:

Huntsville Meridian, Alabama

T. 15 S., R. 4 W.,
    Sec. 24, SW1/4NW1/4, N1/2SW1/4, and SE1/4SW1/4.

    The areas described aggregate 160 acres.

    The Narley Mine Coal Tract contains three minable coal beds known 
as the New Castle, Mary Lee, and Blue Creek seams of the Mary Lee coal 
group. The seams are under private surface lands. The minable portions 
of these coal beds for this tract are approximately 4 to 5 feet in 
thickness. The tract contains approximately 671,500 tons of recoverable 
high-volatile bituminous coal. The estimated average coal quality on an 
``as received basis'' is as follows:

12,500....................................  British Thermal Unit (Btu/
                                             lb).
3.50......................................  Percent moisture.*
12.00.....................................  Percent ash.
34........................................  Percent volatile matter.
50.50.....................................  Percent fixed carbon.
1.50......................................  Percent sulfur.
 
\*\ Estimated as received moisture; also used for calculating as
  received from dry basis.

    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 or the minimum bid 
established by regulation of $100 per acre or fraction thereof, 
whichever is larger. No bid that is less than $100 per acre, or 
fraction thereof, will be considered. The FMV will be determined by the 
authorized officer prior to the sale. If identical high bids are 
received, the tying high bidders will be requested to submit follow-up 
sealed 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.
    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\1/2\ 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 Narley Coal Tract has paid a total case-by-case cost recovery 
processing fee in the amount of $30,630. The successful bidder for the 
Narley Coal Tract, if someone other than the applicant, must pay to the 
BLM the full amount previously paid by Best Coal Company. 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 $2,000.
    Bidding instructions for the LBA tract offered and the terms and 
conditions of the proposed coal lease are included in the Detailed 
Statement of Lease Sale and available from the BLM Southeastern States 
Office at the address above. All case file documents, number ALES-
55199, and written comments submitted by the public on FMV or royalty 
rates, except those portions protected as trade secrets and commercial 
or financial information under the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 
552(b)(4), are available for public inspection in the Public Room of 
the BLM Southeastern States Office at the address above.
    The actions announced by this notice are consistent with 
Secretarial Order 3338, which allows the sale and issuance of new 
thermal coal leases by application under pending applications for which 
the environmental analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act 
has been completed and a Decision Record has been issued by the BLM. 
The BLM completed an Environmental Assessment for this coal lease sale 
following a public hearing on November 20, 2014, and issued a Decision 
Record and a Finding of No

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Significant Impact on February 16, 2015.

Ann DeBlasi,
Acting State Director.
[FR Doc. 2016-05642 Filed 3-11-16; 8:45 am]
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