83 FR 55559 - Notice of Availability of the Environmental Assessment and Notice of Public Hearing for the Peabody Twentymile Coal LLC, Federal Coal Lease-by-Application COC-78449, Routt County, CO

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 215 (November 6, 2018)

In accordance with Federal coal management regulations, the Peabody Twentymile Coal, LLC, (Twentymile) Federal Coal Lease-by- Application (LBA) Environmental Assessment (EA) is available for public review and comment. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Little Snake Field Office (LSFO) will hold a public hearing to receive comments on the EA, Fair Market Value (FMV), and Maximum Economic Recovery (MER) of the coal resources for Peabody Twentymile Coal, LLC, serial number COC- 78449.

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 215 (Tuesday, November 6, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55559-55560]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-24272]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

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Notice of Availability of the Environmental Assessment and Notice 
of Public Hearing for the Peabody Twentymile Coal LLC, Federal Coal 
Lease-by-Application COC-78449, Routt County, CO

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability and notice of public hearing.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with Federal coal management regulations, the 
Peabody Twentymile Coal, LLC, (Twentymile) Federal Coal Lease-by-
Application (LBA) Environmental Assessment (EA) is available for public 
review and comment. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Little Snake 
Field Office (LSFO) will hold a public hearing to receive comments on 
the EA, Fair Market Value (FMV), and Maximum Economic Recovery (MER) of 
the coal resources for Peabody Twentymile Coal, LLC, serial number COC-
78449.

DATES: The public hearing will be held November 28, 2018, from 5 p.m. 
to 7 p.m. Written comments must be received no later than December 6, 
2018.

ADDRESSES: The public hearing will be held at the BLM LSFO, 455 Emerson 
St., Craig, CO 81625. Written comments specific to the Twentymile LBA, 
FMV and MER must be sent to Jennifer Maiolo at the BLM LSFO, 455 
Emerson St., Craig, CO 81625, via email to [email protected] or via fax 
to 970-826-5002. Copies of the EA are available online at https://go.usa.gov/xQZNb and the LSFO address above.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: LSFO Mining Engineer Jennifer Maiolo 
at 970-826-5077 or via email at [email protected]. Persons who use a 
telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay 
Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to contact the above individual during 
normal business hours. The FRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a 
week, to leave a message or questions for the above individual. You 
will receive a reply during normal business hours.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 6, 2017, the BLM received an LBA 
filed by Twentymile to lease 640-acres of Federal coal resources to 
expand its Twentymile Coal Foidel Creek Mine. The LBA underlies private 
surface and

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contains approximately 4.68 million tons of recoverable Federal coal 
resources. The coal resources to be offered are limited to coal 
recoverable by underground mining methods.

The Federal coal resources are located in Routt County, Colorado

Sixth Prime Meridian

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    Sec 22: E\1/2\NE\1/4\, NE\1/4\SE\1/4\, NE\1/2\SE\1/4\SE\1/4\;
    Sec 23: N\1/2\, N\1/2\S\1/2\, N\1/2\SW\1/4\SW\1/4\.

    These lands contain 640 acres, more or less.
    The EA addresses natural resource, cultural, socioeconomic, 
environmental and cumulative impacts that would result from leasing 
these lands. Two alternatives are addressed in the EA:
    Alternative 1: (Proposed Action) The tract would be leased as 
requested in the application; and
    Alternative 2: (No Action) The application would be rejected or 
denied and the subsurface Federal coal reserves would be bypassed.
    Proprietary information or data marked as confidential may be 
submitted to the BLM in response to this solicitation of comments. 
Information and data marked confidential will be treated in accordance 
with the applicable laws and regulations governing the confidentiality 
of such information or data. A copy of the comments submitted by the 
public on the EA, FMV, and MER for the tract, except those portions 
identified as proprietary by the author and meeting exemptions in the 
Freedom of Information Act, will be available for public inspection at 
the BLM LSFO, at the address listed above, during regular business 
hours (8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), Monday through Friday.
    Comments on the EA, FMV and MER should address, but not necessarily 
be limited to, the following:
    1. The quality and quantity of the Federal coal resources;
    2. The mining methods or methods to be employed to obtain the MER 
of the coal, including the name of the coal bed(s) to be mined, timing 
and rate of production, restriction of mining, and the inclusion of the 
tracts in an existing mining operation;
    3. The price the mined coal would bring when sold;
    4. Costs, including mining and reclamation costs, of producing the 
coal and the anticipated timing of production;
    5. The percentage rate at which anticipated income streams should 
be discounted, either with inflation, or in absence of inflation, in 
which case the anticipated rate of inflation should be given;
    6. Depreciation, depletion, amortization and other tax accounting 
factors; and
    7. The value of any privately held mineral or surface estate in the 
Foidel Creek Mine area.
    Before including your address, phone number, email address, or 
other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be 
aware that your entire comment--including your personal identifying 
information--may be made publicly available. While you can ask us in 
your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from 
public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.

    Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 43 CFR 3425.3 and 3425.4.

Gregory P. Shoop,
Acting BLM Colorado State Director.
[FR Doc. 2018-24272 Filed 11-5-18; 8:45 am]
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