[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 84 (Tuesday, April 30, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19081-19082]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-10578]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[UT-930-00-1320-00; (UTU-67939)]


Notice of Coal Lease Offering By Sealed Bid

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 lands 
hereinafter described in Carbon County, Utah, will be offered for 
competitive lease by sealed bid of $100.00 per acre or more to the 
qualified bidder submitting the highest bonus bid in accordance with 
the provisions of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as amended (41 Stat. 
437). However, no bid will be accepted for less than fair market value 
as determined by the authorized officer. A company or individual is 
limited to one sealed bid. If a company or individual submits two or 
more sealed bids for this tract, all of the company's or individual's 
bids will be rejected.

DATES: The lease sale will be held in the Bureau of Land Management 
Conference Room, 324 South State Street, Suite 302, Salt Lake City, 
Utah, at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 30, 1996. At that time, the sealed 
bids will be opened and read. No bids received after 10:00 a.m., 
Thursday, May 30, 1996, will be considered.

COAL OFFERED: The coal resources to be offered consist of all 
recoverable reserves available in the following described lands located 
in Carbon County, Utah, approximately 3 miles west of Scofield, Utah, 
within the Manti-LaSal National Forest and are described as follows:

T. 12 S., R. 6E., SLM, UT
    Sec. 26, S2SE, SESW;
    Sec. 34, lots 1-4, S2NE, SENW, E2SWNW, N2S2;
    Sec. 35, all.
T. 13 S., R. 6 E., SLM, UT
    Sec. 2, all;
    Sec. 3, all;
    Sec. 10, lots 1 , 2, NE, E2NW;
    Sec. 11, N2, N2S2.

    Containing 3,291.00 Acres

    Two economically recoverable coal beds, the Lower O'Conner and 
Upper O'Conner, are found in this tract. The Lower O'Conner seam 
averages 9.1 feet in thickness and the Upper O'Conner seam averages 6.3 
feet in thickness. This tract contains an estimated 24.1 million tons 
of recoverable high volatile C bituminous coal. The estimated coal 
quality using weighted average of samples on an as-received basis is:

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                                                     Lower       Upper  
                                                   O'Conner    O'Conner 
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BTU/lb..........................................   12,756      12,627   
Percent moisture................................        5.95        7.5 
Percent sulphur.................................         .44         .53
Percent ash.....................................        4.63        4.02
Percent fixed carbon............................       44.69       45.81
Percent volatile matter.........................       44.73       42.68
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RENTAL AND ROYALTY: A lease issued as a result of this offering will 
provide for payment of an annual rate of $3.00 per acre and a royalty 
payable to the United States of 12.5 percent of the value of coal mined 
by surface methods, and 8 percent of the value of coal mined by 
underground methods. The value of coal shall be determined in 
accordance with 30 CFR 203.200.

NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY: Bidding instructions are included in the 
Detailed Statement of Lease Sale. A copy of the detailed statement and 
the proposed coal lease are available by mail at the Bureau of Land 
Management, Utah State Office, 324 South State Street, Suite 301, Salt 
Lake City, Utah 84111-2303 or in the Public Room (Room 400). All case 
file documents and written comments submitted by the public on Fair 
Market Value or royalty rates, except those portions identified as 
proprietary by the commentator and meeting exemptions stated in the 
Freedom of Information Act, are available for public inspection in the 
Public Room (Room 400) of the Bureau of Land Management.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The unleased coal in this tract is included 
in the Utah Schools and Lands Improvement Act of 1993 (Public Law 103-
93) as a Federal interest which the State of Utah may select to satisfy 
the value of the exchange of State for Federal lands authorized in the 
Act. In accordance with the Act, the Federal interest, i.e., the 
unleased coal, in this tract was offered to the State or Utah on 
October 20, 1993. Consummation of the exchange under the Act may, in 
the future, allow for the State of Utah to succeed to some or all of 
the United States interest in this tract.
Douglas M. Koza,
Acting State Director.
[FR Doc. 96-10578 Filed 4-29-96; 8:45 am]
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