[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 236 (Friday, December 6, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64756-64757]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-31045]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[UTU-73975]


Notice of Coal Lease Offering by Sealed Bid

    U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Utah 
State Office, P.O. Box 45155, Salt Lake City, Utah 84145-0155. Notice 
is hereby given that at 1:00 p.m., December 18, 1996, 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

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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.
    This lease is being offered for sale under the provisions set forth 
in the regulations for Leasing on Application at 43 CFR 3425.
    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 December 18, 1996. At that time, the sealed bids 
will be opened and read. No bids received after 10:00 a.m., December 
18, 1996, will be considered.

Coal Offered

    The coal resource to be offered consists of all coal recoverable in 
the following lands located in Carbon County, Utah, approximately 10 
miles north of Price, Utah:

T. 12 S., R. 9 E., SLM, Utah
    Sec. 25, lots 1-4, W2E2, W2 (all);
    Sec. 26, E2E2.
T. 12 S., R. 10 E., SLM, Utah
    Sec. 28, E2, E2W2, SWNW, W2SW;
    Sec. 29, N2N2, S2NW, NWSW, E2SE;
    Sec. 30, lots 1-4, NE, E2W2, N2SE, SWSE.

Containing 2,299.40 acres

    Three economically recoverable coal beds, the C Seam, Kenilworth, 
and D Seams are found in this tract. The seams are all greater than 6 
feet in thickness. This tract contains an estimated 22.1 million tons 
of recoverable high volatile B bituminous coal.
    The estimated coal quality using weighted average of samples on an 
as-received basis is:
    12,776-12,889 BTU/lb.; 2.88-3.78 Percent Moisture; .53-.57 Percent 
sulphur; 7.03-8.07 Percent ash; 47.02-48.48 Percent fixed carbon; 
40.36-42.03 Percent volatile matter.

(Totals do not equal 100% due to rounding)

Rental and Royalty

    A lease issued as a result of this offering will provide for 
payment of an annual rental of $3.00 per acre or fraction thereof 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 BLM Manual 3070.

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, P.O. Box 45155, Salt Lake City, Utah 84145-0155 or in the 
Public Room (room 400), 324 South State Street, Suite 301, Salt Lake 
City, Utah 84111-2303. 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.
Douglas M. Koza,
Deputy State Director, Natural Resources.
[FR Doc. 96-31045 Filed 12-5-96; 8:45 am]
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