[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 53 (Friday, March 19, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 13596]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-6732]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management
[UTU-76195]


Notice of Coal Lease Offering by Sealed Bid; The Pines Tract

    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 11:00 a.m., April 15, 1999, certain coal 
resources in lands hereinafter described in Sevier and Emery Counties, 
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.
    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 11:00 a.m. on April 15, 1999. At that time, the sealed bids 
will be opened and read. No bids received after 10:00 a.m., April 15, 
1999, will be considered.

Coal Offered

    The coal resources to be offered consist of all recoverable 
reserves available in the following described lands located in Sevier 
and Emery Counties, Utah, approximately 5 miles northwest of Emery, 
Utah on public land located in the Manti-LaSal National Forest:

T. 20 S., R. 5E., SLM, Utah
    Sec. 35, S2NE, SENW, NESW, S2SW, SE;
    Sec. 36, W2SW, SESW.
T. 21 S., R. 5E., SLM, Utah
    Sec. 1, lots 3, 4, S2SW, SWSE;
    Sec. 2, lots 1-4, S2S2;
    Sec. 10, E2;
    Sec. 11 through 14, all inclusive;
    Sec. 15 E2;
    Sec. 22, E2;
    Sec. 23 and 24, all inclusive;
    Sec. 25 N2, N2S2;
    Sec. 26, N2, NESW, E2NWSW, SE.
T. 21 S., R. 6E., SLM, Utah
    Sec. 19, lots 3, 4, E2SW;
    Sec. 30, lots 1-3, E2NW, NESW.

    Containing 7,171.66 acres.

    The tract has one potentially minable coal seam, the Upper 
Hiawatha. The minable portions of the seam in this area are from 6 to 
14 feet in thickness. This tract contains an estimated 60 million tons 
of recoverable high volatile C bituminous coal.
    The estimated coal quality using averages of core samples on an as-
received basis is:


11,539...........................  BTU/lb.;
8.37.............................  Percent moisture:
0.5..............................  Percent sulphur;
8.78.............................  Percent ash;
45.98............................  Percent fixed carbon;
36.87............................  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 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, Salt Lake City, Utah 
84111. 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. 99-6732 Filed 3-18-99; 8:45 am]
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