[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 51 (Thursday, March 16, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 13627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-2600]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[UT-920-06-1320-EL, UTU-84402]


Notice of Invitation to Participate In Coal Exploration License, 
Utah

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Invitation to Participate in Coal Exploration 
License.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 2(b) of the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, 
as amended by Section 4 of the Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 
1976, 90 Stat. 1083, 30 U.S.C. 201(b), and to the regulations adopted 
as 43 CFR part 3410, all interested qualified parties, as provided in 
43 CFR 3472.1, are hereby invited to participate with PacifiCorp on a 
pro rata cost sharing basis in its program for the exploration of coal 
deposits owned by the United States of America immediately west of the 
Deer Creek Mine state lease (ML-48258) in the Mill Fork West Area, in 
the following-described lands of Emery County, Utah:

T. 16 S., R. 6 E., SLM, Utah
    Sec. 15, E\1/2\SWSE;
    Sec. 22, Lot 3.

    Containing 53.57 acres.

    All of the coal in the above-described land consists of unleased 
Federal coal within the Uinta-Southwestern Utah Known Coal Production 
Area. This coal exploration license has been issued by the Bureau of 
Land Management. This exploration program will obtain coal data to 
supplement data from adjacent coal development. The exploration program 
is described in and is being conducted pursuant to an exploration plan 
approved by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The plan may be 
modified to accommodate the legitimate exploration needs of persons 
seeking to participate.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the exploration plan and license are available for 
review during normal business hours (serialized under the number of UTU 
84402) in the public room of the BLM State Office, 440 West 200 South, 
Suite 500, Salt Lake City, Utah. The written notice to participate in 
the exploration program should be sent to both the BLM, Utah State 
Office, P.O. Box 45155, Salt Lake City, Utah 84145, and to Scott Child, 
Manager Lands & Regulatory Affairs, PacificCorp, One Utah Center, 201 
South Main, Suite 2100, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111.

DATES: Any person seeking to participate in this exploration program 
must send written notice to both the BLM and PacifiCorp, as provided in 
the ADDRESSES section above, no later than April 13, 2006.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice of invitation to participate 
will be published in the Emery County Progress, once each week for two 
consecutive weeks beginning the second week of March, 2006 and in the 
Federal Register.
    The authority for this notice is 43 CFR 3410.2-1(c)(1).

    Dated: March 2, 2006.
Kent Hoffman,
Deputy State Director, Lands and Minerals.
[FR Doc. 06-2600 Filed 3-14-06; 2:40 pm]
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