[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 59 (Tuesday, March 28, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15473-15474]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-4415]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[ES-930-07-1320-241A; KYES 50213]


Kentucky: Notice of Federal Competitive Coal Lease Sale, Kentucky

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Competitive Coal Lease Sale (KYES-50213).

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the United States Department of 
the Interior, Bureau of Land Management-Eastern States (BLM-ES), will 
offer certain coal resources described below as the Blue Hole Federal 
Mineral Tract (KYES-50213) in Clay County, Kentucky, for competitive 
sale by sealed bid, in accordance with the provisions for competitive 
lease sales in 43 CFR part 3422, and the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, 
as amended and supplemented (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.), and the Mineral 
Leasing Act for Acquired Lands of 1947.

DATES: The lease sale will be held at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 11, 
2006. The bid must be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, 
or be hand delivered to the address indicated below, and must be 
received on or before 4:30 p.m., May 10, 2006. The Cashier will issue a 
receipt for each hand delivered sealed bid. Any bid received after the 
time specified will not be considered and will be returned. The outside 
of the sealed envelope containing the bid must clearly state that the 
envelope contains a bid for Coal Lease Sale KYES-50213, and is not to 
be opened before the date and hour of the sale.

ADDRESSES: The Lease sale will be held at BLM-ES, 7450 Boston 
Boulevard, Springfield, Virginia 22153. Sealed bids must be submitted 
to the Cashier, BLM-ES, at that address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Contact Timothy Best, BLM-ES, 7450 
Boston Boulevard, Springfield, Virginia 22153, telephone (703) 440-
1527.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Coal Lease Sale is being held in 
response to a lease by application (LBA) filed by Chas Coal LLC. The 
coal tracts to be offered are portions of 545b and 3094 Parcel 1 and 
Parcel 2 in the National Forest System, located on the upper end of the 
Left Fork of Blue Hole Creek in southern Clay County, Kentucky, on the 
Daniel Boone National Forest. The tracts encompass 314.53 acres and are 
delineated on a map in the Detailed Statement information. Both the 
surface and mineral estates are owned by the Federal government. The 
surface estate is managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The Blue Hole 
Federal Mineral Tract contains approximately 792,335 tons of 
recoverable coal which will be mined by underground methods in the 
Hazard #8 seam. The rank of the coal is High Volatile A 
Bituminous. The proximate analysis of the coal seam is as follows:

Hazard #8 seam estimated           792,335 tons.
 recoverable Federal coal.
Proximate Analysis (%):
  Moisture...............................  2.1200%
  Ash....................................  5.0300%
  Volatile...............................  38.5800%
  Fixed Carbon...........................  54.2600%
  Sulfur.................................  0.8700%
  Btu/lb.................................  14,033
 

    The Blue Hole Federal Mineral Tract will be leased to the qualified 
bidder of the highest cash amount, provided that the high bid equals or 
exceeds the Fair Market Value (FMV) for the tract as determined by the 
authorized officer after the Sale. The Department of the Interior has 
established a minimum bid of $100 per acre or fraction thereof for the 
tracts. The minimum bid is not intended to represent the FMV. The lease 
issued as a result of this offering will provide for payment of an 
annual rental of $3 per acre and a royalty of 8 percent of the value of 
the coal produced by underground mining

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methods. The value of the coal will be determined in accordance with 30 
CFR 206.250.
    The required Detailed Statement, including bidding instructions for 
the offered tracts and the terms and conditions of the proposed coal 
lease, is available from the BLM-ES at the address above. Case file 
documents for KYES 50213 are available for inspection during normal 
business hours only at the BLM-ES.

    Dated: February 21, 2006.
Terry B. Lewis,
Acting State Director, Eastern States.
[FR Doc. E6-4415 Filed 3-27-06; 8:45 am]
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