[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 36 (Friday, February 22, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9824-9825]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-3322]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[UT-920-08-1320-EL, UTU-85867]


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 Ark Land Company 
on a pro rata cost sharing basis in its program for the exploration of 
coal deposits in certain Federal coal deposits owned by the United 
States of America in the following-described lands in Sevier County, 
Utah:

T. 21 S., R. 4 E., SLM, Utah
    Sec. 1, Lots 1-3, E\1/2\SW\1/4\, SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 11, E\1/2\E\1/2\;
    Sec. 12, N\1/2\, SW\1/4\, W\1/2\SE\1/4\;
    Sec. 13, W\1/2\NE\1/4\, NW\1/4\;
    Sec. 14, N\1/2\, W\1/2\SW\1/4\;
    Sec. 15, E\1/2\E\1/2\;
    Sec. 22, E\1/2\NE\1/4\;
    Sec. 23, W\1/2\NW\1/4\.

    Containing 2,095.80 acres.

    All of the coal in the above-described land consists of unleased 
Federal coal within the Uinta-Southwestern Utah Known Coal Region. This 
coal exploration license will be 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 fully described 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 
85867) in the public room of the BLM

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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 Mark Bunnell, Senior Geologist, Ark Land Company, c/
o Canyon Fuel Co., LLC, Skyline Mines, HC35, Box 380, Helper, Utah 
84526.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice of invitation to participate was 
published in The Richfield Reaper, once each week for two consecutive 
weeks beginning the fourth week of December, 2007 and in the Federal 
Register.
    Any person seeking to participate in this exploration program must 
send written notice to both the BLM and Ark Land Company, as provided 
in the ADDRESSES section above, no later than thirty days after 
publication of this invitation in the Federal Register.
    The foregoing is published in the Federal Register pursuant to 43 
CFR 3410.2-1(c)(1).

    Dated: February 15, 2008.
Kent Hoffman,
Deputy State Director, Lands and Minerals.
 [FR Doc. E8-3322 Filed 2-21-08; 8:45 am]
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