[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 160 (Thursday, August 20, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 42109]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-19954]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[LLUT920-09-L13200000-EL000, UTU-87084]


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: All interested parties 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 owned by the United States of America. 
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.

DATES: Any party electing to participate in this exploration program 
must send written notice to the Ark Land Company and the BLM, as 
provided in the ADDRESSES section below, which must be received by 
September 21, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the exploration plan and license (serialized under 
the number of UTU 87084) are available for review during normal 
business hours 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 
Mark Bunnell, Senior Geologist, Ark Land Company, c/o Canyon Fuel Co., 
LLC, Skyline Mines, HC35, Box 380, Helper, Utah 84526.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 parties 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 owned 
by the United States of America in the following-described lands in 
Carbon County, Utah:

T. 12 S., R. 6 E., SLM, Utah
    Sec. 26, lots 1-4, N\1/2\S\1/2\, SW\1/4\SW\1/4\.

    Containing 365.72 acres, more or less.

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. This notice of 
invitation to participate was published in The Sun Advocate, once each 
week for two consecutive weeks beginning February 17, 2009 and in the 
Federal Register.
    The foregoing is published in the Federal Register pursuant to 43 
CFR 3410.2-1(c)(1).

Selma Sierra,
State Director.
[FR Doc. E9-19954 Filed 8-19-09; 8:45 am]
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