11258 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 40 / Tuesday, March 1, 2011 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R1–ES–2010–N287; 10120–1113– 

0000–F5] 

Endangered Plants; Receipt of 

Application for Enhancement of 

Survival Permit 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of a permit 

application; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

requirements of the Endangered Species 

Act of 1973, as amended (Act), we, the 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), 

invite the public to comment on an 

application for a permit to conduct 

enhancement of survival activities with 

an endangered species. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, please 

send your written comments by March 

31, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Program Manager, 

Endangered Species, Ecological 

Services, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

911 NE. 11th Avenue, Portland, OR 

97232–4181. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Linda Belluomini, Fish and Wildlife 

Biologist, at the above address or by 

telephone (503–231–6131) or fax (503– 

231–6243). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

following applicant has applied for a 

recovery permit to conduct certain 

activities with endangered species 

under section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Act (16 

U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). We are soliciting 

review of and comments on this 

application by local, State, and Federal 

agencies and the public. 

Permit No. TE–30445A 

Applicant: Benjamin Blonder, 

Tucson, Arizona. 

The applicant requests a permit to 

remove/reduce to possession 

Argyroxiphium kauense (Mauna Loa 

silversword) at Hawaii Volcanoes 

National Park, Hawaii Island, Hawaii, in 

conjunction with scientific studies for 

the purpose of enhancing its survival. 

Public Comments 

We are soliciting public review and 

comment on this recovery permit 

application. Submit written comments 

to the Program Manager, Endangered 

Species (see address above). Before 

including your address, phone number, 

e-mail address, or other personal 

identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Please refer to the permit number for 

the application when submitting 

comments. All comments and materials 

we receive in response to this request 

will be available for public inspection, 

by appointment, during normal business 

hours at the above address. 

Dated: January 11, 2011. 

Richard R. Hannan, 

Regional Director, Region 1, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4521 Filed 2–28–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Indian Gaming 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Tribal—State Class III 

Gaming Compact taking effect. 

SUMMARY: Notice is given that the 

Tribal-State Compact for Regulation of 

Class III Gaming between the 

Confederated Tribes of the Warm 

Springs Reservation of Oregon and the 

State of Oregon is considered to have 

been approved and is in effect. 

DATES: Effective Date: March 1, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Paula L. Hart, Director, Office of Indian 

Gaming, Office of the Deputy Assistant 

Secretary—Policy and Economic 

Development, Washington, DC 20240, 

(202) 219–4066. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under 

Section 11 of the Indian Gaming 

Regulatory Act of 1988 (IGRA) Public 

Law 100–497, 25 U.S.C. 2710, the 

Secretary of the Interior shall publish in 

the Federal Register notice of any 

compact that is approved, or considered 

to have been approved, for the purpose 

of engaging in Class III gaming activities 

on Indian lands. The compact 

authorizes up to 2,000 video lottery 

terminals, up to 70 table games, and 

establishes the Oregon Benefit Fund to 

receive payments from the Confederated 

Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation 

based upon certain percentages of net 

win. The gaming facility authorized by 

this Compact shall be located on certain 

lands in Cascade Locks, Oregon, but 

only if all of the following occur: (1) The 

Cascade Locks lands are acquired in 

trust by the Secretary for the tribe; and 

(2) the Secretary issues a favorable ‘‘twopart determination,’’ under Section 20 of 

IGRA, 25 U.S.C. 2719(b)(1)(A), finding 

that gaming on the Cascade Locks lands 

is in the best interest of the tribe and not 

detrimental to the surrounding 

community; and (3) the Governor of the 

State of Oregon concurs with the 

Secretary’s two-part determination 

within 180 days of receiving the 

Secretary’s request for his concurrence. 

See 25 CFR 292.23. The Assistant 

Secretary—Indian Affairs, Department 

of the Interior, through his delegated 

authority, did not approve or 

disapprove the compact within 45 days 

after the date the compact was received. 

Therefore, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

2710(d)(7)(C), the compact is considered 

to have been approved, but only to the 

extent it is consistent with IGRA. 

Dated: February 17, 2011. 

Donald Laverdure, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—Indian 

Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4522 Filed 2–28–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–4N–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLWY922000–L13200000–EL0000; 

WYW163340] 

Notice of Competitive Coal Lease Sale, 

Wyoming 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Competitive Coal 

Lease Sale. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

certain coal resources in the West 

Antelope II North Coal Tract described 

below in Campbell County, Wyoming, 

will be offered for competitive lease by 

sealed bid in accordance with the 

provisions of the Mineral Leasing Act of 

1920, as amended. 

DATES: The lease sale will be held at 

10 a.m., on Wednesday, May 11, 2011. 

Sealed bids must be submitted on or 

before 4 p.m., on Tuesday, May 10, 

2011. 

ADDRESSES: The lease sale will be held 

in the First Floor Conference Room 

(Room 107), of the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) Wyoming State 

Office, 5353 Yellowstone Road, P.O. 

Box 1828, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003. 

Sealed bids must be submitted to the 

Cashier, BLM Wyoming State Office, at 

the address given above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mavis Love, Land Law Examiner, or 

Tyson Sackett, Acting Coal Coordinator, 


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at 307–775–6258, and 307–775–6487, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This coal 

lease sale is being held in response to 

a lease by application (LBA) filed by 

Antelope Coal LLC, Gillette, Wyoming. 

The coal resource to be offered consists 

of all reserves recoverable by surface 

mining methods in the following 

described lands located north of the 

Campbell/Converse county line 

approximately 2–5 miles east of State 

Highway 59 and adjacent to the western 

and northern lease boundary of the 

Antelope Mine. 

T. 41 N., R. 71 W., 6th Principal Meridian, 

Sec. 9, lots 9 through 16 inclusive; 

Sec. 10, lots 11 through 16 inclusive; 

Sec. 11, lot 13; 

Sec. 14, lots 3 and 4; 

Sec. 15, lots 1 through 5 inclusive, and lots 

12 and 13; 

Sec. 20, lots 14 through 16 inclusive; 

Sec. 21, lots 1 through 16 inclusive; 

Sec. 22, lots 2, 7, 8, and lots 14 through 

16 inclusive; 

Sec. 27, lots 6 through 11 inclusive; 

Sec. 28, lots 1 through 8 inclusive; and 

Sec. 29, lots 1 through 3 inclusive, and lots 

6 through 8 inclusive. 

Containing 2,837.63 acres, more or less in 

Campbell County, Wyoming. 

The tract is adjacent to Federal leases 

to the east and south and surrounds a 

State of Wyoming lease, all controlled 

by the Antelope Mine. It is adjacent to 

additional unleased Federal coal to the 

west and north. 

All of the acreage offered has been 

determined to be suitable for mining 

except for the mainline railroad right-ofway in the far northeast portion of the 

tract. Features such as utilities and 

pipelines can be moved to permit coal 

recovery. A possible alluvial valley floor 

crosses the tract along Horse Creek, but 

is unlikely to be significant for farming 

and so will be available for mining with 

appropriate reclamation. In addition, 

numerous producing coal bed natural 

gas wells have been drilled on the LBA 

tract. The estimate of the bonus value of 

the coal lease will include consideration 

of the future production from these 

wells. An economic analysis of the 

future income stream from coal mining 

will consider reasonable compensation 

for lost production of coal bed natural 

gas when the wells are bought out by 

the coal lessee. Mining will eliminate 

the gas reservoir. The surface estate of 

the tract is owned by Antelope Coal 

Company or private individuals and 

other entities. 

The tract contains surface mineable 

coal reserves in the Wyodak-Anderson 

coal zone currently being recovered in 

the adjacent, existing mine. On the LBA 

tract, there are generally two recoverable 

seams, the shallower Anderson and the 

deeper Canyon. On the LBA tract, both 

seams are generally continuous 

although a thin split off the bottom of 

the Anderson occasionally occurs. This 

split can usually be recovered with the 

main Anderson seam. The Anderson 

seam varies from 35 to 42 feet thick 

while the Canyon seam varies from 32 

to 36 feet thick. The interburden varies 

significantly and can be as thin as 12 

feet to as thick as 95 feet but is usually 

in the 65 to 75 foot thick range. 

Overburden depths to the Anderson 

seam range from about 250 to 440 feet 

thick on the LBA tract. 

The tract contains an estimated 

350,263,000 tons of mineable coal. This 

estimate of mineable reserves includes 

both of the main seams and the thin 

split mentioned above, but does not 

include any tonnage from localized 

seams or splits where the coal is less 

than 5 feet thick. It does not include the 

coal in the State of Wyoming coal lease, 

although these reserves are expected to 

be recovered in conjunction with the 

LBA tract. It also excludes coal within 

and along the railroad right-of-way since 

this coal cannot be recovered using 

typical mining practices. The total 

mineable stripping ratio of the coal in 

bank cubic yards per ton is 

approximately 4.6:1. Potential bidders 

for the LBA tract should consider the 

recovery rate expected from thick seam 

and multiple seam mining. The West 

Antelope II North LBA coal is ranked as 

subbituminous C. The overall average 

quality on an as-received basis is 8,967 

British Thermal Units per pound 

containing approximately 0.23 percent 

sulfur. The average quality of these coal 

reserves are equal to some of the best 

quality coal currently being mined in 

the Wyoming portion of the Powder 

River Basin. 

The tract in this lease offering 

contains split estate lands. There are 

qualified surface owners as defined in 

the regulations at 43 CFR 3400.0–5. 

Consent granted by the qualified surface 

owners has been filed with and verified 

by the BLM. The LBA tract lands 

included in the consent documents are: 

T. 41 N., R. 71 W., 6th P.M., 

Sec. 9, lots 9 through 16 inclusive; 

Sec. 10, lots 11 through 16 inclusive; 

Sec. 14, lots 3 and 4; 

Sec. 15, lots 1 through 4 inclusive; and 

Sec. 21, lots 1through 8 inclusive. 

Containing 1147.43 acres, more or less, in 

Campbell County, Wyoming. 

The purchase price of the consent is 

$10,097,500. 

The tract will be leased to the 

qualified bidder of the highest cash 

amount provided that the high bid 

meets or exceeds the BLM’s estimate of 

the fair market value of the tract. The 

minimum bid for the tract is $100 per 

acre or fraction thereof. No bid that is 

less than $100 per acre, or fraction 

thereof, will be considered. The bids 

should be sent by certified mail, return 

receipt requested, or be hand delivered. 

The BLM Wyoming State Office Cashier 

will issue a receipt for each handdelivered bid. Bids received after 4 p.m. 

local time, on Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 

will not be considered. The minimum 

bid is not intended to represent fair 

market value. The fair market value of 

the tract will be determined by the 

Authorized Officer after the sale. The 

lease issued as a result of this offering 

will provide for payment of an annual 

rental of $3.00 per acre, or fraction 

thereof, and a royalty payment to the 

United States of 12.5 percent of the 

value of coal produced by surface 

mining methods and 8 percent of the 

value of the coal produced by 

underground mining methods. The 

value of the coal will be determined in 

accordance with 30 CFR 206.250. 

Bidding instructions for the LBA tract 

offered and the terms and conditions of 

the proposed coal lease are available 

from the BLM Wyoming State Office at 

the address above. Case file documents, 

WYW163340, are available for 

inspection at the BLM Wyoming State 

Office. 

Donald A. Simpson, 

State Director. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4364 Filed 2–28–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLIDI02000.L71220000.EO0000. 

LVTFD0977370] 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Proposed Rasmussen Valley Mine 

and Reclamation Plan, Caribou 

County, ID 

AGENCIES: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. U.S. Forest Service, 

Agriculture. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976, and the 

Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as 

amended, notice is hereby given that the 


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