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of active mining and concurrent 

reclamation and an additional five years 

for ore processing and final reclamation. 

The Draft EIS addresses 

environmental issues identified by the 

BLM and other Federal and state 

agencies, as well as comments made 

during the public scoping period in 

2006. A range of action alternatives have 

been developed and analyzed to address 

the concerns and issues that were 

identified. The Draft EIS analyzes the 

environmental effects of the proposed 

action and alternatives, including the 

No Action Alternative. 

The alternatives include processing 

all Gold Hill ore in the Gold Hill area 

rather than trucking some ore to Round 

Mountain for processing (Gold Hill area 

processing alternative); constructing an 

overpass rather than a grade crossing at 

the intersection of the transportation 

and utility corridor and County Road 

875 (County Road Overpass Alternative) 

and completing mining at Round 

Mountain under current BLM 

authorizations (No Action Alternative). 

Other alternatives considered, and the 

rationale for their elimination from 

detailed analysis, are also discussed. 

Mitigation measures have been 

identified, as needed, to minimize 

potential environmental impacts. The 

Draft EIS includes an analysis of 

cumulative impacts to all resources and 

land uses, including an evaluation of 

potential impacts to Native American 

traditional values. Please note that 

public comments and information 

submitted including names, street 

addresses, and e-mail addresses of 

respondents will be made available for 

public review and disclosure at the 

above address during regular business 

hours (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.), Monday 

through Friday, except holidays. 

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 identification 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. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 43 CFR 3809. 

Thomas J. Seley, 

Manager, Tonopah Field Office. 

[FR Doc. E9–18265 Filed 7–30–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–HC–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[CO–840–1610–DQ] 

Notice of Availability of Canyons of the 

Ancients National Monument Proposed 

Resource Management Plan and Final 

Environmental Impact Statement, 

Colorado 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 and the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976, the Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM) has prepared 

a Proposed Resource Management Plan/ 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

(PRMP/FEIS) for the Canyons of the 

Ancients National Monument. 

DATES: The BLM planning regulations 

(43 CFR 1610.5–2) state that any person 

who meets the conditions as described 

in the regulations may protest the BLM’s 

Proposed RMP. A person who meets the 

conditions and files a protest must file 

the protest within 30 days of the date 

that the Environmental Protection 

Agency publishes its notice in the 

Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the Canyons of 

the Ancients National Monument 

PRMP/FEIS have been sent to affected 

Federal, Tribal, state, and local 

government agencies and to interested 

parties. Copies of the PRMP/FEIS are 

available for public review at: 

• Anasazi Heritage Center, 27501 

Highway 184, Dolores, CO 81323 

• Dolores Public Lands Center, 29211 

Highway 184, Dolores, CO 81323 

• San Juan Public Lands Center, 15 

Burnett Court, Durango, CO 81301 

• Dolores Public Library, 420 

Railroad Ave., Dolores, CO 81323 

• Cortez Public Library, 202 N. Park, 

Cortez, CO 81321 

• Mancos Public Library, 111 N. 

Main, Mancos, CO 81328 

• Dolores County Extension Office, 

409 N. Main, Dove Creek, CO 81324 

• Durango Public Library, 1188 E. 

2nd Ave., Durango, CO 81301 

Interested persons may also review 

the PRMP/FEIS on the Internet at http:// 

www.blm.gov/rmp/canm/. All protests 

must be in writing and mailed to the 

following addresses: 

Regular Mail: Director (210), 

Attention: Brenda Williams, P.O. Box 

66538, Washington, DC 20035. 

Overnight Mail: Director (210), 

Attention: Brenda Williams, 1620 L 

Street, NW., Suite 1075, Washington, 

DC 20036. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Heather Musclow, Monument Planner, 

Canyons of the Ancients National 

Monument, 27501 Highway 184, 

Dolores, CO 81323; Phone: (970) 882– 

5632. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

planning area is located in southwest 

Colorado in Dolores and Montezuma 

Counties. The plan provides a 

framework to guide subsequent 

management decisions on 

approximately 166,000 acres managed 

by the BLM. Within the Monument 

boundary, there are approximately 400 

acres of National Park Service lands 

(Hovenweep National Monument) and 

17,560 acres of private inholdings. The 

Canyons of the Ancients National 

Monument is currently being managed 

under the BLM 1985 San Juan/San 

Miguel RMP and the Interim Guidance 

provided after the National Monument 

was established. The PRMP/FEIS will 

provide the management direction for 

the areas within the National Monument 

under BLM management. 

Comments on the Draft RMP/EIS 

received from the public and the 

internal BLM review were considered 

and incorporated as appropriate into the 

proposed plan. Public comments 

resulted in the addition of clarifying 

text, but did not significantly change the 

proposed land use plan decisions. 

Instructions for filing a protest with 

the Director of the BLM regarding the 

Proposed PRMP/FEIS may be found in 

the Dear Reader Letter of the Canyons of 

the Ancients National Monument 

PRMP/FEIS and at 43 CFR 1610.5–2. Email and faxed protests will not be 

accepted as valid protests unless the 

protesting party also provides the 

original letter by either regular or 

overnight mail postmarked by the close 

of the protest period. Under these 

conditions, the BLM will consider the email or faxed protest as an advance copy 

of the protest and it will receive full 

consideration. If you wish to provide 

the BLM with such advance 

notification, please fax protests to the 

attention of the BLM protest coordinator 

at 202–452–5112, and e-mails to Brenda 

Hudgens-Williams@blm.gov. 

All protests, including the follow-up 

letter (if e-mailing or faxing) must be in 

writing and mailed to the appropriate 

address, as set forth in the ADDRESSES

section above. 

Before including your phone number, 

e-mail address, or other personal 

identifying information in your protest, 

you should be aware that your entire 

protest—including your personal 

identifying information—may be made 

publicly available at any time. While 


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you can ask us in your protest to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Sally Wisely, 

Colorado State Director. 

[FR Doc. E9–18233 Filed 7–30–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLUT–92000–09–L13200000–EL0000–24– 

1A00, UTU86038] 

Notice of Federal Competitive Coal 

Lease Sale, Utah 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Competitive Coal 

Lease Sale, Miller Canyon Tract, Coal 

Lease Application UTU–86038. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the United States Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Land Management 

(BLM) Utah State Office will offer 

certain coal resources described below 

as the Miller Canyon Tract (UTU– 

86038) in Emery County, Utah, for 

competitive sale by sealed bid, in 

accordance with the provisions for 

competitive lease sale notices in 43 CFR 

3422.2(a), and the Mineral Leasing Act 

of 1920, as amended and supplemented 

(30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.). 

DATES: The lease sale will be held at 1 

p.m., Thursday, September 3, 2009. The 

sealed 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 10 a.m., Thursday, September 3, 

2009. 

The BLM 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 UTU–86038, and is not to be 

opened before the date and hour of the 

sale. 

ADDRESSES: The lease sale will be held 

in the Utah State Office, BLM, in the 

Monument Conference Room, Fifth 

Floor, 440 West 200 South, Salt Lake 

City, Utah. Sealed bids clearly marked 

‘‘Sealed Bid for UTU–86038—Not to be 

opened before 1 p.m., Thursday, 

September 3, 2009’’ can be hand 

delivered to the cashier, Utah State 

Office, 440 West 200 South, Suite 500, 

Salt Lake City, Utah, or may be mailed 

to the BLM, Utah State Office, P.O. Box 

45155, Salt Lake City, Utah 84145–0155. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stan 

Perkes, 440 West 200 South, Suite 500, 

Salt Lake City, Utah 84101–1345 or 

telephone 801–539–4036. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Coal 

Lease Sale is being held in response to 

a lease by application (LBA) submitted 

by Consolidation Coal Company to BLM 

on February 7, 2008. All coal LBAs 

submitted to BLM for processing on or 

after November 7, 2005, are subject to 

cost recovery on a case-by-case basis 

(See 43 CFR 3000.10(d)(1), 70 FR 58872, 

October 7, 2005). The cost recovery 

rules implemented for coal LBAs at 43 

CFR 3473.2(f) (70 FR 58876, October 7, 

2005) require the applicant who 

nominates a tract for a competitive lease 

sale to pay the processing fee on a caseby-case basis as described in 43 CFR 

3000.11 prior to publication of the sale 

notice. Consolidation Coal Company 

paid the BLM a processing fee in the 

amount of $20,130. The successful 

bidder must pay to BLM the cost 

recovery amount of all costs BLM incurs 

processing the coal lease sale and 

additionally must pay all processing 

costs that BLM incurs after the date of 

the sale notice leading to lease issuance 

(See 43 CFR 3473.2(f)). If the successful 

bidder is someone other than the 

applicant, BLM will refund to the 

applicant the processing fee specified in 

this sale notice. If there is no successful 

bidder, the applicant remains 

responsible for all processing fees. 

The coal resources to be offered 

consist of all recoverable reserves 

available in the following described 

lands located in Emery County, Utah, 

approximately three miles south of 

Emery, Utah, on private lands with 

federally-administered minerals: 

T. 22 S., R. 6 E., SLM, Emery County, Utah 

Sec. 23, S1⁄2SW1⁄4; 

Sec. 26, NW1⁄4NW1⁄4. 

Containing approximately 120.00 acres in 

Emery County, Utah. 

The Miller Canyon coal tract has one 

minable coal bed, known as the ‘‘I’’ coal 

bed. The minable portions of the ‘‘I’’ 

coal bed in this area are around 12 feet 

in thickness. The ‘‘I’’ coal bed, within 

the tract, contains approximately 

561,000 tons of recoverable high-volatile 

B bituminous coal. The coal quality in 

the ‘‘I’’ coal bed on an ‘‘as received 

basis’’ is as follows: 12,179 Btu/lb., 6.07 

percent moisture, 8.37 percent ash, 

38.89 percent volatile matter, 47.24 

percent fixed carbon, and 1.08 percent 

sulfur. The Department of the Interior 

has established a minimum bid of $100 

per acre, or fraction thereof. The 

minimum bid is not intended to 

represent fair market value (FMV). The 

Miller Canyon Tract may be leased to 

the qualified bidder of the highest cash 

amount, provided that the high bid 

equals or exceeds the FMV for the tract 

as determined by the authorized officer 

after the sale. 

The BLM held a public hearing and 

requested comments on the 

Environmental Assessment (EA) and the 

FMV of the Miller Canyon Tract on 

January 21, 2009. The BLM prepared the 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI), Decision Record (DR)/Decision 

Notice (DN). The BLM signed the 

FONSI/DR March 2, 2009. No appeals of 

the BLM decision to lease were filed 

during the appeal period that ended on 

April 3, 2009. 

The lease that may be issued as a 

result of this offering will provide for 

payment of an annual rental of $3 per 

acre, a royalty rate of 12.5 percent of the 

value of coal mined by surface methods, 

and a royalty of 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. 

The required Detailed Statement for 

the offered tract, including bidding 

instructions and sales procedures under 

43 CFR 3422.3–2, and the terms and 

conditions of the proposed coal lease, is 

available from BLM, Utah State Office, 

P.O. Box 45155, Salt Lake City, Utah 

84145–0155 or in the Public Room 

(Room 500), 440 West 200 South, Salt 

Lake City, Utah 84101. All case file 

documents and written comments 

submitted by the public on Fair Market 

Value or royalty rates, except those 

portions identified as proprietary by the 

commentator and meeting exemptions 

stated in the Freedom of Information 

Act, are available for public inspection 

during normal business hours in the 

BLM Public Room (Room 500). 

Approved: May 22, 2009. 

Selma Sierra, 

State Director. 

[FR Doc. E9–18307 Filed 7–30–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–DQ–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLWY–957400–09–L14200000–BJ0000– 

TRST] 

Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey, 

Wyoming 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Filing of Plats of 

Survey, Wyoming. 


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