64398 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 234 / Friday, December 5, 1997 / Notices

ACTION: Notice of Availability of an

Environmental Assessment for a

Planning Review of the Carbon Basin

Area, Carbon County, Wyoming, and

Potential Federal Coal Planning

Decisions for the area.

SUMMARY: The Carbon Basin planning

review area is located approximately 40

miles east of the town of Rawlins and

12 miles southeast of the town of

Hanna, all located in Carbon County,

Wyoming. The planning review is being

conducted because an application to

lease Federal coal in the Carbon Basin

area has been submitted and Federal

coal planning decisions were not made

for the area during development of the

Great Divide Resource Management

Plan (RMP).

DATES: The 45 day comment/review

period for the environmental assessment

will begin the day following the

publication of this notice.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be

addressed in writing to the Great Divide

Resource Area, Bureau of Land

Management, Attn: Karla Swanson, Area

Manager, 1300 North Third Street,

Rawlins, Wyoming 82301.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Interested parties may direct questions

or concerns to obtain further

information from Brenda VosikaNeuman or John Spehar, who can be

visited at the above address or reached

by telephone: 307–328–4200.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Ark Land

Company, St. Louis, Missouri, has filed

an application with the Bureau of Land

Management (BLM) to obtain a coal

lease on approximately 4,145 acres of

Federal coal lands located in the Carbon

Basin area. Ark Land Company, through

its affiliate, Arch of Wyoming, Inc.,

(Arch) has conducted coal mining

operations in the Hanna Basin Region of

Carbon County since 1972. The

depletion of recoverable coal reserves in

the Hanna Basin has led Arch to

identify additional (local) coal resources

in the Carbon Basin area that could

utilize the existing infrastructure and

meet existing contracts and/or long-term

commitments. The Carbon Basin area is

in close proximity to the Hanna Basin

coal fields and provides a logical

continuation of the Hanna Basin mining

operations.

In 1982, a Federal coal lease was

issued for approximately 60 percent of

the Federal coal lands located in the

Carbon Basin. Because this lease was

still in effect at the time the current

BLM land use plan (the Great Divide

Resource Management Plan RMP–1990)

covering the Carbon Basin area was

prepared, it was exempt from the coal

screening/planning requirements.

However, development of this lease was

never pursued and the lease expired in

1992. Also, at the time the Great Divide

RMP was prepared, there was no other

interest expressed by industry in

obtaining Federal coal leases in the area.

As a result of these two factors, the coal

screening/planning process was not

conducted on the area and there were

no coal planning decisions for any of

the Federal coal lands in the Carbon

Basin area included in the Great Divide

RMP.

The Federal Coal Leasing

Amendments Act of 1976 requires that

Federal coal lands must first be

identified in a comprehensive land use

plan before they can be considered for

leasing. Because no coal planning

decisions were made for the Carbon

Basin coal area in the Great Divide RMP,

a planning review, which includes

conducting the coal screening/planning

process and an environmental analysis,

must be completed and documented

before the BLM can consider leasing

Federal coal in the Carbon Basin. The

Ark Land Company coal lease

application, or any future applications

to lease coal in the Carbon Basin, cannot

be given consideration until a planning

review is conducted on the Federal coal

lands involved and a determination is

made that some or all of the lands are

open to consideration for coal leasing

and development.

Dated: November 26, 1997.

Alan L. Kesterke,

Associate State Director.

[FR Doc. 97–31909 Filed 12–4–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CO–010–07–1020–00–241A]

Northwest Colorado Resource

Advisory Council Meeting

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The next meeting of the

Northwest Colorado Resource Advisory

Council will be held on Friday, January

9, 1998, in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

DATE: Friday, January 9, 1998.

ADDRESSES: For further information,

contact Joann Graham, Bureau of Land

Management (BLM), Grand Junction

District Office, 2815 H Road, Grand

Junction, Colorado 81506; telephone

(970) 244–3037.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

meeting will be held at the Garfield

County Courthouse, 109 8th Street,

Room 301, Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

Agenda items include subcommittee

reports and status of the roadless

inventory review.

All resource advisory council

meetings are open to the public.

Interested persons may make oral

statements at the meetings or submit

written statements following the

meetings. Per-person time limits for oral

statements may be set to allow all

interested persons an opportunity to

speak.

Summary minutes of council

meetings are maintained in both the

Grand Junction and Craig District

Offices. They are available for public

inspection and reproduction during

regular business hours within thirty (30)

days following the meeting.

Dated: November 24, 1997.

Mark T. Morse,

District Manager, Craig and Grand Junction

Districts.

[FR Doc. 97–31851 Filed 12–4–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[OR–014–08–3110–00–H040, GP8–0049]

Notice of Direct Sale of Public Lands

in Klamath County, Oregon—

Correction

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Correction.

SUMMARY: In the Notice of Direct Sale of

Public Lands in Klamath County,

Oregon beginning on page 53019 in the

issue of Friday, October 10, 1997

Volume 62, Number 197 make the

following correction:

On page 53019 in the third column,

the first sentence in paragraph one of

the Summary lists the appraised fair

market value as $645,000.00. The

appraised fair market value should be

changed to $625,400.00.

Dated: November 25, 1997.

A. Barron Bail,

Area Manager, Klamath Falls Resource Area.

[FR Doc. 97–31850 Filed 12–4–97; 8:45 am]

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