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email at ak.blm.conveyance@blm.gov. 

Persons who use a Telecommunications 

Device for the Deaf (TDD) may call the 

Federal Information Relay Service 

(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to contact the 

BLM during normal business hours. In 

addition, the FIRS is available 24 hours 

a day, 7 days a week, to leave a message 

or question with the BLM. The BLM 

will reply during normal business 

hours. 

Dina L. Torres, 

Land Transfer Resolution Specialist, Branch 

of Land Transfer Adjudication II. 

[FR Doc. 2012–8613 Filed 4–10–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–JA–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLCO921000–L51100000–GA0000– 

LVEMC09CC005, COC–70615] 

Notice of Competitive Coal Lease Sale, 

Colorado 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

certain coal reserves in the Elk Creek 

East Tract described below in Gunnison 

County, Colorado, 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., May 15, 2012. The sealed bid must 

be submitted on or before 10 a.m., May 

15, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: The lease sale will be held 

in the Second Floor Conference Room of 

the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

Colorado State Office, 2850 Youngfield 

Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215. 

Sealed bids must be submitted to the 

Cashier, BLM Colorado State Office, at 

the address given above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kurt 

Barton, Land Law Examiner, at 303– 

239–3714, or kbarton@blm.gov. Persons 

who use a telecommunications device 

for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 

800–877–8339 to contact the above 

individual during normal business 

hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a 

day, 7 days a week, to leave a message 

or question with the above individual. 

You will receive a reply during normal 

business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This coal 

lease sale is being held in response to 

a lease by application (LBA) filed by 

Oxbow Mining, LLC. The Federal coal 

reserves to be offered consist of all D 

seam reserves recoverable by 

underground mining methods in the 

following described lands located in 

Gunnison County, Colorado: 

Sixth Principal Meridian 

T. 13 S. R. 90 W., 

Sec. 3, lots 8, 9, and 16; 

Sec. 4, lots 5 to 16, inclusive; 

Sec. 5, lots 12, 13, 20, and 24. 

Containing approximately 725.90 acres, 

more or less. 

The tract contains an estimated 3.96 

million tons of recoverable coal 

reserves. The underground minable coal 

is ranked as bituminous B coal. The 

estimated coal quality on an as-received 

basis for the seam is as follows: 

D SEAM: 

British Thermal Unit 

(BTU).

12,005 BTU/lb. 

Volatile Matter ................ 34.72% 

Moisture .......................... 7.47 

Fixed Carbon .................. 45.87 

Sulfur Content ................ 0.67 

Ash Content .................... 11.27 

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. The minimum 

bid is not intended to represent fair 

market value. The fair market value will 

be determined by the authorized officer 

after the sale. 

The sealed bids should be sent by 

certified mail, return-receipt requested, 

or be hand delivered to the Cashier, 

BLM Colorado State Office, at the 

address given above and clearly marked 

‘‘Sealed Bid for COC–70615 Coal Sale— 

Not to be opened before 10 a.m., May 

15, 2012.’’ The cashier will issue a 

receipt for each hand-delivered bid. 

Bids received after 10 a.m., May 15, 

2012, will not be considered. If identical 

high bids are received, the tying high 

bidders will be requested to submit 

follow-up sealed bids until a high bid is 

received. All tie-breaking sealed-bids 

must be submitted within 15 minutes 

following the sale official’s 

announcement at the sale that identical 

high bids have been received. 

Prior to lease issuance, the high 

bidder, if other than the applicant, must 

pay to the BLM the cost recovery fees in 

the amount of $10,347.10 in addition to 

all processing costs the BLM incurs after 

the date of this sale notice (43 CFR 

3473.2). 

A lease issued as a result of this 

offering will provide for payment of an 

annual rental of $3 per acre, or fraction 

thereof, and a royalty payable to the 

United States of 8 percent of the value 

of coal mined by underground methods. 

Bidding instructions for the LBA tract 

offered and the terms and conditions of 

the proposed coal lease are included in 

the Detailed Statement of Lease Sale and 

available from the BLM Colorado State 

Office at the address above. Case file 

documents, COC–70615, are available 

for inspection at the BLM Colorado 

State Office Public Room. 

Steven Hall, 

Acting State Director. 

[FR Doc. 2012–8686 Filed 4–10–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–JB–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLWY93000 L16100000.DU0000] 

Notice of Intent To Amend the 

Resource Management Plan for the 

Rawlins Field Office and Associated 

Environmental Assessment, Wyoming 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA), as amended, and the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976 (FLPMA), as amended, the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

Rawlins Field Office (RFO), Rawlins, 

Wyoming, intends to prepare a Resource 

Management Plan (RMP) amendment 

with an associated Environmental 

Assessment (EA) for the RFO and by 

this notice is announcing the beginning 

of the scoping process to solicit public 

comments and identify issues. 

DATES: This notice initiates the public 

scoping process for the RMP 

amendment with associated EA. 

Comments on issues may be submitted 

in writing until May 11, 2012. The dates 

and locations of any scoping meetings 

will be announced at least 15 days in 

advance through the local news media, 

newspapers, and the BLM Web site at: 

http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/programs/ 

Planning/rmps/rawlins.html. In order to 

be included in the analysis, all 

comments must be received prior to the 

close of the 30-day scoping period or 30 

days after the last public meeting, 

whichever is later. The BLM will 

provide additional opportunities for 

public participation, as appropriate. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on issues and planning criteria related 

to the Rawlins RMP Visual Resource 


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Management Amendment and Areas of 

Critical Environmental Concern 

Documentation/EA by any of the 

following methods: 

• Web site: http://www.blm.gov/wy/ 

st/en/programs/Planning/rmps/ 

rawlins.html. 

• Email: 

BLM_WY_RL_RMP_VRM@blm.gov. 

Please reference ‘‘Rawlins VRM 

Review’’ in the subject line. 

• Fax: 307–328–4224 

• Mail: Bureau of Land Management, 

Rawlins Field Office, 1300 North Third 

Street, P.O. Box 2407, Rawlins, 

Wyoming 82301–2407. 

All comments must include a legible 

full name and address on the envelope, 

letter, fax, postcard, or email. 

Documents pertinent to this proposal 

may be examined at the Rawlins Field 

Office, 1300 North Third Street, 

Rawlins, Wyoming. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Or 

to have your name added to our mailing 

list, contact John Spehar, Rawlins Field 

Office Plan Amendment Team Leader, 

telephone 307–328–4200; address, 

Bureau of Land Management, Rawlins 

Field Office, 1300 North Third Street, 

P.O. Box 2407, Rawlins, Wyoming 

82301–2407; email, jspehar@blm.gov. 

Persons who use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) may call the 

Federal Information Relay Service 

(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to contact the 

above individual during normal 

business hours. The FIRS is available 24 

hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a 

message or question with the above 

individual. You will receive a reply 

during normal business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document provides notice that the BLM 

RFO, Rawlins, Wyoming, intends to 

prepare an RMP amendment with an 

associated EA for the RFO, announces 

the beginning of the scoping process, 

and seeks public input on issues and 

planning criteria. The planning area is 

located in Albany, Carbon, Laramie and 

eastern Sweetwater counties, Wyoming, 

and encompasses approximately 3.5 

million acres of BLM-administered 

public land and 4.5 million acres of 

Federal sub-surface mineral estate. 

The BLM completed the Rawlins RMP 

revision in December 2008. However, 

the BLM’s resolution of two protest 

issues—one regarding visual resource 

management (VRM) and the other 

regarding Areas of Critical 

Environmental Concern (ACECs)— 

required the RFO to conduct additional 

planning. In response to the first issue, 

the RFO has updated the visual 

resources inventory within the planning 

area. The BLM will use this updated 

inventory as a baseline to consider, 

analyze, and designate VRM classes for 

BLM-administered lands in the 

planning area. 

This review will not include the 

decision area for the Chokecherry/Sierra 

Madre wind energy project, however, as 

a VRM amendment to the Rawlins RMP 

is being separately considered in the 

NEPA process associated with that 

project’s review. Second, the BLM 

received nominations for ACECs from 

the public that were not reviewed or 

considered during the RMP revision 

process. The BLM will use this planning 

process to review and consider these 

nominations for potential designation as 

ACECs. 

The purpose of the public scoping 

process is to determine relevant issues 

that will influence the scope of the 

environmental analysis, including 

alternatives, and guide the planning 

process. Preliminary issues for the plan 

amendment area have been identified by 

BLM personnel; Federal, State, and local 

agencies; and other stakeholders. The 

issues include: Energy development; 

special designations; resource 

accessibility; public land-urban 

interface; special status species; water 

quality; vegetation management; 

recreation, cultural resource, and 

paleontological resource management. 

Preliminary planning criteria include: 

• The RMP amendment will focus 

only on VRM class designations and 

review of previously submitted ACEC 

nominations; 

• The RMP amendment will comply 

with NEPA, FLPMA, and other 

applicable laws, executive orders, 

regulations and policy; 

• The RMP amendment will 

recognize valid existing rights; 

• Lands covered in the EA for the 

plan amendment include any/all lands 

that may affect, or be affected by, the 

management occurring on the BLMadministered public lands in the RFO. 

However, planning decisions in the 

RMP and the VRM-targeted amendment 

will apply only to the BLMadministered public lands and Federal 

mineral estate in the planning area; and 

• A collaborative and multijurisdictional approach will be used, 

where possible, to jointly determine the 

desired future condition and 

management direction for the public 

lands. To the extent possible and within 

legal and regulatory parameters, the 

BLM management and planning 

decisions will complement the planning 

and management decisions of other 

agencies, State and local governments, 

and Native American tribes, with 

jurisdictions intermingled with, and 

adjacent to, the planning area. 

You may submit comments on issues 

and planning criteria in writing to the 

BLM at any public scoping meeting, or 

you may submit them to the BLM using 

one of the methods listed in the 

ADDRESSES section above. To be most 

helpful, you should submit comments 

by the close of the 30-day scoping 

period or within 30 days of the last 

public meeting, whichever is later. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email 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 may 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. The minutes and list of attendees 

for each scoping meeting will be 

available to the public and open for 30 

days after the meeting to any participant 

who wishes to clarify the views he or 

she expressed. The BLM will evaluate 

identified issues to be addressed in the 

plan, and will place them into one of 

three categories: 

1. Issues to be resolved in the plan 

amendment; 

2. Issues to be resolved through policy 

or administrative action; or 

3. Issues beyond the scope of this plan 

amendment. 

The BLM will provide an explanation 

in the Draft RMP Amendment/EA as to 

why an issue was placed in category 

two or three. The public is also 

encouraged to help identify any 

management questions and concerns 

that should be addressed in the plan 

amendment. The BLM will work 

collaboratively with interested parties to 

identify the management decisions that 

are best suited to local, regional and 

national needs and concerns. 

The BLM will use an interdisciplinary 

approach during the plan amendment 

process in order to consider the variety 

of resource issues and concerns 

identified. Specialists with expertise in 

the following disciplines will be 

involved in the planning process: Air 

quality, cultural resources, fire and fuels 

management, forest management, lands 

and realty, rangeland management, 

minerals and geology, outdoor 

recreation, paleontology, wildlife and 

fisheries, lands and realty, hydrology, 

soils, sociology and economics, and 

wild horses. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7, 43 CFR 1610.2 

Larry Claypool, 

Acting State Director, Wyoming. 

[FR Doc. 2012–8683 Filed 4–10–12; 8:45 am] 

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