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United States Department of the Interior <br />BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT TAKE PRIDE' <br />--« Tres Rios Field Office ►NAM ER ICA <br />c►r 29211 Highway 184 <br />Dolons, Colorado 81323 <br />RECE�v�® <br />In Reply Refer to: <br />COC 76563 3840(SO1000) SES 2 <br />OPTIONAL REPLY DUE- October 5 2015 <br />pivision of R& Sa a y jon, <br />Min►n9 <br />Dear Interested Party: <br />The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Tres Rios Field Office is accepting public <br />comments on a proposal from GCC Energy, LLC to explore for future federal coal <br />resources. You are receiving this letter because you have been identified as having an <br />interest in the proposed activities. BLM has prepared a preliminary environmental <br />assessment (EA) to analyze the proposed action as described below. <br />What: Exploration license application for locating future coal resources <br />adjacent to King II Mine. <br />Where: T. 35 N., R. 11 W., and T. 35 N., R. 12 W., north of the King II Mine <br />and located predominately on private surface, south of Hesperus in La <br />Plata County, Colorado. <br />How: A small drill rig (similar to a water well rig) would be used to drill 23 <br />exploration holes to depths of about 600 feet. Existing access routes <br />would be utilized and no new roads are proposed. Coal from each hole <br />would be sampled and sent to a lab to evaluate the quality of the coal. <br />Geophysical logs would be run to further document the geology of the <br />area. <br />Thirteen of the proposed sites are located adjacent to existing roads or <br />two -track roads. The remaining ten sites would be accessed by eight <br />overland travel routes. All proposed drill sites would be located on <br />relatively flat, open land. Total disturbance related to overland travel <br />and drilling sites would be approximately 5.3 acres (5.1 acres on <br />private surface and .2 acres would be on BLM surface). All disturbed <br />areas would be re -seeded and drill holes would be plugged per state <br />standards to protect groundwater. <br />Why: The BLM's purpose of and need for action is to respond to GCC <br />Energy's application for an exploration license for coal, as per the <br />Mineral Leasing Act of 1920. <br />