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• • <br />I. PURPOSE AND NEED FOR ACTION <br />• <br /> <br />As a part of the Federal coal management program, the Department of <br />• the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management, conducts <br />leasing of Federal coal to assure adequate coal supplies are <br />available to meet national long-term energy requirements and <br />• adequate reserves are available to continue existing production. <br />Getty Minerals Marketing, Inc. has applied for coal lease <br />• application C-40672 under the emergency leasing criteria in 43 CFR <br />3425.1-4. This area of Federal coal named the Little Middle Creek <br />area is directly adjacent to leased Federal coal where mining <br />• operations are currently underway by the applicant. The recoverable <br />coal will be by-passed if this area is not leased in time to be <br />included in the mining sequence. Therefore, this environmental <br />• analysis is being prepared to assess the impacts that will result <br />from leasing and subsequent development of this area. The proposed <br />action is to lease a minimum of 1,045.90 acres and 12,310,700 tons <br />• of recoverable Federal coal which would alleviate a by-pass <br />situation on some of the coal reserves in this area. <br />• In addition to the area Getty has applied for, another area directly <br />to the north will be analyzed under a separate alternative. This <br />area named the Fish Creek area will be included in this analysis <br />[7 <br />E-1 <br />0001E <br />• 08/15/85 <br />..... .. . <br />