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• • • <br />since it could also come into a bypass situation in the near <br />future. Proposing this area for lease now would provide for the <br />• most efficient management of the remaining surface mineable coal <br />resources in this specific area (Map 3-1). the Fish Creek area <br />contains 965.57 acres and 7,321,000 tons of recoverable Federal coal <br />I• reserves. <br />Unsuitability Summary <br />I• <br />Through the land use planning process, the Bureau is required to <br />review Federal lands pursuant to 43 CFR 3461 prior to leasing <br />• Federal coal, All of the Federal lands included in this analysis <br />have had the unsuitability criteria and the other three screening <br />procedures applied under the current Management Framework Plan <br />• Amendments. <br />During the original application of unsuitability carried out through <br />• the Williams Fork Coal Supplement, 1979, the N1/2 of section 36, T. <br />-< <br />5 N., R. 87 W. 6th P.M. was determined unsuitable under criterion <br />15. This was due to a sharp-tailed grouse .dancing ground. However, <br />• based on new data the Colorado Division of kildlife determined this <br />dancing grouna no longer exists. therefore, this land has been <br />determineo suitable for coal development and associated surface <br />~• disturbing activities. <br />During the 1981 land use plan amendment, it was determineo that the <br />I• <br />• <br />E-2 <br />0001 E <br />08/15/85 <br />