PERMFILE48197

• Permit No: C1980006
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Doc Name: COMMENTS OF SURFACE OWNERS
• Section_Exhibit Name: EXHIBIT 34
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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United States Department of the Interior 3400
' BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
~ COLD RA00 STATE OFFICE
• ROOM 100. COLD R/.00 STATE 9ANx 9UILOING
1000 aRO AOWwY
DENVER CO LORwOO !0103
JUN ' 0 1980
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Mr. Brad L. Doores, Corporate Counsel
Kerr Coal Company
Three Park Central, Suite 900
1515 Arapahoe Street
Denver, Colorado 80202 JUN 1 3 1980
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Re: Kerr Cosl Company - Post-Mining Land Use, C-22777
Dear Mr. Doores:
The Bureau of Land Management decided to lease the lands applied for in
Emergency Coal Lease Application C-22777. The leasing and its impacts
were analyzed in the Environmental Assessment Document CO-010-0-50. The
decision to lease was based, 1n part, on the condition that [he lands
would be "restored to its present productivity and suitable for the
existing land uses which are wildlife habitat, livestock grazing and dis-
persed recreation". The dispersed recreation in the area is primarily
hunting for sage grouse and antelope.
In using [he term "rangeland" to describe the post-mining land uee, it
should be understood [o mean a land use which provides salt ab le habitat
for both domestic livestock and wildlife. In [his context, I would
approve of the use of "rangeland" to describe the poet-mining land use
for Coal Lease C-22777.
Sincerely,
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Acting State Director
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