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Unsuitabi]ity Ana]ysis and P,eport <br />Colorado Westmoreland, Inc. <br />C-027432 <br />DESCP~IPTIOid GF THE FEDERAL LAtIDS IfiVOL4'ED <br /> <br />This unsuitability analysis and report was prepared for an Eu4 acre <br />tract of federal lands described as: <br />7. 13 S. , R. 92 !•i. , 6th P.!•;. <br />Section 12: Lets 9, 15 <br />Section 13: Lots 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 <br />T. 13 S. , R. 91 !,'. , 6th P.ti. <br />Section 7: Lots 3, 4, E1/2 St•;1/4 <br />Section 18: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, Ei/2 4!1/2 <br />Section 19: f,ll/4 I;W1/4 It';I1/4 <br />in Delta County, Colorado. <br />' The tract eras identified in a short-tern teal lease application <br />(C-27432) submitted by Colorado k'estrorelanc, Inc., on Plo~-e^~ber 6, 197°. <br />The tract lies adjacent to and nerthezst of existing federal coal lease <br />• C-25079, containing 3i1 acres. The leaseholder of ti~at federal lease <br />and a 120 acre private coal lease is Colorado l;estc:oreland, inc. <br />The tract is located approximately 3 miles north of the to~.rn of <br />Paonia, Colorado, in Delta County. The 864 acres consists of 17D acres <br />of federally-o.:ned mineral estate overlain by public iar.ds and ti94 acres <br />of federally-owned mineral estate overlain by private lands. Tile public <br />lands are managed by ±he [iureau of Land Manages~ent (BLi4). <br />Nethodolocy <br />In compiling this analysis and report, the procedural instructions <br />and unsuitability criteria published in the Federal Register, 'dot. 43, <br />tVo. 237--Friday, December S, 1978, were used. In acai[ron, fcr triter;,; <br />nur.~bers 9 through 16 the suppleriental instructions in Colorado State <br />Office Griefing Do. 46 tirere used to interpret the meaning cf the <br />criter•id as published in the Federal Register. <br />As a first step in this analysis, the prelir•iinary mining plan <br />submitted by the applicant (Colorado 4testrroreland, lnc.) was examined in <br />order to ioentify areas in which the propcsed underground mining <br />operation would proauce surface effects. All of ttre areas on which <br />surface facilities associated with the proposed operation tirere to be <br /> <br />