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PREFACE <br /> The State Directo <br />Colorado has received r, Bureau of Land Management <br />two competitive short-term co (6LM), De <br />al lease nver, <br />applications <br /> (C-27432 and C-27103) submitted under the approved criteria esiablished <br /> by the June 14, 1978, order of the +'iRDC :'s. Huohes decision (see the <br /> .discussion of the NRDC vs. Hughes decision oelo~•:). both of the applica- <br /> tions are for coal reserves managed by the Iientrose District Office of <br /> the BLI.1. • <br />Short-Term Co~r::,etitive Coal Lease A plication C-27432 (Submitte <br />Colorado !•;estroreland, Inc. <br />The federal coal reserves embraced in lease application C-27432 lie <br />in the D seam of the ttesaverde Formation on the folloviing lands (contain- <br />ing 864.04 acres) in Deita County Colorado. <br />T. 135., R. <br />• Sec. 12: <br />Sec. 13: <br />T. 135., R. <br />Sec. 7: <br />Sec. 18: <br />Sec. 1°.: <br />9241, . 6th P.M. <br />Lots 9, 15 <br />Lots 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12 <br />91 l•!. , 6th P.t1. <br />Lots 3, 4, E''-2541 <br />Lots i, Z, 3, 4, E~2!J~2 <br />iJ4i ~NW=SN',d%, <br />The application was submitted under the employment criteria of the <br />• June 14, 1978, ':r:DC vs. Hu^'r.=s decision. In the application Colorado <br />ldestmoreland, Inc.> ineicated that its existing reserves (lyino on <br />private leases and federal coal lease C-25079) are not sufr'icient to <br />meet binding contract requirements beyond September 1979 v;itheut overcevei- <br />oping those reserves and jeopardizing esiablished access to r"e deral <br />reserves lying farther north. <br />Short-Term Competitive Coal Lease Aaolication C-27130 (Submitted by <br />Northv:est Coa Corporation <br />PJorthv:est Coal Corporation has sub„~itted a short-term competitive <br />coal lease application (C-27103) fcr approximately 300 acres of federal <br />coal reserves lyir.e in the E seam of the htesaverde r-ormation on the <br />fo71o~•~ing land (containing approximately 300 acres) in Gunnison County> <br />Colorado. <br />T. 135. , R. 90:J. , bth P.1•!. <br />Sec. 1: Lots 13, 14, 19, <br />• Sec. 12: Lots 1, 2, and <br />N:d; lying north <br />River <br />• <br />20 <br />that part of Lot 5, SW';NE'~ and SE's <br />of the north Fork of the Gunnison <br />The application v:as submitted under the bypass criteria of the <br />NRDC vs. Huehes decision (J~~ne 14, 1978). In the application llorth~~est <br />Coal Corporation (Western Slope Carbon, Inc.) indicates that ongoing <br />