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MOUNTAIN COAL COMPANY <br />COAL LEASE APPLICATION COC-54558 ' <br />• ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS U-93-24 <br />Prepared by BLM in cooperation with OSM <br />I. PURPOSE AND NEED <br />The Colorado State Offfce of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) <br />received on December 30, 1992, a coal lease application from Mountain <br />Coal Company; it was assigned serial number COC-54558. The <br />application was submitted under the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, <br />Federal Coal Leasing Amendments Act of 1976, and 43 CFR 3420. The <br />coal reserves are managed by the Montrose District Office of the BL!!. <br />The purpose of the environmental assessment (EA) is to evaluate <br />potential impacts of lease issuance upon the physical and <br />socioeconomic environment and to develop mitigating measures to be <br />included as lease stipulations in the event the lease is issued. <br />As a result of the lease application, the Jumbo Mountain coal lease <br />tract was delineated. The Jumbo Mountain Tract lies to the west of <br />federal coal leases C-1362 and C-0117192 which are leased by Mountain <br />Coal Company. Mountain Coal Company would like to continue <br />development of their underground mining operation onto the lease <br />application area. Mining would occur in the B Seam on the Jumbo <br />Mountain Tract. <br />• The competitive lease application submitted by Mountain Coal Company <br />identified a 1011.64 acre tract of federal coal. The Jumbo Mountain <br />Tract, analyzed in this EA, is described as follows: <br />T.13S., R.90W., 6th Principal Meridian <br />Sec. 19: lots 15, 16, 17 and 18 <br />Sec. 30: lots 7 and 8, <br />T.13S., R.91W., 6th Principal Meridian <br />Sec. 23: S~S~NE;, SE„ E~SE;SW;, <br />Sec. 24: S1,S~NW;, S~, <br />Sec. 25: lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, <br />Sec. 26: NF3;NF3; <br />containing approximately 1011.64 acres in Delta and Gunnison Counties, <br />Colorado (see Maps 1, 2 and 3). The tract is located two miles <br />southwest of Somerset, Colorado and five miles northeast of Paonia, <br />Colorado. <br />Approximately 280.36 acres are federal surface and federal minerals. <br />The remainder of the surface is privately owned by one surface owner <br />and the mineral estate is federally owned. <br />Authorizing Actions and Aaencv Involvement <br />• In response to the competitive coal lease application submitted by <br />Mountain Coal Company, the Bureau of Land Management reviews the coal <br />lease application in accordance with the regulations found at 43 CFR <br />3420. The BLM then prepares an environmental assessment to analyze <br />