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contain leased Federal coal, the mining plan area acreage • has been reduced by about 10 acres to account for the unexplained 1982 discrepancy. A history of the leasing and mining plan approval actions for the King Coal Mine is included in the Chronology Section of this decision document. A total of 4.2 million tons of Federal coal exist in the currently approved mining plan area. No Federal surface lands exist in the currently approved mining plan area. The postmining land use within the currently approved mining plan area is rangeland, pastureland and cropland. IV. The Proposed Action This mining plan action consists of a mining plan modification for Federal lease COC-60941. Specifically, the mining plan modification proposed by NKC consists of: Expansion of mining into all of the Menefee Coal Bed No. 1 of the 195-acre Federal lease COC-60941. • The life of the mining operations is expected to continue for 5 years under Colorado Permit No. CO-81-035 and this proposed mining plan modification. The average annual production rate and the maximum production rate would not change, The approved State permit area would increase by 195 acres from its present 1577 acres to a new total of 1772 acres. Surface disturbance within the approved State permit area will not increase. Approval of this mining plan modification will increase the number of acres of Federal coal in the approved mining plan area by 195 acres to a new total of 1048 acres as shown on the map included with this decision document. Total Federal recoverable coal reserves for the Menefee Coal Bed No. 1 seam within the current mining plan approval area would increase by 0.6 million tons for a new total of 4.8 million tons. No Federal surface lands will be included in the mining plan area as a result of this action. •