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uiiiiiiiiiiniuiii <br />999 <br />Cyprus Empire Corporation a o so. se <br />An Alliliate of Cyprus Coal Company Craig. Co~oratlo 81626 <br />13031 82 6 8246 <br />July 24, 1987 <br />Mr. Neil Morck <br />State Director, Colorado State Office <br />Bureau of Land Management <br />2850 Youngfield Street <br />Lakewood, Colorado 80215 <br />RE: Suspension of Operations and Production <br />U.S. Coal Lease D-056298 <br />Dear Mr. Morck, <br />Empire Energy Corporation hereby submits this request for an immediate <br />temporary suspension of operations and production for United States Coal <br />Lease D-056298. This request is being filed with your office in <br />accordance with 43 CFR 3483.3. <br />Lease D-056298 was originally issued effective December 1, 1949. Empire <br />Energy Corporation was assigned the lease effective April 1, 1972 and <br />Cyprus Coal Company, through its former parent company Amoco Minerals, <br />purchased the Empire mine and federal leases on January 15, 1980. The <br />lease contains 41.21 acres and is more particularly described as Lot 8 of <br />Section 6, Township 5 North, Range 91 West, 6th P.M. It is held in the <br />name of Empire Energy Corporation. The lease has no coal seam outcrop <br />access and is completely surrounded by Empire fee and leasehold coal <br />interests. <br />The Eagle mine complex at Empire Energy is a multi-seam operation. Each <br />mine has or will produce from separate coal seams. This lease contains <br />reserves in what is known as the "F" and "E" seams. To date, there have <br />been 258,000 tons of coal mined and removed from the lease. Past <br />consultation with the Bureau of Land Management has led to the joint <br />conclusion that there remains no recoverable "F" seam reserves. <br />Empire and the BLM have also agreed that there are approximately 390,000 <br />recoverable tons from the "E" seam which lies below the "F". These <br />reserves must be mined with the conservation of the resource in mind. To <br />this end, as with all multi-seam mines of our variety, the uppermost coal <br />ELrlP~E~E <br />