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<br />Section I - Purpose and Need For Action <br />Rerr Goal Company submitted an application, C-22777, wtiicll meets the <br />Emergency Coal Leasz-ng Criteria pursuant to 43 CFP. 3425.1-4 (a) (1) (i). <br />The purpose of the emergency leasing program is to offer unleased coal <br />deposits for lease sale, apart from the competitive leasing process <br />described in 43 CFR 3420.4 through 3420.7, where an emergency need for <br />that coal is demonstrated. In this case }:err Coal Company 1'ias shoran <br />that their present mine will close if federal coal is not made available <br />for ].ease before February 1981. Kerr's mine has been in operation on <br />private coal lands since July, 1974, and the federal coal is needed to <br />maintain the existing operation at the current annual level of procluctiun <br />of over 600,000 tons. <br />The lands applied for have been included in, and are consistent with, rlic <br />North Park Management Framework Plan (hIFP), which was completed in 1975 <br />and updated in 1977 and 1979. A copy of the Nortli Par}: P1FP is on f:ilc in <br />the i:remmling Resource Area. (Refer to decisions Pf1.7, P11.10 and ?11.11.) <br />The United States Geological Survey (USGS) documents that the lands <br />required for mining the needed coal consist of 770 acres located approxi- <br />mately 10 miles east of Walden, Colorado, and described as follows: <br />T. 9 N.. R. 78 W.. 6th P.M. <br /> <br />Section 22: NE's, F:g1\Rd'Z,SEz <br />Section 23: SW4SW'~ <br />Section 26: W SW%*'E'~ NW`~N' SW% SE'~SW' 1^II~ .~t~' G~ <br />2 u` , 41 2 4, 4 'E~ r"Z"' ~~ Y <br />i i ' <br />Section 27: NE%NE~EIy <br />(Refer to maps 1 and 2.) <br />Section II - Alternatives <br />A. .Lease the 770 acres of strippable coal reserves within the tract <br />north of and adjacent to i;err Coal's present mine and described <br />in Section I above. Leasing should be in accordance with the <br />43 CFR 3400 for eventual surface mining using the strip method. <br />The land surface and all, the minerals are federally owned under <br />the administration of the Bureau of. Land,Management (];LP1). 1'he <br />coal within the proposed lease tract lies entirely within the <br />McCallum 1:RCRA., These lands contain approximately 4,980,500 <br />tons of surface recoverable coal to a depth of 300 feet. The <br />coal is in the Sudduth Coal Seam, wiiicli dips steeply to thu <br />northeast. <br />1 <br />