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<br />Section I - Purpose and Need For Action <br />Kerr Coal Company submitted an application, C-22777, which meets the ;iibmi_ <br />Emergency Coal Leasing Criteria pursuant to 43 CtiP. 3425.1-4 (a) (1) (i).;i;;p, <br />The purpose of the emergency leasinC program is to offer unleased coal .emer;. <br />deposits for lease sale, apart from the competitive leasing process sale, <br />described in 43 CFR 34'20.4 through 3420.7, where an emergency need fort 342!;. <br />that coal is demonstrated. In this case Kerr. Coal Company 1'~as shoin~ t.~at~ <br />that their present mine will close if federal coal is nut made availabl@;_nc <br />for lease before February 1981. Kerr's mine has been in operation on -~,ru,.. <br />private coal lands since July, 1974, and the federal coal is needed Eo sinc~_ <br />maintain the existing operation at the current annual level of productidg t,::, <br />of over 600,000 tons. ;s, <br />The lands applied for have been included in, and are consisrent with, t(;~ l„-_- <br />North Park :fanagement Framework Plan (:IFP), which was completed in 1975;;; Fr, <br />and updated in 1977 and 1979. A copy of the Nortli Par}; MFP is on file'i[3nd <br />the Kremmling Resource Area. '(Refer to decisions M1.7, M1.10 and :Il.lJ;r):e ±. <br />The United States Geological Survey (USG S) documents that the lands ;eolcg: <br />required for mining the needed coal consist of 770 acres located approxi~he ; <br />mately 10 miles east of Walden, Colorado, and described as follows: ;t of , <br />• <br />. u.T ; <br />i <br />i <br />-::: <br />-~~ <br />T. 9 N., R. 78 W., 6th P.M. <br />~ Section 22: NE'Z, E~NWZ,SE}t <br />Section 23: SW'~SW~ <br />1 1 <br />Section 26: GP~SW%NE~, NW`tN'iSWZ, SE'-;,SW',,~ ~y/~~"'y'~~~'J~ <br />Section 27: NE',,NF.%,.NE'-y <br />(Refer to maps 1 and 2.) <br />Section II - Alternatives <br />..=.nri <br />i . , <br />~?. ,.. <br />? 3 : ti'.. <br />'.6: <br />'.7 <br />' A.~ Lease the 770 acres of strippable coal reserves within the tra¢£l <br />north of and adjacent to Kerr Coal's present mine and described <br />in Section I above. Leasing should be in accordance with tile: ,, <br />43 CFR 3400 for eventual surface mining using the strip me Uioi};J f- <br />The land surface and all the minerals are federally owned und~,r:=ar <br />the administration of the Bureau of. Land.Idanagement (li1.M). Thc•_rr.i <br />coal within the proposed lease tract lies entirely within then th._ <br />McCallum }:RCRA., These lands contain approxima Cely 4,980,500 :::C ~'., <br />tons of surface recoverable coal to a depth of 300 feet. The rf~c_ <br />coal is in the Sudduth Coal Seam, which dips steeply to the _ th,. <br />northeast. _ <br />.~ <br />1 <br />