PERMFILE118129

• Permit No: C1981071
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Section_Exhibit Name: INTRODUCTION thru Part 742
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

and is the logical extension of operations at Energy Mine No. 1, as
• shown in Figure 4, Permit Areas and Federal Lease Boundaries, page 12.
On April 23, 1975, Energy Fuels Corporation submitted a competitive coal
lease application on Lease C-22644 to the Bureau of Land Management.
This application emphasi2ed the need for Lease C-22644 in a timely
manner to avoid the shut-down of the Marion 8050 Dragline and the Marion
7400 Dragline in 1980. During the fall and early winter of 1978 and
1979, the District Office of the Bureau of Land Management in Craig,
Colorado prepared an Environmental Assessment Report which encompassed
C-22644 and two other short-term coal lease applications. The Bureau of
Land Management published this Environmental Assessment Report on January
18, 1979; this report includes detailed descriptions of the proposed
action to offer areas for competitive short-term leasing, description
of the existing environment and an analysis of the proposed action to
lease the areas. In the Introduction of the Environmental Assessment
Report, it is stated:
• "All three of the coal lease applications are immediately adjacent
to Energy Fuels on-going surface operations. Coal lease appli-
cations C-22644 and C-26913 are adjacent to Energy Pit Ill, and
application C-22676 is adjacent to Energy Pit I13. The applications
are located southwest of Steamboat Springs.
A detailed Unit Resource Analysis (URA) and Panagement Framework
Plan (MFP) for the Williams Fork Planning Unit have been completed
and include the lands of the subject applications. The MFP for the
Williams Fork Planning Unit was completed in 1974 and updated in
1977. A review of this P1FP has revealed that this proposed action
is compatible with the recommendations set forth in the document.
The URA and MFP can be used to supplement this report when it is
deemed that additional data are required. The URA and MFP are
available for public inspection at the Bureau of Land Management
(BLPS) Craig District Office, 455 Emerson Street, Craig, Colorado
81625.
The three coal lease applications are also within the boundaries of
the area covered by the Northwest Colorado Coal Regional Final
Environmental Statement (FES 77-1) by BLM in 1976 and the Northwest
Colorado Supplemental Report which was made available to the public
in early December, 1978. These documents will also be used to
supplement the information contained in this report. These docu-
ments also provide a cumulative analysis of impacts of the on-going
• Energy Fuels mining operation with other coal developments in this
region of Colorado."
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