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• The Forest Service administers its mineral program (Forest Service Manual 1-800 ZERO Code - <br />WO Amendment ?800-91-1 Page 3) to: <br />Encourage and facilitate the orderly exploration. development, and production of mineral <br />and energy resources within the NFS in order to maintain a viable. healthy minerals <br />industry and to promote self-sufficiency in those mineral and energy resources necessary <br />for economic _,rowth and national defense; <br />Ensure that exploration, development and production of mineral resources are conducted <br />in an environmenta'y sound manner and that these activities are considered fully in the <br />planning and manayetnent of other NFS resources: and, <br />Ensure that lands disturbed by mineral and energy activities are reclaimed for other <br />productive uses. The Forest Service considers mineral exploration and development to <br />be a part of its management program (GMUG Amended Forest Plan, Page II-61). It <br />cooperates with the USDI, through its agent, the BLM, in administering lawful <br />development of leaseable minerals. While the Forest Service is mainly involved with <br />surface resource management, the agency recogTnizes that mineral development is <br />ordinarily in the public interest and can be compatible with the purposes for which the <br />NFS lands are managed. <br />Under the Federal leasing program, the USDI combined major federal coal management <br />responsibilities into one unified program in order to: <br />• <br />1. Give the nation a treater assurance of being able to meet its national energy objective; I'D <br />2. Provide a means to promote a more desirable pattern of coal development with ample <br />envirorunental protection; <br />3. Assure that state and local governments participate in decisions about where and when <br />federal coal production will take place: and, <br />4. Increase competition in the western coal industry. <br />Under regulations of the Minim and Mineral Policy Act of 1970 and the Federal Land Policy <br />Management Act of 1976: <br />1. Adverse environmental impacts on public land surface resources are minimized to the <br />extent practical: <br />2. Measures must be included to provide for reclamation, where practicable; and, <br />>. The proposed operation will comply with other federal and state laws and re?g,ulations. <br />Other laws: Organic Administration Act of June 1. 1897, Energy Security Act of June 30. 1980, <br />Energy Police Act of?00- (Public Law 10?-=1S6). Colorado Surface Mining Reclamation Act. <br />};Brad:raom:FS?_-%IIGP?i ,mjRDAk? [Eib;Aiip_D Fort_Fede:?ICoalL?asePr?irctFBU-?-PAendix...doc:U=1006