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<br />aPQtN,6NT <br />o"' ym <br />t 9 <br />W ^ <br />ygRC 3 _?0p0 <br />In Reply Refer to: 3420 <br />COC70615 <br />Dear Interested Party, <br />§EP 8 20D9 <br />u s ovuirr?wr a? •nuiot <br />The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Uncompahgre Field Office has released the Draft <br />Environmental Assessment (EA) on a proposed coal lease by Oxbow Mining, LLC. Oxbow has applied <br />for a coal lease adjacent to its Elk Creek Mine __called _the Elk Creek East Tract_(ECETthat?ncompasses <br />a6out 78? acres olBL1V1 managed surface and mineral estate located about 1.5 miles northeast of <br />Somerset, Colorado in Gunnison County, in T. 13 S. R. 90 W., 6°i P.M. <br />Drafts of the EA and its associated Finding of No Significant Impact, Fair Market Value, and Maximum <br />Economic Recovery documents are available on the Uncompahgre Field Office website at <br />http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/BLM_Information/nepa/ufo.html (scroll to # 2008-53). <br />Written comments will be accepted through September 25, 2009. Written comments should address, but <br />are not limited to, the following: <br />1. The quality and quantity of the coal resources <br />2. The mining method or methods to achieve Maximum Economic Recovery of the coal including <br />specifications of the seams to be mined, timing.and rate of production, restriction to mining, and the <br />inclusion of the tract in an existing mining operation <br />3. The Fair Market Value appraisal including but not limited to the evaluation of the tract as an <br />incremental unit of an existing mine, selling price of the coal, mining and reclamation costs, net present <br />value discount factors, depreciation and other tax accounting factors, value of the surface estate, and any <br />comparable sales data on similar coal lands. The values given above may or may not change as a result of <br />comments received from the public and changes in market conditions between now and when final <br />economic evaluations are completed. <br />Both requests for printed documents and/or-yourxmAte Qom*re4,ts-may-be submitted-by-maitema71, or <br />- --- <br />fqx to: <br />BLM-UFO, Mining Engineer <br />2465 South Townsend Avenue <br />Montrose, Colorado 81401 <br />Email: desty_dyer@blm.gov <br />Fax: (970) 240-5367 <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />Bureau of Land Management <br />Uncompahgre Field Office <br />2465 South Townsend Avenue <br />Montrose, Colorado 81401 <br />Sincerely, <br />A, <br />Barbara L. Sharrow <br />Field Manager <br />BLM Uncompahgre Field Office