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~ ~ III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT <br />COLORADO STATE OFFICE <br />2850 YOUNGFIELD STREET <br />LAKEN'OOD, COLORADO 80215-7076 <br />'. ' ' : f~ <br />OCT 2 2 1990 <br />~inec Land <br />Reclamation Division <br />CERTIFIED MAIL <br />r,r~~l sION <br />~ ^ <br />CO-921B(ALW) <br />3452.1 <br />D-037766 <br />Coal <br />~~ 5 1990 <br />'i~~~l.. <br />.y ~ ~..1..'!' ti <br />_,y~ <br />OCT 17 1990 <br />Thompson Creek Coal and Coke Corp. . <br />(Dissolved Corporation; Albert M. Keenan, President, Deceased) <br />8893 West 10th Avenue <br />Lakewood, Colorado 80215 <br />Lease Rights Relinquished Effective March 4. 1982 <br />Decision of AEI 21, 1988, Vacated <br />Bond Released <br />Refund of Lease Account Overpayments Authorized <br />dcF?.~'-x.EtR'~q~ i r~; <br />Consolidated coal lease D-037766 was issued November 5, 1927, to Placita Coal Mining <br />Company. The lease was modified February 1, 1950, and then assigned to Thompson Creek <br />Coal and Coke Corp., a Colorado corporation, effective November 1, 1954. A transfer of the <br />lease through acquisition of Thompson Creek's assets in 1969/1970 was not approved by the <br />Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and Thompson Creek Coal and Coke Corp. remained the <br />lessee of record for federal coal lease D-037766. <br />In May 1989, the BLM Colorado State Office received two letters from Mr. Daniel W. Whalen, <br />Jr., Trust Department, Jefferson Bank & Trust. Mr. Whalen's letters raised serious questions <br />regarding the actual legal status of coal, lease D-037766..In August 1989, Mr. Whalen provided <br />this office with documentation that Thompson Creek_Coal and eoke:Corp,:had dissolved. • •. ~ :: _ • •~ <br />December 17, 1970, and that Mr. Albert M. Keenan, who had been President of the corporation, <br />had died on March 4, 1982. Mr. Whalen also requested remittance of refunds to the Keenan <br />Family Trust for payments under the lease since Mr. Keenan's death. <br />We have evaluated the information provided by Mr. Whalen in his initial and subsequent letters <br />as well as additional information provided by the solid minerals adjudication staff and by the <br />BLM Grand Junction District mining engineer. Although the record is imperfect, we have <br />established some basic facts. Based on copies of draft documents filed by Mr. Whalen and a <br />