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In Reply Refer to: <br />COC74911 <br />Dear Interested Party, <br />United States Department of the Interior tl4 <br />a nsir <br />BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT <br />Uncompahgre Field Office <br />2465 South Townsend Avenue n TAKE PRIDE <br />Montrose, Colorado 81401 eGe't\i e INAMERICA <br />www.co.blm.gov <br />Sincerely, <br />May 14, 2012 <br />Barbara Sharrow <br />Field Office Manager <br />Mph A ?01 <br />ano n, <br />m <br />�`��Ol and Sakety <br />-2o � z -z z- <br />The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Uncompahgre Field Office ha released it prelimin <br />Environmental Assessment (EA) and unsigned Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) on the <br />Oxbow Mining, LLC proposed federal coal exploration license COC74911 (a.k.a. Oak Mesa project). <br />Oxbow has applied for exploration drilling encompassing about 13,873 acres of federal coal that <br />underlies BLM and private surface lands. The objective of exploring coal deposits is to obtain <br />geological, environmental, and other pertinent data concerning coal deposits (43 CFR 3410.0 -2). <br />Oxbow proposes to drill 43 exploration drill holes on private and federal lands into federal subsurface <br />holdings. The drill holes would result in mostly temporary surface disturbances from road and pad <br />construction affecting about 33 acres. Ten drill holes would require construction of a pad to create <br />level ground for drilling (about 5.0 acres). Occupation (no grading) would occur on all the remaining <br />drill pads (about 16.5 acres). The Oak Mesa project extends from the western edge of the Bowie Mine <br />holdings westward across the mesa to the Leroux Creek area, north of Hotchkiss. The exploration <br />license is in Delta County in Township 13 South, Ranges 92 and 93 West, 6 P.M. <br />To review the EA and FONSI, go to http: / /www.blm.gov /co /st /en/BLM Information/nepa/ufo.html <br />(scroll to DOI- BLM- CO -S050- 2011 -0036 EA). Comments must be submitted by Wednesday, June <br />13, 2012, in writing to the BLM Uncompahgre Field Office, Attn: Desty Dyer, 2465 S. Townsend <br />Ave., Montrose, CO 81401; fax 970 - 240 -5368; or email ddyer @b1m.gov. <br />Please note comments and information submitted regarding this project, including email addresses and <br />street addresses of respondents will he available f public review and disclosure. Individual <br />respondents may request confidentiality. If you wish to withhold your name, e -mail address, or street <br />address from public view or from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, you must state this <br />prominently at the beginning of your written comment. Such requests will be honored to the extent <br />allowed by the law. All submissions from organizations or businesses, and from individuals <br />identifying themselves as representatives of officials of organizations or businesses, will be made <br />available for public inspection in their entirety. <br />