Green River-Hams Fork coal region

the long version

This Draft EIS analyzes the environmental impacts of the proposed competitive leasing of 24 federal coal lease tracts in the Green River-Ham Fork Coal Region. This is the second round of proposed Federal coal leasing in the region. As part of the Federal coal management program, the Department of the Interior, through the BLM, periodically conducts competitive coal lease sales to ensure that adequate coal supplies are available to meet national long-term energy requirements and to ensure that adequate reserves are available to continue existing production. In accordance with this program, on January 6, 1983, the Secretary for the Interior established a leasing level range of 750 to 950 million tons of recoverable coal for this second round of leasing in the Green River-Hams Fork Coal Region. The Green River-Hams Fork Coal region encompasses all of portions of Albany, Carbon, Sweetwater, Sublette, Lincoln, and Uinta counties in Wyoming and Routt, Moffat, Jackson, Grand, and Rio Blanco counties in Colorado. However, the proposed Federal leasing would affect primarily Carbon County in southcentral Wyoming, Sweetwater and Uinta counties in southwest Wyoming, and Routt, Moffat, and Rio Blanco counties northwest Colorado.