Environmental Assessment Completed

School Creek Mine Coal Mining Startup Facilities

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland Campbell, Wyoming Douglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District

West Roundup Resources, Inc. (WRR) has requested an authorization to amend the existing School Creek Mine special use permit (SUP) to include an additional (approximately) 663 acres of National Forest Service (NFS) land.

Location

The Hilight Bill Geographic Area on the Thunder Basin National Grassland

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
12/15/2010
2
Comment Period
12/15/2010
3
Decision
09/2012 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
11/2012 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityForest Service Energy Implementation Plan
Notice and Comment Regulation215
Project ActivityBoundary Adjustments; Minerals Or Geology Plans Of Operations
Peabody School Creek Mining, LLC. School Creek Mine Ancillary FacilitiesDecision Signed Date: 09/18/2012 Legal Notice Date: 09/22/2012
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsDouglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionSection 11, T 42 N, R 71 W; Section 23, Section 21, Section 22; Section 26-27 T 42 N, R 70 W; Section 18, T 42 N, R 69 W, Campbell County, Wyoming
Minerals and geology