BLM Colorado Coal Data
As of fiscal year 2025, BLM Colorado has 10 coal mines with 45 authorized federal leases encompassing 81,068 acres.
BLM Colorado maintains records of coal actions during the year. Click the tabs to view coal LBA and LMA applications processed over the past five years..
- LBA, LMA, summary table
The BLM maintains records of pending competitive lease applications and noncompetitive lease modification applications and lease sales and lease modification offers during the year. This table lists information about successful and unsuccessful competitive lease sales and noncompetitive lease modification offers for the previous 5 fiscal years and pending lease sales based on the Lease by Application (LBA) serial number or the lease modification application (LMA) serial number and date of application, which is used to identify and track the application. Sometimes, the LBA applicant is not the same as the final lessee because another entity may outbid the applicant during the bidding process. For LMAs, the applicant and the final lessee will be the same because only the lessee may request, accept, or reject a noncompetitive LMA tract.
Successful and Unsuccessful Competitive Lease Sales and Noncompetitive Lease Modifications, Pending LBAs and Pending LMAs
- Lease by Applications and Lease Modification Applications
The BLM maintains records of pending competitive lease and noncompetitive lease modification applications and lease sales and lease modification offers during the year. This table provides information about each individual Lease by Application (LBA) or lease modification application (LMA). The BLM will not publish its presale estimate of LBAs or LMAs. The BLM will publish the amount of bids received for an LBA but will not publish the BLM presale estimate for either an LBA or a LMA. LMA FMV will be published for a lease once the applicant accepts the BLM offer and BLM issues a decision to approve the modification. Specifically, each summary provides a short chronology of the application with information about the scoping meetings, hearings, hearing transcripts, environmental analysis, decisions, coal quantity and quality, and the results of the competitive LBA sales or noncompetitive LMA offers. Click on the link in the summary to access the published FMV information for the lease sales and lease modifications. To review the FMV determination process, please see the publicly available 3073 - Coal Evaluation Handbook and Manual found on the BLM Information Resource Management websites. All documents made available to the public do not contain confidential business information, which is withheld pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act exemption 4, 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(4).
The titles below list the mine, company and original date of application.
Lease Modification Applications:
COC-044693: Deserado Mine, Blue Mountain Energy, May 28, 2025
COC-051551: Deserado Mine, Blue Mountain Energy, May 28, 2025
COC-074813: Deserado Mines, Blue Mountain Energy, May 28, 2025
Lease by Applications:
None.