BISMARCK – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement on the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) conducting a lease sale on October 1 to award the 320-acres of federal coal adjacent to the Coyote Creek Mine:
“I am glad to see the Bureau take this much-needed action to give Coyote Creek access to federal coal within their property. These lease sales support mining jobs and provide critical revenues and resources to the local community. I will be monitoring the sale on October 1 and hope it leads to good news for North Dakota’s coal producers.”