One of the four companies and examples of their exceptional performance during fiscal year 2006:

Foundation Wyoming Land Company

Foundation Wyoming Land Company extracted approximately 50 million tons of coal from Federal leases and paid MMS a total of $40 million in rents, royalties and bonuses during 2006. The company boasted an error-free record for reporting, and achieved a 100 percent timeliness rate for submittal of royalty payments. Foundation Wyoming Land Company is a subsidiary of Foundation Coal Holdings Inc., a coal producer that operates a group of 14 mines located in Wyoming, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Illinois.