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Permit Revision No. 4 (PR-04), Eastern Mining District (southern area), was approved April 20,
<br />1998. The revision approved continuation and expansion of mining in the southern portion of
<br />the EMD in portions of sections 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, and 29 T5N R86W.
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<br />Permit Revision No. 5 (PR-05), was approved on June 28, 2000 and provided for extension of
<br />mining into the Northern Mining District in portions of the following Sections in T5N, R86W: 8,
<br />9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, and 22. The mine expansion area undermined and
<br />subsided portions of Fish Creek and its associated alluvial valley floor in sections 16, 15, 10 and
<br />11.
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<br />Permit Revision No. 6 (PR-06), was approved on May 21, 2004. Permit Revision No. 6
<br />provided for continued mining in the Northern Mining District in Sections 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
<br />16, and 17 in T5N, R86W.
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<br />Permit Revision No. 7 (PR-07), was approved on January 2, 2007, and allowed for continued
<br />longwall and development mining in the Northern Mining District in sections 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of
<br />T5N, R86W, and development mining in the Western Mining District into portions of Section 17
<br />and 18, T5N, R86W, and Section 13 T5N, R87W.
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<br />Permit Revision No. 8 (PR-08) was approved on October 30, 2009, and allowed for the
<br />expansion of mining in the Western Mining District with development and longwall mining in
<br />Sections 17, 18, 19, and 20 of T5N, R86W, and 13, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, and 27 of T5N, R87W.
<br />This Permit Revision includes mining of longwall panels 12L, 13L, 14L, 15L, 16L, and 17L, and
<br />gateroads 12L, 13L, 14L, 15L, 16L, 17L, 18L. A portion of Fish Creek is to be undermined by
<br />longwall panels 12L, 13L, 14L, 15L, and associated gateroads. Routt County Road No. 27 is to
<br />be undermined by longwall panels 13L, 14L, 15L, 16L, and 17L. Coal production is not
<br />approved to increase beyond the previously approved 12,000,000 tons per year with the approval
<br />of PR8.
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<br />Permit Revision No.9 (PR-09) was submitted on August 7, 2012, and proposed to modify the
<br />approved Foidel Creek Mine plan for the Western Mining District (WMD). PR-9 proposed to
<br />add an additional longwall panel, the 11-Left Panel, and to include an extension of the 12-Left
<br />and 13-Left Panels. The additional panel, and panel extensions to the west, would have required
<br />modification of the currently approved Foidel Creek Mine Permit Area boundary, adding
<br />approximately 560 acres to the Mine Permit Area. Due to potentially unstable mining conditions
<br />in the PR-09 area, TC requested to withdraw PR-09. The withdraw request was approved by the
<br />Division on June 12, 2013.
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<br />Revisions to the Permit
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<br />Minor Revisions, Technical Revisions, and Bond Release approvals which have been made to
<br />the Foidel Creek Mine permit since the last renewal (RN05) are listed below.
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<br /> Foidel Creek MineOctober 8, 2013
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