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1-1 <br />• 1 1.0 Introduction <br />Grand Valley Coal Company (GVC) engaged in coal mining and exploration on <br />Federal Coal Leases C-01255436, G0125437, 0125438, 0125439, 0125515 and <br />0125516. In conjunction with this program, coal production began at McClane Canyon <br />Mine located in Federal Lease C-0125439. Eventually leases C-0125515, and an area <br />of Fee coal will be mined from McClane Canyon Mine. Regulations promulgated by the <br />State of Colorado and the Federal Office of Surface Mining require that a Colorado <br />Division of Minerals and Geology Permit to mine be issued. The 1991 permit revision <br />expanded the Permit Area and lengthened the permit term from three years to five years <br />for the McClane Canyon Mine. <br />The plan addresses life of mine activities at the McClane Canyon site which is <br />located approximately 20 miles north of Loma, Colorado in Section 21, township 7 <br />•J South, Range 102 West, Garfield County, Colorado. Previous activities and <br />J disturbances were authorized under a USGS approved exploration plane effect <br />December 1976 as well as previous DMG Mining and Reclamation permits. <br />Initial plans and permits addressed exploration of the Cameo coal seam from the <br />McClane Canyon Mine and provided limited area for production and exploration <br />activities. Most of the anticipated surface disturbance was accomplished during <br />previous permit terms. <br />The initial submittal of this application was complicated because there were <br />problems associated with collection of baseline data under guidelines, rules and <br />regulations implemented following the completion of the actual earthwork in the spring of <br />1977. However, an earnest attempt was made to adequately describe and present <br />these conditions pursuant to the regulations promulgated after actual disturbance. <br />s~ <br />McClane Volume 1 03/06 <br />