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COLORADO <br />Division of Reclamation, <br />Mining and Safety <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />April 28, 2014 <br />Scott Cowman <br />Peabody Sage Creek Mining, LLC. <br />P.O. Box 250 <br />36600 Routt County Road 27 <br />Hayden, CO 81639 <br />RE: Peabody Sage Creek Mining, Permit C- 2009 -087 <br />Permit Revision Application No. 1 (PR -1) <br />CM Extension and Longwall Mining <br />Dear Mr. Cowman: <br />The Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining, and Safety (Division) received Peabody Sage Creek Mining, <br />LLC's application for a permit revision (PR -1) on March 4, 2014. The application was determined to be <br />complete on April 17, 2014. One comment letter was received from the Colorado Division of Water <br />Resources with comments provided below. No other concerns have been received from other agencies <br />regarding this proposed permit revision as of the date of this letter. The Division has completed its <br />prelimanary adequacy review of the proposed permit revision. Please respond to the following coments <br />or concerns as necessary: <br />1. Based on a review of the ownership and control section of the currently approved permit <br />application package for the Peabody Sage Creek Mine, comparing the section with the current <br />information in the Applicant Violater System (AVS), there are no discrepancies identified. <br />However, the comparison check will be conducted at each stage of adequacy, proposed decision, <br />permit issuance, and final decision during the review process. If onwership and control information <br />requires updating during the review process, please submit all updated information for review in <br />AVS. <br />Proposed pages 2.05 -16, 2.05 -18, and approved page 2.05 -17 does not include information <br />discussing the Right -to -Enter Federal Coal associated with portions of Sections 21 and 22 of 5N, <br />87W found in the submitted copies of the Federal Leases. In addition, the Division understands <br />that portions of the Federal Coal Lease CO -88199 is currently under review by the Office of Surface <br />Mining due to the leases status as Pre -NEPA. Due to the review stats of CO -88199 for an update or <br />new Federal Mine Plan, the Right to Enter coal associated with CO -88199 is inadequate. Please <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215, Denver, CO 80203 P 303.866.3567 F 303.832.8106 http: / /mining.state.co.us <br />John W. Hickenlooper, Governor I Mike King, Executive Director I Virginia Brannon, Director <br />-'c��a <br />1876 <br />