2015-10-13_REVISION - C1981038

• Permit No: C1981038
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 10/13/2015
• Doc Name Note: 2015
• Doc Name: 2015 Midterm Review
• From: DRMS
• To: Bowie Resources, LLC
• Type & Sequence: MT7
• Email Name: JDM
• Email Name: DIH
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

MR -131
09/25/2013
Ditch No. 7 Lining
No Change
MR -132
10/30/2013
Straw Logs and Wattles
No Change
MR -133
04/23/2014
Emissions Permit Termination
No Change
MR -134
10/02/2014
Land Ownership Update
No Change
TR -55
10/29/2013
Revise Hydrologic Monitoring
No Change
Program
TR -56
02/19/2014
Ownership and Control Change
No Change
TR -57
04/01/2014
Suspend Subsidence Monitoring
No Change
TR -58
07/01/2014
Sediment Pond Reclamation
No Change
TR -59
03/31/2015
Incidental Permit Boundary
No Change
Change
SECTION III — STATUS OF STIPULATIONS
At the time of the last Permit Renewal (RN -6), there was one active stipulation attached to the
permit:
Stipulation No. 26
ONE YEAR AFTER THE COMPLETION OF RECLAMATION ACTIVITIES AT THE
LOADOUT, THE OPERATOR SHALL COMPARE THE SOIL CHARACTERISTICS OF
THE RECLAIMED AREA WITH THE ADJACENT UNDISTURBED ORCHARD AREAS
TO VERIFY THAT THE HYDROLOGIC FUNCTION OF FLOOD IRRIGABILITY HAS
BEEN RESTORED. SUCH COMPARISON SHOULD BE IN THE FORM OF
INFILTRATION, PERMEABILITY AND TEXTURE STUDIES.
Due to the Loadout not having yet been reclaimed, Stipulation No. 26 will remain active.
No new stipulations have been imposed since the issuance of Permit Renewal No. 6.
SECTION V — PERMIT VARIANCES AND SPECIFIC APPROVALS
The Bowie No. 1 Mine permit does not include a variance under Rules 2.06.2 (experimental
practices), 2.06.3 (mountaintop removal), and 2.06.7 (variance from contemporaneous
reclamation for combined surface and underground operations). The Bowie No. 1 Mine has
obtained a variance from the requirement for restoration of affected lands to their approximate
original contour (AOC) in accordance with Rules 2.06.5 and 4.27. The variance was granted
under the 1981 permit and was reaffirmed with RN -6. The variance applies to the mine benches
only and was granted due to a demonstration that backfilling the benches to AOC on the bench
slopes would not achieve the required slope stability factor of 1.3 (see permit Volumes 6 and 6A,
Stability Analysis, for complete discussion).
SECTION VI — BONDING SUMMARY
A compiled reclamation cost estimate was developed by the Division as a part of the Bond
Release No. 5 review process on February 9, 2015. The Division's reclamation costs have not
been updated since that date. However, a summary of those costs in addition to any revision
Bowie No. 1 Mine -4- 10/13/2015