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Savage and Savage Environmental <br />practical solutions for environmental issues <br />4610 Haystack Drive 970.674.8080 telephone <br />Windsor, Colorado 80550 970.674.8088 facsimile <br />savageandsavage@earthlink.net <br />November 3, 2015 <br />Mr. Levi Broyles, District Ranger <br />USDA Forest Service <br />Paonia Ranger District <br />P.O. Box 1030 <br />Paonia, Colorado 81428 <br />r <br />Re: Notice of Application for Phase III Final Bond Release of Selected Areas of the <br />Mountain Coal Company, LLC West Elk Mine (CDRMS file C-1980-007) <br />Dear Mr. Broyles: <br />• Mountain Coal Company, LLC (MCC) is applying for a Phase III final liability and bond <br />release for portions of the West Elk Mine (Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining, <br />and Safety permit C-1980-007) in accordance with the approved reclamation plan. The <br />subject of the bond release is a release from liability and reclamation bond for areas <br />where it has been demonstrated that MCC has successfully completed all surface coal <br />mining operations in accordance with the approved reclamation plan (CDRMS Rule <br />3.03.1(2)(c)). The application for final release includes areas located at the former Deep <br />Creek area, the former Long Draw area, the former Long Draw Saddle area, and the <br />former West Point Road area within the mine site encompassing approximately 22.1 <br />acres located in portions of Sections 26, 27, 35, and 36, T13S, R90W, and portions of <br />Sections 1 and 2, T14S, R90W, Gunnison County, Colorado. The mine permit area <br />entrance is located approximately two miles east of Somerset, Colorado, and is accessed <br />from Colorado Highway 133. <br />As required by Colorado law, whenever bond release is requested, all interested or <br />affected parties with a valid legal interest must be notified and afforded the opportunity to <br />comment or request an informal conference on the bond release in accordance with Rule <br />3.03.3 of the Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal <br />Mining <br />