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Affected areas approved in Permit Revision No. 7 (PR -07) on January 2, 2007, were <br />more than a mile from public roads. <br />Permit Revision No. 8 (PR -088) approved the undermining of Routt County Road No. 27 <br />with longwall panels 13LT, 14LT, 15LT, 16LT, 17LT and gateroads 12LT, 13LT, 14LT, <br />15LT, 16LT, 17LT, and 18LT, in Sections 23 and 26, TSW, R87W. The applicant <br />published a notice in the Steamboat Pilot for four consecutive weeks beginning on June <br />7, 2009. This notice provided the opportunity for a public hearing concerning the <br />undermining of Routt County Road No. 27. There was no public response or concern <br />voiced about undermining of the road, nor was there a request for a public hearing. Routt <br />County Board of Commissioners approved a Special Use Agreement (PP2009-008) to <br />allow Twentymile Coal Company to subside the county road. Signage, subsidence <br />monitoring, and mitigation measures to be employed by the operator are described in the <br />special use agreement, as well as the PAP. <br />Permit Revision No. 11 (PR -11) approves the undermining of Routt County Road No. 33. <br />The road overlies the southern 5RT gateroad and the 4RT Panel in sections 13 and 14 of <br />TSN, R86W. The applicant published a notice in the Steamboat Pilot & Today for four <br />consecutive weeks beginning on February 15, 2015. This notice provided the opportunity <br />for a public hearing concerning the undermining of Routt County Road No. 33. There <br />was no public response or concern voiced about undermining of the road, nor was there a <br />request for a public hearing. TC has an existing road monitoring and maintenance <br />agreement with Routt County which addresses potential mining related road subsidence. <br />Signage, subsidence monitoring, and mitigation measures to be employed by the operator <br />are described in the special use agreement, as well as the PAP. <br />h) Three hundred feet of an occupied dwelling unless a written waiver from the owner has <br />been provided. TCC successfully complied with Stipulation No. 36 for the Southwest <br />Mining District on March 25, 1994 for the mobile home owned by Mr. Robert Perry. <br />Three dwellings were undermined in the Eastern Mining District (longwall panels 6R - <br />2R) during 1999. One had been occupied year round, one was vacant and is owned by <br />Twentymile Coal Company, and the third was occupied only during portions of the year. <br />Twentymile Coal Company has a subsidence agreement with Mr. Kenneth Ashley <br />regarding his dwellings. (2.07.6(2)(d)(v)). <br />The full-time residents were moved by Twentymile Coal Company to alternative <br />accommodations prior to subsidence of the house. Twentymile Coal Company took <br />precautions with the home by bracing floor joists and door frames prior to undermining. <br />The house was located near the center of a longwall panel. After subsidence occurred, <br />Twentymile Coal Company and the Ashley's agreed upon mitigation of the house by <br />replacement of the structure. Twentymile Coal Company demolished the original <br />structure, backfilled the foundation, constructed a new foundation and installed a modular <br />home as agreed upon with the landowner. The smaller residence owned by the Ashley's <br />overlay a gateroad, and experienced roughly 4 inches of subsidence. Twentymile Coal <br />Company conducted repairs to the smaller residence in accordance with the subsidence <br />agreement with the Ashley's in the fall of 1999. The residence owned by Twentymile <br />Foidel Creek Mine 26 February 25, 2016 <br />