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TRI-STATE GENERATION AND TRANSMISSION ASSOCIATION, INC. <br />HEADQUARTERS: P.O. BOX 33695 DENVER, COLORADO 80233-0695 303-452-6111 <br />October 24, 2016 <br />Mr. Zach Trujillo <br />Environmental Protection Specialist <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining & Safety <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />RE: Colowyo Coal Company L.P. <br />Permit No. C-1981-019 <br />Minor Revision No. 164 (MR -164) <br />Exhibit 5, Item 3 Cultural Resources Baseline Report <br />Dear Mr. Trujillo, <br />Ove" �, 1 1616 <br />WSION OF RECL,,pATION <br />MINING AND SAFETY <br />Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. (Tri-State), is the parent <br />company to Axial Basin Coal Company, which is the general partner to Colowyo Coal Company <br />L.P. (Colowyo). Therefore, Tri-State on behalf of Colowyo is submitting three (3) copies of <br />minor revision 164 (MR -164) to Permit No. C-1981-019. <br />MR -164 includes a report titled, Cultural Resource Site Assessment for Colowyo Coal <br />Company L.P. 's, Collom Expansion Project, Moffat County Colorado. In accordance with <br />Exhibit 5, Item 3 of Colowyo's Permit Application Package (PAP), prior to any ground <br />disturbing activities at the Collom operation, Colowyo will conduct a baseline assessment of <br />specific National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and "needs data" sites. The sites required <br />to be assessed are listed in Exhibit 5, Item 3. The report enclosed contains the baseline <br />assessment as required by Exhibit 5, Item 3. <br />Further, with this submittal of MR -164, Colowyo is satisfying Stipulations 17 and 22. <br />Both stipulations require Colowyo to submit findings of the archaeological reports (Stipulation <br />17 from permit revision 03), and to submit the baseline assessment for the sites listed in Exhibit <br />5, Item 3 (Stipulation 22). Both of these stipulations require Colowyo to submit the same <br />baseline report as required by Exhibit 5, Item 3. Therefore, with submittal of MR -164, which <br />includes the results of the cultural resources baseline assessment, Colowyo is requesting that the <br />Division denote Stipulations 17 and 22 as "complied with". <br />AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVEACTION EMPLOYER <br />A Touchstone Energy'Cooperative <br />CRAIG STATION ESCALANTE STATION NUCLA STATION <br />P.O. BOX 1307 P.O. BOX 577 P.O. BOX 6% <br />CRAIG, CO 81626-1307 PREWITT, NM 87045 NUCLA. CO 81424-0698 <br />970-824-4111 505-972-5200 970-864-7316 <br />