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1/10/2017 <br />State.co.us Executive Branch Mail - Fwd: Bowie Coal Gasification Plant Proposal Is Not a Technical Revision <br />STATE F DRMS CoalAdmin - DNR, DNR <dnr_drms coal_admin@state.co.us> <br />IL.R� <br />C ADO, — — — <br />Fwd: Bowie Coal Gasification Plant Proposal Is Not a Technical Revision <br />1 message <br />Musick - DNR, Jason <jason.musick@state.co.us> Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 6:50 AM <br />To: Bill Bear <BBear@bowieresources.com> <br />Cc: Jim Stover <jestover@bresnan.net>, DNR DRMS_Coal_Admin <dnr—drms—coal—admin@state.co.us> <br />Good morning Bill, <br />Below is a Public Comment received by the Division in reference to TR -110 at the Bowie No. 2 Mine. <br />Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. <br />Thanks, <br />Jason <br />---------- Forwarded message ---------- <br />From: Citizens for a Healthy Community <morton2@skybeam,com> <br />Date: Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 5:04 PM <br />Subject: Bowie Coal Gasification Plant Proposal Is Not a Technical Revision <br />To: Ginny.brannon@stateocoous <br />Cc: jason,musick@stateocoous <br />The following comment letter was submitted by the named citizen through the website of the organization, Citizens for a <br />Healthy Community. It was submitted from the following page: http://www.citizensforahealthycommunity.org/bowie-coal- <br />gas if ication-plant-proposal-comment <br />Please checlk 'the (box IDear (Director (Brannon, <br />(bellow !if you agree 'to -the <br />follllowiing Iletter, A clheclk in It Ihas come'to rrny attention that IBowiie (Resources, I_IL.t> is proposing to turn their <br />tlhe (box its required in order current Bowie No.. 2 coal) imining site iinrto a coal) gasification (pliant„ II allso <br />'to submit -the -form 'to -the understand that the technology being proposed its experiimentall and "patent <br />IBILIM„ pending".. <br />(Bowie Resources its proposing to make a significant change to its current miming <br />permit (Permit INo„ C-1096-063) through a "routine" technical) revision application <br />('T I -110)„ Bowie appears to be proposing to construct what amounts to an oil) <br />refinery and possibly a new power pliant„ IBowiie's proposal) is to construct a coal) <br />gasification facility on iits IBowiie Ihto„ 2 coal) rrniine siite„ <br />As stated iin the company's application, the facility, knovvin as a "IDA}CIICIM Pliant," <br />"wiillll be used to convert coal) imine waste to synthetic gas which its then used either <br />to generate ellectricall power or diesel) /fuel) oil)„" The project proposal) envisions fiive <br />coM gasification units operating 24 (hours a day, and each capable of processing <br />of 72 tons per day of coal) rnine waste„ The pliant wound be built wlheire the IBowiie <br />#2 IMiine"s cllean coal) stockpile resiides, after that stockpile its depleted. <br />Such a facility wound represent a dramatic change within Bowie's permit boundary, <br />potentially turning a coal) irniniirng operation into a hydrocarbon refinery facility. A <br />refinery is a very intensive, complicated, irisky endeavor and at the end of the day <br />it's a very different operation from coal) irnriiniing„ This is INOT a Teclhniicall <br />Revision. What's more, there appears to be little to no information dernonstratiing <br />that IBowie wai11 effectiivelly protect public Ihealth and the environment consistent <br />https://mail.googl e.com/mail/b/511/u/0/?ui=2&i k=deb7fOcd2O&view=pt&search= i nbox&th=15902bfaf135ae06&si m l=15902bfaf135aeO6 1/3 <br />