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1/12/2017 <br />State.co.us Executive Branch Mail - Fwd: Bowie Coal Gasification Plant Proposal Is Not a Technical Revision <br />STATE of DRMS CoalAdmin - DNR, DNR <dnr_drms coal_admin@state.co.us> <br />IL <br />C OR�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> Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 9:30 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 concerning 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<jennifer.eyler@deltaschools.com> <br />Date: Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 6:45 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 check 'tlhe (box IDear (Director (Brannon, <br />(bellow !if you agree 'to -the <br />following (letter. A clheclk in It Ihas come'to imy attention that IBowiie Resources, LILC is proposing to Munn their <br />tlhe (box its required in oirdeir current Bowie No.. 2 coal) irn9iiniing site into a coal) gasification Iplant.. II allso <br />'to submit -the 'form 'to -the understand that the technology being proposed its experiimentM and "patent <br />IBILIM„ pending".. <br />(Bowie Resources its proposing to make a significant change to its current miming <br />permit (Permit INo„ C-1996-033) through a "routine" technical) reviisiion application <br />(TIFF -110)„ (Bowie appears to be Iproposing to construct what arnounts to an oil) <br />refinery and possiblly a new power pliant„ IBowiie's proposal) is to construct a coal) <br />gasification facility on iits IBowiie INo„ 2 coal) uniine siite„ <br />As stated iin the company's application, the facility, knovvin as a "1DAXII0IIM (Pliant," <br />"wiillll be used to convert coal) imine waste to synthetic gas which its then .used either <br />to geneirate ellectricall power or diesel) /fuel) oil)„" The project proposal) envisions fiive <br />coal) gasiification units operating 24 hours a day, and each capable of processing <br />of 72 tons per day of coal) irnine waste„ The pliant wound be built wlheire the IBowiie <br />92 Mine's clean coal) stockpile iresiides, after that stockpile its depleted. <br />Such a facility wound represent a dirarnat.ic change withiin Bowie's pernmit boundary” <br />potentially turning a coal) mining operation into a hydrocarbon irefiinery 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 firoinm coal) imiiniing„ This is NOT a Teclhruiicall <br />Revision. What's more, tlhere appears to be little to no inforimatiion dernornstratiing <br />https://m ai I . googl e. com/mail/b/511 /u/0/?ui =2&i k=deb7fOcd2O&view= pt&search= i nbox&th=158fe2be700e8681 &si m I=158fe2be700e8681 1/3 <br />