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Attachment C <br />DMIBtT [9C <br />Mountain Coal Company <br />VM9 EM NVM <br />Karl Ofte Bas Sol <br />Scnrwc. Cobrrou 0'434 <br />TM+pav 3"o251 -50t5 <br />-a 303 WN -5596 <br />April 26, 1495 <br />Mr, Raymond Kingston <br />U. S_ Forest Service, Paonia Ranger District <br />P.0 Box 1030 <br />Paorik CO 81428 <br />Re: Monitoring of (.1_ S. Forest ServirA Water Resources <br />[dear Mr Kingston, <br />To update and clarify Mountain Coal Company's (MCC) 1986 agreement with the U.S. Forest <br />Service, Paonia Ranger District (USFS) to monitor the USFS surface water resources that are <br />located above panels to be retreat mined (i.e., longwall coined or secondary recovery), T met with <br />Mike Ward at your office on February 07, 1995 In summary, MCC shalt_ <br />Maintain Map 37 that contains the locations of the USFS surface water <br />resources (stock ponds) within the West Elk Mine area of interest. MCC shell <br />contact the USFS at least annually for updated USFS surface water resource <br />information (i.e., add ponds constnucted or moved, etc.) ffupdated, a copy of Map <br />37 shall be submitted by revision application for incorporation into NICCs Pcrtnit <br />document. A current reap shall also be included ut Awwal Hydrology Reports <br />(provided armally to the USFS ) <br />Monitor for effects of subsidence by visually inspecting (access permitting) <br />USFS surface water resources with pianned seasonal Livestock use that are within <br />the surface area defined by the angle -of -draw from longwail mined areas and areas <br />of active secondary recovery These inspections shall typically be conducted <br />monthly during the grazing season only (unless changing conditions require a more <br />frequent or less frequent monitoring interval as deterlm ned by the District Ranger.) <br />This monitoring &hall typically begin one year prior to planned retreat minting (for <br />baseline condition) and end after complete subsidence of the area [i.e., two <br />consecutive subsidence surveys with no measured movement not attributable to <br />natural forces (e.g_, frost heave, sloughage, etc )] MCC Aau owtact the USFS <br />each year to deternt ne the areas and start and end dates (duration) of planned <br />seasonal livestock use. <br />e Promptly repk)rt to the USFS any subsidenct "impacts" observed by MCC <br />inspection kl& shall also promptly inspect (access permitting) a reported' <br />"impact" to a "use' by a gazing permittee or USFS official <br />12 <br />