2017-05-15_PERMIT FILE - C1981008A ‎(24)‎

• Permit No: C1981008A
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 5/15/2017
• Doc Name: Legal, Financial, Compliance and Related Information
• Section_Exhibit Name: Section 2.03 Legal, Financial, Compliance & Related Information
• Media Type: D
• Archive: Yes

Legal, Financial, Compliance, and Related Information
The statements below are intended to address the requirements of Section 2.03 of the regulations of
the Office of Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal Mining for the New Horizon Mine. New
Horizon 1 & 2 Mine is the old Peabody Coal Company Nucla & Nucla East Mine which operated
under the same permit. This old Peabody Nucla mine area (the New Horizon 1 Mine area) is
undergoing final reclamation. Bond was released on 215.5 acres of the New Horizon 1 Mine
area in the Spring of 2002. The New Horizon Mine assumed that bonding responsibility on the
remaining 98.62 acres of NH1 land until such time as bond is released.
This application is intended to apply only to the New Horizon 2 (formerly Nucla East) mine area.
Descriptions of environmental baseline data, mining and reclamation plans contained in this
application are limited to the New Horizon 2 Mine area. The New Horizon 1 area is not addressed
in this application. It is undergoing reclamation and there will be no further disturbances at New
Horizon 1. There will be minor activity at the New Horizon 1 area to meet bond release
requirements (general caretaking activities), but no mining or other disturbances. No New Horizon
2 activity will affect New Horizon 1. Reclamation commitments for the New Horizon 1 area are
contained in a separate document entitled Reclamation Plan.
2.03.4(2)(a) Identification of Permit Applicant
Elk Ridge Mining and Reclamation, LLC
P.O. Box 33695
Denver, CO 80233
[phone]
Employer I.D. 84-1195998
On May 11, 2016 Elk Ridge Mining & Reclamation, LLC took over ownership of New Horizon
Mine (Permit No. C-1981-008) from Western Fuels -Colorado, a Limited Liability Company.
Other sections of this permit document, maps, or figures may refer to Western Fuels -Colorado, a
Limited Liability Company, Western Fuels -Colorado, Western Fuels, or WFC. From May 11,
2016 forward these references actually refer to Elk Ridge Mining and Reclamation, LLC.
2.03.4(2)(b) Applicant's Resident Agent
Ken Reif, Senior Vice President, General Counsel
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc.
P.O. Box 33695
Denver, CO 80233
[phone]
Employer I.D. 84-0464189
Section 2.03 Page 3 March 2017 (TR -79)