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Summary <br />The Review Process <br />Hayden Gulch Terminal, LLC (HGT), a subsidiary of Peabody Investments Corporation, <br />submitted a permit renewal application (RN -5) for the Hayden Gulch Loadout (Loadout). The <br />Loadout was originally part of the Hayden Gulch Mine (CDRMS Permit No. C-1980-003), <br />located approximately seven miles southeast of the current Loadout boundary. The permit for <br />the Hayden Gulch Mine was terminated on October 23, 2006. The Loadout was exclusively a <br />coal loadout facility located approximately 2 miles south of Hayden, Colorado in Routt County. <br />Permit No. C-1992-081 was issued on May 22, 1993, and has been renewed every five years <br />since that date. <br />For the current renewal RN -5, the Division notified HGT by letter on August 11, 2017 that its <br />permit for the Loadout would expire on May 22, 2018. The letter explained that for operations <br />to continue beyond that date, Section 2.08.5(3)(f) requires an application for renewal to be <br />received 180 days prior to its expiration date. HGT submitted a renewal application on August <br />28, 2017 and the application was found complete on September 8, 2017. HGT published a <br />notice of the application in the Steamboat Pilot, four consecutive weeks from December 10 <br />through December 31, 2017. <br />No objections regarding the application were received. <br />The Office of Surface Mining's applicant violator system (AVS) was queried on September 26, <br />2017 and the recommendation of the system was to provide ownership and control updates. A <br />follow-up AVS query was conducted on January 16, 2018 and resulted in a recommendation to <br />issue this RN -5 renewal. <br />On November 3, 2017, the Division sent an adequacy letter to HGT requesting additional <br />information with regards to portions of the permit. HGT provided responses to the Division's <br />adequacy letter in a letter dated December 28, 2017 and received by the Division on January 8, <br />2018. The Division updated the Reclamation Cost Estimate on March 3, 2017 with MT -5 and <br />there have been no additional cost updates since that time. All adequacy concerns have been <br />resolved; therefore, the Division proposes to approve the renewal application. <br />Publication of this proposed decision initiates a thirty -day public comment period. Provided there <br />are no objections to the decision, the proposed decision will become final at the close of the <br />comment period. <br />5 <br />