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Mountain Coal Company, LLC — West Elk Mine <br />Request for the Modification of Logical Mining Unit # COC -57201 Boundary <br />A. Introduction <br />Modifications to Federal Coal Leases COC -1362 and COC -67232 were approved on <br />December 15, 2017 and issued to Mountain Coal Company, LLC (MCC) and Ark Land <br />LLC (Ark), respectively, effective December 01, 2017. With these approved modified <br />leases, MCC and Ark request that the modified portion of Federal Coal Lease COC -1362 <br />and all of Federal Coal Lease COC -67232, as modified, be included the boundary of <br />Logical Mining Unit # COC -57201 (LMU). MCC also requests the relinquishment of <br />Federal Coal Lease COC -54558 and its removal from the LMU. <br />As provided in 43 CFR 3487.1(c)(6) and other federal regulations, MCC and Ark request <br />that any data contained herein or incorporated by reference be maintained as <br />confidential. This includes, but is not limited to, in-place mineable and recoverable coal <br />reserves, planned coal production, coal seam thickness and coal quality data. <br />B. LMU Criteria <br />1. The names and addresses of the designated operator and owners are: <br />a. Operator of the West Elk Mine and owner of leases COC -1362 and COC -54558; <br />Mountain Coal Company, LLC <br />5174 Highway 133 <br />Somerset, CO 81434 <br />b. Owner of lease COC -67232; <br />Ark Land LLC <br />One CityPlace Drive, Suite 300 <br />St. Louis, MO 63141 <br />c. Owner of MCC and Ark; <br />Arch Coal, Inc. <br />One CityPlace Drive, Suite 300 <br />St. Louis, MO 63141 <br />2. MCC's current Resource Recovery and Protection Plan (R2P2) for the West Elk Mine is <br />included in MCC's Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining & Safety (CDRMS) <br />approved SMCRA permit document, with recoverable reserves provided in Table 28 that <br />was last revised in July 2015. An updated R2P2 will be included with the Permit <br />Revision application to be submitted soon to the CDRMS, OSM and BLM incorporating <br />the area th typ modified leases (See "A" above.) <br />8 : .: z u�� ��az <br />