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6/6/2018 State.co.us Executive Branch Mail - Fwd: Sunset Roadless Area is no place for a mine expansion! <br />STATE OF DRMS_CoalAdmin - DNR, DNR <dnr drms_coal_admin@state.co.us> <br />'r <br />COLORADO <br />Temp - DNR, DRMS <drms.temp@state.co.us> Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 10:00 AM <br />To: KWelt@archcoal.com, DNR DRMS_CoalAdmin - DNR <dnr—drms—coal_admin@state.co.us> <br />---------- Forwarded message ---------- <br />From: Petar Dopchev <petar,dopchev@gmail,com> <br />Date: Thu, May 31, 2018 at 8:15 PM <br />Subject: Sunset Roadless Area is no place for a mine expansion! <br />To: drms,temp@stateocoous <br />Hello, <br />Would like to express my concern about the Sunset Roadless Area. The mine extension should be stopped considering <br />the following points: <br />• I oppose West Elk Mine's permit revision number 15 (PR -15), which seeks to add to the mine's existing permit area about <br />1,520 acres of roadless National Forest land and federal minerals and about 1,100 acres of private surface and fee coal. <br />• Approving this permit revision is not in the public interest because it would destroy and degrade roadless forest directly <br />adjacent to the West Elk Wilderness, and because it would prolong the operation of the West Elk coal mine, which has been <br />the largest single industrial source of methane pollution in Colorado for many years. <br />• PR -15 violates Division regulations that require mining operations to "minimize disturbances and adverse impacts of [mine] <br />operations on fish, wildlife, and related environmental values." <br />• PR -15 fails to control and minimize air pollution, because the permit revision does nothing to limit the climate impacts of <br />methane pollution. The West Elk mine contains no provisions to limit methane pollution, such as mandating the capture or <br />flaring of methane, although a recent State of Colorado report shows that flaring can be a safe and reliable way to reduce <br />coal mine climate pollution. <br />Regards, <br />Petar Dopchev <br />mfo-rl <br />De.parh i nt of N:atu nl R,F oa.arco, <br />P303.866.3567 <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215, Denver, CO 80203 <br />https://ma il. google. com/mai I/b/AOg3vwl0smveWol nsa5lfh Revndt2T6Lymh7XjyFtbS6ZytJ 7Fj7/u/0/?u i=2&i k=deb7fOcd20&jsver=-dxVNc9Y02g. en. &cbl =g mai I_fe_1805 <br />