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monitoring, and mitigation measures to be employed by the operator are described in the <br />special use agreement, as well as the PAP. <br />Permit Revision No. 10 (PR -10) approved the undermining of Routt County Road No. <br />33.The road overlies the southern 5RT gateroad in section 13 of TSN, R86W. The <br />applicant published a notice in the Steamboat Pilot & Today for four consecutive weeks <br />beginning on February 15, 2015. This notice provided the opportunity for a public <br />hearing concerning affecting area within 100 feet of Routt County Road No. 33. There <br />was no public response or concern voiced about undermining of the road, nor was there a <br />request for a public hearing. TC has an existing road monitoring and maintenance <br />agreement with Routt County which addresses potential mining related road subsidence. <br />Signage, subsidence monitoring, and mitigation measures to be employed by the operator <br />are described in the special use agreement, as well as the PAP. <br />h) Three hundred feet of an occupied dwelling unless a written waiver from the owner has <br />been provided. TCC successfully complied with Stipulation No. 36 for the Southwest <br />Mining District on March 25, 1994 for the mobile home owned by Mr. Robert Perry. <br />Three dwellings were undermined in the Eastern Mining District (longwall panels 6R - <br />2R) during 1999. One had been occupied year round, one was vacant and is owned by <br />Twentymile Coal Company, and the third was occupied only during portions of the year. <br />Twentymile Coal Company has a subsidence agreement with Mr. Kenneth Ashley <br />regarding his dwellings. (2.07.6(2)(d)(v)). <br />The full-time residents were moved by Twentymile Coal Company to alternative <br />accommodations prior to subsidence of the house. Twentymile Coal Company took <br />precautions with the home by bracing floor joists and door frames prior to undermining. <br />The house was located near the center of longwall panel 5R. After subsidence occurred, <br />Twentymile Coal Company and the Ashley's agreed upon mitigation of the house by <br />replacement of the structure. Twentymile Coal Company demolished the original <br />structure, backfilled the foundation, constructed a new foundation and installed a modular <br />home as agreed upon with the landowner. The smaller residence owned by the Ashley's <br />overlay gateroad 6R, and experienced roughly 4 inches of subsidence. Twentymile Coal <br />Company conducted repairs to the smaller residence in accordance with the subsidence <br />agreement with the Ashley's in the fall of 1999. The residence owned by Twentymile <br />Coal Company also overlay gateroad 6R. This structure was not monitored for <br />subsidence impacts and will not undergo any mitigative measures as a result of <br />subsidence. <br />5. On the basis of information obtained from the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) <br />and archeological and cultural resource surveys submitted by the applicant, the Division <br />finds that subject to valid existing rights as of August 3, 1977, the mining operation will not <br />adversely affect any publicly owned park or place listed on or eligible for listing in the <br />National Register of Historic Places as determined by the State Historic Preservation Office. <br />6. For this underground mining operation, there will be no circumstances involving the surface <br />mining of coal or where underground mining activities concurrently involve the surface <br />Foidel Creek Mine 25 August 10, 2018 <br />