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Page 4 of 73 Summary Permit C-2010-088 CAM submitted an application for a new permit on September 22, 2010. The Division issued permit C-2010-08 8 for the Fruita Loadout on March 6, 2012. The permit was approved as a coal loadout only and no underground or surface mining will occur within the permit boundary. The Fruita Loadout will be operated by CAM and is located on privately owned lands within Mesa County, Colorado. The legal description of the lands included within the permit area is: Township 1 North, Range 3 West, Ute P.M. Section 2: Portions of the SW/4, W/2SW/4SE/4 Section 3: Portions of the SEA SE/4SE/4NE/4 Section 10: Portions of the N/2NE/4 Section 11: Portions of the N/2NW/4,N/2NE/4, SE/4NE/4 The Fruita Loadout permit boundary contains 208.6 acres of land that are all located on private surface. CAM owns 201.3 acres, the Union Pacific Railroad owns 5.3 acres, and Fruita Development, LLC owns 2.0 acres. The minerals within the proposed permit area are owned by the respective private surface owners. CAM is approved to disturb 38.1 acres within the permit area. Histor The Fruita Loadout permit was issued by the Division on March 6, 2012 and was immediately placed in Temporary Cessation. On October 26, 2012 the Division issued final approval for Technical Revision No.1 which allowed for the suspension of all water monitoring at the loadout site. Through adverse possession, CAM lost a total of 7 acres of permit area to an adjacent landowner. With the final approval of Technical Revision No.2 on March 18, 2014, the permit boundary was adjusted to its current acreage of 208.6 acres. As of the date of this midterm review, no mining related activity or disturbance has occurred at the Fruita Loadout. Description of the Environment The Fruita Loadout is located approximately 3 miles northwest of the city of Fruita and 1.3 miles southeast of the town of Loma, Colorado. The permit area is located north of the Colorado River and is situated between State Highway 6 and State Highway 50 and Interstate 70. The permit area is found on USGS Mack, Colorado 7.5 minute topographic map The permit area and adjacent area lie within western Mesa County. Private lands are under the jurisdictions of Mesa County and the city of Fruita. Existing land uses within the permit and adjacent area consist of industrial, agricultural, rangeland, fish and wildlife habitat and a transportation corridor. There is sparse noxious and invasive vegetation and native shrubs covering parts of the site, along with Tamarisk trees, native grasses and shrubs lining the surface waterways. These surface water bodies include Reed Wash and the Loma Drain, both traversing the site in a general northeast-southwest direction and flowing toward the nearby Colorado River.