2019-12-31_REVISION - C1981022 ‎(13)‎

• Permit No: C1981022
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 12/31/2019
• Doc Name: Notice of Proposed Decision
• From: DRMS
• To: Bureau of Land Management
• Type & Sequence: RN7
• Email Name: LDS
• Email Name: JDM
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

1313 Sherman St. Room 215 Denver, CO 80203 P [phone] F [phone] https://mining.state.co.us
Jared Polis, Governor | Dan Gibbs, Executive Director | Virginia Brannon, Director
1313 Sherman St. Room 215
Denver, CO 80203
December 31, 2019

Desty Dyer
Bureau of Land Management
2505 S. Townsend Ave.
Montrose, CO 81401

Re: Proposed Decision
Permit Renewal Application No. 7 (RN-7)
Elk Creek Mine (Permit No. C-1981-022)

Dear Mr. Dyer:

The Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety is proposing to approve a renewal
application for coal mining and reclamation permit. The application was submitted by Oxbow
Mining, LLC on March 19, 2018 for the Elk Creek Mine. In accordance with Rule 2.08.5(3)(b) of
the Rules and Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal Mining, we are
providing notice of this proposed decision.

Any person with an interest which may be adversely affected by the proposed decision may request
a formal hearing before the Mined Land Reclamation Board within 30 days of the first publication
of the public notice by the Division in the Delta County Independent.

The underground mine is located approximately 0 miles North of Somerset, Colorado. The permit
area is further described as follows:

Township 12 South, Range 90 West, 6th PM - all or parts of Sections 29 - 32 Township 12 South,
Range 91 West, 6th PM - all or parts of Sections 25 - 27 and 34 - 36 Township 13 South, Range 89
West, 6th PM - all or parts of Sections 6 and 7 Township 13 South, Range 90 West, 6th PM - all or
parts of Sections 1 - 12 and 17 Township 13 South, Range 91 West, 6th PM - all or parts of Sections
1 - 3 and 11 - 13

Copies of the renewal application are available for public review in the Division offices at the above
address and at the Paonia Public Library, 2 3rd Street, Paonia, CO 81428; Delta County Clerk and
Recorder, 501 Palmer Street, Room 211, Delta, CO 81416; Gunnison County Clerk and Recorder,
221 N. Wisconsin, Gunnison, CO 81230. A Copy of the Division's “Proposed Decision and Findings