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SL-18 I I 1 3/20/20 1 8/22/20 <br /> See Exhibit 2A of the Colowyo Mine Annual Reclamation Report for the locations of the previous <br /> Phase I,H and III Bond Releases areas at the Colowyo Mine. See Table 1 in this document for the <br /> previous bond release acreages and Table 2 in this document for the previous bond release amounts. <br /> SL-19 Partial Phase II Bond Release Application <br /> The SL-19 application was received by the Division on July 22,2020 and deemed complete on <br /> August 12,2020. Colowyo published notice of the bond release application in the Craig Daily <br /> Press once weekly for four consecutive weeks,beginning July 17,2020 and ending on August 7, <br /> 2020. Colowyo notified land owners within and adjacent to the mine permit area,the Office of <br /> Surface Mining (OSM),the BLM, Colorado State Land Board(CSLB) and other interested parties <br /> of the application for bond release, as required by Rule 3.03.2(1). No comments,written objections <br /> or requests for an informal conference regarding the bond release application were received by the <br /> Division. <br /> A bond release inspection was scheduled and conducted on September 2,2020. The site inspection <br /> was conducted in accordance with Rule 3.03.2(2). Inspection attendees included: Zach Trujillo of <br /> the Division,Tony Tennyson of Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association,Inc. (Tri- <br /> State),and Tom Medlin of OSM. No representatives from the BLM,the CLSB, other State or <br /> local agencies, or adjacent land owners attended the inspection. A summary of the bond release <br /> inspection is presented in Section IV, of this document. Detailed observations of the inspection are <br /> documented in the inspection report that was issued September 4,2020. See Figure 1 of this <br /> document for the location of the SL-19 partial phase II bond release area. <br /> III. CRITERIA FOR BOND RELEASE <br /> Phase II Bond Release <br /> Proposed Decision and Findings of Compliance October 26,2020 <br /> Partial Phase II Bond Release SL-19 Page 4 <br />