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Summary <br />The Review Process <br />GCC Energy, LLC. submitted a permit revision application on June 24, 2020. The Division <br />determined the application to be complete on June 29, 2020. The operator published the public <br />notice in the Durango Herald on July 1, 2020. The public notice initialed a 30-day public <br />comment period. GCC sent additional information to the Division on August 8, 2020. The <br />Division reviewed the application material and sent the operator a preliminary adequacy review <br />letter (PAR) on August 28, 2020. The operator sent a reply to the Division's August 28, 2020 <br />PAR on August 31, 2020. The Division sent a second adequacy letter to GCC Energy, LLC on <br />September 21, 2020. The operator provided a response on September 24, 2020. <br />The Division received concurrence from the State History Preservation Office (SHPO), on <br />August 4, 2020, that since no new area is proposed to be disturbed with PR10, the SHPO issued <br />a finding of no adverse effect [36 CFR 800.5(d)(1)] to historic properties is appropriate for the <br />proposed activities. Should unidentified archaeological resources be discovered in the course of <br />the project, work must be interrupted until the resources have been evaluated in terms of the <br />National Register eligibility criteria (36 CFR 60.4) in consultation with SHPO pursuant to 36 <br />CFR 800.13. Also, should the consulted -upon scope of the work change, the operator is required <br />to notify the SHPO for continued consultation under Section 106 of the National Historic <br />Preservation Act. SHPO requests continued consultation if the undertaking proposes to expand <br />underground operations beyond the areas consulted upon through HC# 75858. The expansion of <br />underground operations could pose additional effects to cultural resources including surface <br />subsidence. Additional cultural resource inventories may be necessary if underground operations <br />are expanded. <br />Upon determining the application complete, the Division consulted with the Office of Surface <br />Mining and Enforcement (OSM) to determine if PR10 constituted a mine plan action. On July <br />22, 2020, the OSM concurred that this permit revision would indeed, be considered a Mine Plan <br />action. <br />This revision proposes to add 397.5 acres to the permit area, bringing the total permit area to <br />3,102.9 acres. PR10 does not propose any additional disturbance. Affected area consists of area <br />that potentially could be affected by subsidence, or within the affected angle of draw of the <br />underground workings. The proposed affected area is 332.0 acres. The proposed additional <br />acreage consists of five (5) non-contiguous parcels that are either privately owned or are <br />federally owned (U.S. Bureau of Land Management). These five parcels are within the recently <br />approved Federal Lease COC-78825. The majority of the Federal Lease area falls within the <br />Federal Permit CO-0106C. However, due to surface ownership of the five parcels, they do not <br />qualify to be administered under the Federal Permit CO-0106C <br />Description of the Environment <br />The King Coal permit boundary can be seen on Map King II-001 and other maps in the PAP. <br />