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Savage and Savage Environmental <br />pra'fctica l oolutlono for environmental iooueo <br />4610 Haystack Drive 970 674 8080 telephone <br />Windsor, Colorado .50550 970 674 8088 facsimile <br />9avageand5avage@earthlink.net <br />December 8, 2020 <br />Bureau of Land Management <br />Uncompahgre Field Office <br />2465 S. Townsend <br />Montrose, CO 81401 <br />Re: Bond Release Application (SL-04), Oxbow Mining LLC, Elk Creek Mine, <br />(CDRMS file C-1981-022) <br />Dear Uncompahgre Field Office: <br />Oxbow Mining, LLC (OMLLC) is applying for Phase III, final liability and reclamation <br />bond release for portions of the Elk Creek Mine (Colorado Division of Reclamation, <br />Mining, and Safety permit C-1981-022) in accordance with the approved reclamation plan. <br />The subject of the bond release is a release from liability and reclamation bond for areas <br />where it has been demonstrated that OMLLC has completed all reclamation obligations <br />and successfully met the final revegetation success criteria. <br />The reclaimed areas requesting bond release are located within the permit area which <br />comprises portions of Sections 27-34, T12S, R90W, Sections 25-27 and 34-36, T12S, R91 W, <br />Sections 6 and 7, T13S, R89W, Sections 1-12 and 17, T13S, R90W, Sections 1-3 and 11-13,T3 S, <br />R91 W, all within the 6th PM, Delta and Gunnison Counties, Colorado. The mine permit area <br />entrance is located north of Somerset, Colorado, and is accessed from Colorado Highway <br />133. <br />As required by Colorado law, whenever bond release is requested, all interested or affected <br />parties with a valid legal interest must be notified and afforded the opportunity to comment <br />or request an informal conference on the bond release in accordance with Rule 3.03.3 of <br />the Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal Mining. <br />