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Elk Creek Mine (C-1981-022) MT-8 <br /> Permit Revision No. 3 was submitted to the Division on 13 May 1996. With the submittal of this <br /> revision the operator requested to increase the permit area by 3,518 acres, to a total of 9,047 acres. <br /> Of the total permit acreage, 3,553 acres were private land and 5,494 acres were federal land. Of the <br /> total increase in acreage, 1,875 acres were on private land and 1,643 acres were on federal land. The <br /> increase in acreage was to incorporate the acquisition of the 160-acre Eastern Lease Modification, <br /> and a permit boundary adjustment. Mining would continue in the B coal seam. The permit revision <br /> was approved on 14 October 1996, with stipulations numbers 21, 22 and 23 attached. All three <br /> stipulations were satisfied. <br /> Succession of Operator No. 3 transferred the permit from Pacific Basin Resources to Oxbow Carbon & <br /> Minerals, Inc. This transfer was approved on 20 February 1997. The permit was transferred from <br /> Oxbow Carbon & Minerals, Inc. to Oxbow Mining, Inc. on 23 January 1998 with Succession of <br /> Operator No. 4. <br /> Oxbow Mining, Inc. (OMI) submitted an application for Permit Renewal 03 (RN-03) on 13 March 1998, <br /> thereby securing the right of successive renewal for the Sanborn Creek Mine. The Division deemed <br /> the submittal complete on 23 March 1998. The Division's adequacy review letter was dated 30 July <br /> 1999. Because the operator chose to rewrite and reorganize the entire Sanborn Creek Mine permit <br /> application, it was decided to separate the permit application reorganization effort from the permit <br /> renewal process. Since the permit renewal adequacy questions were more pertinent to the <br /> reorganization, rather than to the permit renewal itself, the OMI responses to the permit renewal <br /> adequacy review questions were submitted in a new revision, Permit Revision No. 4 (PR-04) on 15 <br /> September 2000. Issuance of the Permit renewal was contingent upon the submittal of PR-04, and <br /> the permit renewal was issued on 25 September 2000. <br /> Technical Revision No. 32 (TR-32) was submitted on 17 September 1999. TR-32 was for the <br /> construction of surface facilities, and the initial development and mining of the Elk Creek Mine. In <br /> this TR review, the Division reevaluated the reclamation cost estimate for the entire mine. A decision <br /> to approve TR-32 was issued on 10 July 2000. <br /> PR-04, submitted by OMI on 15 September 2000, was primarily an updated and reformatted permit <br /> application. The updated permit incorporated all relevant information from the original mining and <br /> reclamation plan including all approved revisions to the permit. OMI also proposed to add 3,965 <br /> acres to the permit area. A mine plan for the additional area was submitted as a separate Permit <br /> Revision (Permit Revision 05). No new mining or reclamation activities were proposed in PR-04. An <br /> adequacy letter was sent to OMI on 9 November 2000. The Division approved PR-04 on 14 January <br /> 2002. <br /> On 19 September 2001, OMI submitted Succession of Operators application no. 5 (SO-05). This <br /> application was submitted to change the ownership of the mine from OMI to Oxbow Mining, LLC <br /> (OMLLC). The application was deemed complete on 27 September 2001 and approved on 23 October <br /> 2003. <br /> Page 4 of 22 <br />