2024-03-12_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - C1981022

• Permit No: C1981022
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 3/12/2024
• Doc Name: Proposed Decision and Findings of Compliance
• From: DRMS
• To: Oxbow Mining, LLC
• Type & Sequence: RN8
• Permit Index Doc Type: Findings
• Email Name: LDS
• Email Name: AME
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................... 1
ProposedDecision ......................................................................................................................... 3
Summary........................................................................................................................................ 4
TheReview Process................................................................................................................ 5
Description of the Environment.............................................................................................. 5
Description of the Operation and Reclamation Plans............................................................. 7
Findings of the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety ..................................... 19
SectionA-Rule 2.07.6......................................................................................................... 19
SectionB -Rule 4................................................................................................................. 22
I. Roads............................................................................................................... 22
II. Support Facilities............................................................................................. 23
III. Hydrologic Balance ..........................................................................................23
IV. Topsoil ............................................................................................................. 29
V. Sealing of Drilled Holes and Underground Openings..................................... 30
VI. Use of Explosives ............................................................................................ 30
VII. Disposal of Excess Spoil.................................................................................. 30
VIII. Coal Mine Waste Banks................................................................................... 30
IX. Coal Mine Waste.............................................................................................. 31
X. Backfilling and Grading................................................................................... 31
XI. Revegetation .................................................................................................... 31
XII. Post-mining Land Use...................................................................................... 32
XIII. Protection of Fish, Wildlife and Related Environmental Values..................... 32
XIV. Protection of Underground Mining.................................................................. 32
XV. Subsidence Control.......................................................................................... 33
XVI. Concurrent Surface and Underground Mining ................................................ 33
XVII. Operations on Alluvial Valley Floors.............................................................. 33
XVIII. Operations on Prime Farmland........................................................................ 34
XIX. Mountaintop Removal ..................................................................................... 34
XX. Operations on Steep Slopes ............................................................................. 34
XXI. In Situ Processing ............................................................................................ 34
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