APPCOR10055

• Permit No: C1981047
• IBM Index Class Name: Application Correspondence
• Doc Date: 7/28/1981
• Doc Name: BLUE RIBBON MINE STATUS OF TR FN C-047-81
• From: MLR
• To: WESTERN ASSOCIATED COAL CORP
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES 999
D. Monte Pascoe, Ear-cutive Director
Mr. William S. Tate
Senior Engineer
Western Associated Coal
Suite 2300
9I0 Seventeenth Street
Denver, Colorado 80202
David C. Shelton
Director
July 28, 1981
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423 Centennial Building, 1313 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203 Tel. [phone]
Corporation
Re: Blue Ribbon Mine - Status of Technical Revision
Our File No. C-047-81
Dear Mr. Tate:
The Division has 'reviewed and hereby approves a technical revision to Western
Associated Coal's approved plan under the Colorado permanent regulatory program
that will provide the Blue Ribbon Mine with an additional three-month supply
of coal which should be sufficient to allow operations to continue until the
permanent program review has been completed. The areas approved for extraction
are limited to the five development entries shown as the shaded areas on
revised Exhibit C, Preliminary Mine Layout Map, which was submitted to the
Division as part of the technical revision request on July 17, 1981. No pillar
removal will be permitted unless the operator has received approval and has
implemented a subsidence monitoring plan in accordance with the conditions
contained in stipulation NS of the OSP1 approval of the Minor Modification to
Coal Mining and Reclamation Plan for U.S. Steel Corporation's Somerset Mine.
Additionally, Goestern Associated Coal shall undertake no additional surface
disturbance associated with the Blue Ribbon Mine (except for mitigation of
identified cultural resources, implementation of the subsidence monitoring net-
work, and necessary hydrologic monitoring).
The notice of this technical revision approval was published on July 23, 1981.
If no comments are submitted to the Division by August 1, 1981, the approval
of this technical revision becomes final and mining can commence in the areas
approved under the revision.
Zf you have any questions concerning this revision or other matters, please do
not hesitate to call.
Sincerely,
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Tom Gillis
Reclamation Specialist
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