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Unl~d~tates Department of tterior <br />OFFICE OF SURF~.CE MIIrING <br />P.eclamation and Enforcement <br />BROOI:S TOWERS <br />1026 15TH STREET <br />DENVER, COLORADO 80202 <br />OFF ICE OF T"rIE P.EGIO\'AL DIRECTOP. ` <br />"L°P10RluVD'u?S <br />T0: Joan *1. Davenport, Assistant Secretan o.` Enzra and Y.inerals <br />TSRU: ;;alter E. iieine <br />FRO'": DOIrALD A. CR-.\'E ~~~' <br />SUEJECT: Approval with Stipulations of ?fajor `codification to the <br />Surface '.lining and Reclamation Plan for Energy !`1 and Ener~~ "~'' <br />mines, and Extension into Eckman Park. Energy Fuels Corporat_on, <br />Routt County, Colorado: (Federal Coal Lease \o s. C-226=, C-2090C, <br />C-128433, C-081330, D-C52547, and C-15284). <br />I recot/end that the Department approve with stipulations the major <br />modif'..:.::ion of the mining and reclamation plan for the Energ}• Fuels <br />Corporat_ons Energy ~~1 and Energ}• X12 mine and the Ecknan ?ark a;:tension. <br />These mines are located approximately 23 miles vest-southwest of Steamboat <br />Springs, Colorado. <br />Ttihz proposed permit area covers 6,680 acres of which approximately 160C acres <br />will be disturbed as a result of the Eckman Park e~:passion. The mines are <br />dragline and shovel operations removing predominantly Federal cca'_ and a s~'_l <br />pe-ventage of private coal. The coal is shipped by the Denve_ and ~io-Grande <br />Railroad to Illinois Power Company and the Public Service Company of <br />Colorado. I'he annual reported production rate has been and will continue to <br />b= 3.9 mil'_ion tons per year over a 8 year period (1980 to 1988). <br />In SepteaSer 1979 Energy Fuels Corporation (EFC) submitted application to <br />update their present operation and extend operations onto new Federa'_ leases. <br />EFC requested OS*i review the application under the permanent regu'_ato=~ <br />program. Is Fovember o_` 1979 the plan was revised by the app licant '_- order <br />to better facilitate maximizing recovery of the coal resource. <br />The application underwent a joint review between OS"i and Colorado Tiined :.and <br />Reclamation (tfLR). On December 19, 19'9 the i:ctice of Avzilabi'_ity was <br />published in the Federal Register. At this time a joint technical ana'_}•sis <br />vas unde n:a}• between OS*1 and ."iLP.. As technical defeciencies in the plan were <br />discovered EFC vas contacted and additional revisions were made. The last <br />revision to the application vas received by OS". on Februar}• 5, 198C, and the <br />last information February 21, 1980. The State of Colorado, due to reeulatcr}• <br />time constraints, approve3 the mine and reclamation. plan with StipL'12tiCn5 on <br /> <br />