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• -. ; MINING AND RECLAMATIGN PLAN APPROVAL PACKAGE ROADSIDE AND CAMEO MINES, POWDERHORN COAL COMPANY The following is a list of comments from the review of the Mining and Reclamation Plan Approval Package by Powderhorn Coal Company. 1. Table of Contents, Item 6. e., the legal spelling is Western Associated Coal Corp. 2. Memorandum from the Administrator, under Subject: The Federal lease number listed as C-02740 should be corrected to read C-020740. 3. Memorandum from the Administrator, under I. Recommendation, in the fifth line the Federal coal lease number C-02740 should be corrected to read C-020740. 4. Memorandum from the Administrator, under II. Background, the second sentence implies that the applicant has not secured a long term contract: Powderhorn Coal .Company has had a long term contract since August 30, 1978. 5. Memorandum from the Administrator, under II. Background, the fourth sentence reads "with 2,077 acres to 6e disturbed during this permit period." The sentence should read "potentially affected" as Powder- horn Coal Company's operations are underground coal mines. 6. Memorandum from the Administrator, under II. Background, sixth paragraph, it is Powderhorn Coal Company's understanding that the stipulation concerning archeology was rewritten. 7. Memorandum from the Administrator, under II. Background, seventh paragraph, the paragraph should be deleted as one violation was vacated and the other substantially reduced in an assessment settle- ment. 8. Memorandum from the Director, under Subject: The Federal lease listed as C-02740, should read C-020740. 9. Maps - Powderhorn Coal Company operates the Roadside and Cameo No. 1 Mines as one permit area on two maps, not two permit areas as the Maps imply. 10. Chronology of Events, under Date, March 29, 1982, the date should read March 29, 1981. 11. Chronology of Events, under Date, December, 1982, the date should read January 14, 1983. 12. Findings, under II. 2., Powderhorn Coal Company is not aware that the Blue Flame Mine is "hydraulically (sic) interconnected with Rapid Creek." The statement implies that a study has been conducted.