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L <br />energy fuels corporation <br />• III III I I III <br />executive offices • suite 900 • three park central . 1515 arapahoe . denver, cotorado 80202 • (303) 623-8317 <br />July 31, 1980 <br />o <br />- m <br />~. .~ <br />Mr. Carroll Levitt <br />Area Manager _ ± 6 <br />Williams Fork Planning Dnit <br />II. S. Bureau of Land Management <br />Post Office Box 1136 <br />Craig, Colorado 81625 <br /> _, <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />_ ~. ~. .-. ~, a Z V . . _ . <br /> <br />Re: August 6, 1980 Meeting - Coal Lease Modification <br />Dear Mr. Levitt: <br />Confirming your recent telephone conversation with Rent <br />Crofts, this letter will serve as a formal invitation to <br />attend a meeting at the Energy Fuels Corporation mine in <br />Steamboat Springs, Colorado on August 6, 1980 at 1:00 p. m. <br />The meeting is being held to discuss the most expeditious <br />means of effectuating a lease modification of Federal Coal <br />Lease C-22644 to include approximately 160 acres of land <br />immediately adjacent to the present lease boundary. A map <br />identifying the area proposed to be included is attached for <br />your reference. This acreage was excluded from the present <br />lease boundary because, at the time of the initial environ- <br />mental assessment on the lease application, the Colorado <br />Division of Wildlife believed that the value of the excluded <br />acreage as an elk calving and migration corridor justified the <br />exclusion. <br />Since the initial environmental assessment, Energy Fuels <br />and the Colorado Division of Wildlife have worked closely to <br />gather additional data on the value of the excluded acreage as <br />an elk calving habitat and to monitor the elk activities <br />in the area. <br />At a recent meeting between Energy Fuels and representa- <br />tives of the Colorado Division of Wildlife the results of the <br />elk data collection and monitoring activities were reviewed. <br />As a result of this review, the Colorado Division of Wildlife <br />has re-evaluated its earlier position that the area should be <br />excluded from mining. Specifically, the Colorado Division of <br />Wildlife recommended to the Bureau of Land Management in a <br />letter dated July 1, 1980 that the present lease be modified <br /> <br />