APPCOR13302

• Permit No: C1996084
• IBM Index Class Name: Application Correspondence
• Doc Date: 2/12/1996
• Doc Name: BASELINE STUDIES & PERMIT APPLICATION PREPARATION FOR LORENCITO COAL PROJECT LAS ANIMAS CNTY COLO
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

INTRODUCTION
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A.P. Maxwell Development Corp. is
proposing to construct and operate a coal
mine facility to be located approximately 30
miles west of Trinidad, Colorado. The site
is located in the Lorencito and Cow Canyon
drainages in Las Animas County. The
proposed mine will be developed in phases
with a five year and life of mine projection
being anticipated.
Surface facilities for the underground
mine will be located at each portal site and in
the drainage bottom of Lorencito Canyon.
Facilities will include the underground portal
areas and coal handling equipment which will
include crushers, preparation plant,
stockpiles, loadout structures, and refuse
disposal areas. The area of surface mining
will be on the ridge between Jeff and
Puertecito Canyon and will use the same coal
handling facilities as described for the
underground operations. Specific locations
for all facilities have not been determined,
however, designated areas have been
identified.
will be accomplished in two levels of effort.
For the large life of mine projection area,
regional information supplemented with
general reconnaissance type surveys will be
used for the overall description of the project
area. Intensive quantitative studies will be
conducted in the surface disturbance areas to
determine the potentially effected resources
and supply adequate information for permit
level engineering of facilities and impact
analysis. In addition, appropriate information
will be collected to establish the reclamation
and/or mitigation plans for the project.
These strategies have been designed to
comply with the regulations and guidelines of
the Colorado Division of Minerals and
Geology's Permanent Program Surface and
Underground Mine Reclamation Rules and
Regulations. To this end, the major portion
of a one year period will be utilized to collect
the appropriate seasonal data for each of the
required environmental disciplines and to
design surface facilities which will be
necessary for mine operations.
The objective of this document is to
provide a strategy to gather environmental
and engineering baseline data for the
proposed permit and adjacent areas. This
The following sections describe the
proposed activities to gather baseline data to
be submitted as a permit application package
for the Lorencito Coal Project.