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STATE OF COLORADO DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY Department of Natural Resources 1313 Sherman St., Room 215 C O L O RA D O Denver, Colorado 80203 D 1 v 1 5 1 o N o r Phone: (303) 8663567 MINERAL S FAX: (303) 832-8106 G E O L O G Y AECLANATION•NINING SAFFTT•SCIENCE June 2 2005 Bill Owens , Governor Russell George Mr. Chazles Overton Ezecutive Director PO Box 295 Ronald W. Canany Florence CO 81226-0295 Division DiredOr , Natural Resource Trustee RE: Request for Information Dear Mr. Overton: Thank you for your recent letter to Mr. David A. Berry, our Division's Coal Program Supervisor, requesting information about the process of permitting coal mines in Colorado. Mr. Berry has asked me to reply to your letter on his behalf. A. Colorado Coal Mine Permitting Process The process for permitting coal mines in Colorado is conducted primarily by our Division's Coal Program. This process is described in the Colorado Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Act (law) and the Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal Mining (Rules), copies of which I have enclosed. Generally, the process involves the following: Completeness Review: Upon submittal of an a permit application to our office, we have ten calendar days within which to review the application and determine whether all pertinent information required by our law and Rules to be in the application has been provided. If certain required information has not been submitted, we deem the application Incomplete, inform the applicant of this missing information, and stop our review process until this information is submitted. Once an application contains all required pertinent information for us to review it, we deem the application Complete, or "filed". Public Notice of Application Filing: Upon deeming an application Complete, we inform certain local, state, and federal government agencies of our determination, and of their opportunity to comment on the proposed operation. We additionally direct the applicant to publish a notice in a local paper regarding the proposed operation. The applicant's notice is required to be published once a week for four consecutive weeks. This notice is required to contain, among other things, information pertaining to the applicant and the operation, and the location of where a copy of the application will be available for local public review (usually a county courthouse). Comments, objections, requests for informal conferences, and requests for pertinent public hearings may be submitted within the thirty-day period following the last publication of the applicant's notice. Copies of such comments are provided to the applicant, Office of Office of Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Active and Inactive Mines Geological Survey