PERMFILE42025

• Permit No: X200621401
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 6/1/2006
• Doc Name: NOI Application
• From: BTU Empire Corporation
• To: DMG
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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BTU Empire Corporation
May 25, 2006
Mr. James Burnell
Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, CO 80203
Phone: [phone]
Re: BTU Empire Corporation -Notice of Intent to Explore
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BTU Empire Corporation (BTU-EC) is submitting this Notice of Intent (NOI) to provide for
exploration access, drill-pad development, drilling, and sampling of up to 10 coreholes, and subsequent
reclamation of the associated exploration disturbance in an azea designated as the Empire property, as
shown on the accompanying maps. The proposed exploration activities, which will occur during 2006,
will provide BTU-EC with important geologic and coal quality information needed to assess coal
recovery potential and economic feasibility for possible future mining of coal reserves associated with
the Empire property. -'
This NOI application includes the following:
• Transmittal letter
• Parts I-III of the CDMG NOI form and corresponding explanatory text, tables, figures, and
maps
• Legal description of the proposed exploration area
• Cultural Resource Letter
The proposed 2006 exploration progam involves:
Construction of 10 drill-pads (each approximately 100 x 100 ft)
Completion, sampling, and geophysical logging of 10 coreholes
Abandonment (plugging and sealing) of the coreholes, and reclamation of the associated
exploration disturbance
Six of the 10 proposed exploration locations have been previously disturbed by surface coal mining
operations and other surface disturbance activities including activities associated with the Williams
Fork, Trapper, Empire, and No. 9 Mines, and more recent agricultural activity. Anne McKibbin, of
Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Inc., conducted a review of the 4 remaining proposed exploration
sites and has provided a letter verifying that, because of the nature and extent of previous surface
disturbance, there is no significant potential for disturbance of cultural resource values from the
proposed sites. Review of the proposed locations by the Colorado Division of Wildlife did not identify