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SECTION 2.04.8 <br />CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION <br />Introduction <br />Western Fuels Colorado, A Limited Liability Company (WFC), is renewing Permit No. C-81-008. <br />WFC's New Horizon 1 & 2 Mine is the old Peabody Coal Company Nucla & Nucla East Mine <br />which operated under the same permit. The New Horizon 1 & 2 mine areas (formerly called the <br />Nucla and Nucla East mine areas respectively) are being repermitted. Due to a final Phase 3 <br />Bond Release, the NH1 permit area has been significantly reduced. Maps where the permit <br />boundary is a relevant feature (such as Map 2.03.4-1 or Map 2.04.7-1) show the current permit <br />area. <br />In preparation to reopen the Nucla Mine (now the New Horizon Mine) after a period of <br />temporary cessation, WFC applied for and received an emission permit from the Colorado <br />Department of Health (CDOH), Air Pollution Control Division, A copy of the emission permit is <br />• attached at the end of this section. <br />No climatological data is available at the New Horizon Mine. A National Weather Service <br />Station does exist in the town of Norwood, Colorado approximately 10 miles southeast of the <br />New Horizon Mine. The Norwood station has a record of precipitation and temperature for a <br />period of 52 years and 51 years, respectively. A second National Weather Service Station <br />exists in the town of Uravan, approximately 8 miles northwest of the mine. The Uravan station <br />has a record of precipitation and temperature fora period of 26 years and 25 years, <br />respectively. In May 1998, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) established a Remote <br />Automated Weather Station CRAWS) at Hopkins Airfield, about 1 mile south of Nucla. The <br />station is principally for monitoring fire-related weather conditions. However, it records hourly <br />averages for parameters such as precipitation, wind speed and direction, relative humidity, etc <br />every day of the year. See Table 2.04.8-3 for selected weather parameters from the RAWS <br />data. <br />• 2.04.8 - 1 <br />