PERMFILE46727

• Permit No: C1980006
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Section_Exhibit Name: INTRODUCTION
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

III IIII II I IIIIII III Doc Date:12/11/2001
sss
• INTRODUCTION
f
Kerr Coal Company ("Kerr Coal") presently mines coal from private,
deeded land. With this application Kerr Coal has prepared a mining and
reclamation plan encompassing the newly acquired ad]acent Federal Coal
Lease No. C-22777 together with existing private reserves to comply with
the recently promulgated regulations for the Federal Lands Program under
the Permanent Regulatory Program of the Surface Mining Control and
Reclamation Act of 1977 ("SMCRA") as well as the newly enacted Colorado
Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act of 1979.
Background of Keir Coal
Kerr Coal is a relatively small, privately owned Colorado corporation
with executive offices in Denver, Colorado, and field offices in Walden,
Colorado. Engaged exclusively in mining coal by surface mining methods
. in Jackson County, Colorado, the company has no extensive land, water or
other natural resource holdings. (See: Figure 1, General Location
Map.) All of its human and capital resources are devoted to its single
coal mining operation in Jackson County, Colorado.
Operations began at the Marr Strip 111 in 1974. The first coal was pro-
duced during the last quarter of that year, and thereafter annual pro-
duction increased at relatively modest rates for the next four years.
Yearly production records for the operation are shown in Table 1, His-
torical Production Rates.
Beginning in August of 1977, Kerr Coal launched an expansion program to
increase coal production to accommodate increasing customer demands for
the high quality steam coal that Kerr Coal produces. At that time, a
production objective of 750,000 tons per year by 1981 was established by
the company.