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24HS-Ol through 24HS-03 Wells Project Plan <br />Minor Revision 319 <br />Page 2 of 11 <br />PROJECT DESCRIPTION <br />The proposed project consists of drilling three (3) drill holes and wells to facilitate water <br />foam and nitrogen into a hotspot in the B Seam. The proposed wells are in Section 23, of <br />T.13S, R.90W, 6`h Principal Meridian, Gunnison County, Colorado. The proposed <br />project is within the current permitted coal mining azea (Permit Number C-80-007) and <br />on land surface managed by the USFS. The wells will be located on Federal Coal (BLM) <br />Lease COC-056447. The wells will be drilled in the area approved under TR-96 and <br />subsequent approvals for the annual operating plans i.e. MR-306 (2005), for Methane <br />Drainage Wells. <br />MCC's overall plan for drilling and reclaiming MDWs was originally approved by <br />CDMG on 15 July 2002 as Technical Revision 96 -Project Plan for Methane Drainage <br />Wells for Panels 16, 17, 17S, 18-24. The Forest Service performed an Environmental <br />Assessment of MCC's Methane Drainage Wells Plan, and approval was received in the <br />Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact, May 31, 2002. These three proposed <br />wells are in the overall project area but were not proposed for inclusion in the US Forest <br />Service reviews. As such, these wells are the subject of this sepazate Minor Revision. <br />Because these wells are on US Forest Service managed lands, US Forest Service approval <br />of their installation will be required. <br />The attached Proposed MDWs and New Road Construction for 2005, Map 2, at a scale of <br />1" = 1000', depicts the general location of the proposed drill pad, and Project methane <br />drainage wells, and the new road (part of the 2005 MDW Project). <br />SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY <br />The elevations of the proposed borehole locations range from approximately 8500 ft. The <br />terrain is comprised of steep slopes and mesa tops formed within the Wasatch and Mesa <br />Verde Formations and the colluvium and alluvium layers of the slope debris. The <br />principle drainages in this area are unnamed tributaries to either Sylvester Gulch or the <br />North Fork of the Gunnison River. <br />GEOLOGY <br />The proposed Project would include drilling along the southeastern edge of the Piceance <br />Basin within the Somerset Coal Field, occurring on the Somerset U.S.G.S. 7 1/2-minute <br />quadrangle map. <br />Initial geological work, in this area was, completed by W. T. Lee (1912), who reported <br />his findings in, "Coal Fields of Grand Mesa and the West Elk Mountains, Colorado" <br />