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• Westem Fuels-Colorado, <br />A Llmlted Llablllty Company <br />Permlt C-81-008 <br />New Horizon Mlne <br />Reclamation Plan <br />for <br />New Horizon 1 Mlne Area <br />Exptanatlon of Contents of Volumes A-G <br />Western Fuels-Colorado, A Limited Liability Company (WFC), renewed Permit No. C-81-008 for <br />its New Horizon Mine. The renewal was granted on May 26, 1993. The New Horizon Mine is <br />comprised of New Horizon 1 mine area and the New Horizon 2 mine area. WFC purchased the coal <br />property from Peabody in 1992 and renamed the mine. WFC's New Horizon 1 and 2 mine areas <br />are the old Peabody Nucla and Nucla East mine areas respectively. <br />• The old Peabody Nucla mine area (New Horizon 1 mine area) is undergoing final reclamation. Bond <br />has not been released on the New Horizon 1 mine area and WFC assumed the bonding <br />responsibility on New Horizon 1 mine area until such time as bond is released. <br />The material in WFC's permit renewal document was oriented toward the New Horizon 2 mine area <br />(the area to be mined). As a condition of granting the renewal permit; the Colorado Division of <br />Minerals and Geology, Office of Mine Land Reclamation (OMLR) stipulated that WFC submit a <br />permit revision modifying the old Peabody permit document to reflect a "reclamation only° permit for <br />the New Horizon 1 mine area. All baseline and historical information related to the New Horizon 1 <br />mine area was to be retained in the reclamation only permit. <br />To continue operating under Permit C-81-008 and to clarify which areas were being mined and <br />which were being reclaimed, WFC revised the original Peabody permit into two basic documents: <br />(1) a mining and reclamation plan for WFC's New Horizon Mine (including only the New Horizon 2 <br />mining area), and (2) a reclamation only permit for WFC's New Horizon 1 mine area. <br />To create a reclamation only permit for the New Horizon 1 mine area, WFC took the old Peabody <br />14 volume permit document as the base for a new 7 volume document covering reclamation only <br />for the New Horizon 1 mine area. WFC carefully reviewed the Peabody documents and removed <br />those items which addressed the New Horizon 2 mine area. The attached table, "New Horizon 2 <br />• Related Material Removed from Old Peabody Permit", lists material that was obviously New Horizon <br />2 related and should not be in a document describing reclamation for the New Horizon 1 mine area. <br />