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Mountain Coal Company has reviewed, and will comply with, all applicable requirements of 30 CFR 815.15 and the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Regulations stated in C.R.S. 34-33-101. 2. Install casing and blowout preventers in drill holes in known oil, gas, and geothermal azeas. The pads are in an area over Panet 13 of the B Seam and it is anticipated that gas will be encountered in the rubblized-zone of the B Seam. Gas is known to be encountered after mining in previous methane drainage holes in the azea. Casing will be set in each hole as necessary to maintain circulation of cuttings to the surface. 3. Drill hole plugging requirements. In accordance with the Coal Program Guidance Document -Methane Drainage and Monitoring Wells, MCC will plug and abandon these MDWs per DMG Rules 2.05.4 and 4.07.3 at the minimum. A mechanical packer will be set at the lowest possible point in the well (note that subsidence damage to the casing may preclude access to the entire depth of the casing). Above this packer the hole will be plugged with CDMG approved materials to the bottom of the 5-foot cement surface cap using tremmie line. The top 5- feet of the well below the sub-surface casing cut-off point (3-feet below the surface) will be plugged with a cement cap. The top 3-feet of the casing will then be cut off and the hole filled in with subsoil. A permanent marker shall be installed on top of the plug identifying the MDW. The pad will then be reclaimed to approximate original contour. The Methane Drainage Well drilling experience for Mountain Coal Company has shown that no aquifers have yet been encountered. However, the procedures described above would serve to properly protect any aquifers that would be encountered. A drawing of a typical abandoned MDW is attached as Figure No.l, Proposed GVB/MDW Hole Plugging Method. Anticipated total depths for each well are: ESM-01, 1115 feet; ESM-02, 1265 feet; ESM-03, 1105 feet; and ESM-04, 1175 feet. 4. Retention of drill logs by applicant Mountain Coal Company will retain in its files all drill logs and will make them available for inspection by any authorized officer. Mountain Coal Company may conduct geophysical logging and/ or collect core from this project. 5. Utilizing drill holes as water monitoring wells. Mountain Coal Company does not anticipate encountering any significant aquifers during this drilling program. Mountain Coal Company does not intend to complete any of these holes as water monitoring wells. 6. Maps of Project Area Maps of the proposed project azea at a scale of 1" = 1000', 1" = 600', and 1"=200', showing existing and anticipated access and methane drainage well locations, surface ownership, property boundaries, and lease boundaries aze attached.