PERMFILE67436

• Permit No: C1981022
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Doc Name: LINCOLN DEVORE LETTER DATED 11/27/96
• Section_Exhibit Name: Exhibit 2.05-E4 Part 5
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Lincoln DeVore,lnc.
Geotechnical ConsuNants
tsar Motor St. TEL [phone]
Grand Junction, CO Bt505 FAX: [phone]
November 2i, 1996
Balaz & Associates
203 Sunset Circle
Palisade. CO 81526
Re: Geological & Geotechnical Review
Coal ~lirre waste Bank, Sanborn Creek !line, Somerset, CO
l',errt lemen:
Edward M. !!orris, -P. E., of Lincoln
Deler•e Inc., tress reviewed the Final Report of the Coal Mine Waste
Barrk Oecien for the Sanborn Creek Mine, prepared b}~ WESTEC,
• Report = lies!, dated October 1996. The purpose of this Lincoln
fie\~ore t,rnject is to review the geologic and geotechnical aspects
of t}.., cite i n response to some yuestions and concerns expressed
b>• 4r. Thomas Anderson, P.E., of Oxbow Carbon k Minerals, Inc.
in addition, the proposed road cuts and fills has been anal}•zed
for alternate construction methods, which will be presented in a
~et,:r rate report.. Following are our findings and conclusions.
GE~F.R:1L
Personnel of Lincoln DeVore meet with
!Ir. B:rlaz and Nr. Anderson on 8-28-96 and attended a meeting
• which included Plr. Gordon Edd~~, of WESTEC, Plr. Charles Chesnik of
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