PERMFILE72804

• Permit No: X200722800
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 3/14/2007
• Doc Name: 2nd Adequacy Review Letter
• From: DRMS
• To: Ark Land Company
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
March 14, 2007
Mr. Wendell A. Koontz
Ark Land Company
P.O. Box 591
Somerset, CO 81434
RE: Second Adequacy Review
Ark Land Company, The Grand Valley Book Cliffs Project
DRMS Notice of Intent to Conduct Coal Exploration No. X-2007-228-00
Deaz Mr. Koontz:
COLORADO
DIVISION OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
- St'-
SAF ETY
Bill Ritter, )r.
Governor
Harris D. Sherman
Executive Director
Ronald W. Cattany
Division Director
Natural Resource Trustee
On Mazch 14, 2007, the Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety received responses from Ark
Land Company to our Adequacy Review of February 16, 2007 for the Ark Land Company Book Cliffs
Project Notice of Intent. We have reviewed your responses, and would like to document the status of
our review, utilizing the same questions from out February I6 2007 letter.
This adequacy question was addressed during our telephone conversation held on March 13,
2007. It is our understanding that you (Wendell Koontz) will be the company representative
present at and responsible for conducting the exploration activities.
2. This adequacy question does not appear to have been adequately addressed. We had requested
a revised Page 2 of the NOI application form be submitted in which sections 10, 15 and 16 (of
T8S, R101 W) were removed from the application form, as these sections did not appeaz within
the "Modified Exploration License Area" shown on Figure 1 of the NOI application.
Please provide the Division with a copy of the issued BLM Exploration License (#COC-70164)
as soon as you can.
4. Thank you for the revised page 9 of the "Exploration Plan" that contains information regarding
the eight proposed staging areas. Please note that the Division cannot approve the three
additional staging areas (two proposed on R. Cole property and a third proposed on D.
I-Iitchborn property) discussed in the revised NOI For which Ark Land Company does not yet
have right-of--entry agreements. Please let us know if Ark Land would like the Division to
withhold approval of the NOI until the right-of--entry agreements are completed. As an
alternative, the Division can approve the NOI without these three staging areas, and Ark Land
may amend the NOI at a future date to add these three staging areas once the agreements are
obtained.
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