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1111111111111111111 <br />STATE OF COLORADO <br />DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY <br />Dep, nment of Nawnl Resources <br />1313 Sherman St., Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone. U03) 866-3567 <br />FAti: (303) 832 8106 <br />Febzu<'try 1, 2000 <br />Mr. Rick Mills <br />Twentymile Coal Company <br />29515 Routt County Road 27 <br />Oak Creek, CO 80467 <br />Re: Foidel Creek Mine, C-82-056, Permit Renewal No. 3, Adequacy Response Review <br />Deaz Mr. Mills: <br />DIVISION OF <br />MINERALS <br />GEOLOGY <br />R E C L A M A T I O N <br />MINING•SA FE TY <br />R~11 Owens <br />Governor <br />Greg E. Walther <br />Executive DveUOr <br />MichaCl B Long <br />Division Director <br />The Division has conducted a review of Twentymile Coal Company's adequacy response submittal, received <br />January 18, 2000. This letter addresses Twentymile Coal Company responses to the Division's adequacy <br />letters dated December 21, 1999, and January 14, 2000. I have included, in italics, the questions the Division <br />asked in the January 14, 2000 adequacy letter, followed by our review of Twentymile Coal Company's <br />responses. <br />~ 1. The Division's January 14, 2000 adequacy letter asked, <br />Revised page 3 of the permit renewal application was not submitted with updated permit acreage <br />information. This page does not reflect the current permitted acreage. Please provide a revised page <br />3 with the corrected permitted acreage. <br />Twentymile Coal Company submitted a revised application page 3. The form submitted by <br />Twentymile Coal Company indicates that the Foidel Creek permit azea has "0" private mineral <br />acreage, 7,669 state mineral acres, and 7,698 federal mineral acres. A value of 7,327 is entered in the <br />row titled "8. Mineral ownership: Indicate cturently permitted acreage for each." Please resubmit <br />page 3 of the application form to reflect the correct mineral ownership in the approved pezmit area. <br />The Division digitized the mineral acreage from Twentymile Coal Company's Map 2, "Coal <br />Ownership" (certified 11 /12/99). The Division's results of the acreage shown on Map 2 were; <br />7743 acres private mineral acreage, 7436 acres state mineral acres, and 7377 federal mineral acres. <br />Please resolve this apparent discrepancy in acreage between permit application page 3 and Map 2. <br />11. The Division's January 14, 2000 adequacy letter asked, <br />On page 2.05-9, Twentymile Coal Company revised the annzra/tonnage to reflect 10, 000, 000 tons per <br />year. However, this page now states that Twentymile Coal Company achieved the 10.000.000 tons <br />per year in 1993. This is not accurate. The Division believes Twentymile Coal Company achieved <br />the 10, 000, 000 tons/year extraction rate in 1998. This page remains inaccurate. Please provide a <br />corrected page with accurate information. <br />C: W H B\C82056\RN03\020100resp. dot <br />