REV00510

• Permit No: C1996083
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 10/23/2000
• Doc Name: BOWIE 2 MINE PN C-1996-083 PR4 CHANGE IN MINE PLAN IRON POINT TRACT FEDERAL COAL LEASE
• From: DMG
• To: USFS
• Type & Sequence: PR4
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman SL. Room '_1 i
Denver, Colura~o 80?03
Phone: [phone]
FAX. (303) 83?8106
October 23, 2000
Liane Mattson
U.S. Forest Service
Paonia Ranger District
P.O. Box 1030
Paonia, CO 81428
Re: Bowie No. 2 Mine (Permit No. C-1996-083)
Permit Revision Application No. 4 (PR-4)
Change in Mine Plan -Iron Point Tract Federal Coal Lease
Dear Ms. Mattson:
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DIVISION O F
MINERALS
GEOLOGY'"
RECLAMATION
MINING•SAFETY
Bil I Owens
Governor
Greg E. Walche~
E.ecuuve DireUOr
Micnacl s. ~~~g
Dwision D~reaor
The Division of Minerals and Geology hereby issues notice, in accordance with Title 34, Article 33, Section 118,
Pazagraph 3, of the Colorado Revised Statutes, that on October 23, 2000, an application to revise coal mining
operations at the Bowie No. 2 Mine was considered complete for the purposes of filing. All review and comment
periods as provided in the Act and the Regulations initiate from this date of filing.
Approval of this permit revision would revise the current mine plan at the Bowie No. 2 Mine. The operator is
proposing to incorporate into the mine plan the longwall and room and pillar mining of the D seam, for an area that
is within the Uon Point Tract Federal Coal Lease COC-61209 and for a much smaller area on the east side of the
present permit boundary. The proposed mine plan anticipates mining into the first quarter of 2005 at the current
rate of 5 million tons per year. This mine plan change does not include the room and pillar mining for the area
within Federal Coal Lease COC-61209 that is under Terror Creek, by which the operator would be able to access
the B seam coal at the Bowie No. l Mine. That mine plan change is anticipated to be submitted later.
This permit revision would incorporate 1751 additional surface acres into the existing permit area, 1632 acres of
which are federal and 1 19 acres of which are private. Federal mineral acreage would increase by 171 I acres while
private mineral acreage would increase by 40 acres. Bowie Resources is negotiating for the remaining federal coal
and some private coal on the east side of the permit area. There will not be any new surface disturbance associated
with this revision.
Bowie Resources Ltd. has referenced the Federal mining lease and/or Federal Surface access agreement COC-
61209 in this application as a document upon which they base their legal right to enter for most of the coal. The
Division has received written verification from BLM that the lease and/or agreement COC-61209 has been issued
and that final BLM/federal agency lease/agreement approval has been granted.
Bowie Resources has also referenced an unnamed federal lease in its statement that Bowie Resources is
negotiating with Oxbow Carbon and Minerals to obtain Oxbow's fee and Federal Coal in order to mine coal at the
east end of longwall panels D-6, D-7 and D-8. The Division is requesting that, when final, BLM provide written
verification that Bowie Resources has obtained the right to enter these additional federal lands outside of Federal
Coal Lease COC-61209.
The Underground coal mining operation is on land located approximately 5 miles northeast of Paonia, Colorado.
The permit area is further described as follows: