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MOUNTAIN COAL <br />COMPANY~.~.~. <br />A Subsidiary of Arch Western Resources, LLC <br />June 12, 2006 <br />Mr. Tom Kaldenbach <br />Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology (CDMG) <br />Office of Mined Land Reclamation <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />West Elk Mine <br />POBOx 591 <br />5174 Highway l33 <br />Somerset, CO 81434 <br />(970) 929-5015 <br />Fax (970) 929-5595 <br />RECEIVED <br />JUN 192006 <br />Division o/Minerals & CeologY <br />Re: Mountain Coal Company LLC (MCC), West Elk Mine; Permit No. C-80-007; Minor Revision No. <br />335 (MR-335), Moving Methane Exhausters from Shaft No. 3 to MDW Pad 23-08, Installation of a <br />Powerline and Power Poles in the Shaft Gulch, and an 8-Inch HDPE Pipeline from the 23-08 pad to <br />Shaft No. 1 Heater Building. <br />Dear Mr. Kaldenbach, <br />Mountain Coal Company, L.L.C. is submitting this Minor Revision to it's Mining and Reclamation Permit to <br />include the plan for moving the methane exhausters from Shaft No. 3 and re-installing them on the 23-08 MDW <br />pad. <br />Currently, the project plan entails removing the methane exhausters from Shaft No. 3 pad, re-erecting the small <br />building, housing the exhausters, on the 23-08 MDW pad, and erecting from 4 to 8 power poles and extending <br />powerline "over-head" to the 23-OS MDW pad location from the switch-geaz building on the Shaft No. 2 pad. <br />The attached map shows the new location of the exhausters, powerline and power pole alignment. A powerline <br />will extend from the switch-gear building on the Shaft No.2 pad to it's termination at the 23-08 pad location. <br />An 8-inch HDPE pipeline will be installed under the road from the pad to the Heater Building at Shaft No. I. <br />The methane exhausters and the building housing them was previously bonded (MR-276). The project will be <br />completed on previously disturbed land and is entirely on MCC private property. The pipeline, powerline, and <br />poles have not been bonded for. <br />Please notify me with the Division's bond liability estimate so that arrangements can be made should the <br />estimate exceed the current total bond amount of $12,000,000.00. If you have questions regazding this minor <br />revision and information please call me at (970) 929-2238. <br />Sin --G~~'""' <br />Bar <br />Environm tal Engineer <br />cc: P. Wyckoff <br />P. Schmidt <br />C. Nyikos <br />