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Savage and Savage practical solutions for environmental problems 464 West Sumac Court Louisville, Colorado 80027-2227 Land Restoration and Reclamation Services 303 666-7372 telephone 303 665-6808 facsimile September 22, 2003 RECEIVED Mr. Harry Ranney, Environmental Protection Specialist Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology SEP 2 3 2003 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 Denver, Colorado 80203 Division ~t Minerals and Gealo9Y Re: Technical Revision (12) Application to the Carbon Junction Mine permit (CDMG permit C-92-080) revising the reclamation plan and permit boundary Dear Harry: Oakridge Energy, Inc. is submitting a technical revision to the Carbon Junction Mine permit to revise the reclamation plan and modify the permit boundary to return 152.87 acres as required by correspondence from Mr. Dan Hernandez on August 27, 2003. Enclosed are two copies of the revised text, a proposed public notice, and a revision application. For ease of review, the new or revised text has been added to the permit pages in bold red text while tent proposed for removal has been identified in streagk format. While the revision was required to address the Division's concern regazding the potential lack of jurisdiction over certain portions of the Carbon Junction Mine permit area, it remains our position, based on the October 8, 2002 Coal Mining Permit-Technical Revision Decision that there has never been an approved change to the permit area or a reduction of liability for the coal mine. For this reason, this technical revision only proposes to expressly identify the Carbon Junction Mine permit area as the former 215.08 acre permit area approved prior to submittal and processing of Technical Revision 11, and to clarify the text with regard to features and reclamation within the 215.08 acre permit area. The bulk of changes made in TR 11 were required as abatement for a notice of violation, and we contend that to reverse those changes would negate our compliance with the abatement terms. Further, the majority of the changes contained in TR I 1 addressed the current state of the mining operation, as well as plans for reclamation. We propose to retain these approved changes to the mining and operation plan text. Mr. Hernandez and Mr. Beny requested a change to the post-training land use in this revision. We will not propose such a change as the current post-mining land uses aze valid, reflect the proposed post-mining land uses planned for, and to a degree, already executed, and were approved by the Division previously in Technical Revision 5.