REV13076

• Permit No: C1981022
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 9/25/2002
• Doc Name: Completeness Letters
• From: DMG
• To: State & Federal Agencies
• Type & Sequence: TR41
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
Department of Na[ural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
September 25, 2002
Assistant State Supervisor
Fish and Wildlife Enhancement
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
764 Horizon Drive, South Annex A
Grand Junction, CO 81506-3946
Re: Sanborn Creek Mine (Permit No. C-1981-022)
Technical Revision Application No. 41 (TR-41)
Develop an Addition Degas Well & Pad
Dear Sir or Madam:
DIVISION O F
MINERALS
GEOLOGY
RECLAMATION
MINING•S AFETY
Rill Owens
Governor
Greg E. Walther
Executive Director
Ronald W. Cattany
Acing Division DIrCCIO!
The Division of Minerals and Geology hereby issues notice, in accordance with Title 34, Article 33, Section 116,
Paragraph 4, of the Colorado Revised Statutes, that on September 23, 2002, an application to revise coal mining
operations at the Sanborn Creek Mine was considered complete for the purposes of filing. The revision was
submitted by Oxbow Mining, LLC. All review and comment periods as provided in the Act and the Regulations
initiate from this date of filing.
Oxbow requests approval to construct a light use road, and drill site and degas well CBM-15.
The Underground coal mining operation is on land located approximately 0 miles North of Somerset. The permit
area is further described as follows:
Portions of Section 31, Township 12 South, Range 90 West;
Portions of Sections 34, 35 and 36, Township 12 South, Range 91 West;
Portions of Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, all of 6 and 7, Portions North of the North Fork of the Gunnison River in Sections
8, 9, 10, portions of Sections 11, 12, and 17, Township 13 South, Range 90 West;
Portions of Sections 1-3, 11-13, Township 13 South, Range 91 West of the 6th P.M.
The above-mentioned tracts of land are shown on USGS 7.5 minute Quadrangle map of Somerset.
Because the above referenced technical revision application would incorporate additional lands into the permit
area or might otherwise alter previously approved petnut conditions or mitigation measures, we are requesting
your agency's evaluation of the potential for impacts to threatened or endangered species of plants or animals, or
wildlife species otherwise protected by federal law.
In order for us to approve this revision, we are required to make a finding that "the activities would not affect the
continued existence of endangered or threatened species or result in the destruction or adverse modification of
their critical habitats as determined under the Endangered Species Act of 1973...." We request your review and
recommendation pursuant to this fording. Applicable sections of the revision application are enclosed. Please