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• • iii iiiiiiiiiiiu iii 999 STATE OF COLORADO DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY Department of Natural Resources 1317 Sherman Sl., Room ? 15 Denver, Colorado 80203 Phone (303) 866-3567 FA%: (3031 83?8106 October 23, 2000 ~~ DIVISION OE- MINERALS & - GEOLOGY'° R EC LA MAilONk9 MI NING•SAFE7Y Duane Freeman s,ll Owens cn~em~r Delta County Planning Department Greg E Watcher Planning DIreC[Or Evecuuve Dvcaor 5th & Palmer Michael B. Long Delta, CO 81416 0~. ~,~n~ Dvecl~r Re: Bowie No. 2 Mine (Permit No. C-1996-083) Permit Revision Application No. 4 (PR-4) Change in Mine Plan -Iron Point Trac[ Federal Coal Lease Dear Delta County Planning Department: The Division of Minerals and Geology hereby issues notice, in accordance with Title 34, Article 33, Section 118, Paragraph 3, of the Colorado Revised Statutes, that on October 23, 2000, a permit revision application for a permit to conduct coal mining operations, Permit No. C-1996-083 by Bowie Resources Limited, was considered complete for the purposes of filing. All review and comment periods as provided in the Colorado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act and the Rules and Regulations of [he Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal Mining 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 Iron 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 under Terror Creek, in which the operator would be able to access [he B seam coal at the Bowie No. 1 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 119 acres of which are private. Federal mineral acreage would increase by 1711 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. The underground coal mining operation is located approximately 5 miles northeast of Paonia, Colorado. The permit area is further described as follows: Portions of Sections 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, I I, 14, 15, and 16, 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 Bowie.