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STATE OF COLORADO
<br />DIVISION OF RKLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY
<br />Department of Natural Resources
<br />1373 Sherman 5t., Room 215
<br />Denver, Colorado 80203
<br />Phone: (303) 86b3567
<br />rnx: (303) 832-0106
<br />COLORADO
<br />DIVISION O F
<br />RECLAMATION
<br />MINING
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<br />SAFETY
<br /> Bill Ritter, lr.
<br /> Governor
<br />October 1, 2007
<br /> Harris D. Sherman
<br /> Executive Director
<br />Desty Dyer Ronald W. Cottony
<br />U.S. Bureau of Land Management a~islon Direttpr
<br />Uncompahgre Field Office
<br />Natural Resource Trustee
<br />2505 S. Townsend Ave.
<br />Montrose, CO 81401
<br />Re: West Elk Mine (Permit No. C-1980-007)
<br />Permit Revision Application No. 12 (PR-12)
<br />Addition of Dry Fork Lease COC-67232
<br />Dear Mr. Dyer:
<br />The Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety hereby issues notice, in accordance with Title 34, Article 33,
<br />Section 1 I8, Paragraph 3, of the Colorado Revised Statutes, that on October 1, 2007, an application to revise coal
<br />mining operations at the West Elk Mine was considered complete for the purposes of filing. All review and
<br />comment periods as provided in the Act and the Regulations initiate from this date of filing.
<br />The operator proposes to expand the underground mine workings by approximately 1,517 acres and expand the
<br />permit area by approximately 1,767 acres. This land and coal are federally-owned and are located in Gunnison
<br />County in parts of Sections 35 and 36, T13S, R90W, and in parts of Sections 1, 2, 11, and 12, Tt4S, R90W. No
<br />new disturbance on the land surface is proposed.
<br />The DRMS requests written verification regarding Federal mining leases and/or federal surface access approval.
<br />Mountain Coal Company has referenced the Federal mining lease and/or Federal Surface access agreement COC-
<br />67232 in this application as a document upon which they base their legal right to enter. Please verify that the lease
<br />and/or agreement has/have been issued and that final BLM/federal agency lease/agreement approval has been
<br />granted. If the lease/agreement application is pending, please notify DBMS as to the status of the tease/agreement
<br />review and when a decision is anticipated. Verification of Federal leases and/or federal surface access agreements
<br />should be sent to me at the address listed above.
<br />The underground coal mining operation is on land located approximately 9 miles east of Paonia, Colorado. The
<br />permit area is further described as follows:
<br />Portions of Section 29, 30, 31, and 32, Township 12 South, Range 90 West;
<br />Portions of Sections 25, 26, 27, 34, 35 and 36, Township 12 South, Range 91 West;
<br />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
<br />8, 9, 1 Q, portions of Sections I I, 12, 17, and 18, Township 13 South, Range 90 West;
<br />Portions of Sections 1-3, I 1-13, Township 13 South, Range 91 Wes[;
<br />Portions of Sections 6 & 7, Township 13 South, Range 89 West of the 6th P.M.
<br />The above-mentioned tracts of land are shown on USGS 7.5 minute Quadrangle map of Somerset.
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