ENFORCE27043

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: Enforcement
• Doc Date: 12/2/1999
• Doc Name: Fax of Legal Description
• From: MOUNTAIN COAL CO
• To: COLO DMG
• Violation No.: CV1999015
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

+^ would be r• fired, but waste material f• development of the
B and E seam mining areas would be added to the existing
lower-refuse pile. No surface disturbance would occur other
than normal, planned subsidence from the longwall mining
operations. The postmining.land use is rangeland and wildlife
habitat.
With the proposed mining plan actions, the approved mining
plan areas for the west Elk Mine would increase by 2068 acres
for a new total of 6616 acres of Federal coal which includes
the previously approved mining plan areas for Federal leases
C-1362, C-0117192, COC-54558 and D-044569. Total Federal
recoverable coal reserves for the B and E seams within all
mining plan approval areas at the west Elk Mine would increase
by 36.4 million cons for a new total of 52.9 million tons
(38.3 in the B seam and 14.6 in the E seam). Total acres of
Federal surface land within the mining plan areas would
increase by 2068 acres for a new total of 4540 acres.
The approved permit area would increase by 2500 acres from its
present 5540 acres to a new total of 8040 acres-
MCC estimates no increase in the current work force of about
230 employees to expand mining into the B and E seams of
Federal leases COC-56447 and C-1362.
The DMG has attached one new permit stipulation to this
permitting action and has carried-over 5 other stipulations
that continue in force. The new stipulation preven*_s mining
underneath Dry Fork of Minnesota Creek pendi_rg submittal and
approval of an appropriate subsidence control plan. 'this
stipulation may preclude mining of portions of eederal lease
C-1362 immediately south of the present mining plan approval
area. The stipulation is intended to protect the interests of
the Dry Fork of Minnesota Creek Diversion and Reservoir
Company whose irrigation facilities overlie the area of
concern.
OSM has attached three special conditions to this mining plan
action. The three special conditions currently apply to the
mining plan for.Federal lease C-1362 and are included in this
approval because the proposed activities and their location
with respect co the eagle's nest buffer zone located
immediately west of Federal lease C-1362 are the same as those
approved in the current mining plan area for Federal lease C-
1362. .Except for the condition protecting cultural sites from
subsidence, the proposed mining plan area for Federal lease
COC-56447 is located such that it would have no effect on the
resources protected by the remainder of the special conditions
that apply to Federal lease C-1362. Therefore, only the
special condition concerning subsidence is applicable .to
Federal lease COC-56447.
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