2004-08-16_REVISION - M1978116

• Permit No: M1978116
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 8/16/2004
• Doc Name: Reclamation Responsibility Release
• From: Cotter Corporation
• To: DMG
• Type & Sequence: AR1
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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Carl Mount
Division of Minerals and Geology
1313 Sherman Street. Room 215
Denver, CO 80203 /
Subject: Permit No. M-1978-116, SM-18 Mine //
Reclamation Responsibility Release /
Dear Mr. Mount:
Division al Minerals and GeoloBY
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This letter is a notice to DMG that Cotter Corporation is requesting a release of reclamation
responsibility for a portion of the affected acreage under Permit No. M-1978-116. The permit
covers the SM-18 Mine, located on the U.S. Department of Energy Lease Block No. AT(OS-0)-
ML-60.8-C-SM-18.
The DOE office that manages this lease is:
Department of Energy
2597 B-3/4 Road
Grand Junction, CO 81503
Phone: [phone]
The permitted affected acreage of M-1978-116 is 14.9 acres. During past mining, Cotter's
surface disturbance consisted of only 8.71 acres, including 8.55 acres at the SM-18 Mine portal
area in SW'/< SW'/4 Section 22, T.48N, R.17W., NMPM, in Montrose County, Colorado; and
0.16 acres at a ventilation hole in NW'/4 NW'/o Section 27, T 48N, R.17W. Therefore, 6.19 acres
of the original permitted acreage has not been disturbed.
Cotter Corporation is requesting a release of reclamation responsibility of 5.0 acres of the
undisturbed 6.19 acres.
A breakdown of the 5 acres being requested for release is as follows:
When the original application for Permit No. M-1978-116 was submitted, Cotter could anticipate
the need for surface disturbance, but could not show the exact location of some of it on a map.
This was pazticulazly true of ventilation hole sites. Six ventilation holes sites were included in
the original permitted acreage totaling 1.15 acres. Only one site was ever constructed, consisting
of .16 acres, leaving 0.99 acres that were never disturbed. The other 4.01 acres of undisturbed
land requested for release is in the area of the surface facilities listed on the Permit Exhibif A in
Cotter Corporation -West Slope Operations Telephone [phone]
P.O. Box 700, 28157 DD Road, Nucla, CO 87424 USA Fax [phone]