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STATE OF COLORADO
<br />DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
<br />Department of Natural Resources
<br />1313 Sherman St., Room 215
<br />Denver, Colorado 80203
<br />Phone: (303) 8663567
<br />FAX: (303) 832106
<br />October 11, 2005
<br />Jim Green
<br />Colorado Historical Society
<br />The Colorado History Museum
<br />1300 Broadway
<br />Denver, CO 80203
<br />Re: West Elk Mine (Permit No. C-1980.007)
<br />Technical Revision Application No. 105 (TR-105)
<br />Vent Shafts at Refuse Pile Expansion
<br />Deaz Mr. Green:
<br />OLORAI
<br />I V I S I O N
<br />IINERA
<br />GEOLOGY
<br />REC LA NATION•NINING
<br />rAf ETY•r CIENCE
<br />Bill Owens
<br />Governor
<br />Russell George
<br />Executive Director
<br />Ronald W. Cattany
<br />Division DIrMM
<br />Natual Resource Trustee
<br />The Division of Minerals and Geology hereby issues notice, in accordance with Title 34, Article 33, Section 116,
<br />Paragraph 4, of the Colorado Revised Statutes, that on October 11, 2005, an application to revise coal mining
<br />operations at the West Elk Mine was considered complete for the purposes of filing. The revision was submitted
<br />by Mountain Coal Company, LLC. All review and comment periods as provided in the Act and the Regulations
<br />initiate from this date of filing.
<br />The mine operator proposes to bore two vertical shafts from a pad that is to be constructed on a hillslope above one
<br />of the mine's sediment control ponds that is next to Highway 133, 2 miles east of Somerset, Colorado. The
<br />proposed shaft site is in SEl/4 Section 10 and NEl/4 Section 15, T.13S., R.90W., in Gunnison County. The
<br />operator proposes to bore the shafts on an approximate I.5-acre parcel of land owned by the mine operator within
<br />the existing mine permit boundary, and does not propose to add disturbed area. The purpose of the shafts will be to
<br />provide ventilation to the West Elk Mine underground workings.
<br />The underground coal mining operation is on land iocated 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 l2 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, I Q portions of Sections l 1, 12, 17, and 18, Township 13 South, Range 90 West;
<br />Portions of Sections 1-3, I1-13, Township 13 South, Range 9l West;
<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.
<br />Because the above-referenced technical revision application would incorporate additional lands into the permit
<br />area or might otherwise alter previously approved permit conditions or mitigation measures, we are requesting
<br />your agency's evaluation of the potential for impacts to cultural and historic resources.
<br />OfRce of Ofrice of Colorado
<br />Mined Land Reclamation Active and Inactive Mines Geological Survey
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