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Public Notice <br />Bowie Resources Limited, P.O. Box 483, Paonia, CO, 81428, has submitted a complete <br />application for a technical revision to the Division of Minerals and Geology for its approved <br />Bowie No. 2 Mine, mining permit No. C-96-083. The proposed revision will provide for <br />longwall mining in the B-Seam. This technical revision application addresses permit <br />stipulation number 18 which requires the submittal and Division approval of a technical <br />revision that addresses the impacts of subsidence induced rockfall from longwall mining in <br />panels WB-1 and WB-2, including identification of structures that need to be protected from <br />such rockfalls and the design of appropriate protection measures for those structures and the <br />construction of the protection measures. <br />The mine facilities are located north of State Highway 1336 near the town of Bowie, CO. A <br />pump station, three sediment ponds and unit train loadout are located south of State Highway <br />1336. The Fire Mountain Canal is located south of the mine facilities and north of the unit <br />train loadout. The North Fork of the Gunnison River is located south of the mine permit <br />boundary. The mine permit area is located on the U.S. Geological Survey 7.5 minute Bowie <br />Quadrangle map within the following sections. <br />Township 13 South. Range 91 West. 6th PM <br />Sec. 2: SW'/aNW'/a, SW'/a <br />Sec. 3: ALL <br />Sec. 4: NE'/s, E'/zNW'/a, SW'/a, SE'/< <br />Sec. 5: S'/zSEYa, SE'/aSW'/a <br />Sec. 8: NE'/< <br />Sec. 9: NE'/a, NW'/a, SE'/a, NEYZSW'/a, SE'/aSW'/a, NE'/aSW'/aSW'/a <br />Sec. 10: ALL <br />Sec. 11: SW'/a, NW'/a <br />Sec. 14: NW'/a except that portion south of the Union Pacific Railroad right of way <br />Sec. 15: NEY<, NW'/a, NW'/aSE'/a**, Portions of the N'/zSE'/a, SW'/aSE'/<, <br /> S'/zSW'/a, excluding all privately held lands not owned or controlled by <br /> Bowie Resources Limited or the Union Pacific Railroad. <br />Sec. 16: N'/zNE'/a <br />Sec. 22: Portion of NWYaNW'/<, on lands owned by the Union Pacific Railroad <br />Township 12 South. Range 91 West. 6th PM <br />Sec. 33: Lots 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10,11, 12, 14, 15, 16, SE'/aNW'/a, S'/zNE'/a <br />Sec. 34: Lots 1 through 16, S'/zNE'/a, SY2NW'/a, <br />* North of old State Highway 133 <br />** North of Deer Trail Ditch <br />The Bowie No. 2 Mine permit area contains 5,125 acres of land, 2,473 acres of private <br />surface and 2,652 acres of Federal surface. Private minerals within the proposed permit area <br />encompass 1957 acres with Federal minerals accounting for the balance of 3168 acres. <br />A copy of the proposed revision is available for public inspection at the Paonia Public Library, <br />140 Grand Avenue, Paonia, CO, and at the offices of the Division of Minerals and Geology, <br />1313 Sherman St., Room 215, Denver, CO, 80203, (303) 866-3567. Written comments <br />regarding this application may be submitted to and additional information may be obtained <br />from the Division of Minerals and Geology at the above address. <br />