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• • STATE OF III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 999 COLORADO DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY Depanmenl of Natural Resources 1317 Sherman SL, Room 215 DIVISION O F Denver, Colorado 80203 Phone: 1303) 866-7567 MINERAL S FAX: (3071832-8106 & "" GEOLOGY'" REC LAM ATIOM~ September 11,2000 MINING•SAFETI`- Jim Green Bill Owens Governor Colorado Historical Society Gres E. watcher The Colorado History Museum Ezecuiive Director 1300 Broadway Michael B. long Denver, CO 80203 Division Director Re: Bowie No. 2 Mine (Permit No. C-1996-083) Technical Revision Application No. 18 (TR-18) Change in Mine Plan for D2 & D3 Panels Dear Mr. Green: The Division of Minerals and Geology hereby issues notice, in accordance with Title 34, Article 33, Section 1 16, Paragraph 4, of the Colorado Revised Statutes, that on September 11, 2000, an application to revise coal mining operations at the Bowie No. 2 Mine was considered complete for the purposes of filing. The revision was submitted by Bowie Resources Limited. All review and comment periods as provided in the Act and the Regulations initiate from this date of filing. Approval of this technical revision would allow a change in the approved mine plan. The change would permit longwall mining in the western portions of two longwall panels, within the currently approved permit boundary. The proposed limited longwall mining would occur in private and federal coal. The federal coal is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The right of entry to the federal coal has been obtained through the approved Iron Point Tract Federal Lease COC-61209. About 904,000 tons of private coal and 286,000 tons of federal coal are involved in this revision. No new surface disturbance would occur, although subsidence of the surface will take place with longwall mining. The underground coal mining operation is on land located approximately 5 miles northeast of Paonia, Colorado. The permit area is further described as follows: Portions of Sections 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 1 1, 14, I5, and 16, Township 13 South, Range 91 West of the 6th P.M. The above-mentioned tracts of land are shown on USGS 7.5 minute Quadrangle map of Bowie. Because the above-referenced technical revision application would incorporate additional lands into the permit area or might otherwise alter previously approved permit conditions or mitigation measures, we are requesting your agency's evaluation of the potential for impacts to cultural and historic resources. In accordance with the May 1991 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between our agencies, we must have your concurrence in order to approve this proposal. We are required to make a finding [hat "the proposed operations will not adversely affect any publicly owned park or place listed on or those places eligible for listing, as detemtined by the SHPO, on the Nations{ Register of Historic Places, unless approved jointly by the Board and the Federal, State, or focal agency with jurisdiction over the park or place." Therefore, we request that you submit