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F' <br />~ii i i ii i ii i ii iiii iii <br />STATE OF COLUl~uO <br />DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY <br />Drpdrlmenl ui Nalu ral Resuurc'es <br />I t 14 Sherman 5L, Ruom 215 <br />Drnver, Colorado NU203 <br />Phunc: (SU3) Nt.6-}5hi <br />FA)(: 140 41 N.S2-NI Oh <br />January 11, 1999 <br />Kurt C. Hofgard, Esq. <br />Hofgard & Associates, P.C. <br />! ~ 10 Twenty-Eighth Street, Suite 2~0 <br />Boulder, Colorado 80303 <br />RE: Technical Revisions Nos. 6 and 7, Bowie No. 2 Mine, Permit No. C-96-083, <br />Bowie Resources Limited <br />Dear Mr. Hofgard: <br />~~~e <br />DEPARTMENT 04 <br />NATURAI <br />RESOURCE` <br />Rny Rumor <br />Governor <br />IaR~es 5. Lochhead <br />E.ecmive Director <br />nbchael8 Lnnp <br />Division Director <br />The Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology (Division) has received your tvvo letters <br />in which you outline your concerns with the above-mentioned technical revisions. As I <br />13ad mentioned to Richard Rodin over the telephone, although the Division.had requested <br />comments within 1 ~ days of receipt of the completeness letters for these two technical <br />revisions, the actual comment period is 30 days from publication of the completeness <br />public notice. The completeness public notices for Technical Revisions Nos. 6 and 7 <br />were published on December 23, 1998. However, the Division will consider comments <br />after that 30 day period while the technical adequacy reviews of the revisions are <br />ongoing. You should be aware that the Division is required to issue a proposed decision <br />on revision submittals within regulatory time frames. <br />The Division is aware that the decision for the federal coal lease has been remanded and <br />that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be writing an Environmental Impact <br />Statement (EIS). <br />[n your comments to the Division, you requested that this Division defer review of the <br />two technical revisions, numbers 6 and 7, until the BLM issues their EIS. Although the <br />Division realizes the importance of the forthcoming EIS, the Division still has a <br />regulatory requirement to consider the submitted technical revision applications, <br />irrespective of the activities of other government agencies. The Division has jurisdiction <br />over limited issues in this matter and must act upon them. <br />