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1. The North Fork of the Gunnison River is 750 feet to the south and 100 feet above the proposed B-seam workings and 40 feet above the C-seam workings. Groundwater is expected to travel downdip from the river through the coal and overburden into the mine workings. Because of the low permeability of the coal and overbwden, calculations have shown that these flows should be minor. The flows can be expected to occur with a considerable lag time. There will be a comparable diminution of flow in the North Fork but mine pumpage will return this amount to the river, minus that used in the mine. The cone of depression from dewatering of the strata will only extend to the boundary of the North Fork and will not adversely impact any wells. 2. There is the potential that the mine may encounter water inflow from faults and fractures. The location of these faults are unknown. The lazgest fault that the old Somerset Mine encountered had a sustained inflow of 120 gpm, which contributed 50 percent of the total inflow. The operator has conducted studies of the mine inflows from the faults and fractures in the Sanborn Creek Mine, the results of which aze discussed in the annual hydrology reports. 3. The Sanborn Creek Mine will undermine portions of two abandoned mines -the Oliver Mine and the Hawk's Nest Mine. The Oliver Mine was mined in the 1930's and is known to be completely flooded. An exposure of the workings adjacent to the old county road is dischazging water at a rate of a few gallons per minute. About 90 percent of the workings of this mine lie downdip of the dischazge point. The Hawk's Nest Mine lies north of the Oliver Mine and is stratigraphically higher than the Oliver D seam. Hawk's Nest mined in both the E and F seams. The workings of this mine aze probably not flooded, as indicated by measurements in an old drill hole. Also, during operation of the Hawk's Nest Mine, there was very little inflow. Because there is the potential that subsidence could cause fracturing of the interburden between the B seam and the flooded workings of the Oliver Mine, the Sanborn Creek Mine has committed to limited extraction under those areas known to be flooded. This would avoid catastrophic inundation. The mine has supplied the Division with a geotechnical analysis of the mine plan, demonstrating that it would avoid subsidence-caused fracturing of the interburden. 4. The abandoned Hawk's Nest Mine has several drill holes that were drilled down from the active mine into lower seams. These holes are Sanborn Crcek Mine 19 Penait Revision No. 3