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• Permit No: C1982056
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 11/17/2005
• Doc Name: 2005 Midterm Review Memo
• From: Byron Walker
• To: File
• Type & Sequence: MT5
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Rule 2.06 REQUIREMENTS FOR PERMITS FOR SPECIAL CATEGOR/ES OF MINING
There are no experimental practices, mountaintop removal mining operations, or steep slope
mining operations. There are no variances from approximate original contour restoration
requirements for steep slope mining. There is no mining of prime farmlands. There is no
augering. All coal processing plants or support facilities are located within the permit area. There
are no in situ processing activities. There is delay in contemporaneous reclamation requirement
of surface mining pits for portal access and other features of current underground mining
operations.
Rule 2.06.7 Variances for Delay in Contemporaneous Reclamation Requirements in combined
Surface and Underground Mining Operations.
There is no response to this rule. (See pages 2.06-3 and 2.06-4). However, some elements of
the Colorado Yampa Coal Company Permit C-1981-071, a surface mining operation, were
incorporated into Permit C-1982-056. They include remnant pits of the portals, storage areas, and
an impoundment.
Rule 2.06.8 Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Operations on Areas, or Adjacent to Areas,
Including Alluvial Valley Floors.
The scope of this rule starts on page 2.06.6 of the PAP. No shortcomings were identified during
this midterm review.
Rule 2.06.12 Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Operation Requirements Involving the
Removal of Coal Refuse Piles
Operations at the Foidel Creek Mine include the temporary storage of low-quality coal for
processing through a wash plant. Coal processing waste from the wash plant is then transported
to a coal refuse pile. No coal is mined from the coal refuse pile. The temporary storage pile of
low-quality coal is not considered a coal refuse pile under this rule, and the operation is in
compliance, by exception, with this rule.
Rule 2.07.5 Public Availability of information in Permit Applications on File with the Division.
Information in the permit application is on file at the mine site and at the Division. Revision
applications are placed on file at the Routt County Courthouse.
Rule 2.08.3(1) The Division shall review each permit issued and outstanding under these rules
during the term of the permit. This review shall occur not later than the middle of the permit
term and as required by 2.06.2 through 2.06.7, pertaining to experimental practices,
mountaintop removal, steep slope, and combined surface and underground mining.
This is a midterm review.
2005 Midterm Review, C-1982-056, November 17, 2005, Page 10 of 14 Pages