REV93582

• Permit No: C1981033
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 9/23/2004
• Doc Name: Completeness Letters
• From: DMG
• To: State & Federal Agencies
• Type & Sequence: TR28
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
Department of Nazural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
September 23, 2004
Carl Johnston
Office of Surface Mining
Western Regional Coordinating Center
1999 Broadway, Suite 3320
P.O. Box 46667
Denver, CO 80201-6667
Re: Bear Mine (Permit No. C-1981-033)
Technical Revision Application No. 28 CrR-28)
Discontinue Lone Pine Gulch Spring Monitoring
Dear Mr. Johnston:
OLORADO
'. V IS lON OF
INERALS
EOLOGY
:LANATION•NIN ING
SArETY•SCIENCE
Bill Owens
Governor
Russell GeoBe
Executive Director
Ronald W. Cattany
Division Director
Natural Resource Trustee
The Division of Minerals and Geology hereby issues notice, in accordance with Title 34, Article 33, Section 116, Paragraph 4,
of the Colorado Revised Statutes, that on September 23, 2004, an application to revise coal mining operations at the Bear Mine
was considered complete for the purposes of filing. The revision was submitted by Bear Coal Company, Inc.. All review and
comment periods as provided in the Act and the Regulations initiate from this date of filing.
In Technical Revision No. 28, the Bear Coal Company is proposing to discontinue the hydrologic monitoring of three natural
springs in the Lone Pine Gulch area. The Bear No. 3 Mine is a reclaimed mine that ceased mining operations in late 1996. The
Bear Coal Company has not mined in the Lone Pine Gulch azea for about ten yeazs. Other hydrologic monitoring at the Bear
No. 3 Mine will continue.
The underground coal mining operation is on land located approximately 0 miles East of Somerset. The permit area is further
described as follows:
Portions of Sections 8, 9, and 15; all of Section 16; portions of Sections 17, 18, 20, and 21 Township 13 South, Range 90 West
office 6th P.M.
The above-mentioned pacts of land are shown on USGS 7.5 minute Quadrangle map of Somerset.
The applicant is requved to publish notice in a local newspaper that this application has been deemed complete. At the time of
publication of this notice, the applicant is additionally required to place a copy of this application az the Paonia Public Library,
140 Grand Avenue, Paonia, CO 81428, and at the Division office. For additional information or [o provide written comments,
contact the Division of Minerals and Geology, Room 215, 1313 Sherman Street, Denver, Colorado 80203, [phone]. In
order for us to comply with regulatory time frames, we request that comments be submitted within fifteen (15) days of this
letter. If no comments are received by then, we will proceed on the assumption that you have no concerns with, or objections
to, the applicanPs proposal
Sincerely, nn
J
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Environmental Protection Specialist
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Mined Land Reclamation
Office of
Active and Inactive Mines
Colorado
Geological Survey