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?' STATE OF COLORADO
<br />DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
<br />Department of Natural Resources
<br />1313 Sherman St., Room 215 C O L O RAD O
<br />Denver, Colorado 80203 DIVISION O F
<br />Phone: (303) 866-3567 MIN & A L S
<br />FAX: (303) 832-8106 G E O L O G Y
<br />December3,2003 RECLANATION•NINING
<br />SAFETY•SCIENCE
<br />CazlJohnston
<br />Office of Surface Minin
<br />g sill Owens
<br />Governor
<br />Western Regional Coordinating Center
<br />1999 Broadwa
<br />Suite 3320
<br />y Greg E. watcher
<br />, Executive Director
<br />P.O. Box 46667
<br />DOIIVer
<br />CO 80201-6667 Ronald W. Cottony
<br />, Division Director
<br /> Natural Resource Trustee
<br />Re: Seneca II-W Mine (Permit No. C-1982-057)
<br />Technical Revision Application No. 45 (TR-4S~
<br />Stipulation Responses
<br />Dear Mr. Johnston:
<br />The Division of Minerals and.Geology hereby issues nofice, in accordance with Title 34, Article 33, Section 116, Paragraph 4,
<br />of the Colorado Revised Statutes, that on December 1, 2003, an application to revise coal mining operations at the Seneca B-W
<br />Mine was considered complete for the purposes of filing. The revision was submitted by Seneca Coal Company. All review
<br />and comment periods as provided in the Act and the Regulations initiate from this date of filing.
<br />The revision application provides information regazding temporazy and permanent roads in response to stipulations 31, 32, and
<br />33. The application also proposes modified postmine topographic contolus for portions of the A Pit and B Pit reclamation
<br />areas.
<br />The Surface coal mining operation is on land located approximately 9 miles South of Hayden. The permit area is further
<br />described as follows:
<br />TSN, R88W; All of Section 15; Portions of Sections 9, 10, 11, 14, t6, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 34, and 35
<br />T6N, R88W; Portions of Sections 14, 23 and 24
<br />T6N, R87 W; Portions of Sections 17, 18, 19
<br />The above-mentioned tracts of land are shown on USGS 7.5 minute Quadrangle map of Hayden Gulch, Hayden Danckley, &
<br />Mount Harris.
<br />The applicant is required to publish notice in a local newspaper that this application has been deemed complete. At the time of
<br />publication of this notice, the applicant is additionally required to place a copy of this application ar the Routt County
<br />Courthouse, P.O. Box 773598, Steamboat Springs, CO 80477, and at the Division office. For additional information or to
<br />provide written comments, contact the Division of Minerals and Geology Denver Office, Room 215, 1313 Sherman Sheet,
<br />Denver, Colorado 80203, (303) 866-3567, or contact me at the Division s Grand Junction Office, 101 South 3rd, Suite 301,
<br />Grand Junction, CO 81501, (970) 242-5025. In order for us to comply with regulatory time frames, we request that comments
<br />be submitted within fifteen (15) days of this letter. If no comments aze received by then, we will proceed on the assumption that
<br />you have no co cems with, or objections to, the applicants proposal.
<br />Sincerely,
<br />Dan T. Mathews
<br />Environmental Protection Specialist
<br />DTAa/Ahd
<br />Office of Office of ~ Colorado
<br />Mined Land Reclamation Active and Inactive Mines Geological Survel
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