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Via Certified Mail 7002 2410 0004 3382 2846 <br />August 19, 2003 <br />Las Animas County Planner <br />County Courthouse <br />First and Maple Street <br />Trinidad, CO 81082 <br />Dear Mr. Lucero: <br />This letter is to notify you, as the Las Animas County Planner, that Lorencito Coa] Company, <br />20500 Highway 12, Weston Colorado 81091, the operator of Lorencito Canyon Mine, Permit <br />number C-96-084, is filing for a Partial Phase I Bond release with the State of Colorado, <br />Division of Minerals and Geology. Permit C-81-013 was issued by the Division on June 22, <br />1994. A copy of the Phase I release request with supporting maps and cross-sections is enclosed. <br />The Lorencito Canyon Mine is located approximately 15 miles west of Trinidad, Colorado on <br />State Hwy. 12, within the unplatted Maxwell Land Grant, projected to be Sections 31 and 32, TS <br />33 S, R 66 W and Section 36, TS 33 S, R 67 W. These sections can be located on the USGS 7.5 <br />minute Little Pine Canyon quadrangle map. A total of 119 acres of projected surface disturbance <br />from mining is covered by a Coal Reclamation Bond in the amount of $2,400,000. <br />The permittee is applying for a partial Phase I Bond Release for approximately 86 acres of <br />surface, mined or disturbed during 2001-2002, that have been backfilled, graded and rerurned to <br />the approved post-mining topography. Division guidelines allow for the release of up to 60% of <br />the bond amount applicable to the release area in a Phase I Bond release. <br />Any written comments, objections or requests for a public hearing or informal conference <br />regarding this bond release application must be submitted to the Division of Minerals and <br />Geology, 1313 Sherman Street Room 215, Denver, Colorado 80203 by September 20, 2003. <br />Sin ely~Q Q~ <br />s-Vv`~Q <br />Ronald G. Thompson <br />(For Lorencito Coal Company) <br /> <br /> <br /> .. <br />ti <br /> ~~ ~~ <br /> <br /> <br />Pea m _ <br />_ - <br /> ,7S <br />~ <br />p <br />Cerfifietl Fee <br />~Q <br />~ ,. <br />p P <br />^ <br />' <br />p <br />l <br />T Retum Reciept Fee <br />(EMOrsemeM Requiretl) <br />7 f ostmark <br />r <br />'~~ ~ <br />e <br />e --. <br />p <br />7 Resttlctetl DelWery Fee <br />E <br />l <br />tl ~~'.- °- <br />r ( <br />ntl°rsement Requ <br />re <br />) ~,y. ~__. <br />nJ T <br />F S 6 4 ~~ <br /> otal P <br />esta9e 8 <br />ees $ <br />ru <br />o senr re <br /> <br />Z <br /> <br />