eneca Coal Company
<br />Seneca II Mine
<br />Pre-Law Area Bond Release Request June 2007
<br />• III. IDENTIFICATION OF LANDS
<br />The Seneca II Mine is located approximately nine miles southeast of the Town of Hayden, Colorado.
<br />The USGS 7.5 Minute Quadrangle Maps of Milner and Mt Harris, contains the described peraut area.
<br />The pre-law azea requested is included in the following legal description of the permit azea:
<br />TSN, R87W -Sections 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, and 13
<br />T6N, R87W -Sections 27, 34, 35, and 36
<br />TSN, R86W -Section 6 and 7
<br />The bond release area is situated in Sections 34 and 35, T6N, R87W and is shown on Exhibit A - Pre-
<br />Law Bond Request Area.
<br />IV. REGULATORY PROGRAM CATEGORIES
<br />All affected lands within this bond release area at the Seneca II Mine fall within pre-law category. The
<br />regulatory programs ate identified as follows:
<br />• Mined for to August 3. 1977. (Pre-La~v1
<br />• Mined and reclaimed after August 3, 1977 and prior to May 3, 1978.
<br />• Mined and reclaimed after May 3, 1978 and prior to the approval of the applicable regulatory
<br />• program or issuance of the permanent program permit (September 23, 1981). (Ixterim Program)
<br />• Mined and reclaimed afrer September 23, 1981. (Permanent Program)
<br />The Pre-Law area is delineated on Exhibit A, Pxe-Law Bond Release Area, Exhibit B, Chronology of
<br />Mining, and Exhibit C, Chronology of Backfilling and Grading. These exhibits aze further discussed in
<br />Section VI, Bond Release Doaunentation.
<br />V. PERMIT NUMBERS AND RECLAMATYON BONDS
<br />Original Permits
<br />Pemvt # 75-5, 75-15, 75-29, 75-31, 75-41, 75-49, and 75-54
<br />All consolidated into Permit #75-54 C/A (designated as Pn-Lam areas)
<br />Permit
<br />Number Bond
<br />Number Bond
<br />Amount Legal
<br />Descri tion
<br />#5, 15 and 29 9264039 $119,000 Pre-law dreg
<br />#31, 41 and 49 9264038 $ 17,736 Pre-law Brea
<br />75-54 C/d 9264191
<br />124054975 $1,355,000 Porfions of Sec. 27,34,35,36 T6N, R87W
<br />Portions of Sec. 1,3,11,12 TSN, R87W
<br />Total $1,491,736
<br />See Exhibit D, Chronology of Bonding, and Exhibit 13-5, Seneca II Bonding (in the approved pertrut) for
<br />areas covered by the sequence of bonds.'
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