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l~ • • III IIIIIIIIIIIII III STATE OF COLORADO DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY Department of Natural Resources 131 3 Sherman St., Room ?15 Denver, Colorado 80?03 Phone I30]) 8663567 F.1X: (7071 B7?-8106 September 11, 2000 ~~ DIVISION OF MINERALS. GEOLOGI`I RECLAH ATIONI nI NING•SAFETWa West Regional Wildlife Manager gill Owens envernor Colorado Division of Wildlife ereF E. w, kher West Regional Service Center E reculive Dircaor 71 1 In ependen[ Ave Michael B. fool; . Grand Junction, CO 81505 oi.,;:.on Direclar Re: Bowie No. 2 Mine (Permit No. C-1996-083) Technical Revision Application No. 18 (TR-18) Change in Mine Plan for D2 & D3 Panels Dear West Regional Wildlife Manager: The Division of Minerals and Geology hereby issues notice, in accordance with Title 34, Article 33, Section 1 16, Paragraph 4, of the Colorado Revised Statutes, that on September 11, 2000, an application to revise coal mining operations at the Bowie No. 2 Mine was considered complete for the purposes of filing. The revision was submitted by Bowie Resources Limited. All review and comment periods as provided in the Act and the Regulations initiate from this date of filing. Approval of this technical revision would allow a change in the approved mine plan. The change would permit longwall mining in the western portions of two longwall panels, within the currently approved permit boundary. The proposed limited longwall mining would occur in private and federal coal. The federal coal is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The right of entry to the federal coal has been obtained through the approved Iron Point Tract Federal Coal Lease COC-61209. About 904,000 tones of private coal and 286,000 tons of federal coal are involved in this revision. No new surface disturbance would occur, although subsidence of the surface will take place with longwall mining. The underground coal mining operation is on land located approximately 5 miles northeast of Paonia, Colorado. The permit area is fiuther described as follows: Portions of Sections 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 1 1, 14, 15, and 16, Township 13 South, Range 91 West of the 6th P.M. The above-mentioned tracts of land are shown on USGS 7.5 minute Quadrangle map of Bowie. Because the above referenced technical revision application would incorporate additional lands into the permit area or might otherwise alter previously approved permit conditions or mitigation measures, we are requesting your agency's evaluation of the proposal. Your comments and concerns relating to the adequacy of fish and wildlife resources information, the fish and wildlife plan, and the reclamation plan as it relates to fish and wildlife considerations, including potential impacts to threatened or endangered species, are requested. If wildlife habitat is the proposed postmining land use, we request your evaluation of proposed woody plant stocking levels, planting arrangements, and methods for mitigation of potential adverse impacts.