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<br />iii iiiiiiiuiiu iii <br />999 <br />STATE OF COLORADO <br />DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY <br />Depanmem ni Natural Resources <br />1 713 Sherman 51., Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone: 110 )1 81r6-3567 <br />FAX: U03183'_~8106 <br />DATE: November 18, 1998 <br />Roy Ramer <br />Govema• <br />TO: Jim Pendleton <br />FROIvI: Joe Dudash ~ ~ ,D <br />RE: Proposed Permit Expansion, Bowie No. <br />~~~~~ <br />DEPARTMENT OF <br />NATURAL <br />RESOURCES <br />lames 5. Lochhead <br />E.ecwi.~e Director <br />Michael B. Long <br />Division Dmeaor <br />2 Mine, Permit No. C-96-083 <br />On Wednesday, November 18, 1998, Larry Routten and I met with Richard Roudin, <br />president of the Terror Ditch & Reservoir Company (TDRC). Bowie No. 2 had applied <br />for a federal lease, called the Iron Point Tract, in order to expand their operations <br />northward. The lease includes 2164 surface acres and 13.8 million tons of coal. All of <br />the mineral rights are federal and 161 surface acres are BLM and USFS. The lease was <br />amended so that mining would avoid Terror Creek, Hubbard Creek and the Terror <br />Reservoir Creek. The decision by BLM and the USFS has been signed and is in the public <br />comment period phase. Once the lease is final, Bowie will submit a permit revision to <br />incorporate the acreage into their permit. We anticipate a longwall operation, although <br />that is not official. <br />TDRC has concerns about this permitting action. The company owns the Terror Creek <br />Reservoir to the north and the Terror Creek ditch, which brings irrigation water to Garvin <br />Mesa residents to the west. Mr. Rudin expressed concerns to the Division about the <br />disn7p[ion of the irrigation ditch by subsidence cracks and landslides and the potential <br />damage to the reservoir through seismic activity. Mr. Rudin is also a resident of the <br />Garvin Mesa area. <br />Larry informed Mr. Rudin about our permitting process and our jurisdictional areas. <br />Larry also informed him that you would be reviewing the geotechnical aspects of this <br />anticipated permitting process. Lam stated that it was up to TDRC whether they could <br />hire their own consultants now or wait and see what the Division concluded. In any case. <br />TDRC, and their pro bono lawyer named Kurt Hofgard (from Boulder), want to receive <br />our permitting correspondence. I will be copying them on the Technical Revision No. 2 <br />adequacy letter. (TR-2 involves the addition of 160 acres, and federal coal, into the <br />