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the outside right-of--way of old State Highway 133. The location of these facilities extends from <br />the old townsite of Bowie to about 500 feet east of the old Bowie power plant. <br />The original Bowie No. 2 Mine permit application indicated that mining would be conducted <br />using the room and pillar mining method. Permit Revision No. 3 changed the mining method to <br />longwall mining but kept the rate of production at two million tons per year. Permit Revision <br />No. 3 proposes to increase maximum mine production to five million tons per year. Mining is in <br />the D-2 coal seam. Detailed information regarding the Bowie No. 2 Mine and BRL is located in <br />the eight (8) binders which comprise the Bowie No. 2 Mine permit application document. <br />Land Use and Cultural and Historic Resource Information - <br />Detailed information regarding land uses and cultural and historic resources within the Bowie <br />No. 2 Mine permit area is provided in Sections 2.04.3 and 2.04.4 of the permit application <br />document. A brief summary is provided below, and this summary is derived from the <br />information presented within Sections 2.04.3 and 2.04.4 of the permit application document. <br />The Bowie No. 2 Mine permit and adjacent area includes a mix of land uses. The lower elevation <br />areas aze used for pasture, orchards, residential and industrial uses. Agricultural uses are served <br />by irrigation water. 1~he higher elevations within and adjacent to the permit area support some <br />rangeland use, and the areas offer abundant wildlife habitat. The lands also support various <br />recreational uses. <br />Historic and current mining operations also exist in the general area. The Bowie No. 1 Mine is <br />located west of the Bowie No. 2 Mine permit area. The Terror Creek Loadout is located to the <br />south of the Bowie No. 2 Mine permit azea. The reclaimed new Blue Ribbon Mine is also located <br />nearby along Hubbard Creek, as are outlying facilities associated with the Sanborn Creek Mine. <br />Historic coal mines located within and adjacent to the Bowie No. 2 permit boundary include the <br />King Mine, the Gelwick Mine, the old Blue Ribbon Mine and the Farmers' Mine. The old <br />townsite of Bowie is located within the Bowie No. 2 permit area. There are no known cultural <br />resources in the areas to be disturbed under Permit Revision No. 3. As requested by the Colorado <br />Historical Society, BRL has committed to stop construction and evaluate the situation <br />appropriately, in consultation with the Colorado Historical Society, if previously unknown <br />cultural resources should be discovered. <br />Geology - <br />Detailed information regarding the geology in and adjacent to the Bowie No. 2 Mine permit area <br />is provided in Sections 2.04.5 and 2.04.6 of the permit application document. A brief summary is <br />provided below, and this summary is derived from the information presented within Sections <br />2.04.5 and 2.04.6 of the permit application. <br />The Bowie No. 2 Mine permit area is located in the North Fork Valley of the Gunnison River, <br />near the western margin of the Colorado portion of the Central Rocky Mountains. The elevation <br />7 <br />