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Summary The Review Process The Foidel Creek Mine is exclusively an underground coal mining operation. The file number of this permit revision application is PR-07. The permit revision application (PR-07), dated May 10, 2006, was submitted by TCC and received at the Division on May I5, 2006. PR-07 was found incomplete on May 17, 2006, and, after receipt of additional information, found complete on May 19, 2006. By PR-07, TCC proposes3, in the Northern Mining District, to extend development and longwall mining into portions of Sections 5 and 6, and to expand development and longwall mining in portions of Sections 4, 7 and 8, of TSN R86W. TCC also proposes, by PR-7, in the Western Mining District, to expand development mining in Section 17, and to extend development mining into portions of Section 18, TSN R86W and portions of Section 13 TSN R87W. TCC published a notice of the application in the Steamboat Pilot and Todav, for four consecutive weeks (June 11, 18, 25 and July 2, 2006. No objections regazding the application were received. A letter expressing three concerns was received from the Colorado Historical Society and transmitted to the applicant on July 3, 2006. These concerns have been addressed in the current proposed version of this revision. By a letter of November 28, 2006, the Colorado Historical Society (State Historical Preservation Officer) cleared the revised application. A letter expressing no comment or objection was received from the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water Resources and transmitted to the applicant on June 22, 2006. The applicant/violator system (AVS), maintained by the U.S. Office of Surface Mining (OSM), was queried on August 22, 2006. In regazd to compliance history, the recommendation of the system was to issue this permit revision. However, the information on file was known to be deficient in the system at that time. Afollow-up AVS query on December 8, 2006, at a time when the system had been posted with current information, also resulted in a recommendation to issue this revision. The Division sent a number of adequacy questions to TCC. The responses resolved all adequacy concerns. Therefore, the Division proposes to approve the revision application as amended. Publication of this proposed decision initiates a thirty day public comment period. Provided there are no objections to the decision, it becomes final at the close of the comment period. s PAP, Map 23B, 11/06/06 5