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the purposes of filing on March 09, 1999. Appropriate agencies were notified of the application by <br />letters dated Mazch 09, 1999. Notice of the application was published in the Steamboat Pilot on <br />Mazch 24 and 31, 1999 and on Apri107 and 14, 1999. Division adequacy review letters were sent to <br />Seneca Coal Company on Apri123, 1999; May 14,1999; August 31, 1999; September 2, 1999; and <br />September 8, 1999. Seneca Coal Company adequately addressed all concerns. Seneca Coal <br />Company responses and all comments received from other agencies aze available For review at the <br />Division office. The proposed decision to approve the revision was issued on October 18, 1999. <br />On January 28, 2000, a permit renewal application was received by the Division for a successive <br />five-year permit term. The application was deemed complete for the purposes of filing on February <br />1, 2000. Appropriate agencies were notified of the permit renewal application by letters dated <br />February 1, 2000. Notice of the application was published in the Steamboat Pilot on February 9, 16, <br />and 23, 2000 and Mazch 1, 2000. Division adequacy review letters were sent to Seneca Coal <br />Company on February 10, 2000 and on January 16, 2001. Seneca Coal Company adequately <br />addressed all concerns. The proposed decision to approve the permit renewal application was issued <br />on March 06, 2001. <br />On November 8, 2004 the Division notified Seneca Coal Company that its permit for the Yoast Mine <br />would expire on August 5, 2005. On January 13, 2005 the Division received an application for <br />renewal of a valid, existing permit from Seneca Coal Company for the Yoast Mine. Since a complete <br />application for renewal was received 180 days prior to expiration of the previous permit, Seneca <br />Coal Company is assured of the right to continue mining under that permit during the review of the <br />renewal application. <br />The application was deemed complete and appropriate agencies notified of the application on <br />January 21, 2005. The Division of Water Resources and the Colorado Historical Society were the <br />only agencies that responded to the notification. In a letter to the Division dated January 28, 2005, <br />the Colorado Historical Society found that since the renewal application will disturb no additional <br />surface land, there would be no effect to historic properties. In a letter dated February 1, 2005 the <br />Division of Water Resources stated no comments or objections to the Yoast Mine permit renewal <br />application. Seneca Coal Company published public notice of its application for permit renewal in <br />the Steamboat Pilot during four consecutive weeks, beginning January 30, 2005. There were no <br />comments regarding this permit renewal received by the Division as a result of the public notice. <br />The Applicant Violator System (AVS) was queried on February 7, 2004 and again on July 28, 2005. <br />The Division recommends an "issue" for the permit renewal. <br />On March 22, 2005, the Division submitted to SCC an adequacy review of the renewal application. <br />SCC responded to the Division's adequacy comments in a letter dated May I1, 2005. SCC <br />adequately addressed all concerns, with exception of two comments related to ongoing hydrologic <br />monitoring including Protection of Hydrologic Balance [Rule 2.06.6(3)(b)] and Surface and Ground <br />Water Monitoring (Rule 4.05.13). These hydrology monitoring related issues will continue to be <br />addressed annually in Annual Hydrology Report submittals. SCC has indicated in a letter to the <br />Division dated July 20, 2005 that new and updated information pertaining to Probable Hydrologic <br />Yoast Mine R February 28, 2006 <br />