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June 1993. Thereafter, the West Mine facilities were used for materials transport, a maintenance shop, ventilation and emergency escapeway. On November 5, 1987, Colorado Westmoreland Inc.'s application for renewal (RN-01) of a valid and existing permit to conduct coal mining operations, Permit No. C-81-038, was deemed complete. The Division published its proposed decision to approve the revision with ten stipulations on August 4, 1988, and amended the permit decision of Mazch 21, 1983 by renumbering the permit as C-81-038 to ensure consistency within the MLRD files. Permit C-81-038 was issued by the Division on July 2l, 1988. However, this date was in error; the permit issuance should have been April 20, 1988. In order to remedy this situation, the 1993 permit renewal issuance date was back-dated to Apri120, 1993, with a permit expiration date of April 20, 1998. The Division issued a decision on August l0, 1989 to approve the transfer of mining permit C-81-038 from Colorado Westmoreland Inc. to Cyprus Orchard Valley Coal Corporation (COVCC). On January 21, 1993, Cyprus Orchard Valley Coal Corporation submitted an application for Permit Renewal No. 2 (RN-02). The proposed decision to approve with conditions RN-02 was made on July 23, 1993. The decision became final on August 23, 1993. Due to the error in assigning the correct permit issuance date in 1988, the Permit Renewal No. 2 issuance date was back-dated to April 20, 1993 and the expiration date became April 20, 1998. Stipulations numbers 26, 27, 28, 34, 41, 42 and 43 were attached to RN-02. On April 28, 1993, Permit Revision No. 3 (PR-03) was submitted by COVCC for the inclusion of 510 acres into the permit area, as a result of the new coal lease COC-53356. The permit revision, with ten stipulations attached, was approved on July 30, 1993. On May 22, 1993, Technical Revision No. 22 was approved. This TR added sixty acres onto the west side of the permit area, so that the permit boundary would include the angle of draw projected to the surface for coal (ease COC-372 l OM. On March 22, 1994, Technical Revision No. 24 was approved. In this TR, hydrologic monitoring of selected sites was either eliminated, temporarily discontinued or reduced in frequency. It was demonstrated that these sites were either located where there were no anticipated impacts from mining or where reduced monitoring frequency would not compromise an ability to determine hydrologic impacts. Hydrologic monitoring of some sites may be reinstated in the future should a change in the mine plan warrant it. On September 26, 1994, Technical Revision No. 25 was approved. A modification of the north end of the West Ridge Waste Pile, to increase the storage volume of the pile, was approved. On December 8, 1994, the Division received an application for a transfer of permit and succession of operator. With the approval on January 24, 1995, permit C-81-038 was transferred from Cyprus Orchard Valley Coal Corporation to Bowie Resources Limited (BRL). The operator for the Bowie No. I Mine was changed in Minor Revision No. 99, from Bruin Mining Company to Sherpa Paonia, Inc. MR-99 was approved with conditions on January 21, ! 997. Stipulation no. 52 was attached to MR-99 and approved the transfer conditional upon the continued compliance with a settlement agreement that had been linked to the operator. With Technical Revision No. 28, the operator was changed from Sherpa Paonia to BRL. BRL submitted the Permit Renewal No. 3 (RN-03) package on October 20, 1997. After all of the Division's adequacy review issues were resolved, Permit No. C-81-038 was renewed for the Bowie No. 1 Mine, retroactive to April 20, 1998.