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BRL. With the exception of those issues which were stipulated with the approval, all technical <br />and procedural issues were resolved. The permit was issued on April 4, 1997, with an expiration <br />date of Apri14, 2002. <br />The original proposal to construct facilities in support of a longwall was submitted by BRL in <br />Technical Revision No. 6. Technical Revision No. 6 was submitted on December 7, 1998 and <br />proposed to construct a downhill conveyor, a coal stockpile and coal haul truck loading system <br />and relocation of pond B. BRL proposed converting to longwall in a December 11, 1998 <br />submittal of Technical Revision No. 7, at a rate of 5 million tons per yeaz. Both technical <br />revisions were called complete on December 16, 1998. The Division received comments from <br />several governmental agencies. The comments concerned impacts to wildlife, water rights, water <br />depletion and protection of archaeological azeas of importance. <br />Public comment letters were received from individuals, citizen groups and businesses. The <br />Division also received many telephone calls from the public. The positive comments centered <br />azound benefits to the community and the quality of the coal to be mined. The negative <br />comments involved the need to combine the revisions into one revision, delay the revision <br />decisions until the Environmental Impact Statement was finished and impacts to the environment <br />and to society. <br />The Division sent its adequacy letters for Technical Revisions Nos. 6 and 7 on February 8, 1999. <br />However, after a request from the Division, BRL withdrew Technical Revisions Nos. 6 and 7, <br />with the understanding that the proposed changes would be resubmitted in one permit revision. <br />The proposed decisions to withdraw Technical Revisions Nos. 6 and 7 were made on February <br />17, 1999. <br />The Division sent letters to all of the commenters, informing them of this change in proceedings <br />and that their comments on Technical Revisions Nos. 6 and 7 would be carried over to the new <br />submittal. However, BRL decided later to submit two separate permit revisions; Permit Revision <br />No. 2, involving longwall mining at the current rate of 2 million tons per year and Permit <br />Revision No. 3, involving associated facilities and an increase in production to 5 million tons per <br />year. <br />When BRL submitted Permit Revision Nos. 2 and 3, they responded to the Division's adequacy <br />questions from the previously withdrawn Technical Revision Nos. 6 and 7. Permit Revision No. <br />2 was submitted on May 5, 1999, and called complete on May 14, 1999. Permit Revision No. 3 <br />was submitted on May 17, 1999 and called complete on May 27, 1999. Completeness letters <br />were mailed to the same agencies and organizations that had received completeness letters for <br />Technical Revision Nos. 6 and 7. The Division received several comment letters, both from <br />governmental agencies and from the public. <br />The Division's first adequacy letter for Permit Revision No. 2 was sent on June 18, 1999. In two <br />letters, dated July 6, 1999 and August 12, 1999, BRL responded to the Division's adequacy <br />concerns. The Division sent its first adequacy letter for Pennit Revision No. 3 on July 23, 1999. <br />BRL responded to those adequacy questions in letters dated July 27, 1999, August 30, 1999 and <br />October 4, 1999. <br />5 <br />