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iii iiiiiiiiiiiu iii 999 STATE OF COLORADO DIVISION OE MINERALS AND GEOLOGY Department of Natural Resources 1313 Sherman 51., Room 215 Denver, CO 80203 Phone: 1303) 866-3567 FAX: 13031 832-8106 October 13, 1993 Mr. Jim Tatum 8703 Bonhomme Houston, TX 77074 Re: Response to Letter of September 15, 1993 Basin Resources, Inc., The Golden Eagle Mine Permit No. C-81-013 Dear Mr. Tatum: OF ~~ R~4 we % :~1 ~O "~ "/Bl6 ROy Romer Governor Michael B. Long Dnis~on Director On September 20, 1993, we received your letter dated September 15, 1993, regarding the Golden Eagle Mine. We wish to take this opportunity to provide our responses. Regarding your comment that the Division, in its letter of August 30, 1993, stated that no mining operations have occurred closer than 700 feet to your residence, we recommend you review our letter. Nowhere in our August 30, 1993 letter did we state this. We believe you are referring to our letter of July 7, 1993 in which we stated, "the mine has not expanded closer than 750 feet of your home." However, if you review our August 12, 1993 letter to Michael A. Ossola with the Las Animas County Planning and Land Use Office (a copy of which was mailed to your office, you will observe that the Division recalculated this figure, and stated that the extent of underground mine workings stopped 362.5 feet from your residence. Regarding your comment about the angle-of-draw effect upon your residence from the under- ground workings, please review both our letter to you of July 7, 1993 and our letter to Mr. Ossola of August 12, 1993. In both of these letters, we state that, as room-and-pillar operations at the Golden Eagle Mine were approved with a 50 percent eMraction mining limit (that is, 50 percent of the coal remained in place) to provide anon-subsiding condition under the Purgatoire River Valley, we do not believe that any subsidence is occurring in the Purgatoire River floodplain. As such, we do not anticipate any angle-of-draw effect to occur in that area as well. Regarding your copy of your April 2, 1991 letter to Robin Forte of KN Energy, Inc., Lakewood, Colorado, we would like to request a copy of any response provided by KN Energy, Inc. to this letter, as well as copies of any documentation you may have describing the current relationship between KN Energy, Inc. and Basin Resources, Inc. Please note that while it is apparent that KN Energy, Inc. was made aware of your concerns with the existence of an airshaft on your