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Summary <br />The Review Process <br />Colorado Yampa Coal Company (CYCC) currently holds Permit No. C-81-071 for the <br />Eckman Pazk Mine, Mine ]and Mine 2 which aze adjacent surface mining operations in <br />Routt County, Colorado. The permit expired on December 14, 1996. Six months prior [o <br />that date, as required, CYCC applied for permit renewal, thereby assuring Right of Successive <br />Renewal as per Rule 2.08.5(1)(a). The original permit was issued on December 14, 1981 and <br />expired on December 13, 1986. However, due to a delay associated with a major permit <br />revision related to post-mining topography, the renewed permit was issued on December 14, <br />1987. Due to the discrepancy in dates, the second permit renewal term was back-dated to <br />begin December 14, 1991. <br />CYCC has completed mining at the Mine 1, Mine 2 and Eckman Park complex. Most <br />facilities have been transferred to the Foidel Creek mine (permit #C-82-056), a sister <br />underground operation permitted by Twentymile Coal Company. Mine operations and <br />associated permitting actions by these two mines aze closely linked, as they shazed many of <br />the same facilities as well as have overlapping permit boundaries. <br />The original approval document for the current operation is the Office of Surface Mining's <br />(OSM) February 1980 approval with stipulations for a major modification to the Surface <br />Mining and Reclamation Plan for Energy Fuels Corporation's (prior owner) Mine 1, Mine 2 <br />and extension into Eckman Park (Permit No. C-79-177). The Technical Environmental <br />Analysis (TEA) prepared by OSM was adopted by the Division as the approval document. <br />Associated with the TEA is an addendum prepared in conjunction with a technical revision <br />application dated September, 1985, which allowed mining within a 30 acre tract of previously <br />unleased Federal Coal. The addendum to the TEA updated the status of the operation and <br />documented compliance with the Act. For administrative purposes, [he Division subsequently <br />issued Permit C-81-071 to CYCC for Eckman Park, Mine 1 and Mine 2. <br />The first renewal process was initiated with the June, 1986, renewal application submitted by <br />CYCC. Processing of the renewal application was delayed by submittal of a permit revision <br />application which proposed significant alterations to the approved post-mining topography. <br />That application was submitted in December, 1986 and approved, with modifications, on <br />August 30, 1987. Adequacy letters addressing concerns identified by the Division, OSM, and <br />the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) with regard to the renewal application were sent to <br />the applicant on August 22 and August 29, 1986. <br />The second permit renewal process was initiated by the Division's 270-day letter to CYCC <br />informing them that a renewal application was due by June 14, 1992 to guarantee the right to <br />successive renewal. CYCC submitted a complete renewal application on June 14, 1992. The <br />second permit renewal was approved by the Division on January 19, 1993. <br />4 <br />