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The Division also received two letters from the public after the informal conference. Concerns <br />with subsidence impacts, surface and groundwater impacts to water rights and water resources <br />and the separation in the submittal of the various mine plan revisions. <br />At the time of the first informal conference, the company did not have time to respond formally <br />to the Division's adequacy review of Peanit Revision No. 3. Therefore, a second informal <br />conference was held on September 13, 1999. As at the first informal conference, the Division <br />answered questions and received further comments from the public conceming the changes <br />proposed in BRL's mine plans. <br />BRL satisfactorily answered all of the Division's adequacy questions for Permit Revisions Nos. <br />2 and 3. The Division proposed to approve with conditions Permit Revision No. 2 on September <br />13, 1999. New stipulation number 7 was attached to the conditional approval of Permit Revision <br />No. 2. On October 12, 1999, the Division received objections to the proposed decision and a <br />request for a formal hearing. The proposed decision to approve Permit Revision No. 2 was <br />brought before the Mined Land Reclamation Board (Board) on October 20, 1999. The Board <br />approved the Division's proposed decision to approve with stipulations Permit Revision No. 2 on <br />that same date. <br />On Februazy 1, 2000, the Division proposed to approve with stipulations Permit Revision No. 3. <br />No new stipulations were attached to the conditional approval of Permit Revision No. 3. No <br />requests for a boazd hearing were received at the Division. Therefore, the decision became final <br />on March 2, 2000. <br />The Division received the submittal for Permit Revision No. 4, dated October 5, 2000, on <br />October 6, 2000. This revision proposed to incorporate two azeas into the permit and allow for <br />longwall and room and pillar mining of the D seam in those two azeas. One azea was a 1632 acre <br />portion of the Iron Point Tract Federal lease COC-61209 that was located to the north of the <br />permit azea. The second area was 119 acres of private and federal coal on the east side of the <br />permit azea. After an initial incompleteness determination, the Permit Revision No. 4 submittal <br />was called complete on October 23, 2000 and the appropriate notification letters were sent out. <br />In response to the Division's completeness letters, several state and federal agencies sent <br />comment letters to the Division concerning PR-04. The Division did not receive any comments <br />from the public concerning Permit Revision No.4, nor were there any requests for an informal <br />conference. <br />The Division sent its first adequacy review letter on November 8, 2000. Additional adequacy <br />review letters were sent by the Division on December 27, 2000 and on February 5, 2001 <br />In a letter dated October 27, 2000, the Division requested that the Office of Surface Mining <br />(OSM) make a determination as to whether Permit Revision No. 4 constituted a federal mine <br />plan change requiring Secretarial approval. In a response letter, dated November 1, 2000 and <br />received at the Division on November 6, 2000, OSM confirmed that the activities proposed in <br />Permit Revision No. 4 do constitute a federal mine plan change requiring Secretarial approval. <br />The Secretarial approval would be decided after the Division issues its proposed decision on the <br />revision. <br />7 <br />