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<br />This permit termination is categorically excluded from the National <br />Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process because the Federal permit and <br />mining plan approval were previously covered by the NEPA process (i.e., <br />OSMRE's environmental Assessment and ?inning of .Io Significant Impact <br />dated December 9, 1982) <br />II. Background <br />The Munger Canyon underground coal mine is located in Garfield County, <br />Colorado, 20 miles North of Loma. The Colorado State permit area <br />contains approxima*.ely 1,048.9 acres, approximately 863.5 acres of xhich <br />are leased Federal coal in the mining plan area for Federal leases <br />C-0125515 sad C-0125516. <br />The Munger Canyon mine mining plan was originally approved under the <br />Federal lands program on December 22, 1982, and the mine vas permitted <br />by OSMRE under the Federal lands program and Colorado State program on <br />the same date. Since the original approval of the mining plan, there <br />have been no mining plan modifications. <br />OSMRE's Albuquerque Field Office was consulted on November 14, 1988 and <br />has indicated *,hat no pending enforcement actions are associated with <br />the Federal permit for the Munger Canyon mine. <br />The Federal permit contained 18 spacial conditions of approval. <br />The statue of these conditions are as follows: <br />Stipulation No. 1 <br />Six months prior to the driving of rock slopes within the Munger <br />Canyon mine from the Cameo coal seam to the Upper Carbonera coal <br />seam, the applicant must submit geochemical and physical analyses of <br />the Upper Carbonera roof and floor strata and all interburden strata <br />between the Cameo and Upper Carbonera coal seams which will be <br />encountered in the rack slopes. <br />Status: Has been retained by MLRD as Stipulation #1 on renewal permit <br />#C-81-020, approved by the state on January 12, 1988. <br />Stipulation No. 2 <br />Within s1z months of permit issuance and prior to construction of <br />the sediment ponds at the mine bench and at the waste disposal site, <br />the permittee moat install approved dewatering devices to dexater <br />the ponds to the maximum sediment storage level. Also, the <br />permittee moat commit to installing markers to indicate the 60~ <br />sediment storage level at both sediment ponds. <br />Status: Was resolved in MLRD letter to company, dated July 2B, 1986. <br />