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suMMaRv The Review Process, Description of the Environment and Description of the Operations and Reclamation Plan The Review Process Colorado Yampa Coal Company (CYCC) currently holds Permit No. C-81-071 for the Eckman Park Mine, i4ine 1 and Mine 2 which are adjacent surface mining operations in Routt County, Colorado. The permit expired on December 14, 1986. Six months prior to that date, as required, CYCC applied for permit renewal. CYCC has completed mining at Mine 1 and Mine 2 and those areas have been backfilled and revegetated. i4ining and reclamation operations have been concentrated primarily within Eckman Park since 1980, and the applicant projects that mining and reclamation approved under the current permit would be completed in Eckman Park by 1988. The original approval document for the current operation is the Office of Surface Mining's (OSM) February 1980, approval with stipulations for a major modification to the Surface Mining and Reclamation Plan for Energy Fuels Corporation's (prior owner) Mine 1, Mine 2 and extension into Eckman Park (Permit No. C-79-177). The Technical Environmental Analysis (TEA) prepared by OSPi was adopted by the Division as the approval document. Associated with the TEA is an addendum prepared technical revision application dated September, within a 30 acre tract of previously unleased F the TEA updated the status of the operation and Act. For administrative purposes, the Division Permit C-81-071 to CYCC for Eckman Park, Mine 1 in conjunction with a 1985, which allowed mining ?deral Coal, The addendum to documented compliance with the subsequently issued and Mine 2, The current review process was initiated with the June, 1986, renewal application submitted by CYCC. Processing of the renewal application was delayed by submittal of a permit revision application which proposed siginificant alterations to the approved post-mining topography, That application was submitted in December, 1986 and approved, with modifications, on August 30, 1987. Adequacy letters addressing concerns identified by the Division, OSM, and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) with regard to the renewal application were sent to the applicant on August 22 and August 29, 1986. Information submitted in response to those letters in addition to data and information contained in the original application and the post-mining topography permit revision has enahled the Division to prepare this document.