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The permit was transferred from Somerset Mining Company to Pacific Basin Resources on <br />August 31, 1995 through Succession of Operator No. 2. At that time, the name of the mine was <br />changed from the Somerset/Sanborn Creek Mine to the Sanborn Creek Mine. <br />Permit Revision No. 3 was subntted to the Division on May 13, 1996. The operator requested, <br />through this revision, to increase the permit area by 3,518 acres, to a total of 9,047 acres. Of the <br />total permit acreage, 3,553 acres were private and 5,494 acres were federal. Of the total increase <br />in acreage, 1,875 were on private land and 1,643 acres were on federal land. The increase in <br />acreage was to incorporate the acquisition of the 160 acre Eastern Lease Modification, a 40 acre <br />right-of-way and a permit boundary adjustment. Mining would continue in the B coal seam. <br />Before the approval of Permit Revision No. 3, the operator withdrew the proposal to mine the 40 <br />acre right-of-way. The permit revision was approved on October 14, 1996, with stipulations <br />numbers 21, 22 and 23 attached. Stipulation No. 21 required BLM approval of the coal ]ease <br />COC-53510 modification and OSM approval of the Eastem Lease Modification mine plan. <br />Stipulation No. 22 required approval of the Division's decision by USFW. Stipulation No. 22 <br />required submittal of maps showing the new permit boundary. All three stipulations were <br />satisfied. <br />Succession of Operator No. 3 transferred the permit from Pacific Basin Resources to Oxbow <br />Cazbon & Minerals, Inc. This transfer was approved on February 20, 1997. <br />The permit was transferred from Oxbow Carbon & Minerals, Inc. to Oxbow Mining, Inc, on <br />January 23, 1998 with Succession of Operator No. 4. <br />On January 9, 1998, the Division notified Oxbow Carbon and Minerals of the impending permit <br />renewal and the need to file a complete application by April 11, 1998. The operator submitted an <br />application for permit renewal on March 13, 1998. The submittal was called complete by the <br />Division on March 23, 1998, thereby securing the right of successive renewal for the Sanbom <br />Creek Mine. Completeness letters were mailed out to various federal, state and local agencies <br />The public notice announcing the completeness of the permit renewal application was published <br />on April 8, 15, 22 and 29, 1998 in the Delta County Independent. A letter from the Colorado <br />Historical Society, dated March 27, 1998, stated that they had no concerns with the permit <br />renewal. No other responses were received by the Division. The Applicant Violator System <br />(AVS) was queried for any non-compliance issues relating to Oxbow Mining. The AVS gave an <br />"issue" recommendation. <br />The Division's adequacy review letter was dated July 30, 1999. Because the operator chose to <br />rewrite and reorganize the entire Sanborn Creek Mine permit application, it was decided to <br />sepazate the permit application reorganization effort from the permit renewal process. Since the <br />pertnit renewal adequacy questions were more pertinent to the reorganization, rather than to the <br />permit renewal itself, the OMI responses to the permit renewal adequacy review questions were <br />submitted in a new Permit Revision No. 4. The permit was renewed September 25, 2000. <br />6 <br />