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History of Permit C-1982-056
<br />The Foidel Creek Mine Permit was issued to Twentymile Coal Company (TCC) on May 18,
<br />1983. Permit renewals were approved April 13,1988, RN-O1; June 2, 1993, RN-02; Apri124,
<br />2000, RN-03; and December 30, 2003, RN-04.
<br />Description of the Foidel Creek Mine
<br />The Foidel Creek Mine is located approximately 22 miles southwest of Steamboat Springs, in
<br />Routt County, Colorado. The Foidel Creek Mine is a lazge, active underground mine. The mine
<br />is a longwall operation, using continuous miners for entry and development work. The permit
<br />azea encompasses approximately 22,580 acres. Mine-related facilities result in approximately
<br />509 acres of surface disturbance. Approved surface disturbances and azeas to be undermined,
<br />combined, total approximately 15, 705 acres.
<br />The permit azea varies in elevation from 6,600' to 7,500' with the portal openings at 6,885' along
<br />Foidel Creek. Disturbed areas of the mine include the main surface facilities azea along Foidel
<br />Creek and numerous smaller outlying facilities. The main mine facilities lie in Sections 29, 31,
<br />32, TSN, R86W of the 6th Principle Meridian and aze located in, and adjacent to, a reclaimed
<br />strip pit mine excavated originally by a Colorado Yampa Coal Company's (CYCC) surface
<br />mining operation (Permit No. C-81-071). Other facilities currently within the permit area, but
<br />separate from the main portal facility azea, include the Fish Creek Borehole (FCB), the
<br />Southwest ventilation shaft, the Eastern Mining District ventilation shaft, the Eastern Mining
<br />District dewatering borehole, the Sandstones substation, the North Escape Shaft, the Fish Creek
<br />Tipple (FCT), the Eastern Mining District grout hole pad, the Northern Mining District Power
<br />borehole, the 18-Right Ventilation Shaft, and the 6 North Ventilation Shaft.
<br />The post-mining land uses aze, as were premising land uses, rangeland, pastureland, cropland
<br />and wildlife. "~`-`
<br />SECTION II -SUMMARY OF PERMIT REVISIONS, VIOLATIONS, STIPULATIONS,
<br />VARIANCES, AND BOND
<br />Revisions
<br />There have been, since RN 04, one permit revision (PR), eight technical revisions (TR), and.
<br />sixteen minor revisions (MR). The following is a summary of these revisions, in chronological
<br />(date of approval) order. The amount of the corresponding reclamation liability and the amount
<br />of bond provided by the TCC aze also entered into the summary.
<br />2005 Midterm Review, Permit C-1982-056, Foidel Creek Mine, Page 3 of 9 pages, November 17, 2005
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