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<br />Summary <br />The Review Process <br />The Rimrock Coal Company, a Colorado Corporation, applied for a permit renewal under the <br />Colorado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act (C.R.S. 34-33-101 et sec.) and the right to <br />successive renewal as described under Rule 2.08.5 of the Regulations of the Colorado Mined <br />Land Reclamation Board for Coal Mining..The mine is located approximately three miles <br />southeast of Trinidad, Colorado, on County Road 73.4 near the abandoned town site of <br />Engleville in Section 29, Township 33 South, Range 63 West of the 6th Principal Meridian. <br />The mine site is located on the U.S. Geological Survey 7.5 minute Quadrangle map titled <br />"Trinidad East". <br />The Rimrock Mine original application was submitted to the Division on February 16, 1989 <br />and deemed complete on February 26, 1989. A joint preliminary adequacy letter conveying <br />concerns identified by the Colorado Division of Mines and the Mined Land Reclamation <br />Division was sent to Rimrock Coal Company on April 25, 1989. Over the following IS <br />months several series of correspondence between the Division and Rimrock Coal Company <br />ensued, identifying and resolving vazious adequacy concems. Final responses were received <br />by the Division on July 5, 1990. Based on satisfactory resolution of concerns identified <br />during the adequacy review, the Division prepared the Findings of Compliance and proposed <br />to approve the permit application with stipulations. On December 12, 1990, the permit was <br />issued but was not effective since the reclamation bond of $53,000.00 had not been supplied <br />to the Division. On November 6, 1992, the Division accepted a letter of credit in the amount <br />of $62,000.00. <br />Mining operations commenced in November 1992. Mining ceased in February 1993. The <br />office and all facilities were removed after mining ceased. Backfilling and regrading of the <br />site occurred in the spring and summer of 1993. Topsoil replacement, seeding and mulching <br />of the majority of the mine site occurred in the summer and fall of 1993. Additional <br />reclamation of two SAE locations and a small portion of the southern end of the mine <br />occurred in November 1994. <br />In 1993, Landmark Reclamation, Inc. submitted an application for Phase I bond release for <br />backfilling and grading of the west pit. The Division approved a partial release of 50%o of <br />the original bond amount on December 14, 1993. A portion of the requested release was <br />retained due to the failure of the operator to complete grading operations on an oil <br />containment area. The Division proposed release of $31,000.00. In February 1994, the <br />operator, Landmark Reclamation, Inc. submitted to the Division a new bond for Rimrock Coal <br />Company, in the form of a Corporate Surety, for $31,000.00. The bond, No. 124169933, is <br />underwritten by American Casualty Company of Reading, PA. The Division approved the <br />replacement bond and released the original Letter of Credit from Norwest Bank of Denver. <br />3 <br />