GENERAL39227

• Permit No: C1982056
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 6/8/1998
• Doc Name: MINING PLAN DECISION DOCUMENT 1999 FEDERAL LEASE COC-54608
• Permit Index Doc Type: OSM Permits
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

United States Department of the Interior
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OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING
Reclamation and Enforcement
Washington, D.C. 20290
MEMORANDUM MAY 2 8 Iggg
To: Assistant Secretary, Land and
Minerals Management ,
From: ~tathy Karpan, Di ff' a of
.fii Surface Mining
SubjectyrJ_Recommendation for Approval of the Mining Plan Action
for Federal Lease COC-54608 at Twentymile Coal
Company's Foidel Creek Mine, Routt County, Colorado
You may approve a mining plan for Federal leases under 30 U.S.C.
§§ 207(c) and 1273(c). Please sign the attached mining plan
approval document if you agree with the following:
Pursuant to 30 CFR Chapter VII, Subchapter D, I find that
the proposed mining plan will meet all applicable laws and
• regulations. Therefore, I recommend approval without
conditions of the Twentymile Coal Company's Foidel Creek
Mine mining plan modification for Federal lease COC-54608
pursuant to the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, as amended.
My recommendation to approve the Foidel Creek Mine mining plan
action is based on:
(1) Twentymile Coal Company's complete permit application
package (PAP),
(2) compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of
1969,
(3) documentation assuring compliance with applicable
requirements of other Federal laws, regulations, and
executive orders,
(4) comments and recommendations or concurrence of other
Federal agencies, and the public,
(5) the findings and recommendations of the Bureau of Land
Management regarding the resource recovery and protection
plan, the Federal lease requirements, and the Mineral
Leasing Act, and