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DRMS Permit Index
Permit No
C1980007
IBM Index Class Name
General Documents
Doc Date
11/5/2007
Doc Name
Mining Plan Decision Document Federal Lease C-1362 (TR109)
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Mountain Coal Company, LLC
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DRMS
Permit Index Doc Type
Other Permits
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II. Background <br />• The West Elk underground coal mine is located in Delta and Gunnison Counties, <br />Colorado, approximately two miles east of the town of Somerset, Colorado on both U.S. <br />Forest Service and private lands. The mine has been in operation since 1982 and <br />currently employs 480 people during full production. The curent life of the approved <br />mining operation within the approved permit area is estimated to be approximately eight <br />(8) years. The mining operations use a combination of room and pillar and longwall <br />mining methods. The average production rate is approximately 7.0 million tons per year <br />from the "B", "E", and "F" coal seams and is approved to reach a maximum production <br />rate of 8.3 million tons per year. <br />The original mining plan for portions of Federal leases C-1362, C-0117192, and <br />D-044569 at the West Elk Mine was approved on July 15, 1981. Since that approval, <br />there have been nine mining plan modifications for the West Elk mine. <br />A mining plan modification for portions of Federal leases C-1362, C-0117192, and <br />D-044569 was approved on August 16, 1985. A mining plan modification for a portion <br />of Federal lease C-1362 was approved on September 27, 1985. A mining plan <br />modification for portions of Federal leases C-1362, C-0117192, and D-044569 was <br />approved on November 18, 1985. A mining plan modification for- portions of Federal <br />leases C-1362, C-0117192, and D-044569 was approved on December 22, 1986. A <br />. mining plan modification for new Federal lease COC-54558 was approved on December <br />21, 1994. A mining plan modification for a portion of Federal lease C-1362 and a portion <br />of new Federal ]ease COC-56447 was approved on April 26, 1996. A mining plan <br />modification for the remainder of Federal lease COC-56447 was approved on June 13, <br />2000. A mining plan modification for new Federal lease COC-67011 was approved on <br />June 21, 2005. A mining plan modification for the remainder of Federal lease C-1362 <br />was approved on June 30, 2006. <br />The State's current petrr»t area covers approximately 15,638 acres and approximately <br />398.38 surface acres are cun~ently distwbed within the permit area. <br />A total of 10,241 acres of Federal sm face land, 12,241 acres of Federal coal and 73.7 <br />million tons of Federal coal remain within the cun'ent permit area. <br />The post mining land use within the currently approved mining plan area is grazing land <br />and fish and wildlife habitat. <br />III- The Proposed Action <br />This mining plsm action consists of a minim plan modification for Federal lease C-1362. <br />Specifically. this mining plan action proposed by Mountain Coal Company. L.L.C. <br />• <br />
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