GENERAL41665

• Permit No: C1996084
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 11/19/1997
• Doc Name: Proposed Decision and Findings of Compliance
• Permit Index Doc Type: FINDINGS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

SLA6987, SLA6988, and SLA6983 will need to be surveyed and cleared by SHPO prior to
the beginning of the second permit term.
Five sites are associated with the haul road up Lorencito Canyon or the PI/P2 portal box cut
azea. These facilities will be constructed near the end of the first 5-year permit term. Sites
SLA6999, SLA6993, SLA6998, SLA6995, and SLA7000 have yet to be surveyed.
Therefore, the Division will attach the following stipulation to the permit;
STIP # 4
LORENCITO COAL COMPANY SHALL CONDUCT CULTURAL RESOURCES
SURVEYS, SUBMIT THE SURVEYS TO THE DIVISION, AND RECENE SHPO
CLEARANCE PRIOR TO DISTURBAtNCE OR CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES
ASSOCIATED WITH THE P1/P2 HAUL ROAD, P1/P2 ACCESS ROAD, AND THE
P1/P2 BOX CUT, PORTAL, AND TEMPORARY OVERBURDEN STOCKPIl.E
AREA.
The final site, SLA7194, is located east of the Lorencito Canyon stream channel at the raw
coal loadout. There is no disturbance presently planned for this site and the site has been
granted SHPO clearance.
Ten additional sites were identified during 1997 data collection efforts for those sites
recorded as needing data in the 1996 preliminary survey. These sites were located in Jeff
Canyon, primarily in the area of a slight re-alignment of the P3 haul road. Sites 5LA7367,
SLA7368, SI.A7369, SLA7370, SLA7371, SLA7372, SLA7373, SLA7374, SLA7375 and
SLA7482 were all cleared by the SHPO as not eligible in a correspondence received by the
Division on July 17, 1997.
Numerous isolated finds were discovered at the Lorencito Canyon mine site. Isolated finds,
by definition, do not meet the criteria for eligibility and the SHPO does not normally provide
any clearance recommendation for isolated finds. No further work is required for all isolated
finds at the Lorencito Canyon mine. (2.07.6(2)(e)(n)
6. For this surface mining operation, private mineral estate has not been severed from private
surface estate, therefore, the documentation specified by Rule 2.03.6(2) is not required.
(2.07.6(2)(f))
On the basis of evidence submitted by the applicant and received from other state and federal
agencies as a result of the Section 34-33-114(3) compliance review required by the Colorado
Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act, the Division finds that Lorencito Coal Company,
LLC does not own or control any operations which are currently in violation of any law, rule,
or regulation of the United States, or any State law, rule, or regulation, or any provision of
the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act or the Colorado Surface Coal Mining
Reclamation Act. (2.07.6(2)(g)(I))
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