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Summary The Review Process Colorado Yampa Coal Company (CYCC) currently holds Permit No. C-81-071 for the Eckman Park Mine, Mine 1 and Mine 2 which are adjacent surface mining operations in Routt County, Colorado. The permit expired on December 14, 1992. Six months prior to that date, as required, CYCC applied for permit renewal. The original permit was issued on December 14, 1981 and expired on December 13, 1986. However, due to a delay associated with a major permit revision related to post-mining topography, the renewed permit was issued on December 14, 1987. Due to the discrepancy in dates, the permit corresponding to this findings revision will be back-dated to begin December 14, 1991. CYCC has completed mining at the Mine 1, Mine 2 and Eckman Park complex. Most facilities have been transferred to the Foidel Creek mine, a sister underground operation permitted by Twentymile Coal Company, permit #C-82-056. Mine operations and associated permitting actions by these two mines are closely linked, as they shared many of the same facilities as well as have overlapping permit boundaries. The original approval document for the current operation is the Office of Surface Mining's (OSM) February 1980, approval with stipulations for a major modification to the Surface Mining and Reclamation Plan for Energy Fuels Corporation's (prior owner) Mine 1, Mine 2 and extension into Eckman Park (Permit No. C-79-177). The Technical Environmental Analysis (TEA) prepared by OSM was adopted by the Division as the approval document. Associated with the TEA is an addendum prepared in conjunction with a technical revision application dated September, 1985, which allowed mining within a 30 acre tract of previously unleased Federal Coal. The addendum to the TEA updated the status of the operation and documented compliance with the Act. For administrative purposes, the Division subsequently issued Permit C-81-071 to CYCC for Eckman Park, Mine 1 and Mine 2. The first renewal process was initiated with the June, 1986, renewal application submitted by CYCC. Processing of the renewal application was delayed by submittal of a permit revision application which proposed significant alterations to the approved post-mining topography. That application was submitted in December, 1986 and approved, with modifications, on August 30, 1987. Adequacy letters addressing concerns identified by the Division, OSM, and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) with regard to the renewal application were sent to the applicant on August 22 and August 29, 1986. 4