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• If you concur with this recommendation, please sign the attached memorandum to the Acting Assistant Secretary, Land and Minerals Management. II. Background The Bowie No. 2 underground coal mine is located in Delta County, Colorado. The mine has been in operation since 1997. The life of the currently approved mining operations within the approved permit area is estimated to be 9 months. The mining operations use industry standard longwall mining methods. The average annual production rate is at the approved maximum production rate of 5.0 million tons per year from the D-2 coal seam. The mining plan for Federal lease COC-61209 at the Bowie No. 2 Mine was initially approved on October 18, 2000. Since that approval, no other mining plan modifications have been requested or approved. The State's current permit area covers 2,850 acres. Approximately 92 surface acres are disturbed within the State's permit area. A total of 645 acres of Federal coal exist within the State's current permit area. A total of 7.9 million tons of Federal coal exist within the current permit area. • A total of 507 acres of Federal surface land exist within the State's current permit area. The postmining land use within the currently approved mining plan area is rangeland and wildlife habitat. III. The Proposed Action This mining plan action consists of a mining plan modification for Federal lease COC- 61209. Specifically, the mining plan action proposed by BRL consists of: extend mining and coal recovery from the D-2 coal seam, in throughout the Iron Point Tract Federal coal lease COC-61209, within the area covered by Colorado Slate permit C-96-083, in all or part of Section 33 and 34, T 125, R91 W, Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, and 11, T 135, R91 W 6'" P.M. The life of the mining operations is expected to continue for 5 years under Colorado Permit No. C-96-083 and this proposed mining plan modification. The average annual production rate and the maximum production rate would not change. The approved State permit area would increase by 1,675 acres from its present 2,850 acres [o a new total of 4,525 acres.