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INTRUUUCTIUW <br />The U.S. Steel Mininy Co., Inc., a Delaware Corporation, has filed an <br />application to conduct coal mining operations at the Somerset Mine <br />pursuant to the Colorado surface Coal Mininy Reclamation Act, Section <br />34-33-109, C.R.S. 1973, as amended (tne Act) and the Reyulations <br />promulgated thereunder'. <br />The Somerset Mine is an existiny underyround mine which has been in <br />operation since 1902. The mine is situated in the northeast portion of <br />Delta County, Colorado, and the northwest portion of Gunnison County, <br />Colurado. The main mine yard is located i~nntediately north of Somerset <br />Colorado on the north side of Colorado State Highway 133. All lands <br />within the proposed pennit area are within: T12S, R91W, Sections 34,35 <br />and 30; T13S, R91W, Sections 1, 2, 3, 11, 1[, and 13; T13S, R90W, <br />Sections 6, 7 ana 8. <br />This document is the decision package prepared by the Colorado htined Land <br />Reclamation Division for the Somerset ~4ine. Within the document is: the <br />"Proposed Decision" to approve the permit application; a "Summary" <br />descrioiny the review process, the existiny environment and the <br />operations and recla,~aation plan; and the Division's 'written findings of <br />compliance as required by the Act. <br />Detailed information concerning the review process can oe found in the <br />act and the Reyulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for <br />Coal Mininy. All Rules referenced in this document are contained within <br />the Reyulations. Detailed information about the proposed mining and <br />reclamation operation can be found in the pennit application on file <br />(file number C-022-81j in the public record maintained by the Division <br />located in Room 423 Centennial Building, 1313 Sherman Strut, Denver, <br />Colorado, 80203, telephone (3U 3) d66-3507 and at the Gunnison County <br />Courthouse, 200 East Virginia, Gunnison, Colorado 8141ti. <br />