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-2- <br />Summary of the Review <br />Process <br />Colowyo Coal Company has applied for partial bond release under the Colorado <br />Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Act for backfilling and grading work and <br />revegetation completed at the Colowyo Mine. The mine is located in Moffat <br />County, approximately 25 miles south of Craig, Colorado, in portions of <br />Sections 16, 20, 28, and 29, T3N, R93W. The operator has requested that Phase <br />I and II bond release be granted to areas reclaimed in 1978 - 1986. These <br />areas comprise 226.4 acres in Sections 2 and 3, T3N, R93W. <br />On June 2, 1987 the Division received a request for partial bond release for <br />backfilling and grading on 50 arres and Phase II on 176,4 acres of the areas <br />described above. This request was found to be complete on June 12, 1987, with <br />the submittal of additional information by the operator. Additional <br />information concerning Phase II bond release was submitted August 21, 1987. <br />On July 16, 1981 a site inspection was held in accordance with <br />Rule 3.03.2(1). Present were representatives of the Division, Colowyo Coal <br />Company, the Office of Surface Mining, and the Bureau of Land Management. <br />