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Introduction <br />This document is the decision package prepazed by the Colorado Division of Minerals and <br />Geology (the Division) for the Munger Canyon Mine, a federal coal mine located in Garfield <br />County. This document includes: 1) the proposed decision to approve the permit renewal <br />application; 2) a summary which includes a description of the history of the review of the permit <br />application, a description of the environment affected by the mining operation and a description <br />of the mining and reclamation plan; and 3) the written findings of compliance the Division has <br />made as required by the Colorado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act. <br />Detailed information concerning the findings of compliance can be found in the Regulations of <br />the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Boazd for Coal Mining. All Rules referenced in this <br />document aze contained within those regulations. Detailed information about the proposed <br />mining and reclamation operation can be found in the permit application on file (No. C-81-020) <br />in the public record maintained by the Division and at the County Clerk's Office for Garfield <br />County located at the Garfield County Courthouse in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. <br />The Division has received an application for a permit renewal to conduct surface coal mining and <br />reclamation operations at the Munger Canyon Mine. The application was submitted by Grand <br />Valley Coal Company. The mine is located on federal lands within Garfield and Mesa Counties, <br />Colorado. The legal description of the lands included within the permit area is: <br />Township 7 South. Range 102 West of the 6th Principal Meridian: <br />Section 21: Portions of SW 1/4 SW 1/4, portions of NW 1/4 SW 1/4 <br />Section 27: Portions of NW 1/4 SW 1/4, portions of NE 1/4 SW l/4, portions of NE <br />1/4 SW 1/4 SW 1/4, portions of SE 1/4 SW 1/4, portions of NW 1/4 SE <br />1/4, S %z S %z NE I/4 SE 1/4, N %x SW 1/4 SE 1/4, portions of SE 1/4 SE <br />1/4 <br />Section 28: Diagonal SW %z SW 1/4 SE 1/4 NE 1/4, portions of S %z SW 1/4 NE 1/4, <br />portions of SW 1/4, SW 1/4 NW 1/4, N %z N % SE 1/4, N %x S %x NW 1/4 <br />SE 1/4, N''/x S %x NE 1/4 SE I/4, N %x S %x NE 1/4 SW 1/4, NE 1/4 NW <br />1/4 SW 1/4,portions ofNW 1/4 NW 1/4 SW I/4, portions of SW 1/4 NW <br />I/4 SW 1/4, portions of W %: NW 1/4 NW 1/4. <br />Section 29: S'h NW I/4 NE 1/4, portions of SE 1/4 NE 1/4, portions of NE 1/4 NE <br />1/d, SW 1/4 NE 1/4, portions of E'/_ SE 1/4 NW 1/4, portions of NE l/a <br />SW 1/4, portions ofNW I/~l SE 1/~4, portions ofN'/_ NE 1/4 SE 1/4, <br />diagonal NW '/•. NW 1/4 SW I/4 SE l/-4, portions of SE 1/4 SW 1/d <br />