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umma The Review Process The Munger Canyon [vline was permitted under the interim program on July 24, 1978 (Permit No. 78-57). Sheridan Enterprises, Inc. submitted an application for a new permit on December 12, 1980 pursuant to Section 34-33-]09 of the Act. During permit application review, ajoint venture company was formed to develop the mine. This company was known as Salt Creek Mining Company and was a subsidiary of Sheridan Enterprises and Colorado-Ute Electric Association. Permanent program approval was granted when the operation was permitted on January 12, 1983. The Munger Canyon Mine has been under temporary cessation since January l7, 1984. On June 27, 1984, Salt Creek Mining Company applied for a revision to the permit to construct a central facilities azea, coal processing waste embankment and interconnecting haul road and conveyor system. The revision to construct a central facility azea was approved on September 24, 1985. No construction has begun on the central facilities azea. On November 13, 1992, Salt Creek Mining Company submitted an application for a transfer and succession of operators. The permit was transferred to Grand Valley Coal Company on Mazch 2, 1993. On Mazch 31, 1997, the Division notified Grand Valley Coal Company that the five-yeaz permit term for the Munger Canyon Mine would expire on January 12, 1998. Grand Valley Coal Company submitted a permit renewal application on August 1, 1997. The application was deemed complete for purposes of filing on August 11, 1997, and the proper notification was sent to parties identified in Rule 2.07.3(3)(b). A public notice of the application was published in the Glenwood Post once a week for four consecutive weeks beginning February 11, 1998. No comments were received by the Division. On August ] 4, 1997, the Division requested comments from various Federal and State agencies regazding the permit renewal application. The Division received one comment on the renewal application by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Army Corps) regazding certain information on location and extent of surface disturbance. The questions were addressed by phone on August 26, 1997, and a general location map and surface disturbance map were faxed to the local Army Corps office in Grand Junction on that date. The agency's questions were resolved by the information provided apd they made no further comment. The Division queried the Applicant Violator System (AVS) on February 3, 1998 to obtain a recommendation for approval of the permit renewal based on the applicant and its owners' and controllers' compliance record. The system recommended that the application be denied since the officers of Grand Valley Coal Company were linked to a state cessation order issued to a coal mine in the State of Utah. A follow up recommendation by the OS1v1 on February 6, 1993 verified that the Utah cessation order is outstanding. On Ivlarch 9, 1998, the AVS cleared the Utah violation, but issued a recommendation of'`deny" for failure to submit the quarterly OS~I-1 s