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• <br />OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING <br />Redamauon and Enforcemem <br />Broo{'s Tower s <br />1020 15th Svee, <br />Denier, Colorado 80202 <br />MEMORANDUM JE L q <br />V 'G 1 1992 <br />T0: Director <br />THROUGH: Deputy Director <br />Operations and Technical Services <br />FROM: Acting Assistant Director _ <br />Western Support Center <br />TAKES ~ <br />PRIDE IN <br />AMERI== <br />~~ <br />G- <br />~ ^ <br />SUBJECT: Recommendation for Approval of the Cyprus Orchard <br />Valley Coal Corporation's Orchard Valley Mine Mining <br />Plan Modification for Federal Leases C-25079, C-27432, <br />D-036955, C-37210, Delta County, Colorado <br />Recommendation <br />• I recommend approval of the Orchard Valley Mine mining plan <br />modification for Federal leases C-25079, C-27432, D-036955, <br /> C-37210. This is a mining plan modification for an <br /> underground coal mine being permitted under the Federal <br /> lands program and the approved Colorado State program and <br /> cooperative agreement. My recommendation to approve the <br /> Orchard Valley Mine mining plan modification is based on: <br /> (1) Cyprus Orchard Valley Coal Corporation's (COVCC) <br /> complete permit application package (PAP), (2) compliance <br /> with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, <br /> (3) documentation assuring compliance with applicable <br /> requirements of other Federal laws, regulations, and <br /> executive orders, (4) comments and recommendations or <br /> concurrence of other Federal agencies, and the public, <br /> (5) the findings and recommendations of the Bureau of Land <br /> Management with respect to the resource recovery and <br /> protection plan and other requirements of the Federal leases <br /> and the Mineral Leasing Act; and (6) the findings and <br /> recommendations by the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation <br /> Division with respect to the PAP and the Colorado State <br /> program. <br />Approval of this m~ <br />in the recoverable <br />Federal coal. The <br />proposal would not <br />• in the mining plan <br />law. <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />edification will authorize a 50~ reduction <br />reserve base to about 18 million tons of <br />review of the PAP indicated that COVCC's <br />require special conditions to be included <br />approval document to comply with Federal <br />