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The details of the adequacy concerns and all of the correspondence letters are available in the <br />Denver office of [he Division. <br />Description of the Environment <br />The Bowie No. 2 coal mine permit area includes 4525 surface acres, of which 2123 surface acres <br />are federally owned. The coal and the surface lands within the present permit area are both <br />federally and privately owned, as are the surface areas that have been disturbed by surface <br />developments. The total area disturbed by surface operations presently is approximately 113 <br />acres. Inclusion of the remainder of the Iron Point Tract Federal Lease into the Bowie No. 2 <br />permit area through Permit Revision No. 5 would increase the federal coal and surface lands <br />within the permit area. <br />In the original permit application review, following discussions with the OSM in Denver and <br />based upon the specific recommendations of the OSM, it had been determined that the Bowie <br />No. 2 Mine would be considered a private mine for the purposes of permitting and inspection <br />regulation. However, the Bowie No. 2 Mine became a federal mine upon approval of Technical <br />Revision No. 16. Through that revision, BRL was granted permission to conduct mining in a <br />limited area of the Iron Point Tract Federal Lease. <br />The Bowie No. 2 Mine is located in Delta County, approximately five (5) miles northeast of <br />Paonia. Colorado. The mine permit area is located on ]ands depicted on the U. S. Geological <br />Survey 7.5 minute Bowie Quadrangle Map, and the Bowie No. 2 mine portals are to be located <br />northwest of [he Old King Mine portals (also known as the Bowie Mine). The surface facilities <br />are located north of Old State Highway 133 near the old townsite of Bowie. The mine is located <br />between Terror Creek and Hubbard Creek. A portion of the surface facilities is within 100 feet of <br />the outside right-of-way of old State Highway 133. 'f he location of these facilities extends from <br />the old townsite of Bowie to about 500 feet east of the old Bowie power plant. <br />The original Bowie No. 2 Mine permit application indicated that mining would be conducted <br />using the room and pillar mining method. Permit Revision No. 3 changed the mining method to <br />longwall mining but kept [he rate of production a[ two million tons per year. Approval of Permit <br />Revision No. 3 increased maximum mine production to five million tons per year. Mining is in <br />the D-2 coal seam. Detailed information regarding the Bowie No. 2 Mine and BRL is located in <br />the eight (8) binders which comprise the Bowie No. 2 Mine permit application document. <br />Land Use and Cultural and Historic Resource Information - <br />Detailed information regarding land uses and cultural and historic resources within the Bowie <br />No. 2 Mine permit area is provided in Sections 2.04.3 and 2.04.4 of the permit application <br />document. A brief summary is provided below, and this summary is derived from [he <br />information presented within Sections 2.04.3 and 2.04.4 of the permit application document. <br />9 <br />