2007-07-30_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - C1981041

• Permit No: C1981041
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 7/30/2007
• Doc Name: Proposed Decision & Findings of Compliance for PR3
• Permit Index Doc Type: Findings
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

b) An area under study for designation as unsuitable for surface coal mining operations
(2.07.6(2)(d)(ii));
c) The boundaries of the National Park System, the National Wildlife Refuge System, the National
System of Trails, the National Wilderness Preservation System, the Wild and Scenic Rivers
System, including rivers under study for designation, and National Recreation Areas
(2.07.6(2)(d)(i ii)(A));
d) Three hundred feet ofany public building, school, church, community or institutional building,
or public park (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(B));
e) One hundred feet of a cemetery (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(C));
f) The boundaries of any National Forest unless the required finding of compatibility has been
made by the Secretary of the U.S. Deparhnent of Agriculture (2.07.6(2)(d)(iii)(D));
g) One hundred feet ofthe outside right-of--way line ofany public road except where mine access or
haul roadsjoin such line, and excepting any roads for which the necessary approvals have been
received, notices published, public hearing opportunities provided, and written findings made
(2.07.6(2)(d)(iv)).
The portion ofthe operation that lies within 100 feet ofthe I-70 Highway was in existence prior
to August 3, 1977 and complies with Rule 2.07.6(2)(d).
BLM has approved of operations within 100 feet of the portion of Haul Road 4 which is a public
road providing access to BLM lands in Coal Canyon, and public notice of proposed operations
within 100 feet of the road was included in the public notice for PR-02.
h) Three hundred feet of an occupied dwelling unless a written waiver from the owner has been
provided (2.07.6(2)(d)(v)).
5. On the basis of information submitted by the Colorado Historical Society, the Antiquities Research
Division Historical Museum and Institute, and the Grand River Institute, a check ofthe National Historic
Register for Cultural and Historic Sites, Antiquities Inventory, Cultural Resources Inventory Reports, and
consultation with the Bureau of Land Management, the Division finds that, subject to valid existing
rights as of August 3, 1977, the mining operation will not adversely affect any publicly owned park or
place listed on or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places as determined by the State
Historic Preservation Office (2.07.6(2)(e)(i)). Information regarding Cultural and Historic Resources
may be found in Tab 5 of the permit application. Most recently, a letter of August 22, 2006, from the
State Historic Preservation Officer, confirmed that no effects to any sites listed or eligible for listing
would occur as a result of operations proposed in PR-3.
6. For this underground mining operation, private mineral estate has been severed from private surface
estate. Because underground mining activities do not concurrently involve the surface mining ofcoal, the
documentation specified by Rule 2.03.6(2) is not required (2.07.6(2)(f)).
On the basis of evidence submitted by the pernittee and received from other state and federal agencies as
a result of the Section 34-33-I 14(3) compliance review required by the Colorado Surface Coal Mining
Reclamation Act; the Division finds that, based on information received from the Office of Surface
Mining Applicant Violator System, no operations owned or controlled by Snowcap Coal Company, Inc.
Permit Revision No. 3 Permit No. C-1981-041
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