GENERAL47858

• Permit No: C1981008
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 5/25/1988
• Doc Name: PROPOSED DECISION & FINDINGS OF COMPLIANCE FOR RN1
• Permit Index Doc Type: FINDINGS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Introduction
This document is the approval package proposed by the Colorado Mined Land
Reclamation Division (the Division) for Permit Renewal No. 1 for the Peabody
Coal Company's (Peabody) Nucla Mine, located in Montrose, County (Figure 1).
The original proposed decision and findings of compliance were completed by
the Division on April 14, 1983 for purposes of bringing the Nucla Mine into
compliance with Colorado Permanent Regulatory Program. Permit C-81-008 was
issued on May 26, 1983 for a five-year term.
Peabody submitted Permit Revision No. 1 application on November 25, 1986
modifying extensively the approved permit and incorporating an additional 6.6
acres into the permit bringing the total permitted acreage to 426.6 acres.
This 10-volume application replaced in total the existing 4 - volume permit
document. Based upon the extent of this 10-volume application, the Division
issued a new findings of compliance and approval document on April 2, 1987
which replaced in entirety the April 14, 1983 document.
On November 27, 1987, Peabody submitted Permit Renewal No. 1 application for a
second five-year permit term upon the expiration of the current permit on May
26, 1988. During the review process and public comment period, only minimal
concerns were addressed and two letters were received, respectively. Based
upon the minor changes required to the existing permit, the Division is
proposing to only update the existing April 2, 1987 findings of compliance
document to reflect the Permit Renewal No. 1 application. A11 pages of this
May 6, 1988 proposed decision and findings of compliance document are intended
as replacement pages to the April 2, 1987 document. Replacement pages are
noted by a May 6, 1988 date in the lower right-hand corner.
This document contains the proposed decision to approve Permit Renewal No. 1;
an updated summary describing the review process, a description of the
environment, and an updated summary of the operation and reclamation plan; and
the written findings of compliance that the Division is required to make
pursuant to the Colorado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act of 1979 (CRS
34-33-101 et seq). Detailed information about the proposed mining and
reclamation operations can be found in the ten-volume permit application
document which is on file in the public record maintained by the Division at
its offices and at the Montrose County Courthouse Annex in Nucla, Colorado.
-1- May 6, 1988