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Summary <br />,.v Proe.:. <br />Twentymile Coal Company (TCC), a subsidiary of RAG American Coal Company, submitted a permit revision <br />application (PR-OS) for the Foidel Creek Mine. The Foidel Creek Mine is exclusively an underground coal mining <br />operation located approximately 22 miles southwest of Steamboat Springs, Colorado in Routt County. <br />Action Date Division Sent Date Division Received <br />Permit Revision Application Submitted March ], 1999 <br />Application found incomplete March 8,1999 <br />Incompleteness letter to the operator March 10, 1999 <br />Operator submitted additional <br />information September 15, 1999 <br />Incompleteness letter to the operator October 5, 1999 <br />Operator submitted additional <br />information November 22, 1999 <br />Application found complete November 29, 1999 <br />First adequacy letter to the operator March 7, 2000 <br />Twentymile Coal Company adequacy <br />responses April 11, 2000 and <br />April 28, 2000 <br />Second adequacy letter to [he operator May 1, 2000 <br />Adequacy responses May 15, 2000 <br />Third adequacy letter to operator 5/25/00 <br />Adequacy responses (5) 5/25/00 <br />Fourth adequacy letter to operator 5/26/00 <br />Adequacy response 5/26/00 <br />Fifrh adequacy letter to operator 5/26/00 <br />Adequacy response 5/31/00 <br />Sixth adequacy letter to operator 5/31/00 <br />Adequacy responses (2) 5/31/00 <br />Adequacy response 6/01/00 <br />Seventh adequacy letter 6/2/00 <br />Adequacy response 6/13/00 <br />Eighth adequacy letter 6/15/00 <br />Adequacy response 6/19/00 <br />Ninth adequacy letter (no further review) 6/20/00 <br />Descrio[ion of [he Environment <br />The Foidel Creek Mine is located approximately 22 miles southwest of Steamboat Springs, in Routt Counry, <br />Colorado. The permit area varies in elevation from 6,600' [0 7,500' with the portal openings at 6,885' along Foidel <br />Creek. Generally, the topography consists of gently rolling hills, dip slopes and cliff outcrops. Flatter topography <br />is evident in the valleys of the major streams draining the area (Fish Creek and Foidel Creek), as well as along the <br />gentle dip slopes. Prominent cliffs have formed where massive sandstone units outcrop. Coal is presently, and has <br />historically been, mined under other approved permits by surface methods on the dip slopes, where overburden <br />thickness allows for economic extraction within Twentymile Park around its margins, and where folding has <br />C:\JHB\C82056\PROS\PR05 FINDINGS 62800.doc <br />