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Introduction <br />This document is the decision package prepared by the Colorado Mined Land <br />Reclamation Division (the Division) for the Nucla Strip Mine. This document <br />includes: 1) the proposed decision to approve with stipulations the permit <br />revision application; 2) a summary which includes a history of the review of <br />the permit application, a description of the environment affected by the <br />operation and a description of the mining and reclamation plan; and 3) the <br />written findings of compliance the Division has made as required by the <br />Colorado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act. Detailed information concerning <br />the findings of compliance can be found in the Regulations of the Colorado <br />Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal Mining. <br />The Division has received an application fora Permit Revision to conduct <br />surface coal mining and reclamation operations at the Nucla Strip Mine. The <br />application was submitted by Peabody Coal Company, Western Division <br />(Peabody). The Mine will be operated by Peabody and is located on private <br />lands within Montrose County, Colorado. The legal description of the lands <br />included within the permit area is: Nucla Area: Portions of S 1/2, Section <br />25, portions of N 1/2, Section 36, T47N, R16W and portions of NW 1/4, SW 1/4; <br />SW 1/4. NW 1/4. Section 31, T47N, R15W containing 426.6 acres, more or less. <br />Nucla East area: E 1/2, NW 1/4; W 1/2. NE 1/4; W 1/2, W 1/2, SE 1/4, NE 1/4; <br />and portions of NE 1/4. SW 1/4; NW 1/4, SE 1/4; NE 1/4, SE 1/4; and N 1/2, SE <br />1/4, SE 1/4; all in Section 6, T46N, R15W containing 219.9 acres, more or less. <br />The total permit area would encompass 646.5 acres, more or less. <br />-1- <br />