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• SU~ti ffARY
<br />The Review rrxess, Descrzpti.on of the Erc_ronment
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<br />Description cf the Operations and P.ecl a..a ti on P_an
<br />The Revi e:/ Process
<br />mrapper Mining, Inc., a :/hoiiy o:/nsd stbsidiary of Utar Interraticnal,
<br />inc., s appZving for a cermit to mina coal under ti:e Colozzdo _
<br />Surface Coal Ffininc ~eclamaticn Act at the Trapper nine. ?he mine is located
<br />in No=__*at County, Colorado, approaima*_ely five :Hiles acutilwest of the Citu of
<br />Craig, south of Si air/ay 13;789. The proposed oermit area includes the following:
<br />portions of Sections 5 and 6 in TSN, 390F.'; portions of Sections i and 5, a.:d a_'1
<br />of sections 2, ;, and 4 in T514', R9?[J; portions of Sections 3U and .; and all
<br />of Section 3l in T6 `:, R90w'; and portions cf Sections 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 23,
<br />and 32 tr,rocgh 35 in TON, R9i W.
<br />°nvironmental studies for the Trapoer mine were begun in 1572, wnile faciii c es
<br />cons*_ructicn corcnenced in 197.5. :yining operations began in 1977, and die
<br />Trapper :nine is currertlu operating under a perm::t (:JJ. 70"-11) approved by the
<br />Colorado ?fined Lard Recianatien 3card on ~tlay 28, 1970. Ct.h Z.^.teraatio;al, ;~n:.
<br />subm.ittea an apylicaticr. for a new permit on February 2, 1991, pursuant to
<br />Bastion 34-33-1 U9 of the Colorado Sarface Ccal .5?inino and 5'eclamatlon not
<br />• (hereafter, „the Art";. Since t1:at time, the aPPiication t:as been under review
<br />by the staff or the Colerado tined I,a-nd Reclamation Livisio-, (he a?after, the
<br />Division") to determine compliance :/ath the Act and the Rai es and Reaulat,ons
<br />of the Colorado Ptinad Land Reclamation 5eard for Coal Mining.
<br />On April 10, I98'_, the Division sent a _'etter to Utah. Interra ti cr:al, Znc.,
<br />dertifying deficiencies in the application which wire noted dur=ng the preiini-
<br />nary adequac~7 review. Resolution of these cleficiercies was necessary f:~r the
<br />Division to ma~:e cetermira lions of compliarce. Utah In to rna ticnal, Irc.
<br />responded to the co:mnents in a meatinc :rith the Division staff on !day 5, 19.41,
<br />and submitted res_nnses to the majority of the Division conments on June 29, 1961.
<br />.additional info -aticn and responses we-e submitted as r_ompleted.
<br />i:dditional xncsrv were identified during the courses of the review and :rere
<br />addressed in meetings between Jtah International, Zne. and -he D~vi~ion scarf
<br />ir. July, Cclober, and Decenber, 1481, and Jan cart', P.'au, and July, 1932.
<br />This document represents the culm_na*_ion uz the re vie:/ process bg the Li vision,
<br />and thess findings reflect the incorporation ~f a1Z in-ormation and discussion
<br />to date.
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