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This document contains the fmdings and proposed decision pertaining to a Request for Transfer <br />of Coal Permit and Succession of Operators (succession). The Division of Minerals and <br />Geology (DMG) received the succession application on December 31, 2003. The succession <br />application proposes a transfer of DMG Permit No. C-1981-038 from the current permittee and <br />operator, which is Bowie Resources Limited, to a new permittee and operator, Bowie Resources, <br />LLC. The application was submitted and reviewed pursuant to the procedures of Rule 2.08.6 of <br />the Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Boazd for Coal Mining. The DMG <br />hereby proposes to approve, with stipulations, the succession request. <br />Process <br />On December 31, 2003, the above-referenced succession application was received at the offices <br />of the DMG. <br />Findin¢s <br />The DMG hereby fords that a properly executed Request for Transfer of Coal Permit and <br />Succession of Operators application form has been submitted to the DMG, and this form <br />requests that the DMG Permit No. C-1981-038 is transferred from Bowie Resources <br />Limited to Bowie Resources, LLC (2.08.6(2)(6)). <br />2. The DMG hereby fords that a properly executed Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation <br />Operations Reclamation Bond of $6,450,000.00, in the form of Corporate Surety Nos. <br /> for the amount of $2,500,000.00, for the <br />amount of $2,500,000.00, in the amount of $450,000.00 and <br /> for the amount of $1,000,000.00 has been submitted by Bowie <br />Resources, LLC, for Permit No. C-1981-038, and the bond has been accepted by DMG <br />(2.08.6(2)(a) and 2.08.4(4)(6)). <br />3. The DMG hereby fords that the Identification of Interests information required by Rule <br />2.03.4 has been properly submitted, reviewed and deemed adequate (2.08.6(2)(b)(iii)). <br />4. The DMG hereby fords that the Compliance Information required by Rule 2.03.5 has <br />been properly submitted, reviewed and deemed adequate (2.08.6(2)(b)(iii)). <br />5. The DMG hereby fords that the Right of $ntry and Operation Information required by <br />Rule 2.03.6 has been properly submitted and reviewed (2.08.6(2)(b)(iii}}. The following <br />stipulation is attached to the Transfer of Permit and Succession of Operator proposed <br />decision to address an outstanding issue with the Bureau of Land Management Lease <br />Assignments. <br />The approval of Succession of Operator No. 4 is conditioned upon the <br />submittal to the Division, within 90 days of the date of the proposed <br />decision of SO-4, of verifzcation that the Bowie No. 1 Mine Bureau of Land <br />Management coal leases were successfully reassigned from Bowie <br />Resources Limited to Bowie Resources, LLC. <br />