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• Permit No: C1981020
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Name: ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
• Permit Index Doc Type: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
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• ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
Salt Creek Mining Company's
Munger Canyon Mine
Mining and Reclamation Plan
INTRODUCTION
The Munger Canyon Mine is located in Garfield County, Colorado, approximately
20 miles north of Loma on Colorado Highway 139 in sections 27, 28, 29, 33, and
34, Township 7 South, Range 102 West, and sections 2, 3, and 4, Township 8
South, Range 102 West. This underground coal mine was actively operated from
1978 until 1980 by Sheridan Enterprises, Inc. permitted under the interim
program on July 24, 1918.
Recently, Salt Creek Mining Company (SCMC), a joint venture of Mack Fuel
Supply, Inc. (a subsidiary of Colorado Electric Association, Inc.) and Loma
Mining Company (a subsidiary of Sheridan Enterprises, Inc.), was formed. SCMC
succeeded to the rights of a permanent program permit application, submitted
by Sheridan Enterprises, Inc., on February 6, 1981, to the Office of Surface
Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM). SCMC has become the permit
applicant and will be the operator of the Munger Canyon Mine for the 5 year
permit term.
The applicant has proposed a 35 acre disturbed area, a 548 acre affected area,
and a 775.6 acre permit area.
• Much of the proposed 35 acres of surface facilities have already been
disturbed. The existing operation consists of the bench, portal and face
developments, and mine support trailers. A coal surgepile also exists at
site. The only planned future disturbances consist of two sediment ponds
topsail stockpiles, a waste disposal pile, and a relocated road which will
constructed after permit approval.
A 5.6 acre railroad coal loadout facility for the operation is located in
Loma, Colorado. Coal from both the McClave and Munger Canyon Mines passes
through the site.
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No new land tracts in addition to the original State permit area are included
in the permit application. Portions of Federal coal leases C-0125515,
C-0125516, lie within the proposed permit area. All coal within the proposed
permit area is Federally owned; the surface is both private and Federal in
ownership. The mine's annual coal production is anticipated to be 149,000
tons in the first year of the permit and 847,000 tons in the fifth year.
Total production over the 30-year life of the mine is projected to be
61,183,000 tons.
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