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<br />w avrr aErm m <br />OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING <br />Reclamation and Enforcement <br />1999 Broadway, Suite 3320 <br />Iknver, Colorado 60202-5733 <br />July 21, 2000 <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO <br />FROM: <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />Acting Director, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement <br />Regional Director, Western Regional Coordinating Center <br />CO-0093 <br />SUBJECT: Recommendation for Approval without Special Conditions of Twentymile Coal <br />Company's Foidel Creek Mine Mining Plan Modification for Federal Lease COC- <br />54608, Routt County, Colorado <br />Recommendation <br />I recommend approval without special conditions of the Foidel Creek Mine mining plan <br />modification for Federal lease COC-54608. This is a mining plan modification for an <br />underground coal mine being permitted under the Federal lands program, the approved <br />• <br />Colorado State program, and the cooperative agreement. <br />My recommendation to approve the Foidel Creek Mine mining plan modification is based <br />on: <br />(1) Twentymile Coal Company's (TCC) complete permit application package <br />(PAP), <br />• <br />(2) compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, <br />(3) documentation assuring compliance with applicable requirements of other <br />Federal laws, regulations, and executive orders, <br />(4) comments and recommendations or concurrence of other Federal agencies, <br />and the public, <br />(5) the findings and recommendations ofthe Bureau of Land Management <br />regarding the resource recovery and protection plan, the Federal lease <br />requirements, and the Mineral Leasing Act, and <br />(6) the Proposed Decision and Findings of Compliance for Permit Revision <br />No. 5, Foidel Creek Mine, C-82-056, of the Colorado Division of Minerals <br />and Geology regarding the PAP and the Colorado State program. <br />