GENERAL52696

• Permit No: C1981033
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 7/28/1982
• Doc Name: OSM Permit No. CO-0068
• Permit Index Doc Type: Other Permits
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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ODM 2-5-35
'femorandum
To:
From:
united States Department of the Interior
)IINER.aLS \I:~VAGE\tE~T SERVICE
CES7R.1L REGIOS
District Mining Office
2135 East ?fain Street
Grand Junction, Colorado 81501
D-044569
C-0117192
C-1362
May 18, 1982
Deputy Administrator, Western Service Center, Office of Surface Mining
Attn: Bennett Young
District Mining Supervisor
Subject: Coal Leases D-044569, C-0117192, and C-1362, `fount Gunnison Mine;
Bear Mines 1, 2, and 3; Bear Coal Company and Atco Coal Company
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In response to your query concerning 2,000,000 tons of C-Bed coal that Bear
Coal Company's mining plan alleges will be lost in Bear Mines No. 1 and
No. 2, the 2,000,000-ton figure appears only on page 7 of the introduction
to the mine permit application of t7ovember 6, 1981. This is probably a
resource tonnage rather than a minable reserve figure and includes the
pillars that must be left to protect the Arco workings oa the upper coal
beds. An earlier study by this office indicates that about 389,000 Cons of
minable coal will be left when Bear "fining Company moves out in June 1982.
Arco contends that they will be able to mine the remaining coal in [he
future. There is no mention of C-Bed mining in the Arco application to mine
F Bed. However, the plan shows that the Bear East Portal is to be maintained,
and we have a letter stating that Arco will submit a mine plan in the future
for finishing C-Bed extraction.
Copies of three letters discussing [he subject are enclosed. This includes
a letter from Arco dated Nay 29, 1981, which states: "At some time in the
future the 389,000 tons of remaining recoverable coal...will be recovered by
mining methods appropriate at that Euture time..."
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William Wentworth
Enclosures (3)
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