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ARCO Coal Company " 3 • Permits and Compliance Group ~ ~ ~j~J ~ 555 Seventeenth Street • Mailing Address: Box 5300 , ' Denver, Colorado 8021; Telephone 703 575 7500 M+:y 29, 1981 Regional Director 8 Mr. Walter Swain Office of Surface Mining P. O. Box 25486 Denver Federal Center Denver, Colorado 80225 Dear Sir: I am writing in response to your recuest that we answer questions raised in Mr. William wentworth's memo to you of April 29, 1981, file Nos. C-1302, C-0'_17192 and D-044569. This letter answers the second question concerning the "nearly 200,000 tons of mineable coal (which) will remain in the "C" seam of the Sear Mine when Sear Dulls out next June. How will Arco recover this coal in the future? An exn_lanation addressed to this issue is recuested." The e::traction o_° "C" sears coal is not addressed in our Mt. Gunnison No. 1 Min_ng and reclamation Plan and, therefore, we are writing you this separate letter. Mr. Richard w. Phelps of our office met with Mr. Wentworth's assistant, Mr. Raymond C. Derzay, on May 8, 1981 to discuss the "C" seam coal remaining after the cessation of activities by Bear Coal Com_oanv. Bear Coal Comn_anv will cease operations in the "C" seam in mid-1982 for the reasons previously discussed with Mr. John T. Skinner, Acting Area Mining Supervisor, U. S. Geological Survey, and contained in our letter and ma? dated April 28, 1981 to Mr. Skinner, copies of which are attached hereto. The substance of that discussion and agreement •aas that the coal outside of Revised Areas I b II is readily recoverable at a future date. At some date in the future the 389,000 tons of remaininc recoverable coal (749,000 tons less 36G,000 tons mined by mid-1982) identified by the U.S.G.S., and as agreed upon by Messrs. Derzay and Phelps, will be recovered by mining methods aopropriate at that future ti~~.e (probably room and pillar) integrated with the future "B" seam operations. Before "C" or "B" seams are mines, an additional Mining and Reclamation Plan will be submitted to and approved by appropriate Aegulatcry ~~ Authority (s) and the U.S. Geological Survey:. ..~,~..,~e o.....".... ,...... r.,_.. ~,~)~~ ~~. i~~i ~~kl "~N ~ , .