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Summarv <br />The Review Process <br />Twentymile Coal Company (TCC), a subsidiary of RAG American Coal Company, submitted a permit <br />renewal application (RN-03) for the Foidel Creek Mine. The Foidel Creek Mine is exclusively an <br />underground coal mining operation located approximately 22 miles southwest of Steamboat Springs, Colorado <br />in Routt Counry. <br />Action Date Division Sent Date Division Received <br />Permit Renewal Application Submitted November 24, 1997 <br />application complete December 4, 1997 <br />adequacy letter to the operator March 2, 1998 <br />operator adequacy responses February 12,1999 <br /> April 1, 1999 <br /> May 17, 1999 <br /> May 20, 1999 <br /> June 1,1999 <br /> August 16,_1999 <br />adequacy letter to the operator September I0, 1999 <br />adequacy letter October 6, 1999 <br />Twentymile Coal Company adequacy <br />responses November l8, 1499 <br /> November 30, 1999 <br /> December 20, 1999 <br />Additional questions December 2l, 1999 <br />adequacy letter February 1,2000 <br />adequacy responses January 18,2000. <br /> ]anuary 25, 2000 <br /> February 7, 2000 <br /> February 25, 2000 <br /> March 9, 2000 <br />Description of the Environment <br />The Foidel Creek Mine is located approximately 22 miles southwest of Steamboat Springs, in Routt County, <br />Colorado. The permit azea varies in elevation from 6,600' to 7,500' with the portal openings at 6,885' along <br />Foidel Creek. Generally, the topography consists of gently rolling hills, dip slopes and cliff outcrops. Flatter <br />topography is evident in the valleys of the major streams draining the area (Fish Creek and Foidel Creek), as <br />well as along the gentle dip slopes. Prominent cliffs have formed where massive sandstone units outcrop. <br />Coal is presently, and has historically been, mined under other approved permits by surface methods on the <br />dip slopes, where overburden thickness allows for economic extraction within Twentymile Park around its <br />margins, and where folding has elevated a major coal seam within the basin. Foidel Creek Mine is currently <br />the only active underground operation within Twentymile Park. The mine is a longwall operation, using <br />continuous miners for entry and development work only. The permit area encompasses approximately 22,694 <br />acres. This permit renewal (RN-03) does not propose to enlarge the permit boundary. No new surface <br />disturbances are proposed. <br />C: W H B\C82056\RN031RN03F1 ND.doc <br />