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History of Permit C-81-010 <br />Ori final Ooerator (iJtah International) and Permit C-76-11 <br />The original operator of the Trapper Mine, Utah International Inc., began pre-mining <br />environmental studies of the Trapper Mine site in 1972. Facilities construction commenced in <br />1975. The Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board approved Utah International's initial <br />mining permit C-76-11 on May 28, 1976 and mining operations began on the site in 1977. The <br />Craig Power Plant has always purchased virtually all of the coal mined from the Trapper Mine. <br />Ori¢in of C-81-010 <br />Following revisions of Colorado's permit requirements in C.R.S. 34-33-109, Utah International <br />Inc. submitted an application for a new permit on February 2, 1981. The Division (then called <br />the Mined Land Reclamation Division} issued permit C-81-010 on December 31, 1982. <br />Transfer of Ownership to Trapper Minine Inc. <br />On Apri127, 1983 the Division approved a transfer of ownership of the Trapper Mine from Utah <br />International Inc. to its, then, wholly-owned subsidiary Trapper Mining Inc. In July 1983 Utah <br />International sold Trapper Mining Inc. to the corporate consortium that owns the Craig Power <br />Plant. <br />PR-Ol <br />On February 20, 1987 the Division received an application from Trapper Mining Inc. to revise <br />its permit (Permit Revision PR-Ol). Changes were proposed in: the permit boundary, topsoil <br />stripping, overburden blasting, and pit pumpage in Colt and Browning Pits. The Division <br />approved PR-O1 on August 11, 1987. <br />RN-Ol/PR-02 Application <br />On February 20, 1987, the same date that the application for PR-01 was received, the Division <br />also received an application from Trapper Mining Inc. for Permit Revision PR-02 and Permit <br />Renewal RN-O1. The application covered the five-yeaz term 1988 through 1992. No changes <br />were proposed for the permit boundary, but new pits and pit advancements were to add 1,035 <br />acres to the disturbed/affected acreage. RN-O1/PR-02 incorporated changes in numerous azeas <br />including the reclamation bond amount, environmental baseline data, sediment and erosion <br />control, operations description and other modifications to the original permit application. <br />Trepper Mine 5 June 30, 2003 <br />