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Introduction <br />This document is the proposed decision of the Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology (the Division) <br />in response to a request for Phase II bond release at the Chimney Rock Mine, Division file number C-81- <br />023. The package contains four parts. These include: 1) procedures and summary of the bond release <br />process; 2) criteria and schedule for bond release; 3) observations and findings of the Division regazding <br />compliance with the bond release requirements of the Colorado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act <br />and regulations promulgated thereunder; and 4) the Division's proposed decision on the request for bond <br />release. <br />Detailed information about the review process can be found in the Act and the Regulations of the <br />Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal Mining. All Rules referenced within this document <br />are contained within the Regulations. Detailed information about the mining and reclamation operations <br />can be found in the permit application on file at the Division offices, located at 1313 Sherman Street, <br />Room 215, in Denver, Colorado. <br />The Chimney Rock Mine is a surface mine which was permitted and operated by Kaiser Ventures Inc. <br />The land for which bond release has been requested is privately and federally owned and coal which was <br />mined from the azea was private and federally owned. Reclamation for which bond release has been <br />requested was conducted at various time from 1983 th-~ugh 1994. <br />2 <br />