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Minor Revision 16, decision date Mazch 27, 200]. A vegetation study was incorporated into the Permit Application Package by this minor revision. The following revised pages are incorporated into the PAP under this Permit Renewal. These changes incorporated a letter from the landowner requesting retention of the light use roads and corrected a Table of Contents. Table of Contents Section 2.0, Page 2-i, 5/01 Page 4-53,5/01 Exhibit 4.7-7 None of the above revisions increased the reclamation liability for the operations associated with the permit. Stipulations to the Permit There aze no current stipulations on the permit. The operator complied with three stipulations; Numbers 4, 27 and 28, that were on the 1997 Permit (3rd) renewal. Description of the Environment The surface facilities of the mine were located on north-sloping fan terraces at the foot of a spectacular, steep hillside formed by steeply-dipping bedrock (the Grand Hogback). The lower terraces of the site, at elevation approximately 5,800 feet, aze approximately 150 feet above the Colorado River, and are used as cropland (grass and alfalfa) and for grazing. The base of the steep slopes is used for grazing (sagebrush areas). Geolo Rock strata dip ranges from 30 to 70 degrees to the west-southwest. Minor folds vending north-south to northwest-southeast occur throughout the region. However, there is little evidence of faulting along the Grand Hogback. The exposed rock sequence in the permit area is Jurassic through Tertiary in age and includes (proceeding from the base to the top, oldest to youngest) the Morrison Formation, Dakota Sandstone, Mancos Shale, the coal-beazing Mesaverde Group, and the Wasatch and Ohio Creek formations. The stratigraphy of the Mesaverde Group includes interbedded and lenticulaz sandstones, shale, siltstone, and coal beds. Tn ascending order (oldest to youngest), the Group contains (])the Corcoran Sandstone, a marine shale sequence, and the Rollins Sandstone; (2) the Bowie (coal-bearing) member; (3) the Paonia (coal-beazing) member; and (4) the Upper (non-coal beazing) member. The Corcoran and Ro]]ins Sandstones are the bottom and top, respectively, of the Iles Formation, and the upper three members belong to the Williams Fork Formation [see Figure 3.3-3 in the Permit Application Package (PAP)]. The Wheeler coal seam, which was planned to be mined at the Coal Ridge No. 1 Mine, is in the July 25, 2001