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• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 1/28/1998
• Doc Name: WEST ELK MINE PN C-80-007 SUBSOIL PILE ON LOWER REFUSE PILE
• From: DMG
• To: MOUNTAIN COAL CO
• Permit Index Doc Type: GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

RECEIVED
Mountain Coal Company
West Elk Mine
Post Office Box 591
Somerset, Colorado 81434
Telephone [phone]
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APR U 9 1998
April 6, 1998
Ms. Susan Burgmaier
Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology
1313 Sherman Street, Room 215
Denver, CO 80203
Division of Minerals & Geobgy
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RE: Subsoil Pile on Lower Refuse Pile; West Elk Mine; Permit No. C-80-007
Deaz Susan:
Mountain Coal Company (MCC) has reviewed the Division's letter dated January
28, 1998 regazding the subsoil pile on the Lower Refuse Pile (LRP) and provides the
following additional information to the questions posed in the letter.
The subsoil pile in Sylvester Gulch, referred to as "Subsoil Stockpile -
Sylvester Gulch" on Table 36 will include reclamation of Phase V of the LRP.
However, the notation "Phases I-IV & Road Relocation" refer to the
origination of the soil in the pile. Phase V required no excavation of subsoil.
MCC believes that the notation is confusing and will revise it to indicate the
destination of the soil upon final reclamation. Table 36 will be changed as
such when the revision for the as-built of the Sylvester Gulch Facilities is
submitted in the neaz future.
2. The volume listed in Table 36 for the Sylvester Gulch subsoil stockpile is
reasonably accurate, but most importantly, the pile cleazly contains more than
the 15,165 CY of soil required for reclamation of the LRP. MCC is currently
working on a revision to provide the Division with as-built information on the
Sylvester Gulch Facilities Area, and a more accurate volume of this subsoil pile
will be included.
The "Road Relocation" referred to on Table 36 under the subsoil pile in
Sylvester Gulch, refers to two different Sylvester Gulch road re-alignments or
relocations. The first occurred during Phase I of the construction of the LRP in
1986. The realigned road is shown on Figure LWP-002 in Exhibit 51. A
portion of the Sylvester Gulch road was moved to the east to allow for the
construction of the Sylvester Gulch subsoil pile. The second relocation
occurred at the beginning of Phase IV in 1989. The relocated road is shown on
Figure LWP-005 in Exhibit 51. Anew access road to the LRP was constructed
and later incorporated into part of the present main haul/access road. The new