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increased the permit area by 1792 acres, 70 acres being private land and 1722 acres being federal <br />land. The total acreage of the permit area was now 5529 acres, 1678 acres of private land and <br />3851 acres of federal ]and. <br />On April 12, 1993, Somerset Mining Company's application for renewal of a valid, existing <br />permit to conduct coal mining operations, Permit No. C-81-022, was deemed complete. The <br />Division's adequacy letter was sent on June 11, 1993. The operator responded to the Division's <br />concems in the submittal of Technical Revision No. l7, dated July 26, 1993. The permit renewal <br />process was completed on October 22, 1993. The new permit term started on October 11, 1993 <br />and ended on October 11, 1998. <br />The permit was transferred from Somerset Mining Company to Pacific Basin Resources on <br />August 3l, 1995 through Succession of Operator No. 2. At that time, the name of the mine was <br />changed from the Somerset/Sanborn Creek Mine to the Sanborn Creek Mine. <br />Permit Revision No. 3 was submitted to the Division on May l3, 1996. The operator requested, <br />through this revision, to increase [he permit area by 3,518 acres, to a total of 9,047 acres. Of the <br />total permit acreage, 3,553 acres were private and 5,494 acres were federal. Of the total increase <br />in acreage, 1,875 were on private land and 1,643 acres were on federal land. The increase in <br />acreage was to incorporate the acquisition of the 160 acre Eastern Lease Modification, a 40 acre <br />right-of-way and a permit boundary adjustment. Mining would continue in the B coal seam. <br />Three adequacy letters, dated July 9, September 12 and October 7, 1996 were sent by the <br />Division. The operator responded successively to all of the adequacy concerns. Before the <br />approval of Permit Revision No. 3, the operator withdrew the proposal to mine the 40 acre right- <br />of-way. The permit revision was approved on October 14, 1996, with stipulations numbers 21, 22 <br />and 23 attached. Stipulation No. 21 required BLM approval of the coal lease COC-53510 <br />modification and OSM approval of the Eastem Lease Modification mine plan. Stipulation No. 22 <br />required approval of the Division's decision by USFW. Stipulation No. 22 required submittal of <br />maps showing the new permit boundary. All three stipulations were satisfied. <br />Succession of Operator No. 3 transferred the permit from Pacific Basin Resources to Oxbow <br />Carbon & Minerals, Inc. This transfer was approved on February 20, 1997. The permit was <br />transferred from Oxbow Carbon & Minerals, Inc. to Oxbow Mining, Inc. on January 23, 1998 <br />with Succession of Operator No. 4. <br />On January 9, 1998, the Division notified Oxbow Carbon and Minerals of the impending permit <br />renewal and the need to file a complete application by April 1 1, 1998. The operator submitted an <br />application for permit renewal on March 13, 1998. The submittal was called complete by the <br />Division on March 23, 1998, thereby securing the right of successive renewal for the Sanborn <br />Creek Mine. Completeness letters were mailed out to various federal, state and local agencies <br />The public notice announcing the completeness of the permit renewal application was published <br />on April 8, 15, 22 and 29, 1998 in the Delta County Independent. A letter from the Colorado <br />Historical Society, dated March 27, 1998, stated that they had no concems with the permit <br />5 <br />