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~Q ~~a <br />STATE OF COLOIZ~DO <br />pIVIS~QN taF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY <br />DeP~Rfneflf ql NatNfa~ ResgHrces <br />. t 313 Sherman St., Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone: (30}>,]3(i8d, 2000 <br />FAX: f303) 8 8106 <br />Mr. Henry Barbe <br />Mountain Coal Company <br />P.O. Box 591 <br />Somerset, CO 81434 <br />n <br />LJ <br />RE: West Elk Mine (C-80-007) <br />Minor Revision 270 update <br />Dear Mr. Barbe: <br />DIVISION OF <br />MINERALS <br />GEOLOGY <br />RECLAMATION <br />MINING•SAF ETT <br />Bill Owens <br />Governor <br />Greg E. Walther <br />E.ecurive Director <br />Michael 9. Long <br />Division Director <br />This letter is a request for an update on the progress of Mountain Coal Company's <br />(MCC) efforts to extinguish the combustion event that has been occurring in the mine. <br />We appreciate the verbal reports we have been receiving. However, the last written <br />update of MR-270 that we received was in a letter from Christine Johnston dated March <br />24, 2000. When we first discussed the idea of this minor revision with Ms. Johnston, <br />we agreed that updates would be provided whenever substantial progress or <br />modifications of MCC's efforts occurred. We aze requesting that another update be <br />provided as soon as possible. <br />Some of the specific points we would like to be updated on are, <br />1. the general steps that MCC has taken since the Mazch 24 report, both on the <br />surface and underground, <br />2. any interim work completed and/or planned on the surface in response to the <br />points in the Mazch 27, 2000 US Forest Service letter from Susan Spear to Phil Schmidt, <br />3. the status of the recently installed hydraulic seals, <br />4. an estimate of the vo]ume of the mine workings that MCC is attempting to flood, <br />and an estimate of the volume of water pumped into the mine, <br />5. a summary of observations of recent dischazge monitoring at Lone Pine Gulch <br />and, <br />6. a discussion of MCC's plans for further activity. <br />RECEr1rED <br />MAR C' 4 ?002 <br />Division of Minerals and Geology <br />L~ <br />