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24HG1E4.SXC Project Plan <br />Minor Revision 327- Revision <br />Page 2 of ll <br />PROJECT DESCRIPTION <br />The proposed project consists constructing 2,500 feet from the Shaft No. 3 Pad in <br />Sylvester Gulch constructing one pad, and directionally drilling two (2) holes/wells to <br />initially facilitate monitoring/sampling, and then constructing a remote seal, in the B <br />Seam. The proposed wells aze in Section 22, of T.13S, R.90W, 6a' Principal Meridian, <br />Gunnison County, Colorado. The proposed project is within the current permitted coal <br />mining area (Permit Number C-80-007) and on land surface managed by Mountain Coal <br />Company L.L.C. The wells will be located on Federal Coal (BLM) Lease COC-056447. <br />The well numbers are 24HG1E4.SXC A and B. <br />The attached Proposed MDWs and New Road Construction for 2005, Map 2, at a scale of <br />1" = 1000', depicts the general location of the proposed road, drill pad, and proposed <br />remote seal. <br />SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY <br />The elevations of the proposed borehole locations range from approximately 7000 ft to <br />7500 ft. The terrain is comprised of steep slopes and mesa tops formed within the <br />Wasatch and Mesa Verde Formations and the colluvium and alluvium layers of the slope <br />debris. The principle drainages in this azea aze unnamed tributazies to Sylvester Gulch <br />that is tributary to the North Fork of the Gunnison River. <br />GEOLOGY <br />The proposed Project would include drilling along the southeastern edge of the Piceance <br />Basin within the Somerset Coal Field, occurring on the Somerset U.S.G.S. 7 1/2-minute <br />quadrangle map. <br />Initial geological work, in this area was, completed by W. T. Lee (1912), who reported <br />his findings in, "Coal Fields of Grand Mesa and the West Elk Mountains, Colorado" <br />(USGS Bulletin 510). Later in 1948, Ward H. Johnson published a USGS map of the <br />Paonia Coal Field incorporating drill hole data generated through a USGS and U.S. <br />Bureau of Mines drilling program. The following year Johnson further described the <br />geology of the Mimmesota Creek azea in USBM Technical Paper 721. More recently, in <br />1989, C. R. Dunrud compiled a coal resources map of the region (USGS Map C-115). In <br />1998 the Colorado Geological Survey published, "Availability of Coal Resources in <br />Colorado: Somerset Quadrangle, West-Central Colorado (CGS Resource Series 36)". <br />The general stratigraphy of the azea consists of members of the Mesa Verde Formation of <br />the Upper Cretaceous System underlying the Wasatch Formation of Tertiary Age. The <br />Barren Member of the Mesa Verde formation crops out lowest in the azea with the <br />overlying Ohio Creek member exposed along many of the steeper slopes. Above the <br />