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22TG3E33XC and 227U^3E34XC Project Plan <br />Minor Revision 324 <br />Page Z of I2 <br />The proposed project consists of drilling up to two (2) holes, and wells to initially <br />facilitate monitoring/sampling, and then injection of water, foam, and nitrogen into a <br />hotspot, if required, in the B Seam. The proposed wells are in Section 23, of T.13S, <br />R90W, 6m Principal Meridian, Gnnnicnn County, Colorado. The proposed project is <br />within the current permitted coal mining area (Permit Number C-80-007) and on land <br />surface managed by the USFS. The wells will be located on Federal Coal (BLM) Lease <br />COC-056447. The well numbers are 22TG3E33XC and 22TG3E34XC. The wells will <br />be drilled in the area approved under TR-96 and subsequent approvals for the annual <br />operating plans i.e. MR-306 (2005), for Methane Drainage Wells. <br />MCC's overall plan for drilling and reclaiming MDWs was originally approved by <br />CDMG on 15 July 2002 as Technical Revision 96 -Project Plan for Methane Drainage <br />Wells for Panels 16, 17, 17S, 18-24. The Forest Service performed an Environmental <br />Assessment of MCC's Methane Drainage Wells Plan, and approval was received in the <br />Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact, May 31, 2002. These three proposed <br />wells are in the overall project area but were not proposed for inclusion in the US Forest <br />Service reviews. As such, these wells are the subject of this separate Minor Revision. <br />Because these wells are on US Forest Service managed lands, US Forest Service approval <br />of their installation will be required. <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 tbe proposed drill pad, and proposed methane <br />drainage wells (part of the 2005 MDW Project). <br />SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY <br />The elevations of the proposed borehole locations range from approximately 8300 fi to <br />8400 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 area are unnamed tributaries to Deep Creek that is <br />tributary to Raven Creek 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 />