PERMFILE120914

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 1/3/2006
• Doc Name: Application for Revision
• Section_Exhibit Name: Exhibit 80 Drilling Activities - TR103
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Public Notice
Mountain Coal Company, L.L.C. (MCC), West Elk Mine, P.O. Box 591, Somerset, CO
81434, [phone], has filed a complete application for Technical Revision Number
103 (TR-103), to Mining and Reclamation Permit Number C-80-007 with the Colorado
Mined Land Reclamation Boazd (Board) under the provisions of the Colorado Surface
Coal Mining Reclamation Act of 1979. The Technical Revision is to construct an access
road, two drill pads and drill four Methane Drainage Wells (MDWs) in the Box Canyon
area. Two MDWs will be installed on each of the constructed pads. These MDWs are
named 20-04, 20-05, 21-OS and 21-06. The project is located in Township 13 South,
Range 90 West, 6"' PM in a portion of Section 14. The pad construction will disturb
approximately 0.25 acre for each pad; the new access road construction will result in
disturbance of 0.5 acres for a total disturbance of about 1.0 acre on lands managed by the
US Forest Service.
The current permit was originally issued by the Boazd in July 1981, reissued August
1986, January 1993 (Effective August 1991), July 1996, and renewed July 31, 2001. The
current five-year permit term expires July 31, 2006. The West Elk Mine permit area
contains lands in Sections 9-11, 13-30, and 34-36, Township 13 South, Range 90 West,
6~' PM; and Sections 23-26, Township 13 South, Range 91 West, 6s' PM in Delta and
Gunnison Counties and encompasses approximately 9,696.3 acres. The azea is found on
the USGS 7.5 minute Somerset Quadrangle Topographic Map. A proposed increase in
disturbed azea of approximately 1.0 acre will occur as a result of this Technical Revision.
A copy of the Technical Revision application is available for review at the Colorado
Division of Minerals and Geology (CDMG) Office, Centennial Building, 1313 Sherman
Street, Room 215, Denver, Colorado, 80203, phone [phone]; and the Gunnison
County Planning Department, 200 E. Virginia, Gunnison CO 81230. Written comments
or objections on the application must be submitted to the CDMG.