PERMFILE134363

• Permit No: C2008086
• IBM Index Class Name: Application Correspondence
• Doc Date: 12/7/2006
• Doc Name: Public Scoping Report for the Environmental Impact Statement
• From: BLM
• To: DRMS
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

H Road, Grand Junction, Colorado 81506. At the close of the scoping '
comment period, written comments, including names and addresses of
respondents, will be available for public review at the offices of the '
BLM Grand Junction Field Office, 2815 H Road, Grand Junction, Colorado
81506, during normal working hours (7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., except
holidays). Submissions from organizations or businesses will be made '
available for public inspection in their entirety. Individuals may
request confidentiality with respect to their name, address, and phone
number. If you wish to have your name or street address withheld from
public review, or from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act, '
you must state this prominently at the beginning of your comment. Such
requests will be honored to the extent allowed by law. Comment contents
will not be kept confidential. The Draft EIS will consider comments and '
issues received during public scoping, and responses to comments on the
Draft EIS will be published as part of the Final EIS.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information or to have

your name added to our mailing list, contact David Lehmann, Supervisory '
Natural Resource Specialist, at [phone]. E-mail can be directed
to [e-mail] and mail can be sent to the address above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On September 28, 2005, CAM filed a Right-of- '
Way application with BLM for facilities associated with the proposed
Red Cliff Mine. Subsequently, on February 10, 2006, CAM submitted a

Land Use Application to the BLM for other facilities supporting the '
proposed coal mine project. A mine permit will also be required for all
mine facilities, in accordance with U. S. Office of Surface Mining and
Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology regulations. This EIS will

meet the National Environmental Policy Act requirements for the mine '
permit. There will be additional opportunities for public
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involvement when the mine permit application is processed.
The proposed Red Cliff Mine is located approximately 11 miles north

of the towns of Mack and Loma, Colorado, and 1.5 miles east of Colorado '
State Highway 139. CAM is proposing a new portal and associated
facilities to extract low-sulfur coal from Federal Coal Leases C-

0125515 and C-0125516 and from several potential new Federal leases as '
well as a small amount of private coal.
The proposed railroad line would traverse approximately 9.5 miles
of Federal land, and include one crossing of State Highway 139 and

approximately 5 miles of private land. The EIS will analyze the '
potential impacts associated with the construction and operation of
facilities proposed in CAM's Right-of-Way and Land Use Applications,
and other potential impacts associated with the Red Cliff Mine project. '
Citizens are invited to help identify issues or concerns and to provide
input on the proposed action. Alternatives will be developed through
the public involvement process and analyzed in the EIS.

A company affiliated with CAM is currently mining approximately '
280,000 tons of coal per year from the nearby McClane Canyon Mine.
CAM's production from the Red Cliff Mine would be approximately 8
million tons per year. CAM is proposing to load the coal onto rail cars

at the mine site and ship it to coal consumers. CAM would recover this '
coal by mining the Cameo Seam using both room and pillar and longwall
mining techniques. As is consistent with the goals of the 2001 National

Energy Policy report and the Energy Policy Act of 2005, this project '