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Revised 11/85 <br />• The following data supports this request for a permit revision from the <br />Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division ("Division") and the Office of <br />Surface Mining ("OSM") necessary for increasing the area to be mined. <br />Under this permit revision, an additional 264 acres will be mined and <br />the planned underground mining of the "C" seam will increase from 8 to <br />approximately 15 years. <br />Because the Bear Coal Company currently has existing operations, <br />additional environmental impacts from mining will be minimal. Support <br />facilities such as office buildings, shops, roads, coal stockpiles, etc. <br />are already owned and in place at the Bear Coal Company Mine No. 3 and <br />will not be relocated. Importantly, the nation will continue to enjoy <br />production of coal at increasing rates and will receive royalty revenues <br />since the coal mined is owned by the United States of America. <br />The Division and OSM have significant familiarity with ongoing <br />• operations of the Bear Coal Company. Much of this permit revision <br />covers information which has been scrutinized in the previous permit <br />applications and under which Bear Coal Company currently operates. <br />The Bear Coal Company respectively requests that the Division and the <br />OSM approve the new mine plan as delineated within this permit revision. <br />Maximum Utilization and Conservation of the Coal <br />The Bear Coal Company strives in its mining operation to recover the <br />maximum coal tonnage that may be practically removed. The overall goal <br />of Bear Coal Company with respect to coal recovery is to go well beyond <br />the diligence normally required to maximize coal production. Maximizing <br />coal production while minimizing unnecessary costs are items that both <br />the government and the Bear Coal Company are concerned with during these <br />times of high inflation and high energy shortages. The Bear Coal <br />• Company will be mining to maximize the recovery utilizing the most <br />current, appropriate, engineering technology available today. <br />-4- <br />