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STATE OF COLORADO <br />DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman St., Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone: (303) 866-3567 <br />FAX: (303) 8328106 <br />November 23, 2005 <br />Jim Stover, P.E. <br />J. E. Stover & Associates <br />P.O. Box 60340 <br />Grand Junction, CO 81506 <br />RE: Bowie No. 1 Mine, Permit No. C-81-038, Bowie Resources LLC <br />2004 Annual Report, Adequacy Review <br />Dear Mr. Stover: <br />COLORADO <br />DIVISION O F <br />MIN sRALS <br />GEOLOGY <br />0.ECLANATIO N•NI NIN4 <br />SAFETY•SCIENCE <br />gill OWen3 <br />Govemw <br />Russell George <br />Executive Director <br />Ronald W. Cattany <br />Division Dimctw <br />Natural Resource Tmstee <br />The Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology (Division) has finished its review of the Bowie <br />Resources LLC (BRL) submittal of the 2004 Annual Report for the Bowie No. 1 Mine. <br />2004 Annual Hvdrologv Report (AHR) <br />The Division agrees with BRL's conclusion that the mining operations at the Bowie No. 1 Mine, <br />which ended in 1997, have not adversely impacted the hydrologic regime. The data support the <br />predictions that are presented in the Probable Hydrologic Consequences section of the permit <br />application. <br />The Division has the following questions and comments: <br />Tables 1, 2, 3 and 4B in Volume 4 of the Bowie No. 1 Mine permit application have <br />footnotes that designate with a "NO(E)" those surface water monitoring stations and <br />groundwater monitoring wells that will be reactivated one year before mining is resumed <br />in the Bowie No. 1 East Mine. It is the Division's understanding that there is a possibility <br />that Bowie No. 2 may access the Bowie No.l East Mine workings sometime in 2006. <br />Please comment on BRL's plan for these inactive monitoring sites as it relates to the <br />remining of the Bowie No. 1 East Mine reserves. <br />2. According to information on page 2 of the 2004 AHR, groundwater monitoring wells BO1 <br />and OV WM were destroyed. Please update Table 4B in Volume 4 of the permit <br />application to reflect this situation. <br />3. In Table 1 of Volume 4 of the permit application, quarterly water quality analyses are <br />required for surface water monitoring stations SW-5, SW-6 and SW-10. However, <br />Office of Office of Colorado <br />Mined Land Reclamation Active and Inactive Mines Geological Survey <br />