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Company responses and all comments received from other agencies are available for review at <br />the Division office. The proposed decision to approve the revision was issued on January 19, <br />2000. <br />Permit Revision No. 9, for coal handling facilities and E-seam access in Sylvester Gulch, was <br />first received by the Division on September 14, 1999, and called complete on September 24, <br />1999. The first adequacy letter was sent to the Operator on November 23, 1999. Mountain Coal <br />Company withdrew the application for Permit Revision No. 9 on August 29, 2002. <br />Mountain Coal Co. submitted a permit renewal application (for Permit Renewal No. 4) on <br />January 31, 2001, and it was received by the Division on February 2, 2001. The application was <br />found incomplete on February 4, 2001, and was called complete on April 12, 2001. An adequacy <br />review was conducted but no comments were submitted to the applicant because issues had been <br />resolved by an extensive midterm review, the revisions from which had just been completed in <br />2000. The proposed decision to approve the revision was issued on July 31, 2001. <br />The application for Permit Revision No. 11, the addition of 690 acres of the West Flatiron lease, <br />was received November 16, 2004, and found complete on November 23, 2004. An initial <br />adequacy letter was sent by the Division on January 6, 2005, and responses were received from <br />MCC on February 18, 2005. A second set of adequacy comments was sent by the Division on <br />March 1, 2005, and responses were received on March 18, 2005. These responses were <br />determined to satisfy the Division. No public comments were received. A letter was received by <br />the Bureau of Land Management on March 8, 2005, stating that MCC's plan was adequate to <br />meet all current Federal regulations regarding R2P2 and MER. The U.S. Forest Service sent a <br />letter of concurrence with an approval decision on March 17, 2005. Letters were received from <br />the Colorado State Historic Preservation Officer on 1 December 2004, and from the State <br />Engineer's Office on December 3, 2004, indicating there were no comments or objections. The <br />proposed decision to approve Permit Revision No. I lwas issued on April 8, 2005. <br />The application for Permit Revision No. 10, the addition to the permit area of E-seam longwall <br />panels 1 through 9 and associated development entries in the South-of-Divide area, was received <br />by the Division on April 2, 2004, and was called complete on April 8, 2004. Mining of the E <br />seam in panels 10, 11, and 12 was approved in a previous revision. Tables 1 and 2, below, <br />summarize the chronology of adequacy letters and responses between the Division and MCC for <br />Permit Revision No. 10, and the chronology of comments received by the Division and their <br />resolution. <br />77