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Introduction <br />This document is the Permit Revision No. 10 (PR-10) proposed decision package prepared by the <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (Division) for the Bowie No. 2 Mine. Through <br />Permit Revision No. 10, Bowie Resources LLC (BRL) is proposing to extend the B-seam mine plan to <br />the north within Federal Coal Lease COC-61209. This document includes: 1) the proposed decision to <br />Approve the permit renewal application; 2) a summary which includes a history of the review of the <br />permit revision application, a description of the environment affected by the operation and a description <br />of the mining and reclamation plan; and 3) the written findings of compliance the Division has made as <br />required by the Colorado Surface Coal Mining Reclamation Act. Detailed information concerning the <br />findings of compliance can be found in the Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board <br />for Coal Mining. <br />The mine permit area is located on Federal and Private lands within Delta County, Colorado. BRL is both <br />the applicant and operator of the Bowie No. 2 Mine. The coal to be mined is privately and federally <br />owned, as are the surface lands to be disturbed by mining. The management of the surface land is through <br />the USDA-Forest Service while management of the coal is through the Bureau of Land Management. <br />Access to the coal is through Federal Coal Lease COC-61209. <br />Originally, in accordance with direction provided by the Office of Surface Mining (OSM), the Division <br />and the OSM considered the Bowie No. 2 Mine to be a private mine, for the purposes of permit and <br />inspection regulation. However, with approval of Technical Revision No. 16, the Bowie No. 2 Mine <br />became a federal mine. Through that revision, BRL was granted permission to conduct mining in a <br />limited area of the Iron Point Tract Federal Lease. <br />In PR-10, BRL is proposing to revise its approved mine plan by extending mining of the B coal seam to <br />the north. The mine plan revision involves slightly lengthening one approved longwall panel, and adding <br />three new longwall panels and their associated main entries. The main entries will be room and pillar <br />mined and will lie underneath a section of Hubbard Creek. The proposed mine plan will bring mining to <br />within 2500 feet and mining-induced subsidence to within about 1500 feet of the Bruce Park Dam (Terror <br />Creek Reservoir). BRL is also proposing to undermine and subside Dove Gulch and Dove Cave, although <br />BRL has a design to protect the cave. The operator has provided demonstrations, designs and a seismic <br />monitoring program in PR-10 in support of their proposals. Other than the effects from mining-induced <br />subsidence and seismicity, there is no new surface disturbance proposed in PR-10. In PR-10 there is no <br />proposed increase in the rate of coal production, no proposed increase in water usage at the mine and no <br />proposed change to the permit boundary. <br />The Bowie No. 2 Mine is located about five (5) miles northeast of Paonia, Colorado, adjacent to State <br />Highway 133 and near the old Bowie townsite. The current permit area includes 5305 surface acres, of <br />which 2612 surface acres are privately owned and 2693 surface acres are federally owned. With the <br />approval of Permit Revision No. 10, the permit area will not increase in size, although the affected area <br />will increase by 592 acres to a total of 3818 acres. The legal description of the lands included within the <br />present permit area is described in the sections listed below: <br />Township 13 South, Range 91 West, 6th PM <br />Sec. 2: SW'/NW'/, SW'/ <br />Sec. 3: ALL <br />Sec. 4: ALL <br />Sec. 5: S'V2SE'/, SE'/ SW'/, S'hNE'/NE'/ SE'/, SE'V4NW 1/NEl/4SE'/4, <br />EV2SW'/NE'/SE'/, SE%NE'/SE%