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When BRL submitted Permit Revision Nos. 2 and 3, the operator was responding to the Division's <br />adequacy questions from the previously withdrawn Technical Revision Nos. 6 and 7. Permit Revision No. <br />2 was submitted on May 5, 1999, and called complete on May 14, 1999. Permit Revision No. 3 was <br />submitted on May 17, 1999 and called complete on May 27, 1999. Completeness letters were mailed to <br />the same agencies and organizations that had received completeness letters for Technical Revision Nos. 6 <br />and 7. The Division received several comment letters, both from governmental agencies and from the <br />public. <br />The Division's first adequacy letter for Permit Revision No. 2 was sent on June 18, 1999. In two letters, <br />dated July 6, 1999 and August 12, 1999, BRL responded to the Division's adequacy concerns. The <br />Division sent its first adequacy letter for Permit Revision No. 3 on July 23, 1999. BRL responded to those <br />adequacy questions in letters dated July 27, 1999, August 30, 1999 and October 4, 1999. <br />In several letters dated July 16, 1999, the Division received further comments from members of the <br />public. In addition to raising concerns similar to their concerns raised in Technical Revisions Nos. 6 and <br />7, there were questions about the effects of subsidence, mining through a fault and water rights. Also, <br />there were several requests for an informal conference and a request to place the BRL permit revision <br />material in a location closer to the mine area, rather than in Delta. The informal conference was held on <br />August 5, 1999. The Division discussed the content of Permit Revisions Nos. 2 and 3 and the company's <br />responses to the Division's adequacy review of Permit Revision No. 2. The operator did not have time to <br />respond formally to the Division's adequacy review of Permit Revision No. 3 at that time. The Division <br />also answered questions and received additional comments from the public concerning the proposed <br />changes to BRL's mine plans. <br />The Division also received two letters from the public after the informal conference. Concerns with <br />subsidence impacts, surface and groundwater impacts to water rights and water resources and the <br />separation in the submittal of the various mine plan revisions. <br />At the time of the first informal conference, the company did not have time to respond formally to the <br />Division's adequacy review of Permit Revision No. 3. Therefore, a second informal conference was held <br />on September 13, 1999. As at the first informal conference, the Division answered questions and received <br />further comments from the public concerning the changes proposed in BRL's mine plans. <br />BRL satisfactorily answered all of the Division's adequacy questions for Permit Revisions Nos. 2 and 3. <br />The Division proposed to approve with conditions Permit Revision No. 2 on September 13, 1999. New <br />stipulation number 7 was attached to the conditional approval of Permit Revision No. 2. On October 12, <br />1999, the Division received objections to the proposed decision and a request for a formal hearing. The <br />proposed decision to approve Permit Revision No. 2 was brought before the Mined Land Reclamation <br />Board (Board) on October 20, 1999. The Board approved the Division's proposed decision to approve <br />with stipulations Permit Revision No. 2 on that same date. <br />On February 1, 2000, the Division proposed to approve with stipulations Permit Revision No. 3. No new <br />stipulations were attached to the conditional approval of Permit Revision No. 3. No requests for a board <br />hearing were received at the Division. Therefore, the decision became final on March 2, 2000. <br />The Division received the submittal for Permit Revision No. 4 on October 6, 2000. This revision <br />proposed to incorporate two areas into the permit and allow for longwall and room and pillar mining of <br />the D seam in those two areas. After an initial incompleteness determination, the Permit Revision No. 4 <br />submittal was called complete on October 23, 2000 and the appropriate notification letters were sent out. <br />In response to the Division's completeness letters, several state and federal agencies sent comment letters