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('A MOUNTAIN COAL <br />V/; COMPAN I L.L.C. West Elk Mine <br />May 14, 2009 <br />A Subsidiary of Arch Western Resources, LLC P.O. Box 591 <br />5174 Highway 133 <br />Somerset, CO 81434 <br />(970) 929-5015 <br />Fax (970) 929-5595 <br />Mr. Tom Kaldenbach <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety <br />Office of Mined Land Reclamation <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Re: Mountain Coal Company, LLC, West Elk Mine; Permit No. C-80-007; Minor Revision No. MR-354, <br />Geotechnical and Soil Sample Boreholes for East Refuse Pile Expansion Area <br />Dear Mr. Kaldenbach: <br />Mountain Coal Company, LLC (MCC) provides the following responses to address the completeness issues <br />outlined in your letter sent earlier today. The responses follow the questions and are preceeded by an asterisk <br />1. A description of the measures to be taken by MCC to avoid alteration or relocation of a natural <br />drainageway (2.05.3(3)(c)(iii) and 4.03.3(4)(d)); <br />* The unnamed Gulch east of Sylvester Gulch (aka "Tweety Gulch") is an ephemeral drainage <br />that remains dry for most of the year. No alteration or relocation of the natural drainage will be <br />required for this project . <br />2. A description of whether the proposed road or the proposed drilling will occur within 100 feet <br />of the right-of-way line of any public road, except where mine haul roads or mine access roads <br />join that right-of-way(2.05.3(3)(c)(v)(A)); <br />*The lowest (elevation) proposed borehole sites are more than 100' above the SH 133 right-of <br />way. <br />3. A plan for the reclamation of the road and boreholes (2.05.4); <br />* For reclamation of any necessary accesses or pads constructed (only four proposed sites may <br />require pad or road preparation), the soils that were removed and stockpiled in a berm along the <br />accesses and/or pads will be returned and compacted to the approximate original contours as <br />shown on the attached topographical map. - Topsoil salvage from the sites will be redistributed <br />to as evenly as possible over the recontoured pads and accesses. The soil surface will be <br />scarified, if need be, and seeded with MCC's approved seed mixture per Table 37 of MCC's <br />approved permit document.