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STATE OF COLORADO DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY Department of Natural Resources 1313 Sherman St., Room 215 Denver, Colorado 80203 Phone: (303) 866-3567 FAX: (303) 832-8106 COLORADO D I V I S 10 N O F RECLAMATION MINING SAFETY INTEROFFICE Bill Ritter, Jr Governor MEMORANDUM Harris D. Sherman Executive Director Ronald W. Cattany TO: Eagle Mine C-1981-044 File Division Director Natural Resource Trustee FROM: Jim Stark SUBJECT: RN-05 Moffat County Land Ownership Question DATE: 15 June 2009 On 4 June 2009 the Division sent a letter to Jerry Nettleton of BTUEC regarding a possible coal ownership problem in an area owned by Moffat County in Township 5 North, Range 91 West, Sections 4 and 5. The basic issue was that it did not appear that the legal description shown on page 2.03-17 correlated with the coal ownership shown on Map 2 - Coal Ownership. On 15 June 2009 Jerry Nettleton e-mailed the Division with a response regarding the legal description issue the Division had raised. In the e-mail Mr. Nettleton explained that the legal description for each Section actually contained two separate parcels of land. The areas described as "Lot 4" in Section 4 and "Lot 1" in Section 5 are, in fact, two discrete areas in addition to the two areas described by their section locations. These two lots are each a quarter, quarter section, comprising of 40 acres each. The additional 80 acres total in these two lots makes up the difference that appeared to be missing from the original legal description. Based on the 15 June 2009 e-mail response from Jerry Nettleton, the Division considers the possible coal ownership question raised in the Division's 4 June 2009 letter resolved. cc: Sandy Brown Office of Office of Mined Land Reclamation Denver • Grand Junction • Durango Active and Inactive Mines