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submitted an updated Threatened and Endangered Species Inventory Report and the Office of <br />Surface Mining had found that concurrence by the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service was not needed <br />(2.07.6(2)(n)). <br />15. The Division has contacted the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation Fees Branch. As of the <br />writing of this decision, the operator is current in the payment of reclamation fees required by 30 <br />CFR Chapter VII, subchapter R (2.07.6(2)(0)). <br />16. Specific approvals have been granted or are proposed. These approvals are addressed in the <br />following section, Section B (2.07.6(2)(m))). <br />SECTION B <br />The following findings and specific approvals are required by Rule 4. <br />I. Roads - Rule 4.03 <br />Road information for the Bear No. 3 Mine is presented in Section 4.03, Exhibits 20 and 24, and <br />Map 11 of the Bear No. 3 permit application. <br />The haul/mine access road is the only road on the Bear No. 3 property. The portal access road <br />was reclaimed. The main haul road connects the reclaimed mine site with Colorado State <br />Highway 133 at Somerset, Colorado. The road is approximately 0.25 miles long and passes over <br />a bridge which crosses the North Fork of the Gunnison River. The road design was approved by <br />the Division and has been certified as being constructed as designed. A technical revision to <br />widen the road was approved and the road was certified as being widened as designed. <br />Bear Coal Company widened and modified the original access road to the abandoned Edwards <br />portals to access the Bear No. 3 Mine portals, and conducted semi-annual stability monitoring of <br />the access road. The portal access road met the permanent program criteria with the approved <br />monitoring plan. The road was reclaimed. <br />The operation is in compliance with this section. <br />II. Support Facilities - Rule 4.04 <br />Information regarding the mine facilities of the Bear No. 3 Mine is contained in Sections 2.05.2 <br />and 2.05.3, Exhibits 14, 19 and 24, and Map 10, of the Bear No. 3 Mine permit application. <br />Surface support facilities at the Bear No. 3 Mine included an office, two warehouses, power <br />substation, fuel transfer and storage area, conveyors, stacking tube and a truck loadout. All of <br />those structures were dismantled and removed, except the office building concrete foundation <br />and pad. The landowner originally had requested that the building be retained as part of the <br />post-mining land use. However, the landowner later requested to have the building demolished <br />and the debris removed offsite, with the concrete buried onsite. This request was approved by the <br />Division. <br />A sedimentation pond collects runoff from the site to mitigate any adverse mining impacts to <br />surface waters. Effluent from the pond must meet NPDES permit standards. A spring water <br />treatment pond was constructed to treat the water coming from a hillside spring that is located <br />just west of the pre-law Edwards Mine portal. <br />14