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Summary <br />The Review Process <br />Twentymile Coal Company (TCC), a subsidiary of Peabody, submitted a permit revision application (PR8) for <br />the Foidel Creek Mine. The Foidel Creek Mine is exclusively an underground coal mining operation located <br />approximately 22 miles southwest of Steamboat Springs, Colorado in Routt County. A chronology of the <br />review of the application for PR8 is shown in the table below. <br />Action Date Division Sent Date Division Received <br />Permit Revision Application Submitted May 21, 2009 <br />Application found complete May 29, 2009 <br />Operator publishes notice in Steamboat <br />Pilot Publication dates June 7, 14, 21, <br />and 28, 2009 <br />Request for Mine Plan Modification June 8, 2009 June 11, 2009 <br />First adequacy letter to the operator Jul 28, 2009 <br />Letters from SHPO June 22, 2009 <br />Jul 22, 2009 <br />Letter from Division of Water Resources June 26, 2009 <br />Letters from MSHA June 5, 2009 <br />June 8, 2009 <br />Letter from BLM June 10, 2009 <br />Letters from OSM-Section 7 Consultation June 11, 2009 <br />Twentymile Coal Company adequacy <br />responses to first adequacy letter September 18, 2009 <br />Second adequacy letter to the operator September 28, 2009 <br />Applicant Violator System queried October 19, 2009, <br />October 29, 2009 <br />Adequacy responses to second adequacy <br />letter. October 2, 2009 <br />Third adequacy letter to the operator October 13, 2009 <br />Adequacy responses to third adequacy <br />letter. October 27, 2009 <br />October 28, 2009 <br />October 29, 2009 <br />Description of the Environment <br />The Foidel Creek Mine is located approximately 22 miles southwest of Steamboat Springs, in Routt County, <br />Colorado. The permit area varies in elevation from 6,600' to 7,500' with the portal openings at 6,885' along <br />Foidel Creek. Generally, the topography consists of gently rolling hills, dip slopes and cliff outcrops. Flatter <br />topography is evident in the valleys of the major streams draining the area (Fish Creek and Foidel Creek), as <br />well as along the gentle dip slopes. Prominent cliffs have formed where massive sandstone units outcrop. Coal <br />is presently, and has historically been, mined under other approved permits by surface methods on the dip <br />slopes, where overburden thickness allows for economic extraction within Twentymile Park around its margins, <br />and where folding has elevated a major coal seam within the basin. Foidel Creek Mine is currently the only <br />active underground operation within Twentymile Park. The mine is a longwall operation, using continuous <br />miners for entry and development work only. The permit area encompasses approximately 19,940 acres. This <br />permit revision (PR8) does not propose to enlarge the permit boundary. No new surface disturbances are