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umn.cA d <br />STATE OF COLORADO <br />DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />1313 Sherman St., Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone: (303) 866-3567 <br />FAX: (303) 832-8106 <br />COLORADO <br />D I V I S ION OF <br />RECLAMATION <br />MINING <br />SAFETY <br />March 1, 2010 <br />Bill Ritter, Jr <br />Governor <br />Executive Director <br />James B. Martin <br />Western Slope Environmental Resource Council Executive Director <br />P.O. Box 1612 <br />Paonia, CO 81428 <br />Re: Bowie No. 2 Mine (Permit No. C-1996-083) <br />Revision: PR-12 <br />West Mine Expansion <br />Dear Sir or Madam: <br />The Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety has received a revision for the Bowie No. 2 Mine. The revision was called <br />complete on March 1, 2010. The decision due date is June 29, 2010. <br />Due to difficult mining conditions in the northern part of the Bowie No. 2 Mine permit area, Bowie Resources LLC (BRL) is <br />proposing in Permit Revision No. 12 (PR-12) to curtail mining to the north and expand mining to the west of their current <br />permit area. BRL intends to transfer about 2,379 acres of their Bowie No. 1 Mine permit area and add about 57 acres of new <br />area on the west side of Terror Creek in Sections 8 and 17 of T 13S, R 91 W into their Bowie No. 2 Mine permit area. Under <br />a separate permit revision, the Bowie No. 1 Mine permit area will be correspondingly reduced in size by about 2379 acres. <br />All Bowie No. 1 Mine baseline information, hydrology and subsidence monitoring and liability in the transferred permit area <br />will remain the responsibility of BRL but through the Bowie No. 2 Mine permit. <br />Portions of federal coal leases C-37210, C-27442 and D-036955, originally assigned to the Bowie No. 1 Mine, will be accessed <br />underground from the Bowie No. 2 Mine to the east. In addition, BRL has applied for a lease modification to lease D-036955. <br />Five east-west trending longwall panels in the upper B coal seam are planned for mining west of Terror Creek. The longwall <br />mining will result in subsidence. Portions of Steven's Gulch Road and the Pitkin Mesa Pipeline are projected to be impacted to <br />a negligible to slight degree by subsidence. Mining is proposed under federal and private lands. <br />The coal to be mined and the federal land to be mined under are managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Other than the <br />effects from mining-induced subsidence, there is no new surface disturbance proposed in PR-12. In PR-12 there is no proposed <br />increase in the rate of coal production and no proposed increase in water usage at the mine. <br />This revision is available for review at the Paonia Public Library, 2 Third Avenue, Paonia, CO 81428. <br />If you have any questions, please contact me. <br />Sincerely, <br />? Y 'Lash <br />,.,Joseph J. DEnvironmental Protection Specialist <br />JJD/Ahd <br />C-CM ,C b996083_JJD_03012010081258.doc Office of <br />Mined Land Reclamation Denver • Grand Junction • Durango Active and Inactive Mines