2010-03-01_REVISION - C1996083 ‎(2)‎

• Permit No: C1996083
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 3/1/2010
• Doc Name: Completeness Letters
• From: DRMS
• To: State & Federal Agencies, Delta County and Landowners
• Type & Sequence: PR12
• Email Name: JJD
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
March 1, 2010
Carl Johnston
Office of Surface Mining
Western Regional Coordinating Center
1999 Broadway, Suite 3320
Denver, CO 80202
Re: Bowie No. 2 Mine (Permit No. C-1996-083)
Permit Revision Application No. 12 (PR-12)
West Mine Expansion
Dear Mr. Johnston:
COLORADO
D I V I S 1 0 N O F
RECLAMATION
MINING
SAFETY
Bill Ritter, Jr.
Governor
James B. Martin
Executive Director
The Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety hereby issues notice, in accordance with Title 34, Article 33,
Section 118, Paragraph 3, of the Colorado Revised Statutes, that on March 1, 2010, an application to revise coal
mining operations at the Bowie No. 2 Mine was considered complete for the purposes of filing. All review and
comment periods as provided in the Act and the Regulations initiate from this date of filing.
Due to difficult mining conditions in the northern part of the Bowie No. 2 Mine permit area, Bowie Resources
LLC (BRL) is proposing in Permit Revision No. 12 (PR-12) to curtail mining to the north and expand mining to
the west of their current 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 area on the west side of Terror Creek in Sections 8 and 17 of T 13S, R 91W
into their Bowie No. 2 Mine permit area. Under a separate permit revision, the Bowie No. 1 Mine permit area
will be correspondingly reduced in size by about 2379 acres. All Bowie No. 1 Mine baseline information,
hydrology and subsidence monitoring and liability in the transferred permit area will remain the responsibility of
BRL but through the Bowie No. 2 Mine pen-nit.
Portions of federal coal leases C-37210, C-27442 and D-036955, originally assigned to the Bowie No. 1 Mine, will
be accessed underground from the Bowie No. 2 Mine to the east. In addition, BRL has applied for a lease
modification to lease D-036955. Five east-west trending longwall panels in the upper B coal seam are planned for
mining west of Terror Creek. The longwall mining will result in subsidence. Portions of Steven's Gulch Road and
the Pitkin Mesa Pipeline are projected to be impacted to a negligible to slight degree by subsidence. Mining is
proposed under federal and private lands.
The coal to be mined and the federal land to be mined under are managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
Other than the effects from mining-induced subsidence, there is no new surface disturbance proposed in PR-12. In
PR-12 there is no proposed increase in the rate of coal production and no proposed increase in water usage at the
mine.
The Division requests your assistance in the determination of whether or not a Federal mine plan modification is
necessary for the activities proposed in PR-12. Please advise the Division as to your determination. If you need any
additional information, please let me know.
Office of
Office of
Mined Land Reclamation Denver • Grand Junction • Durango Active and Inactive Mines