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
Kathleen Ozga
Bureau of Reclamation
Lands and Reclamation Group Cheif
West Colorado Area Office
2764 Compass Drive, Suite 106
Grand Junction, CO 81506-8785
Re: Bowie No. 2 Mine (Permit No. C-1996-083)
Permit Revision Application No. 12 (PR-12)
West Mine Expansion
Dear Ms. Ozga:
COLORADO
D IV] S ION OF
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
permit.
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.
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