2010-03-10_REVISION - C1996083

• Permit No: C1996083
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 3/10/2010
• Doc Name: Completeness Letter
• From: DRMS
• To: The Colorado Historical Society
• 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 10, 2010
Shina Duvall
Colorado Historical Society
The Colorado History Museum
Office Archeology & Historical Preservation
1300 Broadway
Denver, CO 80203
Re: Bowie No. 2 Mine (Permit No. C-1996-083)
Permit Revision Application No. 12 (PR-12)
West Mine Expansion
Dear Ms. Duvall:
COLORADO
DIVISION 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 116, Paragraph 4, 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. The revision was submitted by Bowie Resources, LLC. 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 91 W into their Bowie No. 2 Mine permit area.
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 underground coal mining operation is on land located approximately 5 miles Northeast of Paonia,
Colorado. The permit area is further described as follows:
Office of Office of
Mined Land Reclamation Denver • Grand )unction • Durango Active and Inactive Mines