2010-06-28_REVISION - C1980005 ‎(5)‎

• Permit No: C1980005
• IBM Index Class Name: REVISION
• Doc Date: 6/28/2010
• Doc Name: Completeness Letter
• From: DRMS
• To: Routt County Planning Department
• Type & Sequence: PR2
• Email Name: DTM
• Email Name: SB1
• 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]
COLORADO
DIVISION OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
SAFETY
June 28, 2010 Bill Ritter, Jr.
Governor
Routt County Planning Department Mike King
Planning Director Executive Director
P.O. Box 773598

Steamboat Springs, CO 80477 Loretta E. Pifieda
Director
Re: Seneca H Mine (Permit No. C-1980-005)
Permit Revision Application No. 2 (PR-2)
Seneca H Reduced Permit Area
Dear Sir or Madam:
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 June 28, 2010, an application to revise coal mining operations at the
Seneca II 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.
This revision application proposes a reduction in size of the Seneca II permit boundary. The proposed reduction is to
accommodate the new Peabody Sage Creek Mine (PSCM) permit area, which will incorporate approximately 3, 011.9 acres of
the original Seneca 1-1 permit area. The revised Seneca II permit area will retain 386.5 acres of the original permit area that
includes 271.0 disturbed acres. The revised Seneca II mine permit boundary encompasses one isolated watershed and separates
runoff from the Seneca II mine and the new PSCM permit area. The watershed discharges to pond 008, which is an approved
NPDES discharge point. Proposed changes to the current permit boundary and associated changes to the operations and
reclamation plans are: set forth in a new volume to the permit application package titled "Permit Revision (PR-02) reduced
permit area.
The surface coal mining operation is on land located approximately 9 miles Southeast of Hayden, Colorado. The
currently approved permit area is described as follows:
T5N, R87W; All of Sections 1, 2 and 12; Portions of Sections 3, 11 and 13
T6N, R87W; Portions of Sections 27, 34, 35 and 36
T5N, R86W; Portions of Sections 6 and 7.
All west of the 6r'' Principal Meridian.
The reduced acreage permit area as proposed in the PR-2 application is described as follows:
T5N, R87W
Section l: SE,/4, Portions of NE/4NE/4SW/4 and S/2NE/4
Section 12: Portions of NE/4 and E/2NW/4
T5N, R86W
Section 6: W/2W/2SW/4
Section 7: W/2NW/4NW/4, N/2SW/4NW/4
All west of the 6`'' Principal Meridian.
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