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consistency within the Division's files. Permit C-81-038 was issued by the Division on July 21, 1988.
<br />However, this date was in error; the permit issuance should have been April 20, 1988. In order to remedy
<br />this situation, the 1993 permit renewal issuance date was back-dated to April 20, 1993, with a permit
<br />expiration date of April 20, 1998.
<br />The Division issued a decision on August 10, 1989 to approve the transfer of mining permit C-81-038
<br />from iColorado Westmoreland Inc. to Cyprus Orchard Valley Coal Corporation (COVCC).
<br />On January 21, 1993, COVCC submitted an application for permit renewal number 2 (RN-02). After the
<br />Division's adequacy review questions were satisfactorily answered, the proposed decision to approve with
<br />conditions was made on July 23, 1993. The decision became final on August 23, 1993. Due to the error in
<br />assigning the correct permit issuance date in 1988, the permit renewal number 2 issuance date was back-
<br />dated to April 20, 1993 and the expiration date became April 20, 1998. Stipulations numbers 26, 27, 28,
<br />34, 411, 42 and 43 were attached to permit renewal number 2.
<br />On April 28, 1993 Permit Revision No. 3 was submitted by COVCC for the inclusion of 510 acres into the
<br />permit area, as a result of the new coal lease COC-53356. The permit revision, with ten stipulations
<br />attached, was approved on July 30, 1993.
<br />On May 22, 1993, Technical Revision No. 22 was approved. This TR added sixty acres to the west side of
<br />the permit area, so that the permit boundary would include the angle of draw projected to the surface for
<br />coal lease COC-37210M.
<br />On March 22, 1994, Technical Revision No. 24 was approved. In this TR, hydrologic monitoring of
<br />selected sites was either eliminated, temporarily discontinued or reduced in frequency. It was demonstrated
<br />that these sites were either located where there were no anticipated impacts from mining or where reduced
<br />monitoring frequency would not compromise an ability to determine hydrologic impacts. Hydrologic
<br />monitoring of some sites may be reinstated in the future should a change in the mine plan warrant it.
<br />On September 26, 1994, Technical Revision No. 25 was approved. A modification of the north end of the
<br />West Ridge Waste Pile, to increase the storage volume of the pile, was approved.
<br />On December 8, 1994, the Division received an application for a transfer of permit and succession of
<br />operator. With the approval on January 24, 1995, permit C-81-038 was transferred from Cyprus Orchard
<br />Valley Coal Corporation to Bowie Resources Limited.
<br />The operator for the Bowie No. 1 Mine was changed in Minor Revision No. 99, from Bruin Mining
<br />Company to Sherpa Paonia, Inc. MR-99 was approved with conditions on January 21, 1997. Stipulation
<br />No. 52 was attached to MR-99 and approved the transfer conditional upon the continued compliance with
<br />a settlement agreement that had been linked to the operator. Stipulation No. 52 was terminated on April 25,
<br />1997.1 With Technical Revision No. 28, the operator changed from Sherpa Paonia to Bowie Resources
<br />Limited.
<br />On Oetober 17, 1997, BRL submitted an application for Permit Renewal No. 3. The Division sent three
<br />adequacy review letters during the review process. With the acceptability of the responses sent by BRL, the
<br />Division proposed a decision on December 14, 1999 to approve with stipulations the Permit Renewal No.
<br />3 application. The proposed decision became final on January 21, 2000. Because BRL had secured the
<br />right oi.'successive renewal, the permit renewal issuance date was back-dated to April 20, 1998.
<br />On July 22, 2002, the Division sent the required notice to the applicant that a complete permit renewal
<br />application needed to be submitted by October 22, 2002. BRL submitted the renewal package for Permit
<br />Renewal No. 4 on September 13, 2002. The renewal package was called complete on September 25, 2002,
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