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SECTION I - HISTORY <br />The Foidel Creek Mine is located in Routt County, approximately 22 miles southeast of the town <br />of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The Foidel Creek Mine is an active underground mine utilizing <br />longwall mining operations and using continuous miners for entry and development work. The <br />permit area encompasses approximately 19,940 acres. Mine-related facilities result in <br />approximately 616.72 acres of surface disturbance. Approved surface disturbances and areas to <br />be undermined, combined, total approximately 19,471.85 acres. <br />The permit area varies in elevation from 6,600' to 7,500' with the portal openings at 6,885' <br />along Foidel Creek. Disturbed areas of the mine include the main surface facilities area along <br />Foidel Creek and numerous smaller outlying facilities. The main mine facilities lie in Sections <br />29, 31, 32, T5N, R86W of the 6th Principal Meridian and are located in, and adjacent to, a <br />reclaimed strip pit mine excavated originally by Colorado Yampa Coal Company's (CYCC) <br />surface mining operation (Permit No. C-1981-071). Other facilities currently within the permit <br />area, but separate from the main portal facility area, include the Fish Creek Borehole (FCB), the <br />Southwest ventilation shaft, the Eastern Mining District ventilation shaft, the Eastern Mining <br />District dewatering borehole, the Sandstones substation, the North Escape Shaft, the Fish Creek <br />Tipple (FCT), the Eastern Mining District grout hole pad, the Northern Mining District Power <br />borehole, the 18-Right Ventilation Shaft, the 6-North Main Ventilation Shaft, and the 18-Left <br />Ventilation Shaft. <br />The post-mining land uses are, as were premining land uses, rangeland, pastureland, cropland, <br />and wildlife. <br />Permit (C-1982-056) <br />- Division issues Permit C-1982-056 May 18, 1983 <br />- Permit No. C-1982-056 renewed (RN-01) April 13, 1988 <br />- Permit No. C-1982-056 renewed (RN-02) June 2, 1993 <br />- Permit No. C-1982-056 renewed (RN-03) April 24, 2000 <br />- Permit No. C-1982-056 renewed (RN-04) December 30, 2003 <br />- Permit No. C-1982-056 renewed (RN-05) June 4, 2010 <br />This Midterm Review is due on November 23, 2010. <br />SECTION II - REVISIONS TO THE PERMIT <br />The following is a summary of the revisions to the permit since the Permit Renewal No. 5 <br />Findings Document dated June 4, 2010. <br />Revision No. Approval date Nature of revision <br />RN-05 06/04/2010 Permit Renewal <br />MR-243 06/08/2010 Replacement Thickener Underflow <br />Borehole <br />Foidel Creek Mine -3- <br />Bond <br />$9,760,543.96 <br />+$1,938.00 <br />11/3/2010