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that a court-approved water augmentation plan is in effect for those FS water rights within the permit and <br />adjacent area that may be contaminated, diminished or interrupted by mining. <br />Stipulation No. 26 <br />No coal waste can be transported to coal waste pile no. 3 until necessary construction permits are obtained <br />from the CDPHE and received at the Division. <br />Stipulation No. 27 <br />Approval of Technical Revision No. 64 limits the total volume of material to be stored at gob pile no. 4 to <br />3,155,000 tons of coal waste, topsoil and excavated material until the construction permit 03DL0923F is <br />modified by the Air Pollution Control Division to allow for a greater amount of stockpile material. <br />Stipulation No. 28 <br />Mining is prohibited in the area of lease modification FCL-D-036955 until: 1) final approval for the lease <br />modification is granted from the Bureau of Land Management; and 2)final approval of a technical <br />revision to Permit No. C-1996-083 to include the lease modification area and associated mine plan into <br />the Bowie No. 2 Mine permit application. <br />SUMMARY <br />The Review Process <br />The Bowie No. 2 Mine permit application was submitted by Bowie Resources Limited on February 13, <br />1996. The permit application was deemed complete on February 23, 1996, and the required agency <br />notification letters were sent by the Division. Comments were received from the Colorado Division of <br />Wildlife, the Colorado State Engineers' Office, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the United <br />States Office of Surface Mining, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Colorado State Historic <br />Preservation Office, and the Colorado Department of Transportation. <br />The Division sent adequacy letters to Bowie Resources Limited on May 31, 1996, June 21, 1996, August <br />9 1996, November 18, 1996, November 20, 1996, December 27, 1996, January 29, 1997, February 18, <br />1997 and February 19, 1997. All Division adequacy letters were answered by BRL. With the exception of <br />those issues which were stipulated with the approval, all technical and procedural issues were resolved. <br />The permit was issued on April 4, 1997, with an expiration date of April 4, 2002. <br />The original proposal to construct facilities in support of a longwall was submitted by BRL in Technical <br />Revision No. 6. This revision was submitted on December 7, 1998 and proposed to construct a downhill <br />conveyor, a coal stockpile and coal haul truck loading system and relocation of pond B. BRL proposed <br />converting to longwall in a December 11, 1998 submittal of Technical Revision No. 7, at a rate of 5 <br />million tons per year. Both technical revisions were called complete on December 16, 1998. The Division <br />received comments from several governmental agencies. The comments concerned impacts to wildlife, <br />water rights, water depletion and protection of archaeological areas of importance.