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Table of Contents <br />1. Introduction <br />II. Procedures and Summary of Bond Release Process <br />III. Criteria and Schedule for Bond Release <br />IV. Observations and Findings <br />V. Proposed Decision <br />Attachments: <br />Table 1 - Summary of SL-04 Bond Release Amounts <br />Table 2 - Summary of All Bond Release Acreages <br />Table 3 - Summary of All Bond Release Amounts <br />Figure 1 - Colowyo Mine SL-04 Phase I Bond Release Area <br />Figure 2 - Colowyo Mine SL-04 Phase II Bond Release Area <br />Figure 3 - Colowyo Mine SL-04 Exclusion Areas <br />Figure 4 - Colowyo Mine Previous Bond Release Areas <br />1. Introduction <br />This document is the proposed decision of the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining, and <br />Safety (Division) in response to a request for Phase 1/II Bond Release at the Colowyo Mine, Permit <br />Number C-1981-019, bond release application number SL-04. The package contains five parts. <br />These include: 1) Introduction; 2) Procedures and Summary of the Bond Release Process; 3) <br />Criteria and Schedule for Bond Release; 4) Observations and Findings of the Division regarding <br />compliance with the bond release requirements of the Colorado Surface Coal Mining and <br />Reclamation Act and regulations promulgated there under; and 5) the Division's Proposed Decision <br />on the request for bond release. <br />Detailed information about the review process can be found in the Act and the Regulations of the <br />Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal Mining. All Rules referenced within this <br />document are contained within the Regulations. Detailed information about the mining and <br />reclamation operations can be found in the permit application on file at the Division offices, located <br />at 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215, in Denver, Colorado. <br />The Colowyo Mine is a surface mine which is permitted and operated by the Colowyo Coal <br />Company, LP (Colowyo). The Colowyo Mine is located approximately 25 miles north of the town <br />of Meeker, CO and 25 miles south of the town of Craig, CO in Moffat and Rio Blanco Counties <br />off of Colorado State Highway 13. The land for which bond release has been requested is owned <br />by the State of Colorado and private landowners (Colowyo); the coal is Federal and State of <br />Colorado owned. Reclamation work for which bond release has been requested was conducted <br />during 1993-2003. <br />Proposed Decision and Findings of Compliance 2 May 2011 <br />Partial Phase I/II Bond Release SL-04 Page i