2011-06-20_PERMIT FILE - C1982056A (4)

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Colorado Lease No. CO -3229 (as amended and restated) • T5N, R86W, Sixth P.M. Section 18: all T5N, R87W, Sixth P.M. Section 13: S/2 NRC -CO 1, LLC Lease — Memorandum of Underground Coal Mining Lease between Western Slope Minerals Company, LLC and Twentymile Coal Company, with an effective date of December 27, 2006; and Partial Assignment and Assumption of Coal Leasehold Rights between Western Slope Minerals Company, LLC and NRC -CO 1, LLC, with an effective date of June 13, 2008. Township 4 North, Range 87 West of the 6th P.M. Section 11: S'/:NE'% and Lots 1 and 2 Section 12: SW'ANW% and Lot 4 Township 5 North, Range 86 West of the 6 P.M. Section 19: Portions of Tracts 39 and 40 Township 5 North, Range 87 West of the 6 P.M. Section 23: All Section 24: W1, W' /E' /, and Tracts 39 and 40 Section 25: W'/: and W'E' /: Section 26: All Section 27: E' / :E' /: • Section 34: E' /:NE'/i Section 35: N'/: and Lots 2, 4, 9, 10, 11, and 12 (2) Where the private mineral estate to be mined has been severed from the private surface estate (in circumstances involving the surface mining of coal or where underground mining activities concurrently involve the surface mining of coal) the application shall also provide for lands to be affected within the permit area: (a) A copy of the written consent of the surface owner to the extraction of coal by surface mining methods; or (b) A copy of the document of conveyance that expressly grants or reserves the right to extract the coal by surface mining methods; or If the conveyance does not expressly grant the right to extract the coal by surface mining methods, documentation that under the applicable State law, the applicant has the legal authority to extract the coal by these methods. RESPONSE The extraction of coal by surface mining methods is not proposed in this permit revision application. Therefore, the requirements of this Rule are not applicable. 3) Nothing in 2.03 shall be construed as vesting in the Division or board the jurisdiction to • adjudicate property right disputes. PRO9 -08 2.03 -33.4 09/29/09