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Welt, Kathy <br />Subject: E3 -30 (E3 -29) methane drainage well re- location <br />From: Daniel E Gray [mailto:degray @fs.fed.us] <br />Sent: Monday, July 11, 20112:30 PM <br />To: Welt, Kathy <br />Subject: E3 -30 (E3 -29) methane drainage well re- location <br />Kathy: While Mike Peacock and I were laying out the methane drainage well pads and roads for the E3 panel, we came <br />to the conclusion that the location for the E3 -30 (E3 -29) methane drainage well would not work from a resource protection <br />standpoint. According to the decision map, we would have had to lay out the pad adjacent to the Poison Gulch Rd. (Elijah <br />Springs Rd.) 711.2C along the Dry Fork of Minnesota Creek in a location that would not be adequate in size to support a <br />methane drainage well drilling operation and would be too close to the creek. I suggested to Mike that we move it slightly <br />to the northwest into a clearing that looked like an old exploratory drill location (but wasn't) so that there would be <br />adequate room for the pad and to create a buffer between the pad and the creek. Because of moving the pad to the new <br />location, Mountain Coal will have to build approximately 1015 feet of road and create a hardened, concrete plank crossing <br />across the Dry Fork of Minnesota Creek to access the new pad location. I have informed Ryan Taylor, the <br />Geologist/District Minerals Administrator, and Levi Broyles the District Ranger of the decision to move this pad because <br />of resource concerns and both agreed with the rationale. Let me know if you have any questions or if I can be of any <br />help. <br />Sincerely, <br />Daniel Gray (Natural Resource Specialist) <br />