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Attention: Western Colorado Supervisor <br />U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service <br />Ecological Services <br />Western Colorado Office <br />764 Horizon Drive, Building B <br />Grand Junction, Colorado 81506 -3946 <br />Dear Western Colorado Supervisor: <br />United States Department of the Interior <br />1. S 42°17'20" E 47.77 feet; <br />2. S 29 °58'29" W 141.75 feet; <br />3. S 28 °44'28" W72.16 feet; <br />4. S 18 °40'23" W 61.78 feet; <br />OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING <br />Reclamation and Enforcement <br />Western Region Office <br />1999 Broadway, Suite 3320 <br />Denver, CO 80202 -3050 <br />March 13, 2012 <br />CO -0000 <br />MAR Z 6 ?017 <br />Division pl n, <br />Mining <br />and Safety <br />RE: Section 7 Consultation for Western Fuels- Colorado, LLC, New Horizon North Mine <br />including an Equipment Corridor, Colorado State Permit C- 2010 -089 <br />The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) Western Region is initiating <br />formal section 7 consultation for the above subject facility at the request of the Colorado <br />Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (CO- DRMS). <br />The Western Fuels- Colorado applied for a new permit to develop and mine coal in New Horizon <br />North (NHN) Mine. The mine permit would contain 322 acres more or less and 282 acres of <br />those acres would be disturbed for mining activities. New Horizon North Mine is located in <br />Montrose County, Colorado approximately two and a half (2.5) miles northwest of Nucla, <br />Colorado, on lands within all or part of: <br />West 1/2 of Section 25, T47N, R16W and Section 36, T47N, R16W of the 10 PM and <br />can be found on USGS 7 5 minute quadrangle map of Nucla, Colorado. <br />The associated equipment corridor tract of land 50 feet in width, 25 feet on each side of the <br />following described centerline: <br />Beginning at a point on the southerly boundary of said Section 25 from which the South <br />1 /4 Corner of said Section 25 lies South 87 °30'29" East 523.20 feet; thence the following <br />courses: <br />