1986-12-11_PERMIT FILE - C1981017

• Permit No: C1981017
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/1986
• Doc Name: Permit Application Approval Package
• From: OSM
• To: Mid-Continent Resources, Inc
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

United States Department of the Interior
OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING
Reclamation and Enforcement
"N J a BROOKS TOWERS
1020 15TH STREET
DENVER, COLORADO 80202
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Director, Officekdnistrator,
Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 1
FROM: Allen D. Klein, Western Technical Center
SUBJEC : Recommendation for Approval of Mid-Continent Resources's Coal
Basin Mines Mining Plan, as Modified, Pitkin County, Colorado,
Federal Leases: C-0125457, C-011646, C-09004, C-09005,
C-0115606, C-0125456, C-030345, and C-012640
I. Recommendation
I recommend approval with conditions of the Mid-Continent
Resources's Coal Basin mines mining plan, as modified. Approval of
this mining plan, as modified, will supersede the mining plan
approved on July 29, 1983, for the existing Coal Basin underground
mines. My recommendation is based on the complete permit
application package (PAP), updated to November 27, 1985, an
environmental assessment of the proposed mining and reclamation
operations and alternatives prepared by the Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) , a technical analysis by
Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division (MLRD) , and the
administrative record. Approval of the mining plan, as modified,
will authorize mining of approximately 40,000,000 additional tons of
Federal coal by adding 4,125 acres, including 2,362 acres of Federal
coal, within the mining plan area which covers 11,340 acres within
Federal leases C-012457, C-011646, C-09004, C-09005, C-0115606,
C-0125436, C-030345, and C-012640, as shown on the map included with
this memorandum.
In conjunction with OSMRE's processing of this mining plan, as
modified, OSMRE also reviewed the previously approved mining plan
and the Federal permit number CO-0011 issued on July 29, 1983, for
the Coal Basin mines. All terms and conditions of the Federal
permit will be covered by the Colorado permit number C-017-81 and
the mining plan approval document. Because the Secretary of the
Interior and the State of Colorado have entered into a cooperative
agreement which provides for the delegation to the State of the