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OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL <br /> MID-CONTINENT RESOURCES, INC. <br /> PO F`R\\VER;Ua <br /> ,Ls C I-ORAP0 A\ENUE <br /> TELLPHO\E GLEN\C'OOI) SPRINGS, COLORADO 81(,02 FA\ <br /> - <br /> \RED i OPF AREA CODE 97,0 <br /> Sys n;ir, <br /> 0i5-'ii i <br /> July 27, 1998 <br /> Mr. Michael B. Long <br /> Division Manager <br /> Divis_on of Minerals & Geology <br /> 1313 Sherman Street, Suite 215 <br /> Denver, CO 80203 <br /> Re: Coal Basin Reclamation <br /> Dear Mr. Long: <br /> For the record, we wish to state our strong objections <br /> to expenditure of funds from the balance of the $3, 000, 000 <br /> Reclamation Fund under the Bankruptcy Liquidation Plan as <br /> disclosed by the Bid Solicitation bearing the project name "Coal <br /> Basin/North Basin Steep Slope Revegetation", Bid No. PKA-9-421 <br /> which provides for bid opening on July 28, 1998 and for work to <br /> be performed in the Fall of 1998 . <br /> In Case No. 97CV131-1 now pending in the Pitkin County <br /> District Court, we have sought an accounting as to funds <br /> previously expended by DMG from the Reclamation Fund, and as to <br /> future expenditures from that Fund. We will object and request <br /> that the Court disallow steep slope revegegation disbursements <br /> contemplated under Bid No. PKA-9-421, and also as to expenditures <br /> made for similar purposes in 1997 for one or more of the <br /> following reasons : <br /> 1 . The expenditures are not included within the <br /> approved Reclamation Plan. <br /> 2 . The expenditures are improper because they involve <br /> reclamation efforts on surface land disturbances occurring prior <br /> to effective date of the Surface Mine Reclamation Control Act <br /> (SMRCA) , for which reclamation, if performed, should be funded <br /> from Abandoned Mines funding. <br />