2012-07-25_GENERAL DOCUMENTS - C1981019

• Permit No: C1981019
• IBM Index Class Name: General Documents
• Doc Date: 7/25/2012
• Doc Name: Proposed Decision and Findings
• From: DRMS
• Type & Sequence: SL5
• Permit Index Doc Type: Findings
• Email Name: JHB
• Email Name: DIH
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Table of Contents

I.Introduction

II.Procedures and Summary of Bond Release Process

III.Criteria and Schedule for Bond Release

IV.Observations and Findings

V.Proposed Decision

Attachments:

Table 1 – Summary of SL-04 Bond Release Amounts
Table 2 – Summary of All Bond Release Acreages
Table 3 – Summary of All Bond Release Amounts

Figure 1 – Colowyo Mine SL-04 Phase I Bond Release Area
Figure 2 – Colowyo Mine SL-04 Phase II Bond Release Area
Figure 3 – Colowyo Mine SL-04 Exclusion Areas
Figure 4 – Colowyo Mine Previous Bond Release Areas

I. INTRODUCTION

This document is the proposed decision of the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining, and
Safety (Division) in response to a request for Phase III Bond Release at the Colowyo Mine, Permit
Number C-1981-019, bond release application number SL-05. The package contains five parts.
These include: 1) Introduction; 2) Procedures and Summary of the Bond Release Process; 3)
Criteria and Schedule for Bond Release; 4) Observations and Findings of the Division regarding
compliance with the bond release requirements of the Colorado Surface Coal Mining and
Reclamation Act and regulations promulgated there under; and 5) the Division’s Proposed Decision
on the request for bond release.

Detailed information about the review process can be found in the Act and the Regulations of the
Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Board for Coal Mining. All Rules referenced within this
document are contained within the Regulations. Detailed information about the mining and
reclamation operations can be found in the permit application on file at the Division offices, located
at 1313 Sherman Street, Room 215, in Denver, Colorado.

The Colowyo Mine is a surface mine which is permitted and operated by the Colowyo Coal
Company, LP (Colowyo). The Colowyo Mine is located approximately 25 miles north of the town
of Meeker, CO and 25 miles south of the town of Craig, CO in Moffat and Rio Blanco Counties
off of Colorado State Highway 13. The land for which bond release has been requested is owned
by private landowners (Colowyo) and Federal (Bureau of Land Management); the coal is Federally
and privately owned. Reclamation work for which bond release has been requested was conducted
Proposed Decision and Findings of Compliance 25 July 2012
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