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.-P Ark Land <br />March 21, 2013 <br />Mr. James Stark <br />Environmental Protection Specialist <br />Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 <br />Dear Mr. Stark, <br />Please contact me if you have any questions. <br />S incerely, <br />,c4A -d-d-( �`' <br />Wendell A. Koontz 4 <br />Sr. Mine Geologist <br />Ark Land Company <br />West Elk Mine <br />cc: N. Starkebaum, Gunnison County Planning Department <br />K. Welt, Mountain Coal Company <br />Wendell Koontz <br />Senior Geologist <br />RECEIVED <br />PR 0 3 2013 <br />Division of ReciamatiOn, <br />Mining & Safety <br />wkoontz@archcoal.com <br />Please find enclosed two copies of the Notice of Intent to Explore covering the Sunset <br />Trail exploration drilling area. Copies of the amended coal leases COC- 6723and COC -67232 <br />will be provided as soon as they are available to document right of entry. A separate copy will be <br />filed with the Gunnison County Planning Department. <br />A Federal Coal Exploration Plan for the same exploration program in the Sunset Trail <br />area has completed and forwarded to the Bureau of Land Management and the U. S. Forest <br />Service. Ark Land Company is awaiting the analysis and Decision Memo by the U. S. Forest <br />Service which will thereby allow the BLM to process the plan. A copy of the approval <br />documents will be forwarded to your attention when it is received. <br />The Sunset Trail Exploration Plan is within ALC's coal leases C -1362 and COC -67232 <br />as amended in December 2012. The exploration plan has ten holes proposed on the federal <br />leases over a two year span to conduct a logical characterization of the reserves in this area. <br />Additionally, two holes are proposed on Arch Coal's fee surface and leased mineral near coal <br />seam outcrop. Each hole will be plugged and abandoned according to current Division of <br />Reclamation, Mining, and Safety regulations with site and road reclamation to exceed USFS <br />standards. The focus of the exploration drilling is to collect additional data for the E Seam to <br />further quantify seam continuity and quality parameters. <br />Ark Land Company <br />A subsidiary of Arch Coal, Inc <br />West Elk Mine <br />5174 Highway 133 - PO Box 591 <br />Somerset, CO 81434 <br />Office: 970 - 929 -2246 <br />Fax 970 - 929 -5050 <br />