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Natural Resources Conservation Service, Craig Field Office, USDA Service Center <br />Moffat County Commissioners <br />Moffat County Planning Department, Planning Director <br />Kenneth Walker, Office of Surface Mining (OSM), Western Regional Coordinating Center <br />U. S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Little Snake Resource Area <br />Colorado Division of Water Resources <br />Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife <br />Office of Archaeology & Historic Preservation (within History Colorado) <br />Colorado Water Quality Control Division Permit Section <br />Colorado Air Pollution Control Division <br />Colorado Geological Survey <br />Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners <br />US Army Corps of Engineers, Colorado /Gunnison Basin Office <br />US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) <br />3.2 Application Review and Responses <br />No comments were received from any of the contacted agencies (listed above) regarding <br />Colowyo's RN -06 application. <br />3.3 Status of Permit Revision <br />This section identifies the one Permit Revision that was processed since the approval of Renewal <br />Number 5 on September 14, 2009. <br />Permit Revision 3 (PR -03) was received on January 26, 2009. PR -03 proposes to add 16,833 <br />acres to the permit for mining activities in the Collom Pit area, including an additional 2,244 <br />disturbed acres for the pit and associated facilities. Colowyo is proposing to mine multiple <br />seams in two separate pits in the Collom area and a 250 million cubic yard temporary out -of -pit <br />spoil pile, which will be used to backfill the pit following mining. Colowyo will truck the coal, <br />via a private haul road, to the Gossard Loadout, where it will be loaded into rail cars and shipped <br />to market. The proposed surface and coal are Federal (BLM), State and privately owned <br />( Colowyo). PR -03 will include an increase in Colowyo's reclamation bond. <br />3.4 Status of Permit Revision and Technical Revisions <br />This section identifies those Permit Revisions and TRs processed since the findings of Permit <br />Renewal Number 5 (September 14, 2009). <br />Proposed Decision and Findings of Compliance January 2012 <br />Permit Renewal 06 Pa g e 16 <br />