2013-05-06_PERMIT FILE - X201322801

• Permit No: X201322801
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 5/6/2013
• Doc Name: Response to Incompletenes Letter
• From: DRMS
• To: Ark Land Company
• Email Name: JDM
• Email Name: ERR
• Email Name: DIH
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
May 6, 2013
Wendell A. Koontz
Ark Land Company
P.O. Box 591
Somerset, CO 81434
Re: Ark Land Company
Notice of Intent to Explore (NOI)
File No. X- 2013 - 228 -01
Completeness Responses
Dear Mr. Koontz,
STATE OF COLORADO
COLORADO
ID IV I S I O N O F
RECLAMATION
MINING
SAFETY
John W. Hickenlooper
Governor
Mike King
Executive Director
Loretta E. Pineda
Director
The Division reviewed the above - referenced NOI in accordance with the applicable provisions of
the Colorado Surface Coal Mining Act ( "Act ") and the Regulations of the Colorado Mined Land
Reclamation Board for Coal Mining ( "Regulations), and commented in a letter dated April 15,
2013. Ark Land Company (ALC) responded to the Divisions' comments in a letter dated April
23, 2013 and received by the Division on April 25, 2013. Please see the Division's comments
identified below:
Notification of Completeness [Rule 2.02.2]
Notice of Intent No. X- 2013 - 228 -01 is Incomplete
In order to determine the NOI complete please submit the following information identified
below:
Rule 2.02.2(2)(e) — Right of entry information for USFS surface use; private land surface
use agreements for holes SP -1, SP -2, and access to SST -7; copies of amended coal leases
COC -1362 and COC- 67232; and copies of lease agreements regarding lease fee coal
from Mount Gunnison Fuel Company. The cover letter associated with the NOI states
that Ark Land Company is awaiting the analysis and Decision Memo by the U. S Forest
Service which will allow the BLM to process the Federal Coal Exploration Plan. Please
submit copies of the following to provide basis upon which ALC claims the right to
enter: lease modifications for COC -61362 and COC- 67232; lease agreements with
Mount Gunnison Fuel Company; the surface access agreements for holes SST -7 and
SCC -2; and the approved Federal Coal Exploration Plan; the Decision Memo of the
Federal Coal Exploration Plan from the USFS for review.
ALC submitted a copy of coal lease COC- 1362, coal lease COC- 67232, Mount
Gunnison Fuel Company Coal Lease, and a copy of the H. Grosse Temporary Road Use
and Easement Agreement. The Division understands that the BLM will be conducting an
EA for the proposed Federal Coal Exploration Plan. Upon approval of the Federal Coal
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