2013-05-16_REVISION - C1996083 ‎(5)‎

• Permit No: C1996083
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 5/16/2013
• Doc Name: Adequacy Review
• From: DRMS
• To: Bowie Resources, LLC
• Type & Sequence: TR78
• Email Name: SLB
• Email Name: SB1
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF RECLAMATION, MINING AND SAFETY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
May 16, 2013
William A. Bear
Bowie Resources, LLC
P.O. Box 483
Paonia, CO 81428
Re: Bowie No. 2 Mine (Permit No. C- 1996 -083)
Technical Revision No. 78 (TR- 78)
Six Gob Vent Boreholes and One Exploration Hole
Dear Mr. Bear:
COLORADO
ID I V I S I O N O F
RECLAMATION
MINING
SAFETY
John W. Hickenlooper
Governor
Mike King
Executive Director
Loretta E. Pineda
Director
The Division has completed a preliminary adequacy review of the technical revision application
(TR -78) submitted by Bowie Resources, LLC (BRL) for the Bowie No. 2 Mine. The revision
proposes the installation of six gob vent boreholes and one exploration hole. We have the
following comments and questions regarding the application.
1. BRL indicates, in the cover letter for the revision (dated April 10, 2013), that a surface
agreement with Derby Mountain, LLLP should be reached in the next 30 days. To date,
the Division has not received a copy of this surface agreement. The Division cannot
approve this revision until BRL provides the right of entry information required under Rule
2.03.6. Please provide right of entry documentation for the proposed disturbance on
land owned by Derby Mountain, LLLP.
2. The proposed exploration hole SS -8 is within the C -37210 lease modification area
approved by the Division PR -13, and awaiting mine plan approval by the Office of
Surface Mining (OSM). Upon approval of TR78, the Division will stipulate that SS -8
cannot be drilled until the mine plan proposed under PR13 has been approved by OSM.
3. Jim Stover, in an email dated May 1, 2013, requested that TR78 be used as a means for
the inclusion of two monitoring wells (2010 -1B and 2010 -1SS) in the Bowie No. 2 Mine
Permit. These wells were previously permitted under NOI 2005 - 217 -10. The inclusion
of these wells will change the proposed disturbed acreage and proposed affected
acreage initially proposed in the TR78 application. The Division estimates that the
Disturbed Area increase with TR78 will now be 14.34 acres, and the Affected Area
acreage increase will be 2.0 acres.
4. The Division has previously forwarded (electronically) our estimate of the reclamation
costs associated with the disturbance proposed in TR78. We have determined that the
Office of Office of
Mined Land Reclamation Denver • Grand Junction • Durango Active and Inactive Mines