2013-05-29_REVISION - C1996084

• Permit No: C1996084
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 5/29/2013
• Doc Name: Preliminary Adequacy Review ‎(Emailed)‎
• From: DRMS
• To: Ron Thompson
• Type & Sequence: TR18
• Email Name: LDS
• 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]
STATE OF COLORADO
COLORADO
D I V I S I ON OF
RECLAMATION
MINING
SAFETY
May 29, 2013
John W. Hickenlooper
Governor
Ron Thompson
Mike King
Executive Director
New Elk Coal Company, LLC
12250 Highway 12
Loretta E. Pineda
Director
Weston, CO 81091
Re: Lorencito Canyon Mine (Permit No. C- 1996 -084)
Technical Revision No. 18, (TR18)
Initial Adequacy Review
Dear Mr. Thompson:
The Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety (Division) has completed a
preliminary adequacy review of the material submitted for Technical Revision no. 18 (TR18) by the
New Elk Coal Company, LLC (NECC) for the Lorencito Canyon mine.
TR18 proposes to reduce the permit area by 2,758 acres, from 3,142 acres to 384 acres. The
proposed reduced permit area will contain the entire 129.3 acres disturbed during the active operation of
the mine, and will conform more closely to that disturbed area. No new disturbance is proposed. Based
on the preliminary adequacy review, the Division has the following questions and comments:
Rule 2.03.6(l) requires that "Each application shall contain a complete and detailed legal
description of the proposed permit houndarv... " Currently this rule is satisfied by a metes and
bounds description of the existing permit boundary in Exhibit 2 of the Permit Application
Packet (PAP). Pages should be added to Exhibit 2 to describe the proposed permit boundary;
NECC may choose to use a series of GPS co- ordinates, and the distances between the points, as
an alternative to a traditional metes and bounds description.
2. Rule 2.10 refers to the maps required. As discussed previously, it will be sufficient for NECC to
provide one map with the new permit boundary (Map 2.05.3 -1) as long as all other maps
showing a permit boundary are labeled to refer to the updated sheet. Map labels were not
included in the most recent submission from NECC.
3. The Reclamation Cost Estimate contains a task (# 65) to "Plug and Seal Drill Hole and
Monitoring Wells ". The task description lists one 8" hole, nine 6" holes and seventeen 4" holes
to be plugged and sealed. Since many of these holes, as identified on Map 2.04.7 -1, lie a long
way from the proposed permit area the Division requests that NECC provide an update on the
reclamation status of each hole, together with any pertinent information about the site and the
access.
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