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energy fuels coal, inc. southfleld mine • post office box 459 • Aorence, colorado 81226 • (719) 784 -6395 December 12, 2014 Mr. Rob Zuber — Reclamation Specialist Colorado Division of Reclamation Mining & Safety 1313 Sherman St — Room 215 Denver, CO 80203 RECENED REC 19 2014 Division of ReclamatiOrl, Mining & Sal* gy O RE: Minor Revision No.66 (MR -66) Request for Borrow Area for Davison Branch Road Water Bars Energy Fuels Coal, Inc. (EFCI) — Permit No. C -81 -014 — Southfield Mine Dear Rob Zuber: The former Davison road intersects the Monarch fan road and branches to the south from the 1 Monarch (former south fan) road located in the southeast portion of the Southfield mine area. The Davison road predates the Southfield mine permit date and previously served as access to the Davison cabin located south of and adjacent to the Southfield permit area. In more recent years, the landowner, The Corley Company (TCC), closed the access to the Davison cabin. Although the vast majority of EFCI's access was directed to the former Monarch fan, EFCI accessed the Davison road from time to time to service a power pole with an electrical breaker box that serviced the Monarch fan. The electric power company also accessed the Davison road about once per month to record the electric meter reading at the power pole. EFCI reached agreement with TCC to mitigate some erosion of the portion of the Davison road that extended from the Monarch road intersection to where the Davison road intersected the former power line that serviced the former Monarch (South) fan, a distance of approximately 2,600 feet. The agreed mitigation consists of installing earthen water bars, spaced along the above described distance at approximately 200 lateral feet intervals. The water bars will extend above the ground surface level at the lower shoulder of the roadway, thereby trapping and collecting sediment and replacing some of the previous erosion in the road bed over time. Accordingly, to acquire fill material to install said earthen water bars, this Minor Revision (MR- 66) requests approval to install a borrow area adjacent to the Davison road. Given that the Davison roadway is not depicted on the larger Southfield maps, Dr. Corley surveyed the portion of the roadway at issue and EFCI generated a map utilizing the survey. The computer program used to generate the map is Generic Cadd 6 which predates the AutoCadd programs of today. Given the vintage of the program, the program is no longer able to communicate with newer plotter /printers and is only capable of printing 8.5" x 11" size drawings /maps. Nonetheless, accuracy of the computer program is six (6) decimal places to a foot of length and adequate for purposes of this minor revision.