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t] <br />TRI -STATE GENERATION AND TRANSMISSION ASSOCIATION, INC. <br />HEADQUARTERS: P.O. BOX 33695 DENVER, COLORADO 80233 -0695 <br />March 4, 2015 <br />303 - 452 -6111 <br />Mr. Brock Bowles <br />Environmental Protection Specialist <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety <br />1313 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, CO 80203 RVC; f1,V f—'D <br />RE: New Horizon Mine <br />Permit No. C- 1981 -008 MAR 5 2015 <br />TR -65 Adequacy Review Responses °f R at,on, <br />pivision & Sal 1Y <br />Dear Mr. Bowles: N1in1o9 <br />Tri -State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. (Tri- State) has received your adequacy <br />letter for TR -64, dated February 26, 2015 and provides the following responses to your comments on <br />behalf of the Western Fuels- Colorado, A Limited Liability Company (Western Fuels- Colorado) New <br />Horizon Mine. <br />2.04.3 — Site Description and Land Use Information <br />1. The text at the top of revised page 2.04.3 -5 is not consistent with the text at the end of page <br />2.04.3 -4 of the current permit. Please revise so the discussion started on page 2.04.3 -4 continues <br />on to revised page 2.04.3 -5. <br />Response: Page 2.04.3 -5 has been corrected as requested. When this correction occurred, a <br />pagination shift occurred and rolled down through pages 2.04.3 -6 and 2.04.3 -7. These pages <br />have been provided also. <br />2.04.9 — Soils Resource Information <br />The revised page 2.04.9 -30 is mislabeled and should be page 2.04.9 -31. This is consistent with <br />the current permit pages. <br />Response: The page number has been corrected to 2.04.9 -31 as requested. <br />2.05.3(3) — Mine Facilities <br />1. On page 2.05.3(3) -41 of the permit, it states that a proposed hayshed will be constructed by the <br />property owner near pond 007 as a permanent structure. This statement has been omitted on the <br />revised page 2.05.3(3) -41. Please explain why this statement has been omitted. <br />Response: Page 2.04.3(3) -41 has been corrected requested. <br />2. The revised Map 2.05.3(3) -1 -2 Post Mine Surface Water Hydrology has a different post- mining <br />topography on the WFC (Johnson) and WFC (Lloyd) properties than the currently approved map. <br />So that we may expedite the approval of TR65, please change the topography in this area back to <br />AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY /AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EP07PLOY f3 CRAIG STATION ESCALANTE STATION NUCLA STATION <br />P.O. BOX 1307 P.O. BOX 577 P.O. BOX 698 <br />A Touchstone Energy'Cooperative k1t,I ;` CRAIG, CO 61626 -1307 PREWITr, NM 87045 NUCLA, CO 81424 -0698 <br />970- 824 -4411 505 - 972 -5200 970 -864 -7316 <br />