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6/5/2018 <br />State.co.us Executive Branch Mail - Fwd: PR -15 <br />---------- Forwarded message ---------- <br />From: bill ketterhagen <bketterhagen@hotmail.com> <br />Date: Wed, May 30, 2018 at 8:43 PM <br />Subject: PR -15 <br />To: "drms.temp@state.co.us" <drms.temp@state.co.us> <br />Dear Ms. Ginny Brannon, <br />I am writing to you to express my opposition to the West Elk Mine's permit revision number 15 (PR -15), <br />which seeks to add to the mine's existing permit area about 1,520 acres of roadless National Forest land <br />and federal minerals and about 1,100 acres of private surface and fee coal. Please consider the following <br />comments while evaluating West Elk Mine's permit revision. <br />Approving this permit revision is not in the public interest because it would destroy and degrade roadless <br />forest directly adjacent to the West Elk Wilderness, and because it would prolong the operation of the West <br />Elk coal mine, which has been the largest single industrial source of methane pollution in Colorado for many <br />yea rs. <br />PR -15 violates Division regulations that require mining operations to "minimize disturbances and adverse <br />impacts of [mine] operations on fish, wildlife, and related environmental values." <br />PR -15 fails to control and minimize air pollution, because the permit revision does nothing to limit the <br />climate impacts of methane pollution. The West Elk mine contains no provisions to limit methane pollution, <br />such as mandating the capture or flaring of methane, although a recent State of Colorado report shows that <br />flaring can be a safe and reliable way to reduce coal mine climate pollution. <br />Thank you for your time. <br />Sincerely, <br />Bill Ketterhagen <br />bketterhageri@hotrnaii.com <br />970-306-9020 <br />https://ma il. googIe. com/mai I/b/AOg3vwlOsmveWol nsa5lfh Revndt2T6Lymh7XjyFtbS6ZytJ 7Fj7/u/O/?u i=2&i k=deb7fOcd20&jsver=-dxVNc9YO2g. en. &cbl =g mai 1_fe_1805 <br />