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��Ad Mountain Coal Company <br />Mountain Coal Company, LLC <br />West Elk Mine <br />5174 Highway 133 <br />Somerset, CO 81434 <br />Kathleen G. Welt <br />Environmental Engineer III <br />kwelt(aaarc hcoa I. com <br />phone: 970 929 2238 <br />July 06, 2018 <br />Mr. Leigh D. Simmons �t�vo <br />Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety vmd 001\1 <br />Off <br />ce of Mined Land Reclamation <br />113113 Sherman Street, Room 215 <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Re: Mountain Coal Company, LLC, West Elk Mine; Permit No. C-1980-007; Permit <br />Revision No. PR -15; Permit Boundary Expansion, Proposed Area of Projected <br />Longwall Panels, and Proposed MVB Sites, Responses to Initial Adequacy Review <br />Dear Mr. Simmons: <br />Mountain Coal Company, LLC (MCC) provides the following responses to the Division's initial <br />adequacy review provided in your letter of June 18, 2018. MCC's responses follow the <br />Division's comments and are italicized. <br />Rule 2.02 — General Requirements for Coal Exploration <br />1. Proposed revised page 2.02-1 provides a description of exploration activity completed to <br />date. <br />Please update page 2.02-1 as further exploration is completed during the PR -15 review <br />period. <br />Page 2.02-1 has been updated to add the drilling of SST -7 completed in June and SST - <br />1 to be completed within the next couple weeks. <br />Rule 2.03.4 — Identification of Interests <br />2. An initial check of the AVS database was made on receipt on the PR -15 application, with <br />reference to the Officers and Directors information in Exhibit 1 of the currently approved PAP, <br />revealing no issues. <br />Please verify that the information in Exhibit 1 is up to date. <br />Page 6 of Exhibit 1 has been updated to show that David J. Finnerty is again President <br />of Ark Land LLC, replacing Paul A. Lang on October 24, 2016. All other information is up to <br />date. <br />Rule 2.03.10 — Identification of Other Licenses and Permits <br />3. A revised copy of Table 1 — Permits and Licenses for West Elk Mine has been submitted with <br />the PR -15 application packet, with the only apparent change from the version of Table 1 in the <br />currently approved PAP being the dates of issuance and renewal of the USFS road use permit. <br />Please ensure that the information in table 1 remains up to date during the PR -15 review <br />period. <br />Information in Permit Section 2.03, including Table 1, has been updated. <br />Rule 2.04.4 — Cultural and Historical Resource Information <br />4. Cultural and Historic Resource information for the permit area is given on pages 2.04-7 <br />through -10 and in Exhibits 10 and 11 of the currently approved PAP. <br />