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• Permit No: C1981071
• IBM Index Class Name: Application Correspondence
• Doc Name: ADDENDUM TO FEB 1980 TEA FOR COLO YAMPA COAL CO MINE 1 MINE 2 AND ECKMAN PARK MINE
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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• ADDENDUM TO FEBRUARY, 1980 TEA FOR COLORADO YAMPA COAL COMPANY'S
MINE N0. 1, MINE N0. 2, AND ECKMAN PARK MINE
PERMIT N0. 79-177
Introduction
In February, 1980, OSM issued approval with stipulations for a major
modification to the Surface Mining and Reclamation Plan for Energy Fuels
Corporation's Energy No. 1 and Energy No. 2 Mines, and Extension into Eckman
Park. The approval applied to Federal Coal Lease Nos. C-22644, C-20900,
C-128433, C-081330, D-052547, and C-16284.
Subsequently, Energy Fuels Corporation was succeeded as operator by Colorado
Yampa Coal Company (CYCC). On April 1, 1983, CYCC submitted a technical
revision application to the Colorado Mined Land Reclamation Division (MLRD)
which proposed certain modifications to the operations plan in Eckman Park
Area 60 (Lease C-081330) and requested expansion of the permit area including
a thirty acre tract: in Lease C-26914.
The requested revision was previously approved in September, 1983, with the
specific exclusion of the thirty acre tract in Lease C-26914, since CYCC had
not obtained the necessary lease approval from the Bureau of Land Management.
On May ], 1985, CY(:C obtained lease approval for Lease C-26914. On
July 10, 1985, CYCC: submitted a technical revision application which proposed
• incorporating the thirty acre tract within Lease C-26914 into the permit
area. MLRD determined the application to be complete on July 17, 1985, and
public notice was published four times in the Steamboat Pilot (August 1, 1985,
August 22, 1985, August 29, 1985, and September 5, 1985). The technical
revision proposed a logical extension of mine pits in Area 60. The extension
was anticipated in the 1983 TR mining and reclamation plan for Area 60 and
with minor changes., mining and reclamation techniques are the same as those
approved in the 19A3 revision. Environmental impacts of the proposed revision
were found to be insignificant. Additional disturbed acreage is negligible
since, although the revision requests a thirty acre expansion to the southeast
to incorporate the new lease tract, pits do not extend as far to the northwest
as originally anticipated. The proposed affected acreage for Area 60 is 102
acres, compared to 104 acres previously approved. MLRD issued a proposed
decision to approve the technical revision on September 19, 1985.
The legal description is as follows:
SW 1/4 SW 1/4 Section 9, T4N, R86W of the 6th p.m.
MLRD classified the request as a technical revision since by Rule 1.04(136) a
technical revision is an incidental permit boundary revision which shall not
cause a significant alteration in the operator's reclamation plan. The thirty
acre permit boundary revision is small in comparison to the 6,680 acre permit
area (1,800 acres in Eckman Park) and, as pointed out previously, actual
affected acreage will not be increased. No additional facilities are proposed
• and no additional adverse impacts to wildlife, the hydrologic regime, or other
environmental resources will result. The existing CYCC permit application
(File No. 79-177) contains environmental baseline and impact information that
included the area considered in this revision.