PERMFILE72697

• Permit No: C1980007
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 11/28/2005
• Doc Name: Reconciliation of Drilling Activity
• Section_Exhibit Name: Exhibit 80 Drilling Activities - MR330
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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MOUNTAIN COAL
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A subsidiary ofArch Weseem Resources, LLC
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November 22, 2005
Mr. Tom Kaldenbach
Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology
1313 Sherman Street, Room 215
Denver, CO 80203
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West Elk Mine
POBox 591
5174 Highway 133
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RE: Mountain Coal Company L.L.C., West Elk Mine; Permit C-80-007, Reconciliation of
Drilling Activity, Minor Revision No. 330, (MR-330).
Dear Mr. Kaldenbach:
Mountain Coal Company, L.L.C. (MCC) submits the enclosed Minor Revision to reconcile
previously permitted drill holes and pads with current drilling activities and plans. This
reconciliation will not increase the disturbed azeas previously permitted. Changes include locations
of permitted drill hole or additional drill holes on previously permitted pads.
Mountain Coal Company (MCC) proposes to drill these wells in Sections 22 and 23, of T.13S,
R.90W, 6`I' Principal Meridian, Gunnison County, Colorado. The project is within the current
permitted coal mining area (Permit Number C-80-007). The wells are located on Federal Coal
(BLM) Lease COC-056447. All drill holes permitted for this project aze located on property owned
by Mountain Coal Company, or on land owned by the USFS. The Paonia district ranger has
previously approved all holes drilled on USFS land, no additional holes are proposed on USFS land
under this Minor Revision. The holes are being drilled in the area approved under TR-96 and
subsequent approvals for the annual operating plans i.e. MR-306 (2005), for Methane Drainage
Wells.
MCC's overall plan for drilling and reclaiming MDWs was originally approved by CDMG on 15
July 2002 as Technical Revision 96 -Project Plan for Methane Drainage Wells for Panels 16, 17,
175, 18-24. The Forest Service performed an Environmental Assessment of MCC's Methane Drainage
Wells Plan, and approval was received in the Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact,
May 31, 2002.
The following table details the locations of th
permitted holes, actual holes drilled and progress.
under aze listed as footnotes below the table.
:drill holes, pad size permitted, names of the
The minor revisions that the holes were permitted