REV17178

• Permit No: C1981038
• IBM Index Class Name: Revision
• Doc Date: 8/4/2006
• Doc Name: 3rd Adequacy Review Letter
• From: DMG
• To: J.E. Stover & Associates Inc
• Type & Sequence: TR47
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

STATE OF COLORADO
DIVISION OF MINERALS AND GEOLOGY
Department of Natural Resources
1313 Sherman St., Room 215
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]
FAX: [phone]
August 4, 2006
Jim Stover, P.E.
J. E. Stover & Associates
P.O. Box 60340
Grand Junction, CO 81506
RE: Bowie No. 1 Mine, Permit No. C-81-038, Bowie Resources LLC
Technical Revision No. 47, Revised Reclamation Schedule and Ownership and Control
Information, Third Adequacy Review
Dear Mr. Stover:
COLORADO
D I V I S I O N O F
MINERRALS
GEOLOGY
0.ECLANATION•NINING
EArETT•ECIENCE
Bill Owens
Governor
Russell George
Executive Direcor
Ronald W. Cottony
Division Director
Natural Resource Trustee
The Colorado Division of Minerals and Geology (Division) has finished its review of Bowie Resources
LLC's (BRL) adequacy response submittal, dated March 13, 2006, for Technical Revision No. 47 (TR-47)
for the Bowie No. I Mine. The following is the status of the adequacy review issues:
Since Sentient Resources USA, Inc. is no longer a company, please explain why it is still listed as
a 100% owner of Sentient Coal Resources, LLC? Ifnot please update page 37 of the Permit
Page to show Sentient Resources USA, Inc. with an end date. Also is there a new owner (owning
10% or greater) for Sentient Coal Resources, LLC? If in fact Sentient Resources USA, Inc. is still
a 100% owner of Sentient Coctl Resources, LLC please submit a permit page sholving'the owners
and controllers for this entity.
The Division has no further concerns. In the adequacy response dated March 13, 2006, BRL
submitted a revised page 37 of Section 2.03.
The revised reclamation schedule, shown in Figure 2.05-5 of the TR-47 submitta{, shows that the
remaining reclamation activities at the Bowie No. 1 Mine will not begin until the year 2008. The
Division requests that the reclamation timetable listed in Figure 2.O.i-.i be moved ahead
accordingly or provide an explanation as to why BRL wants to wait two years before resuming
reclamation operations.
In response to the Division's concerns, BRL had submitted a revised Figure 2.05-5 reclamation
schedule in the submittal dated March 13, 2006, advancing the reclamation plan by one year to
2007. The Division still had concerns, however, and requested that BRL begin substantive
reclamation operations in the spring or early summer of2006 and complete these operations within
one year. So, in the submittal dated July 26, 2006, BRL provided a newly revised Figure 2.05-5
reclamation schedule in which a portion of the reclamation plan was advanced further in time. The
timing of the reclamation of the structures at the unit train loadout was moved up to 2006 through
the first quarter of2007.
Office of Office of Colorado
Mined Land Reclamation Active and inactive Mines Geological Survey